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Sony Xperia Z Ultra
C6806Apple iPhone 5s
CDMAA1533
| Global Score | |
| 68.8 | 75.5 |
| Basic Information | |
| Sony | Apple |
| Android 4.4, 4.3, 4.2.2 | iOS 8.x, 7.x |
| 2013-06-25 | 2013-09-10 |
| 7.06 x 3.63 x 0.26 inches | 4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 inches |
| 7.48 ounces | 3.95 ounces |
| Black, Purple and White | Black, Gold and Gray |
| Glass | Aluminium |
| Scratch-Resistant Glass | -- |
| $ 270.00 | $ 205.00 |
| Display / Screen | |
| 6.4 inches | 4 inches |
| 1080 x 1920 pixels (Full HD) | 640 x 1136 pixels |
| TFT | IPS LCD |
| 344 pixels per inch | 326 pixels per inch |
| -- | 500 cd/m2 brightness |
| Capacitive, Multi-touch | Capacitive, Multi-touch |
| 8.6 | 8.9 |
| Performance | |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 chipset | Apple A7 chipset |
| Krait 400 (Quad-Core 2200 MHz) processor | 64-bit Cyclone ARMv8 (Dual-Core 1300 MHz) processor |
| 2 GB (800 MHz) RAM | 1 GB (1600 MHz) RAM |
| Adreno 330 (450 MHz) GPU | PowerVR G6430 (600 MHz) GPU |
| 9.18 | 9.27 |
| Storage | |
| 16 GB internal memory | 64 GB internal memory |
| microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 64 GB) external memory slot | No SD card slot |
| 6.16 | 7.7 |
| Camera | |
| 8.00 MP + 2.00 MP | 8.00 MP + 1.20 MP |
| -- | f/2.20 aperture |
| -- | 29.00mm focal length |
| -- | 0.33 inches (1/3") sensor |
| 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) video resolution | 1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD) video resolution |
| -- | 1280 x 720 (120 fps) (HD) slow motion video |
| 6.6 | 8.69 |
| Networks | |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi |
| Mobile Hotspot | Mobile Hotspot |
| LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM | LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS, GSM and CDMA |
| Micro SIM | Nano SIM |
| 7 | 7.1 |
| Battery Life | |
| 3050mAh Li-Ion Battery | 1570mAh Li-Ion Battery |
| Removable Battery | Non-Removable Battery |
| 870 hours standby time 14 hours talk time | 250 hours standby time 10 hours talk time |
| 5.04 | 3.36 |
| Other Features | |
| Bluetooth 4.0 | Bluetooth 4.0 |
| GPS | GPS |
| NFC | -- |
| Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor | Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor |
Comparison review
The Apple iPhone 5s has an overall score of 75.5, which is just a bit better than the Xperia Z Ultra's 68.8 score. The Apple iPhone 5s counts with iOS 8.x OS, while Xperia Z Ultra works with Android 4.4 OS. Apple iPhone 5s's construction is extremely lighter but thicker than Xperia Z Ultra, and they were released only 3 months apart.
The iPhone 5s features a little more vivid screen than Xperia Z Ultra, although it has a really smaller screen, a quite worse amount of pixels per inch of display and a lot worse 1136 x 640 pixels resolution. The iPhone 5s has a bit superior processing unit than Sony Xperia Z Ultra, because although it has a lower amount of RAM and lesser and slower cores, it also counts with a faster graphics co-processor working at 600 megahertz and a 64 bits processing unit.
The Apple iPhone 5s captures much clearer photos and videos than Sony Xperia Z Ultra. Both of them have the same video resolution, the same video frame rates and a same resolution back camera. Apple iPhone 5s features a way bigger memory capacity to install applications and games or saving photos and videos than Sony Xperia Z Ultra, because although it has no slot for an external memory card, it also counts with 48 GB more internal storage.
Xperia Z Ultra features a really longer battery life than Apple iPhone 5s, because it has a 94% greater battery size.
In addition to being the best phone of the ones we are comparing here, the Apple iPhone 5s is also very cheap compared to the other ones.
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