Sony Xperia z3 Compact Review

Smartphones are getting bigger with every generation, every new model. Even Apple, champion of the small screen, has finally caved to the trend. Over the past few years, however, some of the major smartphone players have taken to creating "mini" versions of their top handsets to satisfy those who still crave a smaller device. While these petite imitations benefit from shared design and branding, their hardware specifications are usually no match for the flagships they mimic. Sony does things a little differently, though, shunning the "mini" moniker and preserving as many high-end features as possible in its smaller devices. Case in point: the new Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, which crams the best of the 5.2-inch Z3 into a 4.6-inch body, and is basically everything you could want in a smaller smartphone.

Xperia Z3 Compact 

Display, Design and Size of LG G4

The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact has a 4.6 inch screen, which is typical for a smartphone. The screen has a resolution of 1,280 pixels by 720 pixels, making it a 720p HD screen. Screen sharpness can be measured in the density of pixels per square inch of screen, and at 319 PPI, it's 37% sharper than an average screen.

Xperia Z3 Compact 

The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact's body is 127.30 mm high, 64.90 mm wide, and has a depth of 8.60 mm, 4.3% thinner than an average smartphone in the 4.6 - 5.0 inch screen range. In fact, it's thin enough to have a case and still be thinner than an average phone.

Xperia Z3 Compact 

With a weight of 129 grams, it is one of the lighter phones for the size of its screen. The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact has a large battery for its size, which weighs it down. This Sony Xperia Z3 Compact is also rugged - it's dust proof and water resistant.

Hardware of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

       OS           Android OS, v4.4.4 (Kit Kat), upgradable to v5.0 (Lollipop)

       Chipset   Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801

       CPU           Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400

       GPU     Adreno 330

Processor and Memory of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact houses a quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC v3 system on a chip. Its CPU runs at 2.5 GHz, which is much higher than average for a smart phone processor.

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2,048 MB of RAM means that it has much more memory than what's typical, giving it a significant performance boost over most phones.

Storage of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

The base model of the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact has 16 GB of internal storage, which is a modest amount for storing an operating system along with music, pictures and video. Fortunately, you can cheaply expand its storage by as much as 64 GB with a microSD card.

Camera of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

Xperia Z3 Compact 

The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact has a 20.7 megapixel rear camera, which will take extremely high resolution photos. Its 2.2 megapixel front camera makes it an average choice for selfies. It can capture 4K high definition video with its primary camera, the highest resolution current smartphones support.

Xperia Z3 Compact

Optical image stabilization means that this smartphone's camera is particularly good at taking videos and images even if the camera isn't perfectly still. It will actually offset slight movements of the camera lens to capture smooth images

Battery of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact has an advertised talk time of 12 hours, comparable to the overall average of 8 hours. In terms of battery capacity, which is the best indicator of overall battery life, it holds 2,600 mAh, a massive battery capacity for a phone.

Sound system of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

•      Alert type         Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
•      Loud speaker Yes, with stereo speakers
•      3.5mm jack         Yes

Other features of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

     WLAN         Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot

     Bluetooth       v4.0, A2DP, LE, apt-X

     Radio               FM radio with RDS

     GPS               Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS

     USB               Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS

     Java               Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

     Sensor               Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer

     Browser           HTML5

     Messaging      SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email

Xperia Z3 Compact 

Price of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

Its price is  US$703.

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Release of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

 It is release date is 31 October 2013.

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