Sony Xperia Z1 Review

Sony Xperia Z1 is a wonderful cellphone launched back in 2013, provisioned with a good size 5 inches multi touch capacitive screen, a great Quad-Core processor speeding at 2.2 gigahertz, and two cameras, a 20.7 mega-pixels back side camera and a 2 MP front side camera. Let's take a deeper sight of what this cellphone can do.

It seems like Sony didn't care much about the weight in this 6 ounces cellphone. This cellphone has a beautiful design, with a thickness of just 0.33 inches. This phone is only 5.69 inches long and 2.91" wide, but it is still able to fit a a 5" screen. This phone is available in 3 colors, black, purple and white.

Sony decided to build this cellphone using an extremely fast Quad-Core processor clocking at 2.2 gigahertz, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 system chip and a great 2 GB of RAM. Graphic calculations usually uses a lot of processing power, so it counts with an additional 450 megahertz Adreno 330 graphics processing unit to improve overall performance. A good advantage of this phone is its big 16 GB internal storage memory and an SD extension slot, allowing you to store a couple hundred apps and games without any problem.

This phone has a great 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5" screen, which makes all images and videos look amazing. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multiple fingers at the same time.

This phone is equipped with two cameras, a 20.7 megapixels back camera and a 2 mega-pixels front camera. this cellphone's back camera lens has an aperture of f/2 so it can take detailed photos even in poorly lit environments. The Sony Xperia Z1 can also film videos in Full HD 1920x1080. In addition, this cellphone's camera also counts with many amazing characteristics like flash, fast burst mode, auto-focus, digital image stabilization, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This cellphone packs a large 3000 mAh Li-Ion replaceable battery, enough to provide this cellphone with an amazing battery life. Sony afirms this device has a talk time of 13.8 hours and a stand by time of 880 hours.

This phone includes WiFi connectivity (which it can share with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G high speed data connection and also HSPA+ internet connection, a lower speed 4G technology and fast 3G connection type, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Sony Xperia Z1 works with a SIM card for GSM networks.

This cellphone also includes a handful of useful characteristics such as NFC, Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Navigation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone costs about $ 329, rather expensive for this kind of cellphone. No matter whether you are looking for a work device, are looking for a phone to majorly use social networks, you love taking photos or need a cellphone to play games, you will definitely be very happy with it. Sony sells this cellphone with User documentation, microUSB cable and Charger.