Sony Xperia XZ Premium review: The showstopper

12 May 2017
The Sony Xperia XZ Premium has a gorgeous 4K display. Better yet, a 4K HDR display! The latest Snapdragon 835 chipset is pulling the strings and delivering lightning-fast LTE while the Adreno 540 is firing up millions of pixels in a heartbeat. With or without the mirror finish, this is one of the classiest designs around and waterproof, too.

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  • Anonymous
  • 6jq
  • 20 May 2017

Anonymous, 20 May 2017Damn, so much hate. I'm getting this phone regardless of th... moreAnd by everything else you means the gargantuan size despite the relatively small screen on the middle? You mean the tiny battery despite the large volume of the device? Do you mean the middling RAM that won't age well especially as most apps can positively eat as much as 1GB? Or maybe you mean the sealed -always on- battery scheme that Sony introduced to the android world?

Those are not hate, Sony has been like this for years and unfortunately only got worse. I have yet to hear a good reason why is this phone is it a good phone. The only one that makes relatively sense is that people like its look, everything else makes completely no sense, like the invocation to authority ("Sony is a good company" ... well no, Sony has actually made many bad products), or constructing "facts" about its various aspects (many of which were shot down by the blind camera test of gsmarena).

Really try to make an honest assessment of the phone. The only reason to buy this over most of *every* other phone is because you're biased towards it ... honestly. And this is not a hate, I just see a device with almost zero good values getting unearned adulation ... at some point people get spiteful when they see such a behavior...

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    • Anonymous
    • 7Ac
    • 20 May 2017

    Damn, so much hate. I'm getting this phone regardless of the bad cam. Everything else suits my needs

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      • Anonymous
      • 6jq
      • 20 May 2017

      Anonymous, 19 May 2017If it's true, why you are spending your time in counting co... moreNo successes. It's Sony, Sony barely stays alive in the mobile world. Just last year they were thinking of closing shop, it won't surprise me if they do eventually ... They're not even top 10 on world sales. They're like a tiny player that only a specific part of the market (for some unknown reason) think highly of them.

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        • AnonD-669639
        • tDP
        • 20 May 2017

        maybe phonearena and gsmarena will give bad result in testing this phone camera. but sony never failed on dxo mark chart. you can not pay dxo mark!!

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          • AnonD-72356
          • rKZ
          • 19 May 2017

          AnonD-481725, 19 May 2017For the sake of God, Samsung?? Worst experience, i used iph... moreI doubt samsung sell phones in middle east.

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            • Anonymous
            • 6wH
            • 19 May 2017

            boohoo, 19 May 2017- Overpriced - Big useless square bezel - Lcd - Average ... moreIf it's true, why you are spending your time in counting cons?. Its becasue you are jealous and angry from others success. Shame.

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              • Anonymous
              • 6wH
              • 19 May 2017

              boohoo, 19 May 2017- Overpriced - Big useless square bezel - Lcd - Average ... moreIf it's true as you said, why do you spend your time trying to prove something obviously known?. I'll tell you, cause you are jeal

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                • Anonymous
                • 60E
                • 19 May 2017

                AnonD-669639, 19 May 2017so desperate to bash on this phone. shameless!! 800 comment... moresony have to prepare a lot of money first.
                otherwise.. dxo wont give them better score.

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                  • boohoo
                  • 60E
                  • 19 May 2017

                  - Overpriced
                  - Big useless square bezel
                  - Lcd
                  - Average ui design
                  - small screen (because the bezel take too much space)
                  - Boring square design

                  - and the most important is: Camera is not good. proven by the blind test.


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                    • Anonymous
                    • 7Ac
                    • 19 May 2017

                    Anonymous, 19 May 2017Haha watch gsmarena's blind camera test. All gsmarena users... moreYeah, from a stupid Zoomed In test. Gsm is purposely trying to make XZP look bad cuz of their defective S8 garbage

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                      • AnonD-481725
                      • X1E
                      • 19 May 2017

                      AnonD-72356, 18 May 2017Like 1104?Already sold 2 millions from pre-orders in some regions, and the smartphone is not launched yet, don't panic.

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                        • AnonD-670333
                        • KZK
                        • 19 May 2017

                        AnonD-72356, 19 May 2017Haha see that's what I was saying, you people just like to ... morei also use samsung smartphone so dont say i hate samsung :)
                        my samsung is good but my dad iphone more good when i using it for play game :)
                        S7 and s8 dont have big different also same 85 point at DxO lol.
                        Note 8 will have different story bcoz samsung will put everything on that flagship, that what in my mind but still Iphone8 will be better :)

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                          • AnonD-481725
                          • X1E
                          • 19 May 2017

                          AnonD-669639, 19 May 2017so desperate to bash on this phone. shameless!! 800 comment... moreThey don't like the fact that Sony despite of all forces that Samsung is doing over the competitors such as "buying all snapdragon 835 chipset units" Sony could make the best smartphone of the year, known, officially.

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                            • AnonD-481725
                            • X1E
                            • 19 May 2017

                            AnonD-72356, 19 May 2017I used to be one but in Sony Ericsson era, now Samsung is p... moreFor the sake of God, Samsung?? Worst experience, i used iphones, Sony, Samsung was terrible, s2plus, s3, s4 all of these were nightmares, while my Xperia z and iPhone 5s are still running smooth until now.

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                              • AnonD-481725
                              • X1E
                              • 19 May 2017

                              AnonD-635604, 19 May 2017so respect sony for sharing idea of water resistant,4k hdr,... moreThat was cool XD.

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                                • rJS
                                • 19 May 2017

                                AnonD-670333, 19 May 2017bcoz of that blind shootout revealed all samfan think that ... moreHaha see that's what I was saying, you people just like to bash successful things, you named almost every brand like if this couldn't, that one will... you just feel offended by every successful thing, it's like you feel racist from it. You don't love any brand, you just hate Samsung because it's perfect. It's one vs all.

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                                  • AnonD-72356
                                  • rJS
                                  • 19 May 2017

                                  AnonD-542307, 19 May 2017As a previous loyal customer of Sony mobile to current Loy... moreI used to be one but in Sony Ericsson era, now Samsung is providing that great experience and satisfaction once Sony Ericsson used to provide

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • tZ4
                                    • 19 May 2017

                                    very gorgeous phone...

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                                      • n%q
                                      • 19 May 2017

                                      AnonD-670333, 19 May 2017bcoz of that blind shootout revealed all samfan think that ... moreNot....