Sony Xperia Z1

Accelerometer, proximity sensor, photo detector, magnetometer, gyroscope

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UMTS HSPA 850 (Band V), 900 (Band VIII), 1700 ( Volume IV ), 1900 (Band II), 2100 (Band I) MHz GSM GPRS / EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz LTE ( bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 20 ), LTE-Advanced

• WLAN 802.11a/802.11b/802.11g/802.11n/802.11ac
• Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy
• GPS and GLONASS
• NFC

Water ( IPX5/X8 ) and dustproof ( IP55/58 )

The Sony Xperia Z1 (codename Honami ) was presented on September 4, 2013 at the IFA in 2013 and is a Full HD Android smartphone from the Xperia series from Sony. It is the successor of the Xperia Z. The model sold in Germany has the type designation C6903, which is Sony's World variant with LTE.

Display

The Sony Xperia Z1 has a 5 inch (12.7 cm) wide TRILUMINOS TFT display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels (about 443 ppi pixel density) and a color range of 16 million colors. The integrated X-Reality for mobile image processor supports the GPU Adreno 330 The touch screen supports multi-touch gestures with up to ten fingers.

Camera

With the 1/23 inch Exmor RS for mobile camera allowed as the second smartphone, after the Xperia Z, a HDR video recording. Also features the 20.7 -MP main camera - in addition to the 2 MP front camera - additional features such as a flash with pulsating LED and photo light, auto focus, focusing and shooting tap, Geo-tagging, image stabilization, red- eye reduction, self-timer and a face and smile. To improve the photo quality of the image sensor is complemented by a Sony G Lens optics with an aperture F 2.0 and a powerful BIONZ processor, as it eg also have some alpha and NEX Sony models.

Design

The appearance of the Xperia Z1 is designed according to the concept OmniBalance, wherein the front and rear side, and the edges ( not vertices ) are coated with glass. With 8.5 mm thickness, the Xperia Z1 is slightly thicker than the Xperia Z. In contrast to this, the frame a little rounder and not plastic but metal.

Connectivity

The Xperia Z1 supports data transfer via WLAN with the common 802.11a/b/g/n/ac-Standard in the 2.4 - GHz and 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, which for example offered by Sony. This " smart 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, which is but 4.2 does not yet support the current Android ( only implemented in Android 4.3).

Strength

The case of the Xperia Z1 is as its predecessor Xperia Z waterproof to the IPX 5 standard and also after the IPX8 standard, ie Jets of water 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 1.5 m depth does not cause damage produced ( waterproof to IPX8 ). The penetration of dust particles can not be completely prevented, but the housing is dustproof to IP5X.

Smart Accessories

Sony offers for its smartphones accessories, which are mainly designed for this, but mostly work on other Android smartphones. So it has been around for some time his SmartWatch MN2, of which there are the second generation SW2 recently. For this, there are some apps in PlayStore with which various information, incoming messages and calls, the MP3 - player control, Photo remote control and much more is possible. Furthermore, the stereo Bluetooth headset SBH50 and recently the successor SBH52 was presented. The special feature of the headset is the ability to also display status messages and calls. The SBH52 can be used as special even as a mini phone without earphones, because it's like a small telephone receiver in the upper part has a speaker and a microphone below. This mini headphones with stereo headset was presented with the Smartlet Sony Xperia Z Ultra.

Modding

Sony directly supports the modding of the operating system with the ability to unlock the bootloader of Android smartphones. The kernel source has been released by Sony. The Free Xperia Project is the mode ( code name Honami - to be confirmed) will later Released. About a shortcut key (* # * # 7378423 # * # *) you get into the service menu, where you the info - get configuration indicates whether the bootloader is unlockable.

Review and Critique

In expert reviews such as the Connect magazine praised the Sony ecosystem in particular the persistence of very good GSM and the good integration, but strongly criticized the weak UMTS performance. inside-handy.de certifies that the Sony Xperia Z1 a very good display and a good overall performance, but is a little disappointed by the camera. So should be about the autofocus of the camera sometimes longer need to focus and the automatic function produces some slightly overexposed and faint images.