Sony Xperia XZ Premium is the best of Sony for this year. The phone comes with all the latest hardware and gives direct competition to the Samsung Galaxy S8 and iPhone 7. The phone is a powerhouse and offers best of everything right now.
Although the name of the phone includes the word “premium” but this word is not true for the phone’s design. The phone has the glass all over design but it does not feel as much “premium” as it should have. The screen is 5.5 inches and there is a lot of bezel on top and bottom of the phone. However, the bezel accommodates the front-facing speakers. The phone is a lot bigger than it should be. The handling of the phone with a single hand is not easy. The phone has a concave power button on the right and there is a dedicated camera button just under it. The camera button is a hard to find feature on smartphones. The fingerprint sensor is embedded in the power button. The phone has a 4K resolution which gives it a pixel density of 807 PPI.
The phone comes with the Snapdragon 835 chipset Octa-core (4×2.45 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo) CPU and Adreno 540 GPU. The latest chipset helps to handle the content on a 4K screen efficiently. The phone runs like butter and you won’t feel the slightest of lag even on heavy multitasking. The animation of the phone is so good that you feel like you are using the speediest version of Android ever.
The phone runs all the games without any problem. The games will not lag even if you have opened a lot of apps in the background. The phone comes with 3,230 mAh battery which might fall short on the 4K display.
Sony Xperia XZ Premium comes with a 19 MP, f/2.0 camera. There is a special feature in the camera which we have seen for the first time and that is the 720p@960fps slo-mo video recording. The slo-mo video is so good that you fall in love with it. The camera takes great photos in both daylight and low light. The slo-mo video, however, works best in the bright daylight only and is a complete mess in low light.
The front has a 13 MP, f/2.0 camera which takes excellent selfies and can record 1080p videos.
Device Type | Smartphone |
Model | Sony Xperia XZ Premium |
Announced | 01 February, 2017 |
Released | 01 June, 2017 |
Status | Available |
Price | 65,599 PKR |
Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones. | Bar |
Dimensions | 156 x 77 x 7.9 mm |
Weight | 195 g |
Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 |
Colors |
Luminous Chrome, Deepsea Black, Bronze Pink |
2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM1 & SIM2 |
3G Network |
HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100 |
4G Network |
LTE |
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages. | Nano SIM |
Dual SIM | Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) - G8142 |
Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor) | IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen |
Size | 5.46 inches |
Resolution | 3840 x 2160 pixels |
Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others. | 16M colors |
Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality. | ~807 ppi pixel density |
Touch Screen | Yes, Multitouch |
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind. | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 |
Features |
- Multitouch up to 10 fingers - HDR10 compliant - Triluminos display - X-Reality Engine |
Primary Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality. | 19 MP, f/2.0, 25mm |
Video | 2160p@30fps, 720p@960fps |
Camera Features |
1/2.3" sensor size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama |
Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration) | LED flash |
Secondary | 13 MP, f/2.0, 22mm |
Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device. | Android 7.1 (Nougat) |
Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming. | Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 |
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone. | Octa-core (4x2.45 GHz Kryo & 4x1.9 GHz Kryo) |
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion. | Adreno 540 |
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices. | 4 GB |
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored. | 64 GB |
Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras. | microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot) |
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device. |
Fingerprint (side-mounted, region dependent), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, barometer, compass, color spectrum |
Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices. | 5.0, A2DP, aptX, LE |
Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world. | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot |
GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky. | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO |
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches. | |
USB Ports | 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector; USB Host |
Card Reader | |
Headphone Jack | |
Microphone Jack |
GPRS GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications (GSM), Generally, GPRS is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection. | |
EDGE EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) is a wireless network technology generally considered the next step in the 2G network offers data transfer rates up to four times faster than ordinary GSM networks, Generally, EDGE is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection. |
Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium. | Li-Ion (Lithium Ion) |
Capacity Battery Capacity is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions. | 3230 mAh battery |
Placement | Non-removable |