Xperia z............ come water come dust ...lets play

The Xperia Z is Sony's flagship phone for this year, and continues the screen size and resolution arms race with its 5in, 1,920x1,080 display. It also has all the specifications you would expect from a high-end smartphone, including a quad-core 1.5GHz processor and a camera with a huge 13 megapixel sensor.

The display's Full HD resolution is the same as that of this year's HTC One, but the slightly larger screen size should make text more legible at this resolution. We found we could view web pages in desktop mode and still read all the page's text easily without zooming in. This is a trick that the HTC One also pulls off, but we found the Xperia Z's extra 1/3 inch screen size made reading more comfortable.

The display's certainly good enough, and large enough, for watching films and for gaming. We tried it out with the Asphalt 7 racing title, which looked fantastic, and almost like something off the PlayStation 3.

To accommodate such a big display, the handset is understandably huge, and you'll struggle to use it while carrying an umbrella. It's only 3mm wider than the HTC One and has a larger screen, though, so the Xperia Z isn’t excessively large as this generation of smartphones goes. A screen this big also requires a large battery to power it, and Sony has gone for a chunky 2,330mAh model - very similar to the 2,300mAh battery in the HTC One. Unfortunately, despite having such a big battery, the huge screen takes its toll. The phone managed 5h 48m in our continuous video playback battery life test, which is below average, showing this is one Android phone that will require regular charging.

 The Xperia Z does have a party trick, though; it's fully sealed against water and dust ingress, so will survive a rain shower or a drop from a top pocket into the toilet. The flaps covering its various ports are rubber-sealed and feel very sturdy when they clip in and out, so we're not too worried about them breaking off.

The Xperia Z runs Android 4.1, rather than the very latest 4.2 version. However, Sony claims that version 4.2 will be available for the Xperia Z "shortly after launch".

Even though it's now a few months since the Xperia Z was launched and we're yet to see the update, it's definitely on the way. A leaked version of Sony's Android 4.2.2 build has surfaced, and it has been successfully installed on an Xperia Z by one of the developers on www.xda-developers.com. The update will, of course, only work on handsets with unlocked bootloaders, but it does at least show that the 4.2 update is nearly here.

has enough ram (2gb)... quad core processor...and stunning looks ....

price is approx 35ooo/-

Verdict:

A high-resolution screen and classy Android customisations make this a great handset.