Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium Review: A Sony Danity Project and nothing more

There was no time for many years when consumers implicit Sony implicitly around the world. You knew if you had bought a Sony product, you were getting the best, and people were ready to pay more for peace of mind. However, Sony has struggled to find its place in the excessive world’s world, especially when it comes to smartphones. Sony makes good phones in some ways, but issues often outweigh the strengths. Through all of this, the price is still constantly higher than the competing devices. This leads us to Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium, which is the most “Sony” phone that you have ever used. It is completely full of impressive devices and has a price to reflect this. However, many features that are supposed to make this device simply stand out, and phones that cost half a lot of things better. With a high design and dated user interface, I face a problem taking this phone seriously $ 1,000.

Specifications

Goodness

Not very good

Design, devices, what is in the box

Xperia XZ2 Premium is definitely looks like a Sony, it is a new type of Sony. Not all of these new things are good – they are heavier, round, and made of glass. The back glass plate is slippery and captures fingerprints as soon as the phone touches. Glass curves to meet a shiny aluminum frame. The double back camera on the back is much further than it is on most phones, and as a result, the fingerprint sensor is almost in the middle of the device.

All buttons are classified on the right edge of the phone, and it is also in a strange position. Rocker Rocker is very high, and the power button in the middle of the structure (very low). There is also an actual camera button at the bottom, which is the right side when the phone holds the landscape. The USB Type-C port is below, and this is the only port-no headphone socket.

The axis of this phone is a 4K screen with a size of 5.8 inches with a resolution of 3840 x 2160. This works to 765 pixels per inch. This is a 16: 9 painting and the surrounding methods are somewhat large. Inside, this phone is packed Snapdragon 845, 6 GB of RAM, and 64 GB of storage. Everything is equal to an advanced phone in 2018. The battery is slightly larger than the competing devices at a speed of 3540 mAh (has 4K screen).

Sony XZ2 Premium launched with Android 8.0 instead of 8.1. (I heard that this may be restrictions on Qualcomm on some 800 series devices). The user interface looks at the beginning, but Sony has gone through a little change. XZ2 also includes a collection of pre -installed Sony applications.

You may expect a $ 1,000 phone to include many additions in the box. Well, prepare to be surprised. In addition to the phone, you can get a USB A-TO-C cable, type C to 3.5 mm, and charger (QC 3.0 and USB-PD) can do about 16W, and the boots package and usual guarantee cards. There is a spot in the box that can be dedicated to headphones, but I had empty. It was good to throw in a state of this exorbitant amount.

This phone has been opened for use on GSM/LTE networks such as AT & T and T-Mobile. You can buy it from Amazon, Focus Camera and Best Buy.

Camera samples

Xperia XZ2 Premium is the first Sony dual camera, with a 12 -megapixel and 20 -megapixel sensor. It can use this secondary lens to add details to the shots, take pictures of the image mode, and withdraw more light to get very high allergic mode images. Here are some samples of what you can do.

Classification /10

Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium

Should you buy it? Certainly no. There are some real problems with Xz2 Premium, but I can forgive most of them if the price is not strange. There is no reason to spend a thousand dollars on a phone that cannot keep up with devices that cost hundreds of dollars less.

From a purely industrial design point of view, it is great how the glass plate bends on all four sides of the aluminum frame. However, there is not much I can say about Xz2 Premium as a piece of devices. The phone is very thick despite the backward back – it’s 11.9 mm in the middle, and you will feel it. It is also one of the heaviest phones that you used at all, as it wandered around the scales in 236 g. In comparison, the 2xl is 175g, and OnePlus 6 is 177 g. The phone slipped, and I feel constantly that I will drop it because it is a small pork.

I don’t think I have loked the fingerprint sensor in the first attempt. I ended up touching the camera lens every time, even when I think I have modified my grip on low enough landing. It is just a terrible spot. I am not fond of the lower power button on the side as well.

I am happier with the camera on this phone than I expected. Although some of the best sensors are made, the Sony camera was disappointed in the past. I will not say this is a great camera, but it is good. In bright outer light and moderate inner light, Xperia XZ2 Premium produces equally exposed shots with flour color and tons of clear details. There is no of this water treatment that affects other phones, but the shutter delay can be discovered. I don’t know if you trust this phone to take pictures of a moving topic. Sometimes, the smart capture feature will indicate an alternative image that is not blurry, but I don’t want to rely on it. It also appears that it is vulnerable to the lens from the bright light sources outside the frame.

The images with very low light can be forgotten until they reach severe low light (I will cover it in a second). The white balance is very warm, and the shutter delay begins to get a long time annoyingly. With medium light, you will end up with a lot of mysterious shots. Like P20 Pro, Premium XZ2 occupies a very high sensitivity position when it reaches low light. It takes a few seconds, but you can get a lot of details in approximately black conditions with an effective ISO of 51,400. The pictures are dangerously loud, but this may be better than the gray point block.

LCD 4K is a very gentle painting of accurate colors and adequate brightness to use it outside. Unlike some last 4K Sony phones, this is one Understand It’s a 4K phone. Thus, you can watch a 4K video in apps like YouTube, and supports HDR. Although the video looks amazing, it’s completely amazing to my eyes like HDR 1440 pixels. Until I get my face directly next to the screen, there is no difference that can be discovered between the 1440 -pixel panel and 4K XZ2 Premium. The expenses and the added weight do not get anything useful. This is also a 16: 9 painting, so it is now wide after you are on the screens of 18: 9.

The performance on XZ2 Premium was solid. The phone was not unexpectedly lagged, and the battery life is average. I see about five hours of screen time more than a day and a half. This is a simple victory with a 4K screen.

Sony does not convert the full user interface in Android building like Samsung or Huawei. However, it appears that it makes undressing small adjustments throughout the operating system. I don’t think any of them made the phone better, and a few of them definitely have increased. Example: See this GIF. Look. in. He – is.

Data activity arrows such as this constantly emerge while using the phone, and they transfer other status icons each time. You may say this is a simple thing, but let me tell you, it’s very annoying. I always feel that something is trying to attract my attention near the upper part of the screen, but no, just arrows again.

The arrow position is the case of Android on this phone. The Sony version of Oreo shows lack of attention to detail. There are applications for the interface of the user’s search for the main screen that are basically ads, and the main screen of the stocks has the worst picker of the user interface element used at all. Then there is a dynamic vibration feature, which leads to the vibration engine based on the sound in the music/video or game player. I can’t think about any reason I want this. It is just ridiculous. The vibration engine is not very good – it is concerned for me.

It comes to the price. Sony $ 1,000 you want for this phone, and it’s not worth much. Certainly, you can refer to the 4K screen to justify the cost, but there is no benefit for the user for many pixels on the phone. The camera is good, but it is not as good as phones that cost $ 600-900. Then there is the program, which sometimes feels amateurs. The Xperia XZ2 installment seems only so that Sony can say it is making a 4K screen. You should not buy this phone, and I am not sure it is supposed to be.

Buying it:

You are rich independently and you are curious about the use of 4K. You are for the sake of bragging rights, just like Sony.

Do not buy it:

She loves to save money and wants a better version than Android, the most capable camera, and a more intelligent design. You realize that 4K is just a bullet point on the specifications sheet and will not improve your smartphone experience in any way.