Introduced to the world at the Mobile World Congress 2018, Sony impressed us with a new model that included a renewed and elegant design, after a long time without noticeable changes.
Sony presents its Xperia XZ2 which is presented with a 5.7-inch screen that adds to the trend of screens 18: 9 and some images reduced in size.
The team runs Android 8.0 Oreo as the operating system responsible for controlling its eight-core processor and 4GB of RAM. In the cameras section, we will find a single main sensor of 19 megapixels and a front of 5 MP
We have a lot to say about this new Sony Xperia XZ2 that we tested this time thanks to the kindness of Sony Mobile Chile that us
TECHNICAL DETAILS OF PROVEN UNIT
MANUFACTURER, MODEL AND DATA OF THE REVIEW
– Sony – Xperia XZ2 – H8216 – Initial condition: Test unit – Author: Jonathan Munizaga – Team Photos: Jonathan Munizaga – Trial Period: June 22 – June 26
– 5.7-inch IPS LCD Screen with Full HD + 1080 × 2160 resolution, 18: 9 aspect – 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Processor – Memory 4GB RAM and 64GB Internal Storage Expandable with MicroSD – Adreno 630 Graphics Processor – Stereo Speaker with Dynamic Vibration System – Bluetooth 5.0 – GPS, AGPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO – USB Type-C – Rear Fingerprint Reader – 19 MP camera with f / 2.0 aperture, laser focus, LED flash, 4K video 30fps with HDR. – 5 MP front camera with f / 2.2 aperture, electronic stabilization and 30fps Full HD video – Android 8.0 Oreo operating system – 3,180 mAh battery
CAMERAS
Our protagonist did not want to be part of the trend of having more than one camera, we are just in contraremos with a 19 megapixel main sensor with an aperture of f / 2.0, which features the focus laser-guided, electronic stabilization and an LED flash
While on the front we will find a solitary sensor of 5 megapixels that has an aperture f / 2.2 and an electronic stabilization.
PHOTO QUALITY
Obviously, that's what you expect the most from a review, so I leave you here with the photos that were captured with our Xperia XZ2 in different lighting conditions, with its settings in automatic and all unmodified, as it came from the factory.
VIDEO QUALITY
The XZ2 has the ability to record videos in 4K quality up to 30 frames per second and has two features that no other smartphone has up to Now: The ability to record videos in 4K with HDR and videos in super slow motion at 960 frames per second in Full HD. 19659003] For the same reason I leave you with two test videos, one in 4K with HDR and finally one in super slow motion.
4K HDR Video
Super Slow Motion Video 960fps Full HD
CAMERA INTERFACE
Here, I will show you in video a demonstration of the interface that you will see when activating the Xperia XZ2 camera, as well that I am going to show you some of its functions:
CONCLUSION : The photographic quality with good light conditions is quite good. However, the thing changes in the night photos. It's not that the quality is bad, on the contrary, they have very little light, but you have to have a very good pulse so that they do not scramble. In the night test photos, you saw that some of them come out very well, but others have fuzzy objects, and this needs to improve. The quality of the videos for my taste is good, although when recording in 4K with HDR, the videos have a low frame rate per second, I do not know if it's a software bug or it's a problem. is really the function.
MULTIMEDIA [19659002] Starting with the screen, I tell you that we will find an IPS LCD that reaches 5.7 inches and has a Full HD resolution of 1080 × 2160 pixels, that is because the screen has an 18: 9 aspect. It is also compatible with HDR10 content and has proprietary Sony technologies such as Triluminos Display and X-Reality Engine.
The quality of the image offered by this screen is very good, as Sony is used to it. We will see very bright colors and the level of brightness that it reaches is quite high. Its definition is also pretty good, in fact in this section I can not criticize anything because I did not find anything wrong.
Now, in the case of wanting to further improve the quality of the image, in the screen menu, we can change the range and contrast of colors, as well as the white balance. It also has intelligent light control, changes the size of the screen and the letter, activates the Ambient screen or the glove mode, among other options.
AUDIO
As one might expect from a high-end Sony, the Xperia XZ2 incorporates two front stereo speakers and the truth is that they sound good. Not as good a quality as we can find today with the Samsung Galaxy S9 or the iPhone with stereo speakers, since their bbad and treble are normal, are not infamous.
That's not to say that they're bad, on the contrary it's a very acceptable sound quality, but personally, I'm expecting something better. In terms of volume, they sound loud enough and without saturating the audio when we reach the maximum volume.
I'd like to be able to talk to you about the quality of audio in wired headsets, but unfortunately the equipment It has a 3.5mm jack, and Sony Mobile Chile m sent the device without a headset, nor a 3.5mm USB-C type adapter to test my own headphones, so it was impossible to test the audio this way. 19659003] On the other hand, I could try some Bluetooth headphones and the sound quality was excellent, although everything depends on the type of Bluetooh headphones you use.
If you want to listen to your own music collection, I will tell you Xperia XZ2 has its own player and its interface is very acceptable and easy to use, with many options available and compatible with high-resolution audio (Hi -Res).
r supports high-resolution audio files that support 24-bit / 192 kHz quality as long as you use compatible headphones. You can also create and manage playlists, and have repeat and random play options.
We also have various audio effects to improve sound quality, like DSEE HX which restores high-end sound to improve the sound quality of your compressed files and brings them closer to high resolution. We also have the clbadic ClearAudio +, an audio optimizer and a five-band equalizer with up to 9 pre-equalized profiles
Finally, I mention that the equipment incorporates for the first time a vibration system haptic and works by reflecting the bbad of an audio source This function is called Dynamic Vibration System.
Whenever the unit plays a sound from any source, you can also turn this function on or off when you increase the volume,
the same way as if you had your hand on a subwoofer – for example – if you are listening to music, the haptic vibrator will work at the rhythm of the bbad as if it were a real subwoofer , and the same thing happens when you play or watch a movie
Haptic Vibrator.
The effect is quite well done and it turns out very eye-catching. I only hope that the haptic vibrator that it integrates does not end up failing after so much use that it can be given taking advantage of multimedia content. Whatever it is, you can disable this feature and it does not remain active when the computer is blocked, but if you leave the application that produces audio in the background for that you are running another application.
CONCLUSION : Very good quality of the screen, good sound quality, I expected a little more stereo speakers, very striking the system of Dynamic vibration that goes to the rhythm of the bbad, and we appreciate that it brings a complete music player and compatible with Hi-Res.
SYSTEM
The Sony Xperia XZ2 comes from the factory with Android 8.0 Oreo, while its security patch is updated to June 2018, and is in the list to receive Android 9.0 if available.
Lately the Sony manufacturer has tried not to customize its interface on their computers Xperia with Android recently. I would venture to say that there is 65% of the original Android interface, obviously, it still takes a lot to be an Android Pure, but at least, it is safe. ; endeavors.
Personally, I like Sony's proprietary interface because it's attractive, modern and very well optimized. The performance of the equipment is perfect, it is very fast and obviously the offset does not exist here.
The XZ2 is a high-end equipment, so with it you can do anything you want, to run a game that requires a lot of graphics power, to run a simple application of a social network. In everything you do, the team will respond very quickly.
Regarding the proprietary functions, the one that stands out the most is the 3D Creator, with which one can capture objects and heads in 3D, and even if you have a 3D printer, you can l & # 39; print or share it on social networks
From this and much more, my work partner Eduardo Pérez tells you in this special video:
Regarding safety, the Xperia XZ2 offers us a fingerprint reader on the back of the computer, leaving for the first time the fingerprint readers located on the right side of the computer that we used to see on previous Xperia models. Although the XZ2's fingerprint reader works well, I can not help but comment that when I started using this equipment as if it were mine, I'm I had trouble getting acquainted with the reader's location. Many times you put your finger on the lens of the main camera
Fortunately, it happened to me the first two days, since I got used to it and that I 'm getting used to it. I put my fingerprint in the place where it belonged
DEMONSTRATION
Then I leave you with a video where you can not only enjoy the team in a physical way, you can also appreciate how his performance is and part of his operating system so that you can know him in more detail.
CONCLUSION : The team has a performance according to its range, that is to say that it virtually flies its operating system, there is no lag, it brings customization that I personally like and it's very well optimized. However, I think it should already work with Android 8.1 pending for Android 9.0
BATTERY
In this section, the Xperia XZ2 battery has a capacity of 3,180 mAh. It seems little, but the equipment is sufficiently optimized to be able to offer a great autonomy.
We tested the equipment with a pair of applications that the majority uses. WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, a music player like Deezer, Instagram … among others.
We had the brightness always in automatic mode, we use the Wi-Fi network and connect 4G + repeatedly, so we had access to the GPS and a watch Huawei 2 paired and operated.
With all that is said above, the team gave me an autonomy of 1 day with almost 10 hours, and 6 hours with 30 minutes of screen, so L & # 39; computer behaves very well and will make you forget the charger for a while
Now, if you want to save more energy, you have STAMINA options to have more autonomy . In addition, the equipment is equipped with a battery maintenance system that controls the speed at which the device is loaded according to the habit that you charge.
DESIGN
The Sony Xperia XZ2 is the first to release a new design after several years of using identical designs and it was something that many were asking . In this team we will see much thinner frames thanks to the incorporation of his 18: 9 screen.
Where else we will notice differences in his back, since now we let's see his main camera located in this Part of the team, right in the center, like your fingerprint reader, also the central part excels in its design, causing a small hump that integrates it perfectly in the palm of your hand, improving grip and even more comfort.
At least for me, the team did not find it big or small, it has a normal size that will easily adapt to any one . What I found is that it is heavy, it is not light. Its dimensions are: 153 x 72 x 11.1 mm, and its weight reaches almost 200 grams (198 grams in reality).
The equipment is entirely glbad which has the protection of Corning Gorilla Glbad 5, while its edges are aluminum. The most likely thing is that you think the team is full of fingerprints when you have glbad materials, because I thought the same thing. However, traces are reduced in most of the time. It was something that was asking a lot of Sony's previous designs, and now the manufacturer has solved it.
CONCLUSION AND AVAILABILITY
Our protagonist arrives on the mobile market as a solution to several of the criticisms that have been made to Sony Xperia teams. He was criticized because they had been using the same design for a long time now they have changed it. They criticized that the screen frames were too thick, now they are thinner … not like we really expected, but they did it.
The XZ2 is a very complete smartphone, but it's for me in a subject that is super important: the multimedia section. I think Sony here knows how to please us very well because it offers everything from an 18: 9 screen with excellent picture quality and compatible with HDR10, to stereo speakers with haptic vibration, sound effects that will further enhance the audio, video recording in 4K with HDR, good battery life, is compatible with all kinds of connectivity, you can easily connect a DUALSHOCK 4 PlayStation 4 control … etc. , are details that the rest of the manufacturers often forget.
Yes, it is an expensive device … but not one of the most expensive. However, I think its price is worth it because it's a smartphone where you will find the latest mobile market, the most powerful and recent processor, a good camera, a good screen, a stylish design, a good autonomy, all kinds of connectivity and compatible with all mobile networks of our country, in addition to offering functions up to here exclusive, such as 4K video recording with HDR, super slow motion video in Full HD quality and dynamic vibration system.
No. 1 is that it has a HDR10 screen, this allows you not only to see videos with HDR from Netflix and YouTube, you can also see the videos recorded by the HDR team, c & rsquo; Is something that little upscale equipment can offer, but the Xperia XZ2 does. This is a team that I totally recommend, it will appeal to Sony Xperia fans, those who are looking for a high-end truth, those who go on Android for the first time … etc, but especially those who seek where to see their multimedia content in the best way.
Where can I find it? In Sony Store stores, as well as in the main retail and operators in the country. The Xperia XZ2 has a value of $ 599,990 CLP.
