![]() Take a close look, though, and you’ll start to see problems. In the comparison shots below, you’ll also see that the Sony’s images are more vibrant than the Pixel’s, although a touch oversaturated in my view. However, with a higher pixel count, the XZ Premium’s camera promises and delivers visibly crisper details in good light. As for the front-facing camera, that’s a 13-megapixel, f/2.0 camera with a 1/3in sensor.Ĭompared with the Google Pixel, which I still think is the best overall camera on a smartphone, the specifications are very similar. The sensor is 1/2.3in in size, too, so the same as all its major rivals. It’s a 19-megapixel snapper with an aperture of f/2.0, “predictive” phase detect and laser autofocus for quick lock-on in both well-lit and low-light conditions. Oddly, despite the fact that the Sony Xperia XZ Premium has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, it doesn’t support the latest Quick Charge 4 standard, only Quick Charge 3, but there is at least Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and rear, so it should resist scratching and scuffing, though it’ll most probably break if you drop it directly onto concrete.īeyond this slightly gimmicky mode, though, the XZ Premium’s rear camera is excellent. ![]() On the top edge is a 3.5mm headphone jack (HALLELUJAH!) and on the bottom is a USB Type-C port for charging and data transfer. The phone is weather-proofed to IP68, just like the Samsung Galaxy S8 you can add a microSD card to expand on its 64GB of built-in storage there’s a fingerprint reader positioned sensibly on the right-hand side of the phone and there’s a dedicated two-stage shutter button for the camera. That’s a great shame, because there’s very little missing here when it comes to checklist features. Its sharp corners are ready and raring to tear a hole in your pocket if you get your angles wrong when pocketing it, and they dig uncomfortably into your palms and fingers when the phone is held horizontally. And there are practical problems with the way this phone has been designed as well. It’s an Android phone with a 5.5in 4K display, a 19-megapixel camera that lets you shoot slow-motion video at a stunning 960 frames per second (although only in short bursts) and it’s as beautifully designed as you’d expect a 2017 flagship to be.Ĭompared with the Samsung Galaxy S8’s narrow-bezel, curved-edge design, however, the Sony just looks a little old hat. The Sony XZ Premium is Sony’s flagship device for 2017. READ NEXT: Samsung Galaxy S8 – the best Android Phone you can buy Sony Xperia XZ Premium review: What you need to know ![]() Sure, it’s slightly different to previous Xperia flagships – the edges have a curved rather than softly squared profile, and the corners are severely chopped off and sharp instead of being softly sculpted – but it’s as recognisable as any smartphone on the market, and that’s a great credit to Sony’s design department. While Samsung has gone all glass and added curved edges to its phones, and HTC has veered from composite to stark metal and is now producing curvaceous all-glass handsets, Sony’s “Omni-Balance” design and squared-off shape is alive and kicking in the firm’s 2017 flagship – the Sony Xperia XZ Premium. Download this SIM Cutting Template and forget about having to ask your operator for a new SIM.You have to hand it to Sony – no matter what the competition has come up with in recent years, it has stuck to it design guns. ![]() SIM cards (MiniSIM) can be cut to MicroSIM, MicroSIM can be cut to NanoSIM and a SIM can even be cut to a NanoSIM (although not recommended).
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