- This year at IFA 2017, Sony's releasing the Xperia XZ1
and XZ1 Compact, evolutions of the XZS and XZ
that were released earlier in the year, and the XZ Premium
that features the company's best-ever technology.
My name is Daniel Bader with Android Central,
and this is the hands-on with the Sony Xperia XZ1
and XZ1 Compact.
The Xperia XZ1 features a 5.2 inch 1080p IPS display,
with the Snapdragon 835, four gigs of RAM,
and 64 gigs of storage.
The XZ1 Compact is that same phone,
but distilled down to a 4.6 inch 720p display
and 32 gigs of storage.
The main improvements on both of these phones this year
are in the back.
That's the 19 megapixel Motion Eye camera
that debuted earlier in the year with the XZS
and XZ Premium, but these are improved devices altogether,
mainly because the cameras now feature
a crazy 3D face-scanning technology,
as well as Autofocus burst and emotion capture,
which predicts when the person in the frame
is gonna be smiling or frowning.
Now, the core here looks very similar to what you'd get
on most Sony phones, but this appears to be,
these phones appear to be the first on the market
to support Android 8.0,
and these are gonna be launching with 8.0 out of the box.
You really would not be able to tell though
because this is basically the Sony experience
that you've gotten for the last five or so years.
Now, everywhere else though, this is a very fast
and fluid experience.
We don't have pricing yet, but what you do, what we do know
is that the Xperia XZ1 Compact is gonna cost about $100 less
than the XZ1, and you're not getting that much less
for your phone.
It's a little bit thicker, as you can see,
and it looks a little bit chunkier,
but a lot of people really like that design.
Inside there's a 2700 milliamp-hour battery in both of these
so you see just how much thicker the XZ1 Compact is
compared to the XZ1, but it has the same size battery.
There's dual front-facing stereo speakers,
and Sony says these are 50% louder
than those in the Xperia XZS,
which debuted earlier in the year,
and the Xperia XZ Premium as well.
And you do get some of that Sony intelligence
that the company has been touting
over the last couple of years.
For example, within the app drawer,
you get personalised app recommendations
and Sony says that it's going to adapt the battery
to make it last longer
over the course of the phone's lifetime
so that it doesn't, it doesn't wear out
as much as other devices.
Of course, many people are gonna wonder
whether these phones have the fingerprint sensor built in.
In the US, that won't be the case,
but in the rest of the world,
you will get a fingerprint sensor on the side,
but you also see on the side, underneath that power button,
you get a camera shutter button, which is something that
we really love, and you can see just how quickly
the camera opens, and this camera has
some of Sony's best technology.
You have really high-quality,
it's supposed to great in low light,
but it is the same sensor that we found in the Xperia XZS
and XZ Premium, which means low-light performance
may not be as good as some of the competitors.
But what we do have is some crazy 3D scanning technology
that is super creepy and super interesting,
and I'm gonna show it to you right now.
So you can see, you can actually scan somebody's
360 degree head, and it's a really high-quality model.
This is completely unprecedented in phone capture,
and you can see I can zoom all the way
into this person's face, and we can actually see,
we did the same with me, with my face,
and, well, it's not pretty.
Now Sony says that it's gonna work with software developers
to allow them to insert these 3D models into applications,
eventually into games, but first we'll see them using it
inside augmented reality solutions, and you will soon
be able to order 3D prints of these.
Elsewhere, we have that predictive autofocus,
which allows you to walk into a frame,
and keep the autofocus on the subject,
something that we haven't seen from a smartphone before.
This is leveraging a lot of Sony's technology
from its high-end camera devices.
At the end of the day though, these are going to be devices
that a lot of Americans are going to kind of,
they're gonna raise their eyebrows at.
They're not gonna be cheap and you won't be able to buy them
directly from carriers, although Sony does say that it's,
that it's certifying the Xperia XZ1 Compact for T-Mobile.
So you won't be able to buy the phone at T-Mobile,
but you will be able to use things like Voice over LTE
and Voice over Wi-Fi,
which is the next, you know, best thing.
There's lots more to learn about the Xperia XZ1
and XZ1 Compact.
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My name is Daniel Bader.
Thank you so much for watching,
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