Sony Xperia Z1 Review

Sony Xperia Z1 is a top-notch Android device launched back in 2013, which counts with a high speed Quad-Core processing unit speeding at 2200 megahertz, a big 5" screen, and 2 cameras, a 20.7 mega-pixels back side camera and a 2 MP front facing camera.

This phone is very thin and comfortable, being just 0.33" thick. This phone is only 5.69 inches long and 2.91" wide, but it is able to fit a a 5" display. Sony offers this phone in three color options, black, purple and white. It appears that Sony forgot about optimizing the weight in this 6 oz cellphone.

This phone is powered by a high performance Quad-Core processing unit ticking at 2.2 gigahertz, packed into the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 chip and a huge 2 GB RAM. Graphic rendering generally uses a lot of processor time, so this cellphone also has an additional Adreno 330 GPU speeding at 450 megahertz to take some work out of the processor. A good aspect of this cellphone is the 16 GB quite large internal memory and an SD card slot, which allows the user to install a couple hundred apps and games without running out of space.

The Sony Xperia Z1 is equipped with two cameras, a 20.7 megapixels back side camera and a 2 megapixels front camera. this cellphone's back side camera has a f/2 aperture so it can take impressive photos even in dark conditions. It is capable of shooting videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD). This phone also includes a large number of cool characteristics: flash, auto-focus, digital image stabilization, fast burst mode, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This phone has an absolutely amazing 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5 inches screen, giving this phone a unique image quality. Its screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multiple fingers at the same time.

This cellphone packs a large 3000 mAh Li-Ion battery that can keep this phone running for many hours without having to charge it at all. This device has a reported 13.8 hs talk time and a 880 hours stand by time.

The Sony Xperia Z1 provides wifi connectivity (which it can provide to other devices around, acting as a wireless router), LTE (4G) high performance data connection and also HSPA+ connectivity, a lower speed 4G network and fast 3G data connection, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone works with a SIM card for GSM carriers.

The Sony Xperia Z1 also comes with a handful of interesting features like 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 and Compass.

The Sony Xperia Z1 might be a little bit overpriced considering it is sold for $ 199, while other similar phones cost a bit less than that. This cellphone is probably the right choice for you it doesn't matter whether you are looking for a cellphone for playing games, want a work device, you love taking pictures or will use it mainly for social networks and internet browsing. If you buy this cellphone you will also receive microUSB cable, User documentation and Charger.