We were given the opportunity to play with Sony’s
latest flagship, the Xperia Z. Is this the phone to put Sony back in the top
three?
Sony believes its latest flagship, the Xperia Z, will be a
winner, and from what we’ve seen of the phone, they might be right for now at
least. While the unit looks big with its massive 5” screen, at 146g the Z does
not come across as overly bulky, unlike the Nokia’s portly Lumia 920’s 185g
rump. The Xperia Z learned a few lessons from its rough and tumble cousin, the
Xperia Go, also being water resistant up to 1m. In our opinion the Z’s boxy
design is not an immediate head-turner, but having a water resistant top-end
phone is a much needed safety-net.
The Xperia Z surely looks like an exciting unit, able to
compete, and give a hiding, to the best available.
Sony believes its
latest flagship, the Xperia Z, will be a winner, and from what we’ve seen of
the phone, they might be right for now at least.
Screen with joy
It’s the screen, though, that is the big draw card, with its
5” falling between the Galaxy S3’s 4.8” and the Note 2’s 5.5”. Unlike those
two, Sony is offering full HD on the device, with the 1080 x 1920 pixels
pulling the pixel density of the unit over the 400 ppi (pixels per inch) mark
to a lust worthy 441 ppi. It bests the iPhone 5’s Retina Display’s 326 ppi by
quite a bit, and it looks simply excellent. Doing the hard work in the
background is a 1.5GHz Qualcomm APQ8064 chip with four cores pulling at 1.5GHz
each, a more than helpful 2GB of RAM and a so-so 16GB of internal storage.
Fortunately, this can be expanded using the microSD storage slot.
Sony is offering
full HD on the device
To the point
When the Sony Xperia Z made its appearance at CES earlier
this year, it surely looks like an exciting unit, able to compete, and give a
hiding, to the best available. But with a number of hot phones scheduled for
the Mobile World Congress in February, and the Galaxy S4 ready to soon pounce
from Samsung’s R + D department, will it have what it takes to remain top in
class? The Sony Xperia Z is expected to debut in SA early in Q2 2013, with no
official price been announced yet.
The Sony Xperia Z
is expected to debut in SA early in Q2 2013, with no official price been
announced yet.
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Specifications
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Price: $750
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Resolution: 1080 x 1920 pixels
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Physical size: 5.0 inches
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OS: Android 4.1.2
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Touchscreen: Capacitive, Multi-touch
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Processor: Quad core, 1500 MHz, Krait
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System memory: 2048 MB RAM
§ Weight: 146g
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