The Xperia Z5, A Review: A Deeper Look at Sony's Latest Offering

As I held the phone in my hand, I couldn't help but notice its sleek design and premium feel. The device is made of high-quality materials, with a durable glass back that gives it a solid weight to it. However, despite its impressive build quality, there are some aspects of the device that left me feeling underwhelmed.

One of the most notable features of the Xperia Z5 is its camera capabilities. On the front, you'll find a 13 megapixel camera, which Sony claims is one of their "low light sensors." While I couldn't test this feature thoroughly due to the unavailability of finalized software, the camera's performance was impressive, and it was able to capture crisp images even in low-light conditions. However, I did notice that the camera struggled to keep up with fast-moving subjects, which is a common issue with many smartphones.

The phone also boasts a fast autofocus system, which Sony claims can track moving objects at speeds of over 1,000 pixels per second. While I was able to test this feature on one of my test units, it didn't quite live up to its full potential due to the software not being finalized. However, when I saw it work in person, it was indeed impressive, and I was able to capture sharp images of fast-moving subjects.

The camera also features Sony's "Predictive Hybrid Autofocus," which allows it to track moving objects with ease. This feature is particularly useful for capturing videos, as it can keep up with even the most dynamic subjects. The camera app itself is also very intuitive, with a simple interface that makes it easy to navigate and access various settings.

One of the biggest surprises of the Xperia Z5 was its performance. Despite being built on an older processor, the phone feels incredibly responsive and snappy. The operating system is Android Marshmallow, which is a solid choice for those looking for a modern and feature-rich experience. However, it's worth noting that this phone does not have 4K video recording capabilities, which may be a disappointment for some users.

The phone also features stereo speakers at the bottom, which provide excellent sound quality for an Android device. The receiver and proximity sensor are also well-implemented, allowing for seamless audio playback and accurate proximity sensing. However, the lack of a front-facing LED flash is a bit surprising, especially given the phone's high-quality camera.

In terms of storage, the Xperia Z5 comes with 32 gigabytes of internal storage, which may be a bit limited for some users. However, the phone also has expandable storage options via microSD cards, so you can add more storage as needed. The phone's battery is also impressive, with a 2,700mAh power cell that Sony claims will provide all-day battery life.

Overall, the Xperia Z5 is a solid device that offers many of the features and capabilities that fans of Sony's flagship devices have come to expect. While it may not be perfect, its strengths make up for some of its weaknesses, and it's definitely worth considering for those in the market for a high-end Android smartphone.

One feature that stands out as particularly impressive is Sony's "Steady Shot" technology, which provides intelligent active image stabilization. This feature works incredibly well, even on shaky video footage, and provides a smooth and stable viewing experience. The phone also features a cool feature called "Predictive Hybrid Autofocus," which allows it to track moving objects with ease.

Turning the phone on reveals a clean and intuitive interface that is reminiscent of previous Sony devices. The Android Marshmallow operating system provides a solid foundation for the device, and the phone feels very responsive and snappy in use. However, I couldn't help but notice that some of the features and capabilities seem to be similar to those found in older Sony devices.

Another feature that caught my attention is the phone's camera app. The app itself is very intuitive, with a simple interface that makes it easy to navigate and access various settings. The camera also features "Predictive Hybrid Autofocus," which allows it to track moving objects with ease. While I couldn't test this feature thoroughly due to the unavailability of finalized software, it seemed to work well in person.

One thing that did strike me as a bit odd is the phone's design. Despite being marketed as a premium device, the phone doesn't feel particularly new or innovative. The design is similar to previous Sony devices, and I couldn't help but wonder if this was simply a rehashing of old ideas rather than something entirely new.

Overall, the Xperia Z5 is a solid device that offers many of the features and capabilities that fans of Sony's flagship devices have come to expect. While it may not be perfect, its strengths make up for some of its weaknesses, and it's definitely worth considering for those in the market for a high-end Android smartphone.

As I continued to explore the phone, I couldn't help but feel that there was something missing. The device didn't seem particularly innovative or groundbreaking, and some of its features felt like they had been seen before. However, despite these reservations, the Xperia Z5 is still a solid choice for those looking for a high-end Android smartphone.

The phone also comes with a 2,700mAh power cell, which Sony claims will provide all-day battery life. While I didn't have a chance to extensively test this claim, the phone did seem to hold up well over several hours of use. However, I couldn't help but wonder if there was more that could be done in terms of power efficiency.

In conclusion, the Xperia Z5 is a solid device that offers many of the features and capabilities that fans of Sony's flagship devices have come to expect. While it may not be perfect, its strengths make up for some of its weaknesses, and it's definitely worth considering for those in the market for a high-end Android smartphone.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and I just wanted to take a small look at the xperia x performance give some my thoughts about it so along with this we see release to the xperia x and also the Xperia x8 the Xperia X is low respect than this and then you have the XA which is even lower Spector is only a 720p display so this is the highest endure the performance the Snapdragon 820 SOC is inside of this the first thing that I wanted to point out right here is that this is a press unit so the firmware on here is not final and also I wasn't able to install some applications on it such as some benchmarking applications they just don't want you to do that right now and supposedly this has a fingerprint sensor but when I go underneath the settings for lockscreen and security I'm not seeing that option here although on the floor I did see it having that option although I wasn't able to test it so I found the on booth where there is a Sony Xperia X and I can test out the fingerprint sensor over here so I'm happy to report that it seems to work pretty well so maybe they've improved it since the Xperia z5 because fingerprint sensor was a train wreck on the Xperia z5 so that's that's nice so we're just gonna look at this a little bit the thing is that this device really confuses me just like it's confusing everyone else I don't know what this is supposed to be is this supposed to be a replacement line to the Z series it just feels like a very repackaged z5 to me the z5 had the Snapdragon 810 inside of this this has the 820 so arguably we might have better performance with this but because I can't really test benchmarks due to not being able to install anything I can't really say much but we can at least look around it a little bit here we have a galaxy s6 you can see for size-wise it is a really nice size we've got a 5 inch IPS display on this this has a 1080p display I really wish that they would have bumped the specs up to quad-hd but if I've inches what if she really isn't needed anyway this already has a PPI of 441 pixels per inch so it looks really nice and sharp as it is one thing I was specifically asking for from Sony was to get rid of the glass back and they finally did the rest of the design the phone looks fairly similar to me we got this nice aluminum backing here it's got that nice matte finish over this color it's quite confusing they call this lime gold it almost looks like a pea green although in this lighting I can't really tell but there are some more nice colors there's kind of cos salmon pinkish there's a black one and a white one this does feel really nice in the hand those edges are very nice and rounded you have a micro USB charging port here and a microphone on the bottom then on the left-hand side you have your SD card slot and you also have your SIM card slot on the right hand side is the dedicated camera execution key you have the volume rocker you have your power button and also it has a fingerprint sensor top is a standard headphone jack and also another microphone now on the back we have a 23 megapixel camera F 2.0 aperture lens now I believe I have not been able to see any 4k recording mode so this doesn't seem to be able to record in 4k although you can't record 1080p at 60 frames per second you have a single LED flash really not sure why there is no 4k 4k no 4k well the Xperia z5 had some overheating issues of 4k anyway on the front here is a 13 megapixel camera that's nice to have a 13 megapixel camera on the front you have our receiver and proximity sensor ambient light sensor and here is another speaker at the bottom so it is stereo speaker also true to the Xperia 9 this is water-resistant ip68 certified so you've got dust proof and also can go down to 1.5 meters for a half hour so we have 32 gigabytes of internal storage for you gigabytes of RAM now turning this on we've got Android marshmallow on here so Android 6.0 taking a look around the interface standard Sony fair so like so it's a very nice and zippy phone very quick to respond phone so the biggest things really to note about this phone it's just really the appearance of it it's nice it's in and also you've got a cool feature underneath the camera it's called predictive hybrid autofocus so you can track moving objects you can track them in video and also when taking pictures as well I tried to go over and test this feature out on this unit but this is not finalized software so it didn't do so well but the units they had over there we're doing just fine with it they have little balls that are moving very very quickly and indeed it does its very best to track them another thing that sony says is that this is a very very fast to execute camera and to take a picture so 0.6 seconds they say so sony says that with quick startup lightning speed hybrid auto focused and faster image processing you can capture the most spontaneous moments so let's do that on add snap so is that in focus it looks a little bit soft how does it know what it's looking at anyway you can turn off the ability to snap the picture as soon as you touch this camera button so that you can do it yourself but just to execute it it's very very nice and fast it's kind of bugging out on me all right so you can see that it did catch that there in the background one more time let's go okay yes so is it trying to capture a couple of frames beforehand thank you so another cool thing that Sony talks about with this phone is that got the 13 megapixel camera on the front this is what they call one of their low light sensors so you've got a really high resolution camera on the front they can take pretty decent pictures in low lighting of course I can't tell this is probably one of the brightest environments possible but hey so really you've just got better cameras on this thing now looking at the camera settings just to prove to you that there is no 4k you can see that you don't see the port case sitting underneath here if you go underneath video you have options for video resolution including Full HD at 60 and 30 frames per second now you have that object tracking but you see that there there is no 4k well you do have there steady shot they're intelligent active image stabilization which works incredibly well I really have to give Sony props for that otherwise this really looks like an experienced z5 same standard fare very similar interface it's not too much to show here because of that I am happy to see that this is performing nice and smoothly on the Xperia z5 I had the premium to test the camera software was really pretty sluggish right now it seems to be alright it seems to be pretty quick to me so we'll have to see how that holds up over time so part did my confusion but I'd be curious to hear what you guys think about this device I think that it certainly looks nice not this color anyway but I think that the look of the device certainly looks nice wish that I had more to test out for you guys you can go underneath to Buicks take a look at some things because we couldn't get su puz on here that's one of the blocked applications so indeed reading marshmallow four gigabytes of RAM you've got 20 point to one gigabytes of internal storage that seemed to be available to the user you've got a two thousand seven hundred million power battery inside of this and sony says that this is supposed to get really good battery life so my thought is that it's cute I would like to see a more non prototype version of this though just let me know what you guys think this has been Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff things great comment and subscribe tell me what you think about this guy and well that's ithey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and I just wanted to take a small look at the xperia x performance give some my thoughts about it so along with this we see release to the xperia x and also the Xperia x8 the Xperia X is low respect than this and then you have the XA which is even lower Spector is only a 720p display so this is the highest endure the performance the Snapdragon 820 SOC is inside of this the first thing that I wanted to point out right here is that this is a press unit so the firmware on here is not final and also I wasn't able to install some applications on it such as some benchmarking applications they just don't want you to do that right now and supposedly this has a fingerprint sensor but when I go underneath the settings for lockscreen and security I'm not seeing that option here although on the floor I did see it having that option although I wasn't able to test it so I found the on booth where there is a Sony Xperia X and I can test out the fingerprint sensor over here so I'm happy to report that it seems to work pretty well so maybe they've improved it since the Xperia z5 because fingerprint sensor was a train wreck on the Xperia z5 so that's that's nice so we're just gonna look at this a little bit the thing is that this device really confuses me just like it's confusing everyone else I don't know what this is supposed to be is this supposed to be a replacement line to the Z series it just feels like a very repackaged z5 to me the z5 had the Snapdragon 810 inside of this this has the 820 so arguably we might have better performance with this but because I can't really test benchmarks due to not being able to install anything I can't really say much but we can at least look around it a little bit here we have a galaxy s6 you can see for size-wise it is a really nice size we've got a 5 inch IPS display on this this has a 1080p display I really wish that they would have bumped the specs up to quad-hd but if I've inches what if she really isn't needed anyway this already has a PPI of 441 pixels per inch so it looks really nice and sharp as it is one thing I was specifically asking for from Sony was to get rid of the glass back and they finally did the rest of the design the phone looks fairly similar to me we got this nice aluminum backing here it's got that nice matte finish over this color it's quite confusing they call this lime gold it almost looks like a pea green although in this lighting I can't really tell but there are some more nice colors there's kind of cos salmon pinkish there's a black one and a white one this does feel really nice in the hand those edges are very nice and rounded you have a micro USB charging port here and a microphone on the bottom then on the left-hand side you have your SD card slot and you also have your SIM card slot on the right hand side is the dedicated camera execution key you have the volume rocker you have your power button and also it has a fingerprint sensor top is a standard headphone jack and also another microphone now on the back we have a 23 megapixel camera F 2.0 aperture lens now I believe I have not been able to see any 4k recording mode so this doesn't seem to be able to record in 4k although you can't record 1080p at 60 frames per second you have a single LED flash really not sure why there is no 4k 4k no 4k well the Xperia z5 had some overheating issues of 4k anyway on the front here is a 13 megapixel camera that's nice to have a 13 megapixel camera on the front you have our receiver and proximity sensor ambient light sensor and here is another speaker at the bottom so it is stereo speaker also true to the Xperia 9 this is water-resistant ip68 certified so you've got dust proof and also can go down to 1.5 meters for a half hour so we have 32 gigabytes of internal storage for you gigabytes of RAM now turning this on we've got Android marshmallow on here so Android 6.0 taking a look around the interface standard Sony fair so like so it's a very nice and zippy phone very quick to respond phone so the biggest things really to note about this phone it's just really the appearance of it it's nice it's in and also you've got a cool feature underneath the camera it's called predictive hybrid autofocus so you can track moving objects you can track them in video and also when taking pictures as well I tried to go over and test this feature out on this unit but this is not finalized software so it didn't do so well but the units they had over there we're doing just fine with it they have little balls that are moving very very quickly and indeed it does its very best to track them another thing that sony says is that this is a very very fast to execute camera and to take a picture so 0.6 seconds they say so sony says that with quick startup lightning speed hybrid auto focused and faster image processing you can capture the most spontaneous moments so let's do that on add snap so is that in focus it looks a little bit soft how does it know what it's looking at anyway you can turn off the ability to snap the picture as soon as you touch this camera button so that you can do it yourself but just to execute it it's very very nice and fast it's kind of bugging out on me all right so you can see that it did catch that there in the background one more time let's go okay yes so is it trying to capture a couple of frames beforehand thank you so another cool thing that Sony talks about with this phone is that got the 13 megapixel camera on the front this is what they call one of their low light sensors so you've got a really high resolution camera on the front they can take pretty decent pictures in low lighting of course I can't tell this is probably one of the brightest environments possible but hey so really you've just got better cameras on this thing now looking at the camera settings just to prove to you that there is no 4k you can see that you don't see the port case sitting underneath here if you go underneath video you have options for video resolution including Full HD at 60 and 30 frames per second now you have that object tracking but you see that there there is no 4k well you do have there steady shot they're intelligent active image stabilization which works incredibly well I really have to give Sony props for that otherwise this really looks like an experienced z5 same standard fare very similar interface it's not too much to show here because of that I am happy to see that this is performing nice and smoothly on the Xperia z5 I had the premium to test the camera software was really pretty sluggish right now it seems to be alright it seems to be pretty quick to me so we'll have to see how that holds up over time so part did my confusion but I'd be curious to hear what you guys think about this device I think that it certainly looks nice not this color anyway but I think that the look of the device certainly looks nice wish that I had more to test out for you guys you can go underneath to Buicks take a look at some things because we couldn't get su puz on here that's one of the blocked applications so indeed reading marshmallow four gigabytes of RAM you've got 20 point to one gigabytes of internal storage that seemed to be available to the user you've got a two thousand seven hundred million power battery inside of this and sony says that this is supposed to get really good battery life so my thought is that it's cute I would like to see a more non prototype version of this though just let me know what you guys think this has been Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff things great comment and subscribe tell me what you think about this guy and well that's it\n"