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linkis we've got Jeremy from Sony mobile to tell us about the Xperia Z this is a
1080p smartphone with a 5in display that
has a number of pretty cool features Jeremy tell us what makes this thing so
special so some of the cool Fe features on this guy first before I even power on
the screen something like the Omni balance design so very Square very kind
of cool Sharp Images or sharp corners on it um it's a fully tempered glass front
and back on the design so very very overall cool design we've got a mil
aluminum power button on average most people are hitting their power button on
their device about 67 times a day to bring it in and out of standby mode so
why not make it something cool and standoffish and also uh something that
like just overall is really cool and easy to use and it gives you that whole
Sony look to it um I don't want you to power it on quite yet can I haven't
actually held this yet oh wow so this is probably this is actually as lighter or
maybe the same weight as something like an iPhone 4 isn't it I'd say it's
probably around the same weight yeah it's it's got to be pretty close feels
feels actually lighter to me in spite of as you guys can see the significant size
difference so obviously something like a double glass uh approach on the front
and back is something we've seen before but with the iPhone 4 it added a lot of
weight and you could see that Apple went went away from that with the iPhone 5
but because you guys are using tempered glass you don't have to worry so much about having such a thick piece of glass
then beautiful so once I turn on the display you're going to see that's a
beautiful 5 in 1080P full or high resolution or high definition excuse me
uh display um we've got 1920 x 1080 resolution and it's driven by the Bravia
2 engine so the Bravia 2 engine is what's going to give you that higher
contrast better picture better saturation better blacks overall once I
unlock the device you get right into the Sony user experience or the Sony UI you
can see it's very nicely laid out moves very slow very
very fluid and very nicely you can customize it very easily as well if I just pinch on the screen I've now got
access to all my home screens and I can customize them however I want so in the
past you'd have to drag and drop your apps from your from your widget taskbar
from your app app drawer now you just can click on your apps and I can simply
throw them right onto my home screen if I want to delete a home screen or add a home screen I can simply just press the
x button and it's going to get rid of that home screen for me so tell us about
the durability so durability in terms of
this device one thing that's really really cool with it is is water resistance so you can submerge it up to
one let's go to the demo okay let's go to the demo now what I really meant was in
terms of the durability cuz we were planning to come and look at the water resistance demo later but I just want to
show you guys very briefly what kind of an IO sort of structure we have it's got
an aluminum frame all around it so durability wise it should be as good as
almost anything else with the tech yeah absolutely I mean it's with any
smartphone you obviously don't want to throw it off off a building or anything like that but it should be pretty
durable and pretty strong for anything you're going to throw at it I mean I'm a huge fan of the whole glass on on the
front and the back thing because what I love about glass is that you got to
really work at it to scratch it whereas with plastic if you're a Galaxy S3 owner
and you're not using a case I guarantee your phone is scratched to high hell and
back micro SD expansion is included and next to the power there's just a volume
rocker but other than that the the design is very
minimalistic head jack at so yeah your headphone jack everything's hidden
because of the water resistance everything's everything's hidden underneath and it's all water sealed so
that we can throw it in the water sir
we've got a little one demo right here so if I press this button it's going to dunk the phone in the water pull it back
out you can dunk this into the water up to 1 M for up to 30 minutes and
nothing's going to happen on the phone so we're just going to wait for it
to dip in one more time you're going to see it is totally working that is a real
phone thank you very much Jeremy no problem guys this was very helpful guys
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