Sony Xperia ZL Review

Sony Xperia ZL is an incredible Android phone launched back in 2013, counting with an extremely powerful 1500 megahertz Quad-Core CPU, a pretty big 5" multi-touch display, a 13 MP back-facing camera and a 2 MP front side camera.

Sony decided to build this phone with an extremely powerful Quad-Core CPU speeding at 1500 MHz, bundled in a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 chip with a huge 2 GB of RAM. Graphic intensive apps and games often consume lots of CPU processing time, so this cellphone has a 400 MHz Adreno 320 graphic processing unit to help the processor with those tasks. This device has a quite large 16 GB internal storage memory and an external SD slot, which allows you to store hundreds of games and apps without worrying about space.

This phone isn't very light for a device of this size, with a weight of 5.33 ounces. This device is just 0.39 inches thick, making its way into the thinnest devices podium. Whereas this phone is just 5.18" long and 2.75 inches wide, it's able to fit a a 5" display.

The Sony Xperia ZL has two cameras, a 13 megapixels back side camera and a 2 mega-pixels front side camera. It also captures videos up to 1920x1080 (Full HD). Additionally, this phone's camera also includes multiple cool features: flash, fast burst mode, auto-focus, face detection shooting, digital image stabilization, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This phone includes a completely amazing 5-inches display with a 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) resolution, which makes everything look perfect. This display uses TFT capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

This phone uses a 2370 mAh huge battery providing the Sony Xperia ZL an average battery life. According to Sony, this device has a reported 10 hs talk time and a 500 hs stand by time.

This device offers Wi-Fi capability (which can be shared with other devices as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE great performance internet connection and also HSPA+ connection type, which is a lower speed 4G network and the fastest 3G connectivity, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone uses a Micro SIM card for GSM networks.

This cellphone also includes a lot of great characteristics like NFC (Near Field Communication), Infrared Port, Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Navigation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Barometer and Compass.

The Sony Xperia ZL is not a very good choice considering it is priced $ 555, while many similar phones can be found for much less money. If you love photography, are looking for a phone to play tons of games, need a work phone or are looking for a social phone, you will probably love this cellphone.