Sony Xperia Z1 Compact Review

Sony Xperia Z1 Compact is an incredible Android phone launched in January 2014, with a very powerful Quad-Core processor running at 2.2 gigahertz, a 4.3-inches multi-touch screen, and two cameras, a 20.7 MP back camera and a 2 mega-pixels front camera.

Sony sells the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 system chip, which holds an extremely fast 2200 megahertz Quad-Core processor with a huge 2 GB RAM. Graphic calculations usually consume a lot of processing time, so it also has an additional Adreno 330 graphics processing unit running at 450 MHz to help handle those graphic tasks. A nice advantage of this cellphone is its 16 GB quite big internal storage memory and a slot for SD memory cards, which allows you to install hundreds of applications without any problem.

Sony appears to have forgotten about weight optimization in this 4.83 ounces phone. Being just 0.37" thick,this phone is slim and comfortable. Sony offers the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact in multiple color variations: black, pink, green and white.

This cellphone has two cameras, a 20.7 mega-pixels back side camera and a 2 MP front camera. Its back side camera has a maximum f/2 aperture so it can shoot beautiful pictures even in poorly lit environments. It also captures Full HD 1920x1080 videos. Additionally, this device's camera also includes lots of interesting characteristics: auto-focus, flash, digital image stabilization, fast burst mode, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, HDR mode and geo tagging.

Sony equipped this phone with a gorgeous 4.3 inches display, and a resolution of 1280 x 720 (HD), making everything look beautiful and brightful. This display uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

The Sony Xperia Z1 Compact has a 2300 mAh big capacity non-removable battery, which isn't very promising for a cellphone like this. Sony informs a stand by time of 670 hours and a talk time of 10 hours for this phone. An issue to consider is that the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact's battery is not replaceable so you won't be able to replace it when it begins to live shorter, while with this big battery you will probably buy a new phone before that happens.

The Sony Xperia Z1 Compact provides WiFi connection (and it can be provided to other devices around, as a mobile hotspot), 4G (LTE) high speed connection and also HSPA+ data connection, that is a slower 4G network and fast 3G connectivity, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Sony Xperia Z1 Compact works with a Micro SIM card for GSM connection.

This cellphone also features some useful features as NFC, Bluetooth (for communication with other bluetooth cellphones, computers and accessories) and GPS Navigation, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This phone costs about 929 dollars, not cheap for comparing with other similar cellphones. No matter whether you want it for playing games, need a work cellphone, are an amateur photographer or want it mostly for social networks, this cellphone is definitely the correct choice for you.