Last year Sony kept award itself abaft the ambit with Android phones. The new Xperia Z and ZL are the company's attack to breach that trend. These two phones basically analysis off every box a spec-hungry beatnik could ambition and again some.
It's harder to say which of these phones is the flagship aback their similarities awfully outweigh their differences. Both accept 5-inch 1920x1080 (aka 1080p) screens congenital on the Mobile Bravia Engine 2. Both accept 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processors and 2GB or RAM. Both accept 16GB of congenital accumulator with micro SD agenda slots so you can aggrandize at will. Both run Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with Sony's added scaled-back Acquaintance Flow UI. And both accept 13MP cameras that use Sony's new Exmor RS angel sensor, which is not alone congenital for low-light, but it's the aboriginal dent that can shoot 1080p HDR video. All drool-worthy specs.
Both aswell accept NFC and will plan with assorted Wi-Fi absolute accessories (they couldn't say it's Miracast yet because acceptance is pending, but that's what it is). That agency you'll be able to advance video and music to Wi-Fi enabled TVs, stereos, etc. They aswell both accept a actual glossy affection alleged Array Stamina Mode. Essentially, if your awning is off, it turns off the beck of abstracts your buzz pulls down. But say you still capital to get abstracts email, or Google Voice notifications, or Facebook. You can white-list those apps so abstracts still comes through for them. It's a absolutely able band-aid which Sony claims will extend standby time up to 400 percent. Both are currently slated to appear with a brace of Sony earbuds that affection bigger drivers, but assorted carriers may accept to go a cheaper route.
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Now let's allocution about the differences.
The Xperia Z (top angel and above) is the thinner of the two phones at just 0.31 inches (versus 0.39 inches for the ZL). There are no curves to allege of. It's a 3D rectangle with harder lines. There isn't even a bulge for the 13MP camera. Literally every ancillary of it is covered in a burnished apparent with a artificial blanket for added strength. Yes, it's a fingerprint magnet, but it has one actual absorbing trick: it's waterproof to three anxiety for up to 30 minutes. That agency you could bead it in the toilet, yield a shower, blow-dry your hair, and besom your teeth afore you apprehend it's in there and it'd still be fine. And the touchscreen works if wet (but not while beneath water). The Xperia Z packs in a 2330 mAh battery, which, accumulated with the Stamina Mode, will apparently do absolutely able-bodied by you.
The Xperia ZL may be 0.08 inches thicker than the Z, but admitting accepting the same-sized screen, it in fact has a abate brand (5.19 x 2.75 inches vs. 5.47 x 2.80 inches on the Z). That's because there is about no bezel at all—the foreground is basically all screen. That gives it a absolutely nice look. The aback is a curved, matte artificial agnate to the HTC One or Droid DNA. Unfortunately the XL is not waterproof, but it does accretion two added appearance we love. 1. It has a concrete camera button, which we ambition every buzz had, and 2. It has an IR blaster, so you can use your buzz as a accepted limited for your home ball center. It ability complete weird, but there are some agitating apps that yield advantage of that technology, and we ambition added accessories had it. The ZL aswell has a hardly beyond array at 2370mAh.
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Playing with the two phones, the acquaintance was about the same. They are fast. I didn't see any lag or dribble at all. The overhauled camera app is terrific. Sony basically adopted it from some of its touchscreen cameras, it was actual automatic and fluid. You can shoot 10fps bursts for as continued as you ambition until you run out of anamnesis again aces the best shot, and while there wasn't abundant backlighting to accord it a acceptable test, the HDR video looked acceptable at aboriginal glance. Sony absolutely scaled aback the way their UI looks, absolution Android Jelly Bean do the heavy-lifting, and that's a acceptable thing. At the above time they've added some nice features, like added automatic homescreen customization and the above Stamina Mode. The screens are acutely aciculate (440 PPI) and colors looked good, admitting blacks did about-face a bit blah if the accuracy was cranked all the way up.
In short, these are the best phones Sony has anytime made, by a huge margin, and they attending like aboveboard contenders for the "Best Smartphone" crown. They will both be ablution globally in Q1 of 2013 ("Probably March," we were told). No chat yet on appraisement or which carriers will get which buzz or if exactly.
We aswell got to see a air-conditioned little accessory, which is currently accepted as the SBH 20. It's a little aboveboard with play/pause, aggregate up/down, clue seek buttons, a headphone slot, and a clip. At aboriginal bright you'd anticipate that it's a bargain MP3 player, but it's in fact a tiny Bluetooth receiver. It has an NFC dent in it that pairs it to your buzz with a quick tap. You can again accept your buzz in a bag or abridged and beck music to it, alert via the SBH's headphone jack. Why is that cool? Because a lot of headphones with aggregate up/down and clue forward/back are advised to plan with iOS, not Android. If you're out for a run with these, it gives you a quick way to acclimatize your music (or acknowledgment calls) after accepting to cull out your phone. They'll aswell be out in Q1 and will apparently advertise for about 50 bucks.
So a actual solid assuming from Sony Mobile. It seems like the aggregation abstruse from accomplished mistakes and has redoubled its efforts. We're absolutely searching advanced to giving all of these items a abounding analysis in the months to come. Added photos below. [Sony Mobile]
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That 360 amount appearance comes adulation of our actual own Gizmodoscope. Analysis out added of its accomplishment here
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