Sony Xperia Z 1080p Water Resistant Android Smartphone - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is
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linkis we've got Jeremy from Sony mobile to tell us about the Xperia Z this is a
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1080p smartphone with a 5in display that
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has a number of pretty cool features Jeremy tell us what makes this thing so
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special so some of the cool Fe features on this guy first before I even power on
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the screen something like the Omni balance design so very Square very kind
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of cool Sharp Images or sharp corners on it um it's a fully tempered glass front
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and back on the design so very very overall cool design we've got a mil
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aluminum power button on average most people are hitting their power button on
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their device about 67 times a day to bring it in and out of standby mode so
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why not make it something cool and standoffish and also uh something that
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like just overall is really cool and easy to use and it gives you that whole
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Sony look to it um I don't want you to power it on quite yet can I haven't
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actually held this yet oh wow so this is probably this is actually as lighter or
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maybe the same weight as something like an iPhone 4 isn't it I'd say it's
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probably around the same weight yeah it's it's got to be pretty close feels
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feels actually lighter to me in spite of as you guys can see the significant size
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difference so obviously something like a double glass uh approach on the front
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and back is something we've seen before but with the iPhone 4 it added a lot of
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weight and you could see that Apple went went away from that with the iPhone 5
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but because you guys are using tempered glass you don't have to worry so much about having such a thick piece of glass
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then beautiful so once I turn on the display you're going to see that's a
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beautiful 5 in 1080P full or high resolution or high definition excuse me
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uh display um we've got 1920 x 1080 resolution and it's driven by the Bravia
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2 engine so the Bravia 2 engine is what's going to give you that higher
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contrast better picture better saturation better blacks overall once I
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unlock the device you get right into the Sony user experience or the Sony UI you
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can see it's very nicely laid out moves very slow very
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very fluid and very nicely you can customize it very easily as well if I just pinch on the screen I've now got
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access to all my home screens and I can customize them however I want so in the
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past you'd have to drag and drop your apps from your from your widget taskbar
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from your app app drawer now you just can click on your apps and I can simply
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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
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x button and it's going to get rid of that home screen for me so tell us about
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the durability so durability in terms of
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this device one thing that's really really cool with it is is water resistance so you can submerge it up to
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one let's go to the demo okay let's go to the demo now what I really meant was in
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terms of the durability cuz we were planning to come and look at the water resistance demo later but I just want to
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show you guys very briefly what kind of an IO sort of structure we have it's got
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an aluminum frame all around it so durability wise it should be as good as
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almost anything else with the tech yeah absolutely I mean it's with any
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smartphone you obviously don't want to throw it off off a building or anything like that but it should be pretty
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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
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front and the back thing because what I love about glass is that you got to
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really work at it to scratch it whereas with plastic if you're a Galaxy S3 owner
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and you're not using a case I guarantee your phone is scratched to high hell and
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back micro SD expansion is included and next to the power there's just a volume
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rocker but other than that the the design is very
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minimalistic head jack at so yeah your headphone jack everything's hidden
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because of the water resistance everything's everything's hidden underneath and it's all water sealed so
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that we can throw it in the water sir
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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
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out you can dunk this into the water up to 1 M for up to 30 minutes and
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nothing's going to happen on the phone so we're just going to wait for it
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to dip in one more time you're going to see it is totally working that is a real
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phone thank you very much Jeremy no problem guys this was very helpful guys
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