After announcing the Xperia XZ Premium at MWC 2017, Sony has now launched the smartphone in India. The smartphone features a premium loop design with a metal frame sandwiched between front and back glass. It is also the first smartphone to feature a 4K HDR display, and the first smartphone in India to be powered by Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 835 chipset. Sony has also included its ‘motion eye camera’ that can capture 960fps super slow-motion videos in HD resolution.
Pre-bookings for the smartphone start on June 2 and will continue till June 11. The Xperia XZ Premium will go on sale in India starting June 12. Sony is also offering pre-booking customers a free wireless Bluetooth speaker, the SRS-XB20, which is otherwise priced at Rs 8,990. That’s not all, Sony is also offering customers with a three-month Sony LIV subscription for free, and 5,200 game credits for Modern Combat 5, a game on the phone.
The smartphone is priced at Rs 59,990, and will go on sale starting June 12 on Amazon India and across major retail stores. The Xperia XZ Premium will be offered in luminous chrome and deep-sea black color variants.
Sony Xperia XZ Premium Specifications and features
The Sony Xperia XZ Premium flaunts a 5.5-inch 4K HDR display running at a resolution of 2160x3840pixels, and it is covered with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection. The display has a pixel density count of a whopping 807ppi, which is far more than what’s needed for a sharp picture where you cannot spot the individual pixels. Sony has partnered Amazon Prime Video to let you enjoy select original shows in 4K HDR.
Under the hood, the Xperia XZ Premium is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 octa-core SoC, paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. A hybrid SIM-card slot is also present, which lets you use two SIM cards or one SIM card and one microSD card.
Sony is also touting the camera prowess of the Xperia XZ Premium. The smartphone features a 19-megapixel rear “Motion Eye” camera with pixel size of 1.22μm. Sony has also included a triple-sensor system, which is said to offer laser autofocus, an RGBC infrared sensor for adjusting white balance, and an updated ExmorRS image sensor.
The smartphone supports 5-axis stabilization, predictive hybrid auto-focus and support for 4K video recording. The Xperia XZ Premium also allows you to shoot slow-motion videos at 960fps at HD (720p) resolution, which is four times the frame-rate that other top-end smartphones can achieve. Up front, there is a 13-megapixel front camera for selfies and video calling.
Sony has also included Hi-Res Audio support along with LDAC codec for a high quality wireless music listening experience. The Xperia XZ Premium is also IP68-certified for water and dust resistance, and features a fingerprint sensor embedded inside the power button for biometric authentication.
To keep things ticking, the smartphone is armed with a 3,230mAh battery with support for Quick Charge 3.0 fast charging, which can take the battery from 0-60 percent in just 45 minutes. Sony has also included Battery Care and Qnovo Adaptive Charging feature to protect the battery from degrading. With connectivity options such as Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, USB Type-C and 4G LTE with VoLTE voice calling support, the smartphone runs on Android 7.0 Nougat out-of-the-box.
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