Sony Xperia Z
Accelerometer, proximity sensor, photo detector, magnetometer, gyroscope
0.55
UMTS HSPA 850 (Band V), 900 (Band VIII), 2100 ( Band I ) MHz GSM GPRS / EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz LTE (bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20 )
- WLAN 802.11a/802.11b/802.11g/802.11n
- Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy
- GPS and GLONASS
- NFC
Water ( IPX 5 /7) and dustproof ( IP5X )
The Sony Xperia Z ( C6603 or Sony, Sony Xperia Yuga ) was introduced at CES on January 7, 2013 in Las Vegas and is a Full HD Android smartphone from the Xperia series from Sony.
Display
The Sony Xperia Z has a 5 inch (12.7 cm ) TFT display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels (about 443 ppi pixel density) and a color range of 16 million colors. On the scratch-resistant glass, a film is to prevent the breakage, integrated Bravia Engine 2 optimize the contrast, color, color noise and sharpness of the images. OptiContrast and Direct Touch will also make the display closer to the touch panel, avoid light reflection and let the switched display look even blacker. The touch screen supports multi-touch gestures with up to ten fingers.
Camera
With the Exmor RS for mobile BSI Camera allowed as the first smartphone in the world an HDR video recording. Also features the 13.1 -MP main camera - in addition to the 2.1 -MP front camera - additional features such as a 16x digital zoom, a flash with pulsating LED and photo light, auto focus, focusing and shooting tap, Geo-tagging, a image stabilizer, red-eye reduction, self timer and a face and smile. In burst mode, the camera can record 10 frames per second with 9 MP. Despite the relatively high number of megapixels to shoot night scenes are to succeed without noise, this is realized with the BSI sensor from Sony, which was co-developed with Toshiba.
Design
The appearance of the Xperia Z was developed according to the OmniBalance concept, wherein the front and rear side, and the edges ( not vertices ) are coated with glass. With 7.9 mm thickness is the Xperia Z - in proportion to its size - relatively thin.
Connectivity
The Xperia Z supports data transfer via WLAN with the common 802.11b/g/n-Standard ( 2.4 GHz) as well as 802.11a / n 5 GHz band. NFC allows you to transfer data, such as mutual touching two NFC -enabled devices. One of the implementations of NFC are the smart tags. These "tags" in different colors can be assigned to each settings and / or actions and thus simplify the device settings. Bluetooth 4.0 allows the use of Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth Smart.
Strength
The case of the Xperia Z is waterproof after IPX5 standard, that is, water jets with up to 6.3 mm in diameter from any direction call at least 3 minutes (12.5 liters / minute) at 30 kPa distance of 3 meters no harm. Even a 30-minute immersion in 1 m depth does not cause damage produced (waterproof to IPX7 ). The penetration of dust particles can not be completely prevented, but the housing is dustproof to IP5X.
Modding
Sony directly supports the modding of the operating system with the ability to unlock the bootloader of Android smartphones; Free Xperia Project in the sources of the kernel (codenamed Yuga ) will be provided. About a shortcut key (* # * # 7378423 # * # *) you get into the service menu, where you get the info displayed, if the bootloader is unlockable.
Review and Critique
In expert reviews such as the Connect magazine in particular the display and the very balanced equipment of software and hardware is praised.