Sony swears up and down that its Smart Stamina mode will keep the phone running for a while, but man - I have some serious qualms about the company's choice. Check this out: the XZ Premium has to power a brand new, high-power Snapdragon and a full, 4K display with a 3,230mAh battery. For now, our biggest concern is the battery. There's no fingerprint sensor that one, which I'm still trying to wrap my head around.
There's at least one strange omission, at least as far as the US model is concerned. Throw in some predictive capture to make sure you never miss a once-in-a-lifetime moment because of your poor, human reflexes and we've got a hell of a package. The test shots we took came out with a lot of detail and vivid colors, though.
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Again, our tester unit wasn't quite set up for this, but I'll update this story when we get to try it out. Sony claims this results in image scanning five times faster than before, helping the XZ Premium become the first smartphone to capture slow-motion video at 960FPS. (Essentially, images are written to memory more quickly and then processed, reducing lag.) Sony's new Motion Eye system has dramatically improved image stabilization and added a memory layer to the photo capturing workflow. As usual, there's more to the story than just megapixels. Then there's the camera, which only shoots 19-megapixel stills instead of the 23-megapixel shots you could coax out of the regular XZ. Still, Sony has only said the XZ Premium will launch in the US some time in the Spring, so Samsung has a strong chance of beating it to store shelves. Word of Samsung gobbling up all available 835s for Galaxy S8s might have been blown out of proportion. Not now Turn on Turned on Turn onĪside from the ZTE Gigabit phone floating around here somewhere, the XZ Premium is one of the few devices powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chipset (complete with 4GB of RAM) here at the show. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. Lag was basically non-existent, too, though that shouldn't really be a shock. Sadly, I haven't seen much HDR content on this screen since the device we played with was far from finished, but the panel is awfully pretty even when I just swiped through the interface.
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The screen I just mentioned is a 5.5-inch panel running at full 4K (like the Z5 Premium of yesteryear) that also supports HDR content. Sony has made its fair share of phones with skinny bezels, but eliminating all that space above and below the XZ Premium's screen is probably next to impossible for now.Īfter all, there is a lot going on here. Beyond just being visually striking, a smaller bezels means more screen in physical packages that aren't necessarily bigger than before.
Still, there's no denying that high-end smartphones are losing their bezels left and right, like LG's G6 and the as-yet-unrevealed Galaxy S8. I personally don't mind - I think there's still plenty of mileage to be squeezed out of this classic Sony look.
The Xperia XZ Premium is a beautiful device in that rounded, slab-like way Sony loves, but the look ultimately hasn't changed much since last year.
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