Sony Xperia Z1 Review

Sony Xperia Z1 is a great quality Android phone launched back in 2013, coming with an extremely powerful 2.2 gigahertz Quad-Core CPU, a pretty big 5" multi touch screen, a 20.7 megapixels back-facing camera and a 2 mega-pixels front facing camera. We will get a better idea about this device's specs when we get into deeper details.

This cellphone is a compact cellphone, taking into account that it presents a 5 inches display and it has just 5.74 inches long. This phone has an inspired design, with a thickness of just 0.34 inches. This cellphone feels much lighter than what you would expect from a phone this size. This device is for sale in 3 different color options, black, purple and white.

Sony packed the Sony Xperia Z1 with a spectacular 5-inches screen, and a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (Full HD), which makes it impossible to even see the pixels that compose the screen. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

Sony equipped the Sony Xperia Z1 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 system chip, backed up by an exceptional 2.2 GHz Quad-Core processing unit and a big 2 GB RAM. To collaborate with graphic intensive games and apps, it also counts with a 450 MHz Adreno 330 graphics processing unit. A great point of this cellphone is its large 32 GB internal storage and an SD memory card expansion slot, which allows the user to store lots of applications, games, songs, photos and videos without worrying about how much storage capacity is left.

This cellphone counts with WiFi connectivity (which can be provided to other devices around, as a mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) fast connection and also HSPA+ connection type, which is a bit slower 4G technology and fast 3G connection type, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Sony Xperia Z1 works with a SIM card to use GSM services.

This device has two cameras, a 20.7 mega-pixels back camera and a 2 megapixels front camera. this device's back camera has an aperture of 2 so it can take sharp photographs even in low lighting situations. It can also film Full HD 1920x1080 videos. In addition, the camera has many interesting characteristics: auto-focus, flash, fast burst mode, digital image stabilization, face detection shooting, smile detection shooting, HDR mode and geo tagging.

This cellphone also includes a few interesting characteristics such as Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Navigation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This cellphone comes with a 3000 mAh incredible Li-Ion removable battery that can keep this device running for many hours without having to charge it. According to Sony, this device has a reported 600 hs stand by time and a 15 hours talk time.

This cellphone is priced $ 239, which is quite expensive for this kind of cellphone. This cellphone is definitely very appropiate no matter if you will use it as a gamer phone, want a cellphone to mostly use social networks and internet browsing, need a cellphone for work or want it to take plenty of pictures. When buying this cellphone you will also receive microUSB cable, Charger and User documentation.