Sony Xperia Z1 Review

Sony Xperia Z1 is a fascinating Android cellphone released back in 2013, provisioned with a 5 inches multi touch screen, a Quad-Core CPU clocking at 2.2 GHz, and two cameras, a 20.7 megapixels back side camera and a 2 MP front camera.

Sony decided to build this phone using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 system chip, including a high-tech Quad-Core processing unit running at 2.2 GHz and a large 2 GB RAM. To help with graphic rendering, it also uses a 450 MHz Adreno 330 GPU. A nice point of the Sony Xperia Z1 is the 16 GB quite large internal storage memory and a slot for an external memory card, allowing the user to store hundreds of applications without any problem.

This phone is just 0.33 inches thick, making it one of the thinnest phones nowadays. This cellphone is a very compact cellphone, taking into consideration it presents a 5 inches display and it is only 5.69 inches long. The Sony Xperia Z1 feels a bit heavy for a cellphone this size, weighting 6 oz. The Sony Xperia Z1 is offerred in three colors, black, purple and white.

This phone is equipped with an awesome 5" display with a 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) resolution, providing this phone with a delightful image quality. This display uses TFT capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

This phone features wifi connectivity (and it can share it with other devices around, as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE great performance connection and also HSPA+ connectivity, that is a slower 4G network and the fastest 3G internet connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone works with a SIM card for GSM networks.

This cellphone has two cameras, a 20.7 mega-pixels back camera and a 2 megapixels front side camera. this phone's back camera has a maximum 2 aperture so it can shoot clear photographs even in low lighting environments. This phone can also film videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD). Additionally, the camera features a large number of amazing characteristics: auto-focus, flash, fast burst mode, digital image stabilization, face detection shooting, HDR mode, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

This phone also comes with some useful characteristics as NFC, Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Geolocation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone has a 3000 mAh amazing Li-Ion removable battery that provides this cellphone an incredible battery life. Sony reports a 13.8 hours talk time and a 880 hours stand by time for this cellphone.

The Sony Xperia Z1 might be a little overvalued considering it is sold for 310 dollars, while other similar cellphones cost less than that. This phone is a great option for you no matter whether you will use it as a social cellphone, are looking for a gamer phone, are a photography fan or need a cellphone for work. Sony sells this phone with microUSB cable, User documentation and Charger.