Monday 25 November 2013

Sony raised the bar with the new Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z Ultra


I have had the chance to manipulate, the new high-end smartphones from Sony: the Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z Ultra. Previously, Sony seemed to be following the parade, now we can say that they will dictate the market for the next few months. Let's start with the specs ...


A few technical details:

Resistance to dust and water (IP55 IP58)
Camera front of 2 Mpx (1080P)
Quad Core Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 cadence to 2.2 GHz
2 Gb RAM memory and 16 Gb internal. Possibility of a microSD card up to 64Gb
connectivity ANT , aGPS, DLNA, MHL, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0
cellular networks: UMTS HSPA , GSM GPRS/EDGE and LTE
Android 4.2.2
Now, let us separate the two beasts.

Xperia Z1

Weight of 169 grams with dimensions of 144.4 73.9 × × 8.5 mm
Full HD screen Triluminos of 5" with a resolution of 1920 ×1080 and 16 million colors
Stack of 3000 mAh with a autonomy up to:
14 hours in conversation
880 hours standby
110 hours of music playback
6.6 hours of playback of videos
Camera rear of 20.7 Mpx and 8x digital zoom
Sony G Lens: F2.0 wide angle 27 mm


Xperia Z Ultra

Weight of 212 grams with dimensions of 179.4 x92x 6.5 mm
Triluminos LED Screen TFT of 6.44" with a resolution of 1920 ×1080 and 16 million colors
Stack of 3050 mAh with a autonomy up to: 16 hours
in conversation
820 Hours standby time
110 hours of music playback
7 hours of video playback


To begin, the look of these devices is definitively very classy, you can feel the quality of the unit; comparable to an iPhone. With one of these devices in hand, you note immediately: they are beautiful and very thin!

Offered in 3 colors: black, white and purple.

The Android system is very fluid and the Sony applications offer nice possibilities. For example the camera application of the Xperia Z1 offers modes of Info-eye (a Google Unit carried out its most recent trials more evolved) to find info on a place or a bottle of wine for example, Timeshift Burst which takes 61 shots in 2 seconds, Social Live, which allows the broadcast of live on Facebook as well as the display of comments on the screen.

These devices also have their batch of compatible accessories: charging cradles for the magnetic look permenently (DK30 and DK31), the famous SmartWatch 2 (my article on Geekbecois), Bluetooth handset intelligent for the display of notifications (SBH52), removable goals really impressive (QX10 and QX100).  All of these accessories, connectable via NFC, and much more will be offered at launch as well as in the months to come.

The Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z Ultra have everything to please and were available as of October. The Xperia Z Ultra is exclusive to Bell while the Xperia Z1 will be offered at Bell, Rogers and Telus. A launch offer will allow you to have 5 great films and a laissez-passer to exclusive digital broadcast of the film of the summer of Sony Pictures, a free trial of two months to Music Unlimited and 10 games of PlayStation Mobile

These devices are currently available with Bell
By Creative Tech Reviews

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