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Christian Post Report – An employee poses with Sony’s new Xperia Z4 smartphone after a news conference in Tokyo April 20, 2015.
After countless rumors and leaks which circulation lasted for months, Sony has finally lifted up the curtains to officially reveal the highly anticipated Sony Xperia Z4 this Monday in Japan.
For those wondering if the high-end Android smartphone would arrive in other countries, a report from BGR cited the Russian publication Hi-Tech.mail.ru saying that Sony has included in their plans to make a flagship announcement for international markets and that they will do so probably in “late of May.”
During the unveiling, the Xperia Z3 successor was shown with a “slightly tweaked OmniBalance design” with a premium aluminum frame running along its sides.
The front, as well as the back, is covered with high-quality protective glass material which Sony has yet to confirm if it’s Gorilla or Dragontrail.
Like the 2014 flagship, the new Z4 still has the 5.2-inch 1080p display. Under the hood, however, there’s been a huge leap of improvement. From the short-lived Snapdragon 805 chipset, the Z4 now runs on the 64-bit, octa-core Snapdragon 810.
Furthermore, the new Android phone has an Adreno 430 GPU which is seen to be more capable of running super high-resolution contents than its predecessor, the Adreno 330.
As for the camera, Z4’s primary snapper has 20.7 MP with Exmor RS image sensor and is coupled with the BIONZ image processing engine. GSM Arena stated in their report that aside from the usual HDR and other imaging modes, the new Z4 camera has a “Cooking Mode” which is intended for taking pictures of food.
The front snapper, on the other hand, has a 5MP wide-angle camera which is optimized to offer best selfie image quality. There’s also a new “shake feature” which aims to reduce shakings when recording videos using the front camera.
Meanwhile, the new audio features of Z4 now support high quality audio performance for wireless playback mode.
The phone is still given with the IP68 certification for its water and dust resistant features. It is powered with a non-removable 2,930 mAh battery and is said to run on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Pricing details and store release dates for the Xperia Z4, at least in the tech’s home country, aren’t available as of the moment.
Source : Christian Post