Sony Xperia Z Review

Sony Xperia Z is an impressive device released back in 2013, including a very powerful Quad-Core CPU ticking at 1500 MHz, a pretty large 5 inches display, and two cameras, a 13.1 megapixels back facing camera and a 2.2 mega-pixels front facing camera.

The Sony Xperia Z is very thin, being just 0.31 inches thick. Though this cellphone is only 5.47 inches long, it manages to contain a 5" screen. This cellphone feels much lighter than what you expect from a cellphone this size. About its materials, the Sony Xperia Z is majorly made with Glass. This phone is for sale in 3 color options, black, purple and white.

Sony decided to equip this phone with a great Quad-Core processor running at 1.5 GHz, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 system chip with a large 2 GB of RAM. To help with graphic intensive tasks, this phone also uses an Adreno 320 graphic processing unit clocking at 400 MHz. The Sony Xperia Z counts with a 16 GB interesting internal storage and a slot for an SD memory card, enough to install a couple hundred applications without any trouble.

This cellphone has an astonishing 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5-inches display, making everything look absolutely perfect. This display uses TFT capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

This phone has wifi connection (and it can provide it to other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) great performance connectivity and also HSPA+ connectivity, that is a slower 4G type and fast 3G connection type, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone works with a Micro SIM card for GSM carriers.

The Sony Xperia Z is equipped with two cameras, a 13.1 MP back facing camera and a 2.2 megapixels front camera. It can also shoot 1920x1080 Full HD videos. This cellphone also counts with lots of amazing features: flash, auto-focus, fast burst mode, digital image stabilization, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, HDR mode and geo tagging.

This cellphone also includes a couple cool features such as NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your phone close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Localization, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This phone has a 2330 mAh amazing Li-Ion battery that provides this phone an average battery duration. Sony informs a talk time of 11 hours and a stand by time of 550 hours for this cellphone.

The Sony Xperia Z costs $ 170, which is somewhat expensive for comparing with similar devices. This cellphone is probably a good choice no matter if you love photography, will use it mostly for social networks and internet browsing, are looking for a device for work or want a gamer phone. This cellphone is sold with USB media cable, Internal battery, Quick charger EP881 and Wired Headset EX300AP.