Sony Xperia Z3 Review

Sony Xperia Z3 is a top quality cellphone launched back in 2014, packed with a high speed 2500 megahertz Quad-Core processing unit, a pretty big 5.2-inches multi touch capacitive display, a 20.7 MP back facing camera and a 2.2 MP front side camera. Great! That's it? No, it's only the introduction.

Sony made an amazing design job making this cellphone weight only 5.36 oz. This phone is just 0.29 inches thick, taking it to the thinnest cellphone's category. Even though this cellphone is just 5.75" long and 2.83 inches wide, it manages to hold a 5.2" display. This phone is offerred in a nice range of colors like black, brown, green and white.

This cellphone has a high-tech 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5.2-inches display, making everything look brightful and colorful. This display uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, with a brightness of 592 candela/m2 and can detect multi touch gestures.

This phone ships with an extremely fast Quad-Core CPU clocking at 2.5 GHz, bundled in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 8974-AC chip with a large 3 GB of RAM. To handle graphic intensive apps, it also counts with a 450 MHz Adreno 330 graphic processing unit. A nice feature of this cellphone is its 16 GB quite large internal storage and an external memory slot, which allows you to install hundreds of applications and games without worrying about space.

This cellphone provides wifi connection (which it can provide to other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE great performance data connection and also HSPA+ connectivity, that is a lower speed 4G technology and the fastest 3G data connection, over HSDPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. The Sony Xperia Z3 works with a Nano SIM card for GSM networks.

The Sony Xperia Z3 has two cameras, a 20.7 megapixels back camera and a 2.2 megapixels front side camera. this cellphone's back camera lens has a maximum F2 aperture so it can capture impressive photographs even in low lighting situations. It is also able to shoot 4K 3840x2160 videos at 30 frames per second, and slow-motion videos up to 1280x720 (HD) at 120 frames per second (4 times slower than normal videos). Additionally, the camera includes lots of valuable features like auto-focus, flash, fast burst mode, digital image stabilization, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This phone comes with an inmense 3100 mAh non-replaceable battery providing this cellphone an impressive battery life. Sony informs a stand by time of 890 hours and a talk time of 14 hs for this cellphone. An issue to consider is that the Sony Xperia Z3's battery is not replaceable so you can't change it when it starts to lose capacity, though with such a big battery you will probably discard this phone before that becomes an issue.

This cellphone also includes a handful of useful characteristics as NFC (Near Field Communication), Bluetooth (enables communication with other devices, computers and accessories) and GPS Navigation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

The Sony Xperia Z3 is being sold for $ 170, quite the same as other similar cellphones. This cellphone is probably the right choice it doesn't matter whether you will use it as a work phone, want this cellphone for playing games, want a social cellphone or you love taking pictures.