Pixel Paradox: The first smartphone to come up with a 4K screen, the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium is a whole 3,840x2160 pixels resolution with 801 pixel density. That’s intense, but the paradoxical thing is that you can’t really see the difference and in fact it works at a lower resolution until you have 4K content – but even then you mostly can’t tell the difference. It’s a screen that can’t get very much better – but doesn’t need to. For that privilege, you pay the asking price of Rs 62,990.
All Boxed In: The “Omnibalance” design stays, but comes in some premium colours including a stainless steel that you can totally use as a mirror. It’s a large 5.5-inch device and with the absence of any curvature, feels even larger and probably fits masculine hands better. The buttons all line up on the right and include a fingerprint sensor that works reasonably well and a camera button that works at high speed. The dual Nano SIM trays are on the left. There’s also a memory card slot.
Waterproof Wonder: While you wouldn’t, in your right mind, bring water anywhere near a device this expensive, accidents do happen and the Xperia Z 5 Premium will easily withstand water spills and is also dust proof. Fingerprint smudges however are another thing and you’d have to keep this metal and glass gadget nicely wiped.
Powered Up: Goes without saying that this is a snappy performer. It’s working with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 process with 3GB of RAM and 32GB internal storage. This is also what you get with the Xperia Z5, so that bears thinking about. The cameras are 23MP and 5MP, capable of 4K recording, obviously. The camera is very fast, but there’s also enough times when images are soft.
The Xperia Z5 Premium Dual competes with its own brother, the Xperia Z5, but also has more than enough other competition to battle including the iPhone 6S and the current Samsung Galaxy S6 line up as well as the Note 5.
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Mala Bhargava has been writing on technology well before the advent of internet in Indians and before CDs made their way into computers. Mala writes on technology, social media, startups and fitness. A trained psychologist, she claims that her understanding of psychology helps her understand the human side of technology.