
In this competitive environment, Sony’s vast bezels above and below the screen, which total up to nearly an inch, feel instantly retrograde. Before the year’s through, we’re going to have the Galaxy Note 8, LG V30, and very likely the Google Pixel XL 2 to add to that category.

The LG G6, Samsung Galaxy S8, Essential Phone, and even a few upstart Chinese companies all now offer phones with a futuristic look that eliminates almost all the bezel. The hot new thing in 2017 is the ruthless excision of bezels from around the screen.
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Once again, due to the constraints of the preview sample we spent some time with, we’ll have to get a real feel for performance during our full review.The best way to consider this flagship Sony phone is by addressing the particular components and features of smartphone design that are presently considered premium. Waterproofing also returns to the Xperia XZ Premium, so it’ll survive an accidental dunk, as does Qnovo Adaptive Charging, which promises to extend your battery lifespan while offering much quicker charging times. Smart Stamina battery mode is back, which learns your usage and can warn you when you might fall short of juice later on in the day, prompting you to switch to Stamina mode earlier to help prevent it. This is supported by 4GB of RAM alongside 64GB of on-board storage and a microSD slot for expansion.
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In particular, it’ll be able to offer download speeds of up to 1Gbps thanks to the integrated Snapdragon X16 LTE modem, which should make 4K movies on-the-go a reality. The Xperia XZ Premium will run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip – the same chipset that's expected to be found in the Samsung Galaxy S8 and one of the most powerful mobile processors around. The real-time footage after the slow-mo sections on our videos didn’t look the most smooth and natural, but it’s the slow-mo that’s the star of the show here. Once again, we’ll need to put a lot of this to test in our full review, but we did get to try out Sony’s super slow motion video capture, and the results were very impressive indeed.Įven just filming a glass being washed up or a cocktail being poured (Sony's choices.) looked impressively dramatic and the detail on offer was remarkable. On top of all of this, the camera claims to capture 10% larger pixels for brighter shots in low light, while the Bionz mobile processing helps to guard against excess noise.

Predictive Capture automatically starts buffering images when it detects motion, taking up to four images in the second before you press the shutter button. First, the ability to capture super slow motion videos at 960fps (most are around 240fps), and second to capture images before you have even pressed the button. What this means in practice is two things.

It borrows some technology from premium compact cameras, such as memory being stacked directly onto the sensor to allow for five times faster image scanning and data transfer.

The result is Sony’s Motion Eye camera, a 19MP sensor that incorporates imaging know-how from across Sony’s photography side of the business. Aside from the screen, the camera is one of the big talking points of the XZ Premium, as it’s been completely re-built from the ground up compared to last year's model.
