It certainly did with the 4K video I tried, doing its best to pull out a bit more detail out of the shadows. Even if you don’t have an HDR video, the Sony player app seems to fiddle about with the dynamic range anyway. This is one of the first phones to support HDR video too, and here the LCD screen is handy because its top brightness is pretty powerful. I haven’t noticed much of it here, but if you’re susceptible it’s one of the things that’ll make your lunchtime panini threaten to make a reappearance after a spell with a VR headset.ĤK phone screens are kinda cool, but not yet as great as you might hope, particularly now that Android does actually support them natively in version 7.0. OLEDs are the preferred type because their ultra-fast pixels cause less screen smearing. That said, this isn’t quite the VR dreamphone in every respect, as it has an LCD screen. Even if you don’t get 4K graphics, all of those pixels are still firing. However, you’ll also see much less of the space between pixels when using a VR headset, thanks to the mammoth 807ppi pixel density. It’s quickly clear that these apps do not render at 4K: side-by-side with the OnePlus 3 you see the same ‘jagginess’ from the polygons. So, how good is it for VR? I fired up a few of the best DayDream VR apps, Coastality and The Lost Future, a VR shooter. You have to try pretty hard to notice the difference, and the best argument for a 4K phone screen right now is VR, anyway. Zooming right into a capture of the homescreen, you can see the phone upscales a 1080p rendering of good old Android. But unlike that phone, the XZ Premium isn’t 4K on a 24/7 basis – it only switches to true 4K when used with a compatible app, such as the Sony video player. Yes, Sony has been down this route before, in the Xperia Z5 Premium. That’s 3840 x 2160 pixels, way more than the 2960 x 1440 of the Galaxy S8. One of the big questions is: how is this different from the Xperia XZ? Well, other than using glass on the back instead of metal, the big deal here is that this phone has a 4K screen. A classic rubber-sealed flap over the SIM and SD card slots lets you dunk the Sony Xperia XZ Premium in water without it heading to the great Carphone Warehouse in the sky. Still, there’s a very good side-loaded finger scanner under the power button and great water resistance. This 5.5in phone is 77mm across, almost a centimetre wider than the S8. The Galaxy S8 has a 5.8in screen and is 68mm wide the LG G6 a 5.7in screen and is 72mm wide. However, it’s about time Sony considered moving on from this phone format. The top and bottom of the Sony Xperia XZ Premium are aluminium, giving you a greatest hits holy trinity of smartphone materials.ĭon’t dwell too long on the plastic, because the Sony Xperia XZ Premium feels great. We’ll hand it to Sony: glass on the sides would probably be a step too far. One slight surprise is that the Sony Xperia XZ Premium does still use some plastic: the glass tapers down into curved plastic-coated sides with a finish that almost looks like glass. It’s designed to take being dropped from shoulder height on to a hard surface. However, Sony has done its best to avoid tears by using Gorilla Glass 5. The worry with glass is that if it gets near your keys or ends up kissing tarmac, it’ll be ruined. Only the last millimetre or two is curved, to avoid any severe edges. There’s glass on the front and back like the Z5 Premium, and while it’s curved, it’s the ever-so-slight curviness of 2.5D glass. Where the Samsung Galaxy S8 pushes its screen right into the corners as if it wants to make your thumbs homeless, the Xperia XZ Premium is a classic sharp Sony rectangle with clear borders. The Sony Xperia XZ Premium seems to have a mission statement to blow up the competition with eyeball-melting extra tech. Sony Xperia XZ Premium Design: Heart of glass
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