Sony Xperia™ Z

Experience the best of Sony in a smartphone

Introducing the precision engineered full HD smartphone

The world's sharpest 5" smartphone display

Expertise from our BRAVIA® TV engineers goes into our mobile screens.

World’s first image sensor with HDR video for smartphones

No matter the light condition, the Xperia Z smartphone from Sony takes stunning photos and videos.

Our smartphone cameras are built with the same expertise and components as leading Sony cameras, to bring you ultra-sharp photos and videos, wherever and whenever.

HDR video camera

Xperia Z features Exmor RS™ for mobile, the world’s first image sensor with HDR video for smartphones, so you can take beautiful stills and movies even against strong light.

13-megapixel camera

The 13 megapixel fast-capture camera and the next-generation Sony Exmor RS™ for mobile sensor makes Xperia Z the Android mobile that delivers crystal clear photos wherever, whenever.

Great in all light conditions

With Exmor RS™ for mobile and HDR, Xperia Z takes sharp photos and videos both in lowlight and strongly backlit conditions. The lowlight sensors on front and back make it the first dual Exmor R™ for mobile camera.

Superior Auto

Not a pro with settings? Superior Auto mode automatically activates HDR and noise reduction when they’re needed.

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True Screen intelligence – Mobile BRAVIA® Engine 2

The second generation of our acclaimed Mobile BRAVIA® Engine, Mobile BRAVIA® Engine 2 delivers an even better viewing experience by adding new real-time contrast optimisation to the sharpness enhancement, high-quality colour management and noise reduction. Mobile BRAVIA® Engine 2 is also able to analyse content type and adjust the image accordingly. Adding Mobile BRAVIA® Engine 2 to the Reality Display makes for the most intelligent HD mobile phone screen – one that adapts automatically to display your content in the best way.

(1) Contrast enhancement

Contrast in images and video is enhanced by making the darkest parts slightly darker, which brings out details in the picture.

(2) Colour Management

Colour saturation is increased for specified colour ranges, which makes the colours deeper and more vivid. And the intelligent Mobile BRAVIA® Engine 2 software reproduces skin colour exactly as it appears to the naked eye.

(3) Noise reduction

Distortion and noise is reduced when streaming low-quality video from online sources, such as YouTube. Noise is reduced both to individual frames and between frames, for clearer viewing.

(4) Sharpness filter

Mobile BRAVIA® Engine 2 applies a sharpness filter to increase the overall detail level in the image. This is done by enhancing the edges and contrast without increasing noise.

Camera

Exmor RS™ for mobile – the world’s first image sensor with HDR video for smartphones

HDR for photos and videos captures natural colours in any light. HDR (High Dynamic Range) is an imaging technology used to capture clear photos against strong backlight. With HDR, the camera captures the same image at different exposure levels and layers them to create one optimised photo.

Xperia Z introduces HDR to video, so that you can film even in high contrast situations, like in front of a window or with the sun behind your subject.

The superior auto setting makes taking stunning photos easy.

Always the right setting – Superior Auto

Now it’s always easy to get a great shot. With Superior Auto, you don’t have to know the ins and outs of camera settings to make use of them. In Superior Auto mode, the camera combines Scene Recognition with high quality and high performance image processing technology (HDR and noise reduction) to automatically shoot with the optimal settings. And your Android smartphone device is automatically optimised for 36 different scenes, so you always get the best shot.

Weight

• 146 grams
• 5.15 oz

Dimensions

• 139 x 71 x 7.9 mm
• 5.47 x 2.79 x 0.31 inches

Battery

• Talk time (up to): Up to 11 hours [1]
• Standby time (up to): Up to 550 hours [1]

Display

• 5.0 inches TFT
• 16 million colours, 1920 x 1080 pixels

On the inside

• Google Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
• 1.5 GHz Qualcomm APQ8064+MDM9215M Quad Core

Camera

• 13 megapixel Exmor RS camera with Auto focus and flash
• 2.2 MP, Exmor R, front facing camera (1080p)

Durability

• IPX5/7 (Water-resistant) & IP5X (Dust-proof)