Got the Z-ing!
Sony’s smartphones have been the ultimate media consumption devices, and the Xperia Z upholds that name. It’s big, 5-inch full HD screen is bright and rich in colours, and one can watch quite a few 1080p movies on it. The 1.5GHz quad-core chip and the 2GB RAM power the phone quite efficiently – if one wants he can watch full-HD movies and multitask with other apps with zero lag or stalls.
Talking about the camera, the Z has tough competition in terms of HTC One and Nokia lumia 920, in the camera department. But the makers don’t disappoint. With a dual camera, this’s as good as it gets. Photo developers may beg to differ vis-a-vis picture quality but for a normal person, the camera isn’t bad at all. The low light shots had very minimal levels of noise. Even the bright shots had the right amount of colours. The AF is fast to respond, and the video quality too, is good.
The 16GB onboard memory might seem a little less to corporates. There’s a microSD expansion port available, that supports up to 64 GB, but playing media through a microSD sometimes slowed the Z down. The battery was a little disappointing. While I could manage an entire working day on just WiFi, using audio, video, and all the social network apps, the battery life went down to just nine hours on combined usage of 3G and WiFi.
The UI too, has been made a little better from the previous ones. The present specs handle the Android v4.1.2 Jelly Bean OS pretty well. We got a score of 7537 on Quadrant, which is the same as HTC One X plus and lG Optimus G. Of course, it’s quite less than HTC One, but it’s getting there already.
—Deebashree Mohanty