Xperia Z Ultra Review

The Xperia Ultra redefines the border between smartphones and tablets. The 6.4-inch smartphone is the largest handset to hit the Indian market carrying with itself a hefty price. The one thing you would love most is the work done by Sony on the display. The display proves that the saying – “bigger is not always better” is not the one you can rely on.  

The Xperia Z Ultra is the first of a kind to carry Sony’s new Triluminous display, which is the same panel technology used in the 2013 Bravia TV’s. This effort by Sony results in a stunningly bright and vivid display with decent viewing angles. The screen is not dull or life-less as it was in the previous Xperia Z. The smartphone has a build of a good quality and being very thin at 6.5 mm, it’s quite sturdy. You can’t resist the urge to keep talking about this smartphone as it is truly a jawdropper in terms of its design

                                 It boasts a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC, being the first phone in India to be powered by it. The chipset features four CPU cores running at 2.2 GHz each, along with Adreno 330 graphics. Couple all this with a good 2GB RAM and we are looking at a smooth Jelly Bean experience.  Sony has added some nifty customization to the already-incredible User Interface. Unfortunately, The very-similar Walkman music player and the speakers have a quite low volume.

  

The phone also carries an 8 megapixel camera which can be disappointing if you look at the quality of pictures it captures. Moreover, the absence of LED flash sums up the problems as the sensor present cannot handle low-light well. The video recording is smooth and the quality of the video is also average.

It being priced at Rs 46,990, you might have expected a lot more features than a good display and a remarkably waterproof body. It might make a nice addition to your secondary smartphone pockets due to its size, camera quality and not having atleast 32 GB of onboard memory. Cons aside, the phone has the most stunning display ever fitted into a smartphone and would beat any competition, if there’s any!

Overall Rating :-

3 out of  5