SONY XPERIA Z3 TABLET COMPACT REVIEW (WIFI + CELLULAR)


Sony launched its flagship smartphone in India namely Xperia Z3 tablet compact which is priced @ 47,990. It is available in Black & White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY 
The desigh is very good and feels premium. It has a scratch resistant and shatter proof durable tempered glass both on back and front and an alluminium frame structure. It is slim at 6.4mm and weighs 270gms. It is also IP68 certified meaning dust proof and water resistant for 5 feet and 30 minutes. It has a 8 inch 16M WUXGA LCD capacitive touchscreen which features Triluminous display & X-Reality engine with 283ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility are pretty good. It runs on Xperia UI.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS 
It has a 16GB internal storage and is expandable upto 128GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like Walkman for music, album for images and movies for videos which are very good. It has clear audio technologies and X-loud sound enhancements. On-board connectivitie's such as 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS & GLONASS, NFC and USB & USB OTG support are standard. It also includes Sony’s unique one touch functions that takes place with help of NFC. But lacks IR(Infrared) Port. 
CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8MP Rear camera with autofocus which features Superior auto mode(optimises right settings at right time),Simultaneous HD video and image recording, Time-Shift burst mode (snaps 30 images in 2 seconds and starts before the press of the shutter key), Geo-tagging, AR (Argument Reality) effects, Image stabilization, Sweep panorama, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Very good. Daytime the images are very good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is quite nice. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilizatio and stereo sound having bitrate of 18Mbps in 30fps stores in MP4 files. The video recording clarity is Very good. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is quite nice. It has a 2.2 MP Front camera which does FULL HD 1080p@30fps and clarity is pretty good.
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE,PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs on Android(OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat of the box with a planned upgrade to 5.0 Lollipop. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974AC) processor running a quad core at 2.5 GHZ with 2 GB RAM and an Adreno 330 GPU (550MHZ Single core). The performance is Top class which provides high graphic intensive games and multitasking run smoothly and there is no lag at all. It is also PlayStation certified & supports Latest Dual shock 4 feature.
QUADRANT : 25243.
ANTUTU : 39790.

NENAMARK 2 : 60fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a non-removableLi-Ion 4500 MAH Battery with battery stamina mode(which kills the apps u want when screen is off by providing more battery life). The battery life is Excellent which is given below. It also supports Qualcom's rapid charging technology.  
BROWSING : upto 18H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 13:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 24H(2G) / upto 22H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 1150H(2G) / upto 1100H(3G).
PROS
*Top class build quality.
*Very good Display and viewing angles.
*Top class performance.
*Very good camera & video recording clarity.
*NFC & USB OTG.
*Dust and Water resistant.
*Flap free headphone jack.
*Pretty good Stereo speakers.
*Excellent battery life.

CONS
*Display coulkd have slightly higher resolution still a very good display overall.
*Non-removable battery.
*lacks IR blaster.
*Camera could have had higher resolution.
*Bit pricy.
OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.1/10.
°overall producte rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.


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