Sony’s Xperia Z5 family include the world’s first 4K Smartphone

As the battle for supremacy in the world of smartphones continues, Sony has taken a leap forward by introducing a new type of screen technology to their new smartphones Z5 family. Z5 family includes Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact, Xperia Z5 premium. The phones share many features, the unique thing about the Xperia premium is that it has 4k screen unlike the others in the family that is, Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 compact.

For Sony Xperia Z5 which seems to be the least impressive of the line up. it has 5.2” FullHD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS LCD display with 428ppi, 3 GB RAM, 146 x 72 x 7.3 mm, 154g, 2900mAh battery.

For Sony Xperia Z5 Compact, it has 4.6” HD (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS LCD display with 323ppi, 2GB RAM, 2700mAh battery, 127 x 65 x 8.9 mm, 138g.

And lastly for Sony Xperia Z5 premium, it has the following, 5.5 UHD (1280 x 2160 pixels) IPS LCD display with 323ppi, 3GB RAM, 3430mAh battery, 154.4 x 75.8 x 7.8, 180g.

The family shares the following specs;

IP65/IP68 certified - dust and waterproof up to 1.5 meter for 30 minutes.

23MP camera. f/2.0 lens, LED flash, dedicated hardware shutter key.

2160p video recording, SteadyShot with intelligent active mode.

5MP front facing camera with 1080p video recording, SteadyShot with intelligent active mode

32GB built-in storage, expandable via microSD slot by up to 200GB

Cat. 6 LTE

Android 5.1 Lollipop with Xperia UI on top.

Active in- call noise cancellation with secondary microphone.

Front facing stereo speakers

STAMINA power saving mode

Stylish dual glass-panel design

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset with 2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A57 plus 1.5 quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, Adreno 430 GPU.

Qualcomm Quick charge certified.

Side mounted fingerprint sensor in the power button.

The World’s first 4K phone display

Yeah, you heard it, the first 4k phone display which is Xperia premium. 5.5-inch 4k (3840 x 2160), with rich colors and deep blacks. We can’t give the verdict due to the little time spend with the phone but it is for sure, it is an amazing screen. To me, I don’t think I need a 4k screen on my phone, though it is amazing but am not ready for that, it is a leap to the feature.

It seems fingerprint recognition is a must for any flagship phones in this timeline. All the phones in this family come with fingerprint sensor.

Snapdragon 810 chip inside the three had some reported issues with overheating and is known to become very frugal with battery life and also with the 4k display which will obviously a consumer, so the question is will it deliver the promised endurance battery life or it is just a joke? We are still waiting for it so that we can be sure after we benchmark the phone.

Obviously the price will be higher, more so the Xperia Premium, this will affect the sales turn out. With this era, a few $100 can afford q good phone and there are plenty of middle range smartphones which are as good, though they don’t have 4k screens. But wait Apple’s iPhone 7 is coming soon, will it have 4k screen too, one way to find out. We are waiting for it.