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, 10 Jul 2017this phone is actually very good. I don't know why people a... moreIts just an illusion here. ;-)
Just look down in the commnt section of Arenas own compare:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G_XETBeUFoU

XZ Prem is def most prefered. :-)

    andrew, 09 Jul 2017The camera's picture quality as I can see by myself, lookin... moreDont know how you concluded this...

    Look at XZ Prem results here:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Ww6bQBIuM

    Its great.

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      • Anonymous
      • 9xx
      • 10 Jul 2017

      this phone is actually very good. I don't know why people are still making fun of it

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        • NY1
        • 09 Jul 2017

        andrew, 09 Jul 2017The camera's picture quality as I can see by myself, lookin... moreYou don't know what you are talking about my friend! Sony this time round nailed it on camera department with XZ Premium!

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          • andrew
          • pmE
          • 09 Jul 2017

          The camera's picture quality as I can see by myself, looking at these samples - is just horrible even in daylight... not to mention about dark conditions.. It is a tragedy. 2017 premium flagship? It must be a joke. I've been taking MUCH better quality pictures using my galaxy s2. Looking at these pictures you get the feel of the 2010-2011 standard, something, that I've forgotten long time ago. But now SONY has reminded me those times, when cameras in the phones couldn't give satisfactory results.... and I'm really wondering why Sony has such big problems with implementing good camera in their phones. Is it camera sensor? Sony is selling its sensors to most companies nowadays.. Besides SONY is one of the greatest leaders in making premium quality sensors. Maybe too much pixels? Or just inappropriate image processing? And one more thing - the reviewers say that everything about the camera in this phone is ok. Is it really so?

            Lowlight:
            https://youtu.be/_bglAqfVe8s

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              • Anonymous
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              • 05 Jul 2017

              doc doc global, 05 Jul 2017SONY have longstanding tract record of POOR aftersales serv... more100% True.
              terrible customer service

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                • HDx
                • 05 Jul 2017

                SONY have longstanding tract record of POOR aftersales services under warranty and UPDATES ..even though on paper specs look good ..sadly .. ALMOST all sony hands sets are made in china .. NOT japan ..

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                  • 02 Jul 2017

                  Holding my friend's z5 premium, i felt so amazing with its solid. Its tough too. The screen and the loudspeaker so great. Rich of tones and colors. But the loudness of ringtone and mp3 not to impress and almost covered when you in the noisy street. The wide bezell look classy too, not rounded like the other phones. But the xperia ui with navigation key on screen makes the screen smaller. Why sony doesnt make capacitive navigation button on its bottom bezell? That makes more ergonomic for its beautifull screen and entire phone form too..

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                    • Anonymous
                    • IbE
                    • 02 Jul 2017

                    Thus a BeaSt of Sony flagship!

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                      • Anonymous
                      • IbE
                      • 30 Jun 2017

                      Sony Rocks with thus XZ Premium flagship of the year 2017!

                        D E, 28 Jun 2017There's new software update on my sony Xperia z5 premium, a... moreNougat 7.1.1

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 28 Jun 2017

                          Anonymous, 27 Jun 2017Thus Sony blue is awesome looking,,, I Really likes it Sony!!!XZs is light blue
                          XZ is green blue
                          XZ Premium is darkest blue
                          …Which one you are saying? :)

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                            • thh
                            • 28 Jun 2017

                            There's new software update on my sony Xperia z5 premium, and i haven't installed it yet because i don't know what is it about. It's about more than 400+mb file size. I CHECK ON SONY SITES AND THEY HAVEN'T POST IT YET. can someone or somebody tell me what it is. GSMARENA???

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                              • Anonymous
                              • IbE
                              • 27 Jun 2017

                              Thus Sony blue is awesome looking,,, I Really likes it Sony!!!

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                                • tZ4
                                • 26 Jun 2017

                                Anonymous, 25 Jun 2017in landscape orientation, most people hold their phones on ... moreGo and ask Apple why iphone is the mother of bezel, they will tell you the bezel is more comfortable to hold, especially big phone, because most of the user cant reach their finger to press the "button", that why bezel is a area for comfortable. And turn to landscape mode our finger will can place at the side frame for too long, because it is really uncomfortable, the bezel is here to place your thumbs when taking photo playing games watching movie, but thinner bezel can feel the drop risk everytime to hold the frames.

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                                  • mpr
                                  • 25 Jun 2017

                                  AnonD-111968, 18 Jun 2017Ergonomics is missing in this design. With sharp corners it... moreThe corners are chamfered on the xzp, should make it more comfortable to hold than other current xperias.
                                  And they're a lot less square in person.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • PRW
                                    • 25 Jun 2017

                                    Anonymous, 22 Jun 2017most people want: 1- amoled with good refresh rate, but I... morein landscape orientation, most people hold their phones on the Frame. Not The Bezel.
                                    S8 still have thin frame, so people can hold it while playing games.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • PRW
                                      • 25 Jun 2017

                                      Anonymous, 24 Jun 2017one word: "Bezelicious"thats the reason it has poor ergonomic. very big bezel. poor screen to body ratio. it looks very big but with small screen.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • 3%t
                                        • 24 Jun 2017

                                        one word: "Bezelicious"