After a failed first foray on the smartphone market with the Swedish Ericsson, Sony now stands on its own and now convinced with better finished products, such as the recent Xperia Z.
Taking advantage of the collapse of Blackberry, Nokia and HTC, Sony is back in the big leagues with well designed products and better finished. In the first quarter of 2013, Sony has indeed attained third place in smartphone sales in Western Europe with 3.2 million handsets, behind the inevitable Samsung (14.3 million) and Apple (6.2 million) .
After Samsung Galaxy S4, we have tested the Sony Xperia Z, an animated Google Android 4.1 smartphone (in our test 4.2.2 was not yet available), and with a diagonal screen 5 inch. XXL format so even if since the Japanese introduced to the press its Xperia Z Ultra has a screen of 6.4 inches. But is it still a smartphone ...
To return to the Xperia Z, it is clear that Sony has come a long way since the end of the joint venture Sony Ericsson. The product is indeed the expectations of connoisseurs with a screen quality (Full HD 1080P), a 4G LTE chip, a well thought out ergonomics - the on-off switch on the right edge of the Mobile button comes naturally fit under the thumb - and a 13 megapixel camera sensor. And icing on the cake, dust resistant (IP 55) and spray (IP 57 certification).
A simple design and successful
Let's start with the design before turning to the bowels of this mobile especially thin and light, 7.9 mm and weighs 146 g. As a recent TV, part of the screen is also very thin, which helped to reduce the size of this smartphone XXL (139 x 71 x 7.9 mm). Like other manufacturers, Sony has decided to explore other avenues Apple to avoid legal wrath of the Californian brand (see the evolution of design at Samsung since the release of the Galaxy S2). Without being very innovative - we are dealing with a rectangular brick black polycarbonate - the design is simple and stands out from the competition. Good point, the on-off button round comes naturally under the thumb and after a few days, we immediately wonder why some manufacturers do not include this idea. Ideally actually a combination of button ring Apple / vibrator and the ignition button on the right spine. The left may not be appreciate, but the idea deserves to be preserved. Last detail, caches are protecting mobile connectors to withstand water jets, a temporary immersion (30 minutes up to 1 meter) and dust while the tempered glass screen is protected by a shatter-movie . The only downside to the day, the screen keeps fingerprints.
The technical section, this smarphone based on ARM chip quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro clocked at 1.5 combined with a graphics chip Adreno 320 GHz. RAM 2GB and displays include the usual WiFi technology, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS, NFC, and 4G/LTE. We also note the presence of a microSD card to expand the storage capacity (16GB internal memory) and a battery of 2330 mAh.
A particularly strong Android device
Provided by the Google Android 4.1 operating system, as is in many manufacturers burdened by an overlay home. It is, however, far extensions HTC Sense and Samsung Touchwiz trying to erase with their bulky Android widgets. It should be noted that this stock Xperia Z version, ie a Google Edition version without any addition is expected in the United States on the auction site Google Play. A welcome initiative as it allows you to enjoy immediate updates "over the air" Android without waiting whim of manufacturers and mobile operators. Let's use this aside to indicate that the update of the software part of Sony is particularly laborious and it is necessary to use a computer to download the firmware before installing.
The handling of this Android device will not disappoint used operating system from Google. We find the same clever resizable widgets to display appointments, messages, weather or photos stored in memory. Responsiveness is good, which is not usually the strong point of Android devices, and fluid and very enjoyable thanks to the big screen navigation. The camera sensor also that other market leaders, iPhone 5 or Lumia 920. Not enough to compete with a real camera, but more than enough quality to post pictures or print to 10 x 15. In video, the quality is also good enough to help out occasionally.
Taking advantage of the collapse of Blackberry, Nokia and HTC, Sony is back in the big leagues with well designed products and better finished. In the first quarter of 2013, Sony has indeed attained third place in smartphone sales in Western Europe with 3.2 million handsets, behind the inevitable Samsung (14.3 million) and Apple (6.2 million) .
After Samsung Galaxy S4, we have tested the Sony Xperia Z, an animated Google Android 4.1 smartphone (in our test 4.2.2 was not yet available), and with a diagonal screen 5 inch. XXL format so even if since the Japanese introduced to the press its Xperia Z Ultra has a screen of 6.4 inches. But is it still a smartphone ...
To return to the Xperia Z, it is clear that Sony has come a long way since the end of the joint venture Sony Ericsson. The product is indeed the expectations of connoisseurs with a screen quality (Full HD 1080P), a 4G LTE chip, a well thought out ergonomics - the on-off switch on the right edge of the Mobile button comes naturally fit under the thumb - and a 13 megapixel camera sensor. And icing on the cake, dust resistant (IP 55) and spray (IP 57 certification).
A simple design and successful
Let's start with the design before turning to the bowels of this mobile especially thin and light, 7.9 mm and weighs 146 g. As a recent TV, part of the screen is also very thin, which helped to reduce the size of this smartphone XXL (139 x 71 x 7.9 mm). Like other manufacturers, Sony has decided to explore other avenues Apple to avoid legal wrath of the Californian brand (see the evolution of design at Samsung since the release of the Galaxy S2). Without being very innovative - we are dealing with a rectangular brick black polycarbonate - the design is simple and stands out from the competition. Good point, the on-off button round comes naturally under the thumb and after a few days, we immediately wonder why some manufacturers do not include this idea. Ideally actually a combination of button ring Apple / vibrator and the ignition button on the right spine. The left may not be appreciate, but the idea deserves to be preserved. Last detail, caches are protecting mobile connectors to withstand water jets, a temporary immersion (30 minutes up to 1 meter) and dust while the tempered glass screen is protected by a shatter-movie . The only downside to the day, the screen keeps fingerprints.
The technical section, this smarphone based on ARM chip quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro clocked at 1.5 combined with a graphics chip Adreno 320 GHz. RAM 2GB and displays include the usual WiFi technology, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS, NFC, and 4G/LTE. We also note the presence of a microSD card to expand the storage capacity (16GB internal memory) and a battery of 2330 mAh.
A particularly strong Android device
Provided by the Google Android 4.1 operating system, as is in many manufacturers burdened by an overlay home. It is, however, far extensions HTC Sense and Samsung Touchwiz trying to erase with their bulky Android widgets. It should be noted that this stock Xperia Z version, ie a Google Edition version without any addition is expected in the United States on the auction site Google Play. A welcome initiative as it allows you to enjoy immediate updates "over the air" Android without waiting whim of manufacturers and mobile operators. Let's use this aside to indicate that the update of the software part of Sony is particularly laborious and it is necessary to use a computer to download the firmware before installing.
The handling of this Android device will not disappoint used operating system from Google. We find the same clever resizable widgets to display appointments, messages, weather or photos stored in memory. Responsiveness is good, which is not usually the strong point of Android devices, and fluid and very enjoyable thanks to the big screen navigation. The camera sensor also that other market leaders, iPhone 5 or Lumia 920. Not enough to compete with a real camera, but more than enough quality to post pictures or print to 10 x 15. In video, the quality is also good enough to help out occasionally.
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