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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  • 29 May 2017

Even oneplus 3t with 6gb ram can't even beat sony xz premium with just 4gb ram. Now who's your king????? Watch YouTube now that way you can educate yourself. MAKE BELIEVE! ✌

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    • 29 May 2017

    Anonymous, 29 May 2017Tests light multitasking. Yeah right, like the majority of ... moreLoses camera? Just because it is bad than S8? Why don't wait for DxoMark?

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      • 29 May 2017

      guys why you always fighting?

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        • 29 May 2017

        Anonymous, 28 May 2017Literally the worst 2017 flagship by far. There's not one i... moreHow many RAM s8 has.

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          • 29 May 2017

          AnonD-667624, 28 May 2017Hey yo, look at this yo.. Sony Xperia XZP vs Samsung Gal... moreIt loses to S8 in shorting in auto mode. They keel igonioring it bny using Taylor made photo options to make Sony seem better. In all the review sites Sony loses by a huge margin.

          Performance compared to S8 it wins because Samsung phones are probably rather slow.
          It definitely loses to iplus though. That reviewer keeps using light workloads that few care about. Most people make a heavier use of their phones. Iplus can keep all that in memory, XZP starts reloading pretty fast giving it a slower experience.

          So I mispoke, performance is middling (better than the Koreans' worse than the Amricans' and Chinese). Where it absolutely loses is photography , ergonomy and autonomy.

          So in 3 of the 4 is dead last Midst flagships and in one is middling.

          Sony failed again!

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            • Anonymous
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            • 29 May 2017

            Tann Hauser, 28 May 2017Speed vs ip7plus: https://youtu.be/I_W-Hc23rUA :-)Tests light multitasking. Yeah right, like the majority of users won't brose Facebook, open a bunch of Instagram profiles, have a lengthy messenger chat with videos and images and open a couple of games. All those are ram heavy and Sony's dinky ram would die long before processing all those at once.

            Iplus can do it because the ram footprint of anything in IOS is much smaller. 6GB phones can do this because of having more ram. Sony can't do it.

            It only wins in tests tailor made to win. Like I said a slow phone that is only fast in light workloads that only few care about... Fail.

            BTW it also loses in camera, ergonomy and autonomy. Basically losing is all that this phone is doing..

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              • 29 May 2017

              boohoo, 28 May 2017other big brands never lie to their customers. if they sai... moreReally... so when Samsung says their processor is 2.35Ghz, it's allllllways 2.35Ghz and never a single Hz less? Never like, ohh I dunno, 800Mhz when it's in standby or something..? Hmm?

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                • 28 May 2017

                boohoo, 28 May 2017other big brands never lie to their customers. if they sai... moreIt can show 4K videos at 60fps on Youtube and it can stream 4K movies in Prime Video app

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                  • 28 May 2017

                  boohoo, 28 May 2017really? how about xiaomi mi mix with bezel less design and ... moreThat means sharp beats samsung also, bcos it turns out samsung is just learning from sharp. Sharp got it years back. Where were U?

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                    • 28 May 2017

                    Droid, 27 May 2017Ok let's go 1-iris scanner 2-samsung pay 3-best super am... moreLook, I don't agree with everything Sony has done, but bleating on about the 4K business is just sore-losers trying to undermine a great achievement. The screen IS 4K, pure and simple. The hardware has the resolution, it is an LCD panel physically capable of 3840 lines of resolution. Period, end of discussion.

                    Is the fact that it doens't --always-- run at 4K a problem? Well that depends on you I guess. Would you want the SoC to ALWAYS run at its full clock speed, regardless of what you're doing? I think probably not. You'd want it to make smart choices about when it needs to unleash the full power, and when it's not really needed so that you can save some battery life.

                    Does the S8 have some features I'd like the XZ-P to have? Most certainly. It's a great phone, no doubt about it.
                    However, unless you've rooted your S8 (or whatever) and removed all power-saving features, I think you should re-think your position on the $k thing. Because bleating on about this makes you sound worse than an isheep.

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                      • 28 May 2017

                      boohoo, 28 May 2017really? how about xiaomi mi mix with bezel less design and ... moreXiaomi MI mix just want to copy Sharp Aquos Crystal, but their tech is not enough to make bezelless smartphone smaller, that why the MI mix is extra big. The ceramic is nice and truth to itself, but the metal and gorilla glass is more better and durable.

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                        • 28 May 2017

                        Anonymous, 28 May 2017dont compare xbox vs xpooria. both are mede by different di... moreLol, this man is absolutely don't know what are he/she talking about.. Made my day

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                          • 28 May 2017

                          AnonD-672421, 26 May 2017Hahaha aren't you funny, are you? How dare you to say "fan... moreOkay I won't comment on your poor English but nothing is subjective in this price range, those unique features of S8 are the next generation features and I'm sure you know nothing about generations of computers, cellulars and how the things evolve. S8 is a next gen phone and here next gen is as big as the difference was when the 4th generation of computers came with microprocessors.

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                            • 28 May 2017

                            Don't bother commenting whether sony mobile division got bankrupt or just selling less units, because THE BOSS of SONY KAZUO HIRAI said they won't quit the mobile market!!!!!!!

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                              • 28 May 2017

                              Anonymous, 28 May 2017dont compare xbox vs xpooria. both are mede by different di... moreYou don't get the point of what I'm saying. I'm not comparing xbox to Xperia but I'm pointing about the difference in unit sold against, units ship. Like xbox versus ps4 console., SONY SOLD MORE THAN 60million units while xbox only reveal their stats on units ship which doesn't translate to sale. get it. Go educate yourself my friend your just a sony hater.

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                                • 28 May 2017

                                Anonymous, 28 May 2017dont compare xbox vs xpooria. both are mede by different di... moresorry i mean ps. not xbox.

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                                  • 28 May 2017

                                  D E, 28 May 2017Sony doesn't mind if they sell a lot with regards to their ... moredont compare xbox vs xpooria. both are mede by different division.
                                  xbox is one of the reason why sony is still alive today. xpooria is different story. avoided by many people because of its "ugly everything" , and always suffers bad sells every year.

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                                    • 28 May 2017

                                    Droid, 28 May 2017You talk about faster. Your crappy mobile has no aminations... moreyeah right. it feels faster because it only uses very very minimum amount of animations.
                                    xperia's ui is the ugliest ui of android.

                                      Also, final software geekbench scores coming in:
                                      https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/2940488

                                      1921/6544

                                      :-)

                                        AnonD-667624, 28 May 2017Hey yo, look at this yo.. Sony Xperia XZP vs Samsung Gal... moreXZ Prem Competition just pales in comparisson...
                                        Thats XZ Prem with final software there, gets over 178 000 on antutu...
                                        And it definitely shows.
                                        Sonys New RF antenna tech inside is just mindblowingly fast.