Sony Xperia Z1 Review

Sony Xperia Z1 is an impressive Android cellphone released back in the year 2013, packing a comfortable 5" capacitive display, a high speed Quad-Core processing unit ticking at 2200 megahertz, a 20.7 MP back facing camera and a 2 megapixels front-facing camera. That's all? Not at all, it's just the introduction of a much deeper review.

This cellphone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 system chip, which holds a very fast Quad-Core processing unit speeding at 2.2 gigahertz and a great 2 GB RAM memory. Graphic rendering usually eats lots of processor cycles, so it also has an additional 450 megahertz Adreno 330 graphics processing unit to improve overall performance. A good advantage of this phone is its quite big 16 GB internal storage and an external memory card slot, enough to install hundreds of games and applications without running out of space.

Sony didn't seem to put much effort to reduce weight in this 6 ounces phone. Sony offers this device in 3 color options, black, purple and white. This phone is only 5.69 inches long, but it's able to fit a a 5 inches display. The Sony Xperia Z1 is very slim and good-looking, with a thickness of just 0.33 inches.

This cellphone features two cameras, a 20.7 megapixels back facing camera and a 2 mega-pixels front facing camera. Its back facing camera lens has a maximum 2 aperture so it can take great photographs even in dark conditions. It is also able to film videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD). Additionally, the camera includes a high number of interesting characteristics: flash, fast burst mode, auto-focus, face detection shooting, digital image stabilization, smile detection shooting, HDR mode and geo tagging.

Sony equipped this cellphone with a incredible 5" screen, and a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (Full HD), making everything look absolutely great. Its screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

This phone features a 3000 mAh large Li-Ion battery, enough to provide this phone with a marvelous battery duration. This phone has an estimated stand by time of 880 hs and a talk time of 13.8 hs.

This cellphone includes WiFi connectivity (and it can share it with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G fast connection type and also HSPA+ connection type, which is a slower 4G type and fast 3G data connection, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Sony Xperia Z1 works with a SIM card for GSM carriers.

This phone also includes a few nice features as NFC, Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Localization, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone may be a bit overvalued considering it costs 329 dollars, while many similar phones can be found for less money. No matter whether you are looking for a phone to majorly use social networks, want it to take many photos, want a gaming cellphone or want a device for work, you will definitely be very happy with it. Sony also sells this cellphone with User documentation, Charger and microUSB cable.