Sony Xperia xz1 Compact - simple in appearance, cool inside

Sony Xperia xz1 Compact can be called original. On the one hand, it is uniquely identified as a product of Sony Corporation. On the other - the smartphone does not look like a representative of the modern market. It is angular, thick enough, with side frames of the screen. One gets the impression that the designers conceived the representative of the ageless classics, and they succeeded. Despite its kind of clumsy sturdiness, Sony Xperia xz1 Compact shows the highest performance, encouraging inspiring autonomy and high-quality images.

Specifications

The following table lists the main technical specifications of the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact.

CPU	Snapdragon 835,4 × 2250, 4 × 1900 MHz
GP	Adreno 540
RAM / ROM	4 GB / 64 GB
mobile connection	2G GSM, HSDPA
Data	LTE cat.15, 3G, 4G
Memory cards	Separate slot, up to 256 GB
Screen	TriLuminous TFT 4.6 ”, HD 1280 × 720, 319 ppi, Gorilla Glass 5
Cameras	Wide-angle front 8Mp, 19Mp main, autofocus (phase, laser), colorimeter, flash, SlowMotion support
Sensors	Dactyloscopic, approximation, barometer, light intensity, magnetic body, acceleration, position
Wireless interfaces	NFC, WiFi dualband, Bluetooth 5 (dual device support)
Battery	2700 mAh

The model has dimensions of 129x64x9.3 mm, weighs 140 g, is available in four color options.

Sony Xperia xz1 Compact

Design and ergonomics

Smartphone Sony Xperia xz1 Compact has a particularly simple, utilitarian look. But despite its unsightly appearance, it is a true flagship with a modern processor platform and carefully balanced power consumption. There are in the shape of the model features inherent in all products of Sony. This is the location of the camera, and the design of the front panel. He has become familiar to the series of Experimental arrangement of interfaces and control elements. Placed on the edges:

• Slightly above the middle right, power management and volume rocker.

• almost at the bottom - the camera activation button;
• Left top of the SIM tray and slot for installing SD.

It is worth noting that the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact has acquired a fingerprint scanner, but its position is somewhat unexpected. Fingerprint scanner has become a power management button. It is recessed, which allowed to get rid of the errors of pressing the volume rocker. The sensor response rate is high, as is the identification confidence. Prints are recognized even when touching with wet fingersthat is important for the device protected from water and dust.

On the front panelIn the upper line there is a speaker, a camera’s eye, a sensor unit (approximation, lighting), an indicator of missed events. On the bottom line below the display is another speaker grille. When playing music, both loudspeakers work as a pair, directing the sound to the owner. Thanks to this approach, we managed to get rid of the speaker arrays in the lower face. The Sony Xperia xz1 Compact here has only a modern USB Type C connection interface and a microphone hole. Just looks like the upper bound. There is a jack under 3.5 mm minijack and a small hole for the microphone noise reduction system.

Rear panel looks expected. Here is the eye of the main camera in the upper left corner, on the same level with it to the right to the middle of the sensor block in the composition of the laser distance meter, color correction colorimeter, flash LED.Practically in the geometric center, in the radio-transparent zone, the name of the Xperia series is applied. A bit higher is the logo showing the location of the sensor's NFC antenna.

Smartphone Sony Xperia xz1 Compact is not familiar to modern devices frame case. It has a U-shaped back cover made of fiberglass reinforced plastic, which wings on the display. Top and bottom of the steel strip on the ends. Such an appearance is at least distinctive and uniquely makes the model recognizable.

Sony Xperia xz1 Compact smartphone is offered in four colors. Utilitarian black, white silver - classic options. Horizon Blue, Twilight Ping offers are targeted at young people.

Housing protection

We should also make a review of the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact in the context of the stated protection from moisture and dust. Despite the fact that most of the interfaces, slots and sockets are closed with plugs, this is not done for the 3.5 mm minijack and USB Type C. We can hope that these are new versions of ports, water-indifferent and tight.But what about the microphone holes, which are also not closed?

The manufacturer has left a loophole. The documentation provides the IP55 / 58 protection standard, but it is clearly stated that it is not recommended to immerse the phone under water or place it under a continuous stream of liquid. So fans of extreme entertainment will have to leave the phone, at least on the shore. Photographing the beauty of the underwater world also fail.

Screen

Matrix display Sony Xperia xz1 Compact can be called large for a device of this format. Here is 4.6 inches TriLuminous TFT, Sony proprietary technology. According to experts, the location and orientation of the pixels rather indicates the type of matrix AVS. However, they note that the corporation was able to cope with almost all the diseases of this type of display. Screen Sony Xperia xz1 Compact is a high-quality matrix with a density of 319 pixels per inch and a resolution of 1280x720 pixels HD. It is simply impossible to distinguish small details and individual points on the eyes, the picture on the display looks great.

The total color coverage of the matrix is ​​139% of the sRGB space. There is a mode "Standard" with the most authentic display of colors.There are also Super-vivid, for lovers of saturation and sharpness. Present expected adjustments:

• color temperature, including fine adjustment;
• per channel color settings;
• manual brightness setting;
• adaptive adjustment of the parameters of the backlight.

The last option is to stay in more detail. The price for the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact seems to hint that the model should provide comfort in all conditions. And indeed it is. Adjustment (change of the backlight) works quickly and fairly predictably. The maximum illumination is 529 cd per square meter for confident recognition of information in the sun. The display brightness in total darkness is much lower than it was in the predecessor models. \

Important! Another set of options significantly improves the ergonomics and usability of the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact. The backlight control system will not let the screen go out when the smartphone is in hand. Other settings allow you to confidently manipulate the phone in gloves, which will definitely be appreciated during the cold season.

Hardware platform

A small screen and a powerful bundle of main and graphics processors - this is what allows the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact to show impressive results insynthetic and field tests. The heart of the system is the Snapdragon 835 CPU, whose eight cores work in a balanced way. Here, the four Kryo 280 operates at a stable frequency of 1.9 GHz, and the rest can be accelerated with performance requirements up to 2.45 GHz.

The modern GP Adreno 540 with an operating frequency of 710 MHz is responsible for drawing the graphics. Having onboard 4 GB of the RAM (64 bits), hardware platform shows excellent performance. None of the modern games launched by users showed any problems on the maximum graphics quality settings. Tested popular tanks, extreme asphalt, Injustice 2 and others.

The phone was also tested for performance overheating. After 20 minutes, 100% stress test - an indicator of reduction reached only 10%. At the same time, the case material showed itself from the best side. Fiberglass during the readings of the battery temperature sensors at 50 degrees evenly dissipated heat and allowed hold the smartphone in your hand without discomfort.

Autonomy

Only the characteristics of the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact in bare figures make you believe that the phone cannot demonstrate battery life records.The practice struck even those who are well acquainted with other users of the brand. With an average time of display activity, work without restrictions (communication, Internet, mobile and wireless, constantly running messengers), the device works for 2 days. This is an excellent result, given the relatively modest battery capacity of 2700 mAh.

Other measured time intervals in different modes of operation looks like this:

• HD video from internal storage; communication modules are disabled - up to 8 hours;
• browser, 100% display brightness, Wi-Fi - up to 5.5 hours;
• games, maximum brightness and volume - up to 9.5 hours.

The complete surprise is the game mode indicators. This confirms that the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact platform has huge performance reserves.

Important! Supports fast battery charging. Normal memory can recover 100% capacity in 165 minutes. Complete adapter copes with this task in 75 minutes.

Cameras

The Sony Xperia xz1 Compact main camera is a MotionEye system with its own memory and reduced physical pixel size. Thanks to this engineering solution, you can take high-quality images at any level of lighting and take 960 frames per second to create slow motion video.

The main camera has 19 megapixel active pixels. Various convenient modes are supported:

• Predictive shooting, buffering in recognizing a smile or determining movement in a frame;
• tracking focus allows you to track a moving object to photograph it with the highest quality;
• You can reassign the camera control functionality from the standard hardware button, for example, to the volume rocker;
• fast start is supported.

The quality of the images is difficult to make any claims. Camera thanks to the rangefinder and colorimeter draws out almost any scene. For example:

• just great pictures are obtained at night, with the correct dynamic range and good detail even in unlit areas;
• the smallest shades are transferred when photographing objects from transparent glass;
• details are different even in pictures taken in the dark with one or two remote sources of light;
• on the frames taken in the snowfall, individual snowflakes and flakes are quite distinguishable, do not affect the level of sharpness and detail of the distant plan.

Enumerate the capabilities of the main camera Sony Xperia xz1 Compact can be a long time. She can write 4K video, do super detailed SlowMotion with no performance issues and more. Compared with the flagship series, the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact has a worse front camera. It has only 8Mp. However, this did not affect its convenience. You can make high-quality selfies with all the possibilities of applying effects, or take photographs of objects or the view from the window.

Buy or not

People who are not inconvenienced due to a few small screens are definitely worth buying the Sony Xperia xz1 Compact. It is attractive for a variety of reasons. However, the main one is the ability to be functionally fit for a very long time. The model has a huge performance margin, an excellent main camera, a good amount of RAM, ROM, support for memory cards up to 256 GB. And while the phone does not force to monitor the battery, showing an excellent level of autonomy.

Sony Xperia xz1 Compact