Sony announces Xperia ZR waterproof smartphone

13 May, 2013
Has a 13 megapixel camera and lets you shoot images and full HD videos even under water.

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  • 13 May 2013

kamote27, 13 May 2013Ok yer missing the point here... to broaden up your mine, c... morethe question is, how many times do you go swimming? and who the hell goes swimming with their phone with them?

I can only picture kids having fun taking pictures and swimming with their phones, but adults or 18+ year olds? its hard to imagine

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    • AnonD-88117
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    • 13 May 2013

    Wow, this is how you do MINI, Looking at you Samsung.

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      • 13 May 2013

      AnonD-135736, 13 May 2013I've seen videos on youtube of da mighty Z recording videos... moreBecause the Z's screen wouldn't work all of the time under water due to it not responding all the time,so the added pysical camera button means you can now take photos or video woth out the risk of the screen not responding.

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        • 13 May 2013

        Anonymous, 13 May 2013Check your phone memory. How many gigs left? dont tell me i... moreheavy gamers use 5gig at most? you obviously dont download games or apps or just trying to defend sony, gameloft games itself has games around 1 - 2gb of memory, so thats 2 games worth 4gb, now u get ur small apps which would take almost 1gb, now u need a free space of atleast 400mb for phone to not lagg... you call that heavy gaming?

        Heavy gamers need atleast 16gb, but even 16gb is not enough.

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          • 13 May 2013

          AnonD-135736, 13 May 2013I've seen videos on youtube of da mighty Z recording videos... moreThe point is that the captive touch screen in z cannot be operated under water so it is impossible to take pics underwater and users have to start recording videos before going under water so that's why the zr got a dedicated shutte.

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            • 13 May 2013

            AnonD-23879, 13 May 2013Two things are all I have to add, which renders these Sony ... moreHTC smartphones have worst battery backup... This reason is more than enough to not to buy htc phones

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              • sGy
              • 13 May 2013

              Two things are all I have to add, which renders these Sony phones obsolete... HTC One (Best Android phone ever made) and HTC One Mini released next month which is for anyone who prefer smaller phones...Both winners... God effort by Sony, but they have a way to go yet...

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                • 13 May 2013

                geordie81, 13 May 2013how does it do that? my phone is storing all the data to th... moreU never really mentioned what kinda phone u had. Have u tried going to settings n move the app to the sd manually??

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                  AnonD-135736, 13 May 2013I've seen videos on youtube of da mighty Z recording videos... moreWhen submerged underwater, the touchscreen stops working. So, with the Z, you cannot take a photo underwater unless you put a timer on the camera before submerging it. And the same for video, you cannot start the recording underwater, you need to start the recording while outside the water, and then submerge it.

                  In the ZR's case, while underwater, you can just push the physical camera button to take photos or videos while underwater, no need to go outside.

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                    • Clinton
                    • R0K
                    • 13 May 2013

                    Perfect phone. Perfect features n perfect size

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                      • 13 May 2013

                      AnonD-23879, 13 May 2013Two things are all I have to add, which renders these Sony ... moreOk yer missing the point here... to broaden up your mine, can you take your HTC swimming with you? I don't think so...

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                        • 2@r
                        • 13 May 2013

                        I've seen videos on youtube of da mighty Z recording videos and taking pics underwater and those would probably be in hd(I dont think dat da phone would detect water in any case). So why it is specially mentioned that zr can take underwater pics and videos in hd?
                        Nyways both the phones rock....

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                          • 13 May 2013

                          AnonD-79514, 13 May 2013sony is the best, they give you the same in a smaller and ... moreno, it's not cheap. it's premium :D

                            lolme, 13 May 2013@rizaldiwn actually most of the apps data will be stored i... morehow does it do that? my phone is storing all the data to the phone memory even though i have 64gb sd card inside, the chip is flashed to be read properly, it works, the whole card is visable to the phone and all the apps go straight to the device, i put another card in just to see if there was an issue downloaded again, and still it does not add to sd card, i also have another android phone and that 2 does NOT save to sd card, i there something in settings i am missing or is this a root trick,

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                              • 13 May 2013

                              AnonD-23879, 13 May 2013Two things are all I have to add, which renders these Sony ... moreHTC One best Android phone ever made? Get out of here, you HTC fanboy.

                                great adding the proper camera button, makes total sense, the only way to use xperia z underwater is to put on timed shot or burst mode, while this is not such an issue it does make life MUCH MUCH easier with a proper button. kudos, i may buy this as my second phone.

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                                  • 2@r
                                  • 13 May 2013

                                  I've seen videos on youtube of da mighty Z recording videos and taking pics underwater and those would probably be in hd(I dont think dat da phone would detect water in any case). So why it is specially mentioned that zr can take underwater pics and videos in hd?
                                  Nyways both the phones rock....

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                                    • Anonymous
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                                    • 13 May 2013

                                    vikrant82, 13 May 2013Again 8 GB internal memory. What is the point of that quad ... moreCheck your phone memory. How many gigs left? dont tell me it exceeds 6gig. User uses 5gig atmost for heavy gamers.4gig for moderate users, and 2-3gig for minimal users.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 13 May 2013

                                      2300 mAh battery, sounds interesting.

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                                        • 13 May 2013

                                        Two things are all I have to add, which renders these Sony phones obsolete... HTC One (Best Android phone ever made) and HTC One Mini released next month which is for anyone who prefer smaller phones...Both winners... God effort by Sony, but they have a way to go yet...