Sony has launched the company’s latest flagship smartphone – Sony Xperia XZ in India, it carries a price tag of Rs. 51,990 and the best buy price is Rs. 49,990. It comes in Forest Blue, Mineral Black & Platinum colour and will be available from October 10th, 2016. It can be pre-booked on Sony Center, select retail outlets and on Amazon.in exclusively starting from October 1st, 2016 to October 10th, 2016. As a limited time pre-booking offer, customers get the SmartBand Talk – SWR30 worth of Rs. 8,990 for free. There are some launch offers too like Quick Charger UCH12 bundled in the box, Sony LIV: Free 3 months subscription worth Rs.349 and Modern Combat 5 Gameloft credits worth Rs.780. Originally, the smartphone was announced at IFA 2016 in Berlin this month. By paying less price you can buy better smartphone and it includes Samsung Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 edge, LG G5, HTC 10, iPhone 6S and many more.
The main highlight os the Sony Xperia XZ is that, it comes with three rear-camera sensors – the CMOS sensor that can track and predict movement of objects in frame, reducing the chances of blurred shots; the laser autofocus sensor makes the camera better at locking focus on objects, especially in low-light conditions and the RGBC-IR sensor aims to provide accurate colour reproduction. All the sensors are backed by the 6-element f/2.0 Sony G lens, and a 23-megapixel Exmor RS sensor as well as Sony’s own ‘Bionz for mobile’ image processor. You now also get manual control over focusing and shutter speed.
On the specifications front, it features it features 5.2-inch Triluminos Display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and it is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. It is powered by Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor 61-bit processor which is paired with Adreno 530 GPU & 3GB of RAM. It runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system and it has 64GB in-built memory which can be expanded further up to 256GB via microSD card.
On the photography front, it features 23MP rear-camera with Predictive Hybrid Autofocus that lets you choose your subject and then predicts its motion, so you can capture the action in perfect focus, free from blur. It has a 13-megapixel front-facing camera with 22mm wide-angle lens ,Exmor RS sensor is 2.6 times bigger than the selfie camera seen on “regular flagship phones.” If photography is the only thing you are looking, the check out the Samsung Galaxy S7, which offers best camera, if we compare.
it has Hybrid SIM card slot which means that you can use two SIMs at a time or one SIM & microSD card at a time. It has connectivity features like 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz) MIMO, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS/ GLONASS, NFC, USB Type-C.
The phone is IP68 certified, making it dust and water resistant.
It packs 2900 mAh Battery with Qnovo’s Adaptive Charging technology. it comes bundled with Sony UCH12W quick charger and it will deliver 5.5 hours of talk-time on 10 minutes of charge.