Sony Xperia Z3 Review

Sony Xperia Z3 is an incredible Android phone released back in 2014, having a pretty big 5.2" multi-touch screen, an exceptional Quad-Core processing unit ticking at 2.5 GHz, and 2 cameras, a 20.7 MP back-facing camera and a 2.2 MP front side camera.

The Sony Xperia Z3 is just 5.85 inches long and 2.89" wide, but it is able to fit a a 5.2" display. The Sony Xperia Z3 is just 0.35 inches thick, making it one of the thinnest phones in the market. Sony is offering this phone in two colors: black and white. This cellphone isn't very light comparing with today standards, weighting 6.02 oz.

This device comes with an exceptional 2.5 gigahertz Quad-Core processing unit, bundled in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 8974-AC system chip and a large 3 GB of RAM. Graphic calculations generally uses lots of CPU time, so the Sony Xperia Z3 also has an extra Adreno 330 GPU ticking at 450 megahertz to take care of them, leaving the CPU free for other tasks. A good point of this cellphone is its large 32 GB internal storage memory and an SD memory slot, more than enough to install hundreds of apps and even the largest games available nowadays without even thinking about how much memory is left.

The Sony Xperia Z3 is equipped with two cameras, a 20.7 MP back facing camera and a 2.2 mega-pixels front facing camera. this cellphone's back facing camera has an aperture of F2 so it can shoot excellent pictures even in poorly lit environments. It is capable of capturing 4K 3840x2160 videos at 30 fps, and slow motion videos up to 1280x720 (HD) up to 120 frames per second (4 times slower than reality). The camera also has many interesting features: auto-focus, flash, digital image stabilization, fast burst mode, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, HDR mode and geo tagging.

This phone has an astonishing 5.2-inches screen with a 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) resolution, which makes everything look amazing. This screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, with a brightness of 592 candela/m² and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

The Sony Xperia Z3 has a 3200 mAh massive non-removable battery, enough to provide this phone with an amazing battery life. Sony afirms this phone has a 21 hours talk time and a 920 hs stand by time. An issue to take into consideration is that this phone's battery is non-removable so you can't buy a new battery when it begins losing capacity, though having 3200 mAh you will probably buy a new cellphone before that becomes an issue.

The Sony Xperia Z3 includes wifi connection (which can be provided to other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) great performance connection type and also HSPA+ internet connection, that is a lower speed 4G network and fast 3G data connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. The Sony Xperia Z3 works with a Nano SIM card for GSM networks.

This phone also includes lots of interesting characteristics such as Wireless charging, Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Navigation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

The Sony Xperia Z3 is priced about $ 170, similar to other similar cellphones. No matter whether you want it for work, want this cellphone to play lots of games, are an amateur photographer or will use this phone majorly for social networks, you will definitely love this cellphone.