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5.33 ounces 151 grams |
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5.18 x 2.7 x 0.39 inches (131.6 x 69.3 x 9.8mm) |
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5-Inch scratch-resistant TFT touchscreen, 16 million colors / 1920 x 1080 pixels |
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Google Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) 1.5GHz Qualcomm APQ8064 Quad Core |
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Talk time (up to): 10 hours* Standby time (up to): 500 hours* |
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13-Megapixel Exmor RS camera with Auto focus and flash 2MP, 1080p front-facing camera |
Amazingly Compact 5"
What if you could make the display bigger without increasing the size of your phone? Xperia™ ZL manages the design impossible: a 5" display in a smartphone that fits comfortably in your hand. Optimizing component architecture, Sony engineers increased display size while keeping the phone small. The result is the smartphone with a very high screen to phone size ratio.
Razor Sharp Super Bright Display
Expertise from our BRAVIA® TV engineers goes right into our mobile screens. Feel like you're part of the action with the 1920 x 1080 full HD Reality Display. Mobile BRAVIA® Engine 2 automatically optimizes images so they're sharper and brighter. It also offers you superb contrast and color management. With a very high pixel density and superior brightness, view super sharp images and text with great readability even in sunlight. The OptiContrast™ panel brings you clearer images when the screen is active, and a seamless black look when in standby.
Stunning Photos and Videos in Any Light
Our smartphone cameras are built with Sony's digital imaging expertise and leading camera technology to bring you ultra-sharp photos and videos, wherever and whenever. Xperia ZL's primary camera features Exmor RS™ for Mobile, the world's first image sensor with HDR video for smartphones**, so you can shoot beautiful stills and movies even against strong light. The front-facing camera uses the Exmor R for Mobile image sensor, making it the first dual Exmor R™ device. Not a pro with settings? Superior Auto mode automatically activates HDR and noise reduction.
**Verified by Strategy Analytics as of February 4, 2013.
One Touch Entertainment
Discover the easy and fast way to wirelessly share music and photos from your smartphone with one-touch sharing and one-touch listening. One-touch mirroring* with NFC technology lets you easily see content on your phone, on your BRAVIA® TV. Just touch your phone to your BRAVIA® remote control and watch your photos, music and more pop up on the TV screen. No cables, no buttons, no confusion.
*One-touch mirroring is designed to work together with an NFC-enabled BRAVIA® TV.
Pros: As others have mentioned, amazing screen... incredibly bright (Sony's default auto-dimming dulls it a bit much for my comfort IMO), and amazing color reproduction. Yes, as many external reviews have pointed out, viewing angles are not amazing, but then again, I tend to not expect 180-degree viewing angles on an LCD display... UNLOCKED HSPA+ and LTE are amazing to have... I unpacked this phone and put my T-mobile USA SIM card expecting to top out at HSPA+... to my surprise, I had a solid 2-3 bars of LTE signal right off the bat (I am in the NYC metro area, where LTE is supposed to be rather spotty, in a pre-launch stage on T-mobile's network). Commuting around the city on a regular basis, seems LTE is up and running quite solidly, and functions amazingly well on this phone. DC-HSPA+ also works quite well, pulling in connection speeds of close to and sometimes exceeding 8-15 Mbps down and 2-3 Mbps up with < 80 ms latency (LTE latency is solidly below 50 ms with around 20 Mbps down and about 10 Mbps up in most places I get it.) Sony's Android skin is rather mild, and quite to my liking. There's very little bloat to mention (I actually like the Walkman app for music playback). Most pre-installed apps have at least some utility (Really got a kick out of the included IR blaster app to control my TV and home theater audio system.) As to speed, the quad-core + 2 GB RAM and fairly bloat-free ROM mean a vastly lag-free experience. For those who really do want to rid themselves of Sony's ROM, Sony has always had excellent dev support (including git access to sources published in a fairly timely manner), and I believe there are already a few CyanogenMod ROM's cooked up for the Z and ZL, so suit yourselves. Overall, if you're in the US and want a good flagship Android that works with 2 of the major carriers on both 3.5G and 4G LTE (and don't care for Verizon's coverage), get this phone... Just beware that you do need to get a fake IMEI activated if you're on AT&T and don't already have the "true" 4G LTE data plan, otherwise the system will simply restrict your ZL to HSPA+ (Basically, you need to find a friendly store rep who can put the LTE plan on your account using a spare phone that is recognized as a 4G LTE handset by AT&T's activation system.) For me, having good LTE in major cities and DC-HSPA+ when on major interstates is more than sufficient, and having truly unlimited data + LTE on this phone is a must-have.
Cons: The viewing angles are somewhat a con for those who are into that I suppose..