Sony Xperia Z Review Part-1

The Sony's Xperia Z flagship just the hit the Smartphone Market not very long ago. It was announced at CES 2013 and was released last February.The smartphone has a dust protected, water-jet protected, and waterproof features and packed with a 13.1MP Exmor RS camera sensor as well as a full HD (1080p) display, with a great appealing design which Sony likes to call 'Omni-Balance' Design. A cheaper variant called the Sony Xperia ZL uses the same hardware as the Xperia Z, but sacrifices water resistance for a smaller frame.
The Sony Xperia Z is available on a monthly contract with prices starting at around £26.If you’d rather pick one up SIM-free then you’re looking at handing over a good £450.In Myanmar(Burma) the SIM-free one with start from the price Ks.550000 to Ks.690000.

Let's See the Design

The Sony Xperia Z is currently available in 3 colors

We can say that the Sony Xperia Z takes a drastic departure for Sony's designers as the curved edges and rounded corners of the Xperiar T and Xperia Arc S.Instead it move on to imitate the looks of the iPhone 4S and Nexus 4,the Xperia Z is made of shatterproof glass front and back,giving it a glossy appearance but it also attracts fingerprints which most people don't like.At just 7.9mm in thickness,it extremely svelte.Its not the lightest phone on market but its good for go weighting 146g/5.15oz.

You’ll also find in each corner for ports and openings all covered by flaps in order to facilitate the Xperia Z’s ability to withstand dust and water ingress. The phone will happily take a swim at depths up to 1m, for thirty minutes at a time, which essentially means if you drop it down the loo but retrieve it swiftly, there will be no harm done aside from the indignity of having to shove your hand down a filthy toilet, of course.
The Xperia Z’s 5-inch 1,920x1,080-pixel 'Reality Display' pops with colour and vibrancy, and packs a pixel density of 443ppi leaving the iPhone 5's 326ppi panel eating dust.And the Sony Xperia Z should also be impressive enough to go toe-to-toe with the Galaxy S4’s display.It’s impossible to discern individual pixels, and high-res images look stunning. Unfortunately,some of the app icons on Android haven’t been designed with that kind of resolution in mind, and end up looking a bit blurry and ill-defined. This complaint can hardly be levelled at Sony though.There is a slight issue with the viewing angles of the Xperia Z,but apart from that its screen is the winner over phones like the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S3.

 

How about processing power and software 

It's taken Sony a pretty while to get to join the quad-core family but now it has finally joined in with its flagship. Inside the chassis is the 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro chip, backed up by 2GB of RAM.

This makes it one of the fastest Android phones around, and the usual gamut of benchmark tests reveal some truly fearsome power. Antutu Benchmark gives the phone a score of 20,031, pulverizing the Samsung Galaxy S3’s 12,467, while Quadrant Standard awards the phone a 7,995, which trumps the HTC One X’s rating of 4,904.In GLBenchmark 2.5.1’s Egypt HD on-screen test, the Xperia Z clocks a score of 3,399 at 30 frames per second, and Vellamo -- which tests web performance -- rates the phone at 2,185, beating both the Galaxy S3 (1,580) and the HTC One X (1,625).Finally, there’s the Epic Citadel benchmark, in which the Xperia Z earns a rating of 56.6 frames per second on the high performance test and 55.7 on the high quality test. Thiis one seriously powerful blower, and no mistake.

 

 Even with all of this raw power of Sony's quad-core beast there are still some surprising brief moments of slowdown and lag.Most people say that it was Android that cause the lag but the Nexus 4 proved that Google's OS can run as smooth as silk.Hopefully a software update might fix these occasional pauses.The phone comes with Android 4.1 on board, although Sony is adamant that a 4.2 update will be pushed out soon after launch.The lock screen is particularly fetching. It imitates the look of a set of window blinds, and moving your finger over the surface of the screen causes the blinds to ripple and bend. You can also access your music player and camera from the lock screen, although the camera app doesn’t fire up anywhere near as quickly as the one on the Nexus 4. Sony has toned down its custom widgets on this phone, and the pointless Timescape social aggregator has thankfully been removed entirely. The Small Apps system which premiered with the Xperia T has been retained, and allows you to launch things like voice recorders and calculators from the Android multitasking menu. More of these apps can be installed from the Google Play market, and although the number available is still quite limited, they’re moving in the right direction.

 

Window Blinds working lock screen of Sony Xperia Z