Sony Xperia XZ Premium 64 GB 5.5-Inch UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Black

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The big selling point is the 5.5-inch 4K HDR screen. Currently, content that can fully take advantage of this is limited, but it’s growing all the time, and this is a huge jump from the 1080p display of the Sony Xperia XZ, as well as being bigger.

Turn off your Xperia smartphone and remove the SD card to avoid deleting user data from the SD card. How to use the Find My Device app to reset my Xperia phone What do I need to reset my phone this way? However, if the problem occurred out of the blue without apparent reason, then it should pretty easy to fix. To do so, follow these steps… How to use the Software repair feature on Xperia Companion to reset my Xperia phone What do I need to reset my phone this way?But where Sony really wants to stand out is with its camera. The headline feature is its 960fps slow-motion capabilities for dramatic videos. This by far eclipses the slow-motion available on other handsets, which typically tops out at 240fps. Unfortunately, this alone isn’t enough to make the Xperia XZ Premium stand out in a competitive crowd. Sony Xperia XZ Premium – Display The glass rear is incredibly slippery. I’ve lost count of the times the phone has gradually slid off what I assumed was a horizontal surface. Even the slightest angle will cause the phone to slide. XB (26 May 2017). "Xperia XZ Premium Dual has a hybrid SIM tray after all". Xperia Blog . Retrieved 27 May 2017.

So it remains to be seen which will win out here, but the Xperia XZ Premium has one thing that will likely work in its favor – the brand-new Snapdragon 835 chipset, which is more power efficient than the older Snapdragon 820 at the heart of the Xperia XZ. The Xperia XZ Premium will run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip – the same chipset that's expected to be found in the Samsung Galaxy S8 and one of the most powerful mobile processors around.In good light the phone performs great in capturing the finest details - it is a match for the 23MP cameras used before. The processing, including the colors, has not changed much since the Xperia XZ and XZs, but there is a bit more detail and less noise than the aforementioned. So it’s not just bigger, but also far, far sharper. It can also show off HDR content, and our early impressions of the screen are positive, with the display (at least in the demo we saw) showing off strong colors and clarity, though resolution aside the Xperia XZ has a quality screen too and can pump out a lot of brightness. Battery The highlight of the new features is, of course, the 960fps slow-mo video recording, but we'll discuss this in our video chapter. Daylight image quality

Speaking of the automatic detection - the Auto mode detects when the phone is mounted on a tripod and allows for lower ISO/longer shutter speed to improve low light photography. There should be no need to go to Manual mode to lower the shutter speed for nice low-light images, the camera does this by itself when stabilized properly. Sony went with a slightly lower resolution for this IMX400 Exmor RS sensor (previous models were at 23MP), but have kept the same physical dimensions, so this has resulted into the pixels being 19% bigger.

The Xperia XZ Premium is the second phone with a 4K (2160p) display, the first one being the Xperia Z5 Premium. But unlike the latter, the Xperia XZ Premium has a 4K HDR display, making it the first smartphone to feature such a display. It is HDR10 compliant, but has no Dolby Vision support. The 5.5in (140mm) IPS LCD screen has a pixel density of 806 ppi when rendered in 4K resolution and features Sony's TRILUMINOS display and X-Reality for mobile technology. Sony has made some significant changes to the camera on the Xperia XZ Premium, starting with the megapixel count, which it’s dropped to 19MP from 23MP on the standard XZ. It supersedes the Xperia Z5 Premium and it was Sony's latest flagship after the Xperia XZ and before Sony Xperia XZ2. The Xperia XZ premium is also an extreme fingerprint magnet, looking smudged and greasy practically all the time – unless you obsessively wipe it down. We expected the Xperia XZ Premium to snap identical 19MP samples with the Xperia XZs, but that was not the case. The Xperia XZ Premium images turned out better than the ones by the XZs.