Sony Xperia Z1 Review

Sony Xperia Z1 is an absolutely great phone launched in 2013, with a pretty big 5-inches touch-screen, an extremely powerful Quad-Core processor speeding at 2.2 GHz, a 20.7 MP back camera and a 2 megapixels front-facing camera. We will get a better understanding of this cellphone's characteristics when we get into specific details.

Sony is offering this cellphone in black, purple and white. This time, it seems like Sony didn't care so much about the weight in this 6 ounces phone. Although this phone is just 5.69 inches long, it still manages to contain a 5" display. This cellphone is just 0.33" thick, making its way into the thinnest devices podium.

The Sony Xperia Z1 has a gorgeous 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5 inches screen, which makes it impossible to even distinguish the pixels that compose the screen. Its screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

Sony sells this cellphone with a high performance 2.2 GHz Quad-Core processing unit, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 chip with a great 2 GB RAM. To collaborate with graphic intensive games and apps, this cellphone also counts with an Adreno 330 GPU running at 450 megahertz. This phone has a 16 GB quite big internal memory and an SD card slot, allowing the user to install hundreds of games and apps without any trouble.

This phone has two cameras, a 20.7 mega-pixels back side camera and a 2 mega-pixels front side camera. Its back side camera lens has an aperture of f/2 so it can shoot beautiful photographs even in low lighting environments. It can also capture Full HD 1920x1080 videos. This cellphone also counts with multiple useful characteristics like flash, auto-focus, fast burst mode, face detection shooting, digital image stabilization, HDR mode, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

The Sony Xperia Z1 provides Wi-Fi connection (which it can share with other devices around, acting as a wireless modem), 4G LTE great performance connection and also HSPA+ connectivity, which is a slower 4G type and 3G fast connectivity, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone works with a SIM card for GSM networks.

This phone also includes a few cool characteristics as NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your device close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth and GPS Geolocation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This device counts with an inmense 3000 mAh Li-Ion battery providing this phone an incredibly long battery duration. Sony claims this cellphone has a stand by time of 880 hs and a talk time of 13.8 hs.

This device costs around $ 329, a quite high price for a cellphone this level. It doesn't matter whether you will use it as a work phone, you love taking photographs, want a gamer device or will use it as a social device, this phone is definitely a great option . This phone is packed with microUSB cable, Charger and User documentation.