Yesterday, I had 10 minutes with the new Sony Xperia Z1. My first impressions were very pleasing. First it was comfortable to hold in my hand. The original Xperia Z was uncomfortable to hold. The Z1 has rounded edges and felt easy to grip. I compared its size to my LG Nexus 4. It was the same width and a cm shorter in height approximately. But with the power button half way down the right hand edge, using the Z1 was a breeze. The phone was super snappy. Everything just opened effortlessly and very quickly. I had a play with the camera and the full resolution shots are attached below. They might take a little while to appear as a result. If you use Superior Auto it shoots in 8mp. Manual allows the full 20.7mp. I also used the AR Camera mode and had fun with the dinosaurs. Strangely, the sweep panorama mode photos ended up being only 400kb in file size.
The next 3 photos are shot in Superior Auto mode at 8mp.
And now at full 20.7mp resolution. So let me know what you think about the quality of the photos. No flash was used in any of the shots. Personally, I wasn’t convinced by the quality of these photos, despite being taken in tricky lighting conditions.
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Interesting Gavin, everone seems impressed with the Z1 camera, but Sony phones haven’t exactly taken the world by storm last few years and is the camera good enough? As for it being ‘super snappy’ isn’t that the case with ANY handset with nothing on it and that most Android handsets start to stutter with large numbers of apps installed and once the cache fills up, no real criticism just a personal peeve when people comment on performance of ‘virgin’ handsets. Cheers
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True. Sony do include a lot of their own apps. But the 800 chip shows its speed. I compared it with the Z too on virgin setup. The Z1 felt like a different phone. Weird really but shows I think what Qualcomm have achieved. I also like the Z1 especially using the new qx10/100 lens option with the dedicated z1 camera case.
It will be interesting to see how it performs once I get this properly.
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Howdy just wanted to give you a brief heads up and
let you know a few of the images aren’t loading correctly.
I’m not sure why but I think its a linking issue.
I’ve tried it in two different browsers and both show the same results.
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Just checked. No issues whatsoever. They are large images so might take longer. Chrome web browser works fine BTW.
If no joy let me know again and I will try on 2 other browsers.
Gavin
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Just tried Safari. Also ok. Maybe try again?
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