SONY XPERIA XZ FULL REVIEW



Sony launched its flagship android smartphone namely Xperia XZ (Dual Sim) in India which is priced at 49,990/-. It is available in Mineral Black, Platinum, Forest Blue & Deep Pink shades. The online links are given below so check them out to keep track of current price & availability or to pick one of them.


SPECS OVERVIEW

5.2 inch 1080p IPS Display

8.1mm Slim & weighs 161gms

64GB Storage with MicroSD

23MP Rear & 13MP Front Cameras

Snapdragon 820 (Quad-Core CPU)

Adreno 530 GPU with 3GB RAM

Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow

USB OTG, NFC & Gyroscope sensor



USB Type-C, Fingerprint sensor

Non-Removable 2900 mah Battery 

Lets Dive Into The Review!




DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is great. It has 2.5D curved Corning gorilla glass on front & alkalideo metal back surrounded by metal frame which offers great in hand feel thanks to curved glass and alkaliedo metal back which feels premium. It is slim at 8.1mm and weighs 161gms. It has 5.2 inch Full HD IPS LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1280 with 424ppi. The viewing angles are great and sunlight legibility of the display is pretty good. It runs on Xperia User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is pretty good could have been slightly better. The display has mobile  features including Triluminous Display, X-Reality Engine & Super vivid mode which are great. It is also IP68 Certified Dust proof and Water resistant

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 64GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 256GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like Walkman for songs, an Album to store all images and videos and a Movies for playing movies respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed. When it comes to multimedia experience from the device is great overall thanks to large canvas video watching is very good adding to the experience is the audio quality both from loudspeaker and from headphone jack is great. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band wifi, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB Type-C, USB OTG, Bluetooth 4.1 and NFC come standard, but also supports fingerprint scanner and gyroscope sensor which is great.  

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 23MP (1/2.3inch Sensor, F/2.0 Aperture, 24mm Field Of View) rear camera with Color Sprectrum (RGB IR) Sensor, Phase detection & laser autofocus along with EIS(Gyroscope based Electronic Image Stabilization) and LED flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc and other modes as well. The camera clarity is quite Excellent overall. Daytime the images are Excellent overall and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit 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 very good. It does 4K 2160p@30fps, Full HD 1080p@60fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 48 mbps for 4K & 18 mbps for Full HD and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is quite Excellent overall. Daytime the video clarity is great and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is quite very good. It also has a 13MP (1/3inch Sensor, F/2.0 Aperture, 22mm Field Of View) front camera for selfe's with 1080p HDR video recording and clarity is quite great.
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE,PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs on Android(OS) 6.0.1 Marshmallow out of the box which is upgradable to Android 7.0 Nougat. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (MSM8996) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Quad-Core processor which is combination of Dual-Core processor clocked at 2.2 GHZ (Kryo) with 3 GB RAM and an Adreno 530 GPU (650MHZ Single-Core). The performance is Excellent overall which provides high graphic intensive games run great without any major issues, I was able to run asphalt 8 & Modern combact 5 and the gaming performance wasvery smooth didn't notice any lag or major frame drop from this you can also observe that other games like nova 3 etc to perform similarly and also when it comes to heating I found the device gets warm not uncomfortably warm/hot which is quite good (but temperature goes little higher only while extended video recording). The general performance of the device was very smooth didn't notice any lag from the UI (User Interface) which is great in my opinion. The benchmark scores are great for this price range which is given below.
QUADRANT : 40490.
ANTUTU : 131494.
NENAMARK 2 : 60fps.

BATTERY LIFE
It has a non-removable Li-Ion 2900 MAH Battery with Sony's battery stamina mode and also supports Quick charge 3.0 charging support and Qnovos adaptive charging and battey care feature. The battery life is pretty good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 9H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 22H(2G) / upto 20:30H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 600H(2G) / upto 590H(3G).
SCREEN ON TIME (SOT) : upto 5H.
BATTERY LIFE STATS*
Heavy usage upto 13:30H battery life with upto 4:30H SOT.
Light/Medium usage upto 1.5 days battery life with upto 3:30H SOT. 
*Battery life is subjective depends on usage, These stats are based on my testing.
PROS
*Excellent build quality.
*Great display (2.5D curved) and viewing angles.
*Excellent overall performance.
*Excellent overall camera & video recording clarity.
*4G (VOLTE), NFC & USB OTG support.
*Fingerprint scanner, USB Type-C and gyroscope sensor support
*Great loudspeaker and headphone jack audio quality (with Hi-Res Audio).
*Pretty good battery life.
*IP68 Certified Dust proof and water resistant.
*Dedicated camera key.

CONS
*Non-removable battery.
*No Fingerprint sensor on US markets.
*Full HD & 3GB RAM is sufficient though other flagships have gone a step higher.
*Device gets warm during extended video recording.
*Bit Pricy.

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OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.2/10.
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