Hands on with Sony’s Xperia Z1 smartphone

Sony has updated its flagship Xperia smartphone lineup with the Xperia Z1, which will launch in Canada with Bell, Rogers and Telus in mid-October.

It’s a 5” Android model powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor with a 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU and 4G LTE running the Google Android 4.2.2 OS, also known as Jelly Bean. The Sony Xperia Z1 uses Sony’s OmniBalance design and is waterproof and dust resistant to the IP55 and IP58 standards. It has a solid one-piece aluminum frame with tempered glass on the front and back for visual appeal as well as durability.

As with the Xperia Z, Sony is paying close attention to the Z1’s camera.  It uses Sony’s “G Lens” with a 27mm wide angle and bright F2.0 aperture, custom made large 1/2.3-type CMOS image sensor Exmor RS for mobile with 20.7MP and a BIONZ for mobile image processing engine.

We took a closer look at the Xperia Z1 with Sony Canada.

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Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada

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Jeff Jedras
Jeff Jedras
A veteran technology and business journalist, Jeff Jedras began his career in technology journalism in the late 1990s, covering the booming (and later busting) Ottawa technology sector for Silicon Valley North and the Ottawa Business Journal, as well as everything from municipal politics to real estate. He later covered the technology scene in Vancouver before joining IT World Canada in Toronto in 2005, covering enterprise IT for ComputerWorld Canada. He would go on to cover the channel as an assistant editor with CDN. His writing has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and a wide range of industry trade publications.

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