The Sony Xperia XZ2 is Sony’s most recent flagship Android device, but it has refused to follow in the footsteps of many of this year’s high-end smartphones.
Anyways, the Sony Xperia XZ2 is the first smartphone in the world that’s capable of recording 4K HDR footage. Which allows you capture better-looking videos.
Let me just go ahead and reveal whats under the hood.
Design and Display
The Sony Xperia XZ2 sports a reliable aluminum frame and has its body covered with a Corning Gorilla glass material. There are tiny bezels at the bottom of the screen, which houses the back and running apps buttons.
This device comes with a 153 x 72 x 11.1 mm (6.02 x 2.83 x 0.44 in) dimension. With a weight of about 198g.
The Sony Xperia XZ2 has a 5.7-inch IPS LCD Capacitive touchscreen, with 16M colors. With a resolution of 1080 x 2160 pixels, it also has an 18:9 aspect ratio (~424 ppi density).
Furthermore, the screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass v5 material. Also included is the Triluminos display feature.
This Smartphone also supports Multitouch (up to 10 fingers). With a rear mounted Fingerprint Scanner, it comes in four colors: Liquid Black, Liquid Silver, Deep Green, and Ash Pink
Hardware and Software
The Sony Xperia XZ2 smartphone comes with the Android 8.0 (Oreo) Android operating system.
Sony Xperia XZ2 is powered by a Qualcomm SDM845 Snapdragon 845 chipset with a 64-bit processor. It also comes with an Octa-core processor that has a clocking configuration of (4×2.7 GHz Kryo 385 Gold & 4×1.7 GHz Kryo 385 Silver).
Furthermore, it uses an Adreno 630 GPU for graphics handling.
The Sony Xperia XZ2 comes in two memory variants: 4GB RAM with 64GB internal storage and 6GB RAM with 64GB internal storage.
Only the inbuilt memory in the dual-sim model can be expanded to 400Gb with the use of a microSD card. In addition, this device has a Dynamic vibration system.
Other sensors on this device are Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, proximity, color spectrum, barometer, compass, and gyroscope.
Camera and Battery
The Sony Xperia XZ2 sports a 19 MP (f/2.0, 25mm, 1/2.3″, 1.22µm), gyro EIS camera. With predictive phase detection, laser autofocus, and LED flash. This phone takes 4K shots and great pictures too. The camera on this phone is very unique in terms of picture quality.
In front, there’s a 5 MP (f/2.2, 1/5″), gyro EIS, 1080p camera. For nice selfies, even in low light conditions.
Other features of this camera include Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, and HDR
As for the battery life, there’s a Non-removable Li-Ion 3180 mAh battery. A quick charge feature is also included in this device.
Price
This Sony Smartphone will sell for about 800 EUR. Which is equivalent to N340,444.
Full Specifications
Finally, here are the full specifications of this Sony Xperia.
| Network | Technology | GSM / HSPA / LTE |
|---|
| Launch | Announced | 2018, February |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Available. Released in 2018, April |
| Body | Dimensions | 153 x 72 x 11.1 mm (6.02 x 2.83 x 0.44 in) |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 198 g (6.98 oz) | |
| Build | Front/back glass (Gorilla Glass 5) & aluminum frame | |
| SIM | Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) | |
| – IP65/IP68 certified – dust/water proof (up to 1.5m for 30 mins) |
| Display | Type | IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 5.7 inches, 83.8 cm2 (~76.1% screen-to-body ratio) | |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2160 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~424 ppi density) | |
| Multitouch | Yes, up to 10 fingers | |
| Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 | |
| – Triluminos display |
| Platform | OS | Android 8.0 (Oreo) |
|---|---|---|
| Chipset | Qualcomm SDM845 Snapdragon 845 | |
| CPU | Octa-core (4×2.7 GHz Kryo 385 Gold & 4×1.7 GHz Kryo 385 Silver) | |
| GPU | Adreno 630 |
| Memory | Card slot | microSD, up to 400 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) – dual SIM model only |
|---|---|---|
| Internal | 64 GB, 4/6 GB RAM |
| Camera | Primary | 19 MP (f/2.0, 25mm, 1/2.3″, 1.22µm), gyro EIS, predictive phase detection and laser autofocus, LED flash |
|---|---|---|
| Features | Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, HDR | |
| Video | 2160p@30fps, 1080p@30/60fps, 1080p@960fps | |
| Secondary | 5 MP (f/2.2, 1/5″), gyro EIS, 1080p |
| Sound | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
|---|---|---|
| Loudspeaker | Yes, with stereo speakers | |
| 3.5mm jack | No | |
| – 24-bit/192kHz audio – Dynamic vibration system |
| Comms | WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot |
|---|---|---|
| Bluetooth | 5.0, A2DP, aptX HD, LE | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO | |
| NFC | Yes | |
| Radio | No | |
| USB | 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector; |
| Features | Sensors | Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, barometer, compass |
|---|---|---|
| Messaging | SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email | |
| Browser | HTML5 | |
| – Fast battery charging – Qi wireless charging |
| Battery | Non-removable Li-Ion 3180 mAh battery |
|---|
| Misc | Colors | Liquid Black, Liquid Silver, Deep Green, Ash Pink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | About N340,444 |
