On January 6, Sony unveiled in Las Vegas its latest smartphone Xperia Z1 Compact. The next day we had the opportunity to see the new model live, while the Polish launch in Warsaw. With the smartphone the company introduced a new category of devices: SmartWear Experience.
But let's start from what interests us most, so a phone. Xperia Z1 Compact is actually a smaller variation of already known Xperia Z1 - has similar capabilities and equipment, packaged in a more compact form. The phone was maintained at a known OmniBalance design, the housing is still resistant to dust and water, but it will be offered in a wider range of colours. The 4.3-inch TRILUMINOS HD display uses - as we were told at the conference - IPS technology. Unfortunately, the official specification on the Sony site does not mention this...
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| Sony Xperia Z1 Compact photo: Adam Łukowski/GSMchoice.com |
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The heart of the phone is Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU clocked at 2.2 GHz with the access to 4G LTE network . Xperia Z1 Compact also features a 2,300 mAh battery, which - according to the manufacturer - offers exceptional battery performance in its class, despite its small size. In this model, there was introduced an enhanced feature Xperia Transfer Mobile, facilitating the transfer of personal data from other phones with Android and iOS via NFC or a special cable - adapter, included in the set. Therefore, when buying a new Xperia you will not need to use additional applications and a computer...
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| Sony Xperia Z1 Compact photo: Adam Łukowski/GSMchoice.com |
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Sony also highlights the photographic possibilities of the new phone. Compact has a 20.7 - megapixel camera with 1/2.3-type CMOS image sensor Exmor RS for mobile and BIONZ image processor for Mobile. The camera is accompanied with the application package Xperia Camera Apps. With the new Xperia debuts PlayStation App, enabling cooperation with the PlayStation 4. The phone will be able to serve as an additional driver to the console (eg text keyboard), as well as a second screen in some games (for example: the preview of a map in platform games or races). Xperia Z1 Compact is to cost a lot less than 480 euro.
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| Sony Xperia Z1 Compact photo: Adam Łukowski/GSMchoice.com |
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Next year the company will offer us the range of SmartWear Experience products, associated with the Xperia smartphones and the new Lifelog app. The first product in this line is extremely flexible "SmartBand" which records all the daily activities of the user and shows them graphically in the Lifelog application: so we can get a record of our daily or monthly life cycle. With the concept of open source software and hardware, Sony establishes cooperation with new partners, so that consumers have even bigger choice. More information will be available in the coming weeks. In the range of products there also remain smart watches, including the current model SmartWatch 2, for which the number of dedicated applications has already exceeded 300.
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| Sony press conference photo: Adam Łukowski/GSMchoice.com |
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Source: GSMchoice.com
18.06.2026
