Sony Xperia Z1 Compact review with Advantages & Disadvantages

Sony is the first to deliver a smartphone, which wouldn't let size get in the way of performance or screen quality. It's no accident that it's a compact rather than a mini - the Snapdragon 800-powered beast would be ashamed to share a name with the upper-midrange (at best) wannabes of the competition.

 

We've had this for two years now - Android flagships growing in size faster than the US national debt, leaving those in search of a premium phone that doesn't need its own seat on the bus with an increasingly tougher puzzle to crack. You could either defect to iOS at the cost of a two or three month's worth of rent or live with a chipset and screen that are at least a year old.

 

Sony Xperia Z1 Compact Advantages:

    => Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support; 3G with 42Mbps HSPA; 150Mbps LTE
    =>  4.3" 16M-color 720p capacitive touchscreen Triluminos display (342pixel density 

    => X-Reality engine; shatter proof and scratch-resistant glass
    => Android OS v4.3 Jelly Bean with custom UI
  => Quad-core 2.26 GHz Krait 400 CPU, 2 GB RAM, Adreno 330 GPU; Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset
   => 20.7MP autofocus camera with a 1/2.3" Exmor RS sensor and F/2.0 Sony G Lens; Info-eye, AR effects
   => 1080p video recording @ 30fps, continuous autofocus and stereo sound; live video streaming to Facebook
   => 2MP front-facing camera, 1080p video recording
   => IP58 certification, dust- and waterproof
   => Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA; Wireless TV-out
   => GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS
   => 16GB of built-in storage; microSD card slot
   => MHL-enabled microUSB port
   => Bluetooth v4.0
   => NFC & ANT+ support
   => FM radio with RDS
   => Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
   => Accelerometer and proximity sensor
   => Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
   => 2,300mAh Li-Ion battery

Sony Xperia Z1 Compact Disadvantages:

 =>  Weak LED flash
 =>  Non-user-replaceable battery
 =>  Below average loudspeaker performance (probably due to level of waterproofing)