Sony Xperia Z Review | Pocketnow

Опубликовано 13 марта 2013, 18:43

Sony is on what would appear to be an upswing. After numerous attempts to break into the smartphone market and bring unique -- albeit some quite strange -- devices to the market, the Japanese manufacturer saw a glimmer of success in the wake of plummeting HTC profits and the slow decline of the company formerly known as Research In Motion, BlackBerry.

The waning of its larger counterparts landed Sony a spot in the top three smartphone manufacturers for Q3 2012. With 8.8 million smartphones shipped in the quarter, Sony found itself in the top five since 2006, though the market share gap between second (Apple with 15.5 percent) and third (Sony 5.1 percent) is a comparatively large spread. Any bounce back from HTC and BlackBerry, both of which have highly-anticipated products either already available or soon to be available, will send Sony back down to irrelevancy.

Sony knows this, and hit the ground running in 2013, announcing two of the most notable smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. The Xperia Z is the more premium of the two, a fine example of world class engineering and unmistakable Sony design.

The device's hard edges are bold, the metallic trim around the outside gives it personality, and its spec sheet rivals every other high-end smartphone either out or on the horizon. Is it enough to keep Sony's slowly-building momentum going? Will it take from the likes of the most highly-anticipated devices, such as the Galaxy S IV or HTC One? Watch our full review.

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