Sony officially announces Sony Xperia Z1 in India for Rs. 44,990, to go on sale in India starting today for Rs. 43,890

Sony India has officially launched the upgraded version of Sony Xperia Z in India. Dubbed as Sony Xperia Z1, the smartphone comes with awesome 20.7MP rear shooter. Sony has launched the smartphone in an on-going event in New Delhi. According to Sony, the smartphone will be available for purchase from today in all official Sony Centres. Sony Xperia Z1 comes in three colour options, Black, White and Purple.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

/ by Aman Banka

Sony India has officially launched the upgraded version of Sony Xperia Z in India. Dubbed as Sony Xperia Z1, the smartphone comes with awesome 20.7MP rear shooter. According to Sony, the smartphone will be available for purchase from today in all official Sony Centres. Sony Xperia Z1 comes in three colour options, Black, White and Purple.

Sony Xperia Z1

As we reported, Sony has launched Xperia Z1 in India for Rs. 44,990 and will be available in market for only Rs. 43,890. Sony has also launched few accessories along with the smartphone, we will talk about them in the next post. Xperia Z1 was originally announced this month at IFA 2013 in Berlin. 

Sony Xperia Z1
The smartphone comes with an impressive 5.0-inch Full HD TFT Triluminos OptiContrast X-Reality for Mobiles display with Quad-Core Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.2GHz, Adreno 330 GPU, 2GB RAM, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, and single aluminium frame with tempered glass on the front and back. Sony Xperia Z1 is 8.5mm thick and weighs only 170 grams. 

Other specifications include, 16GB internal storage with 64GB microSD card expansion, 3,000 mAh battery, 3G HSPA+, WiFi 820.11 a/b/g/n/ac, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0 with APT-X, GPS/GLONASS, MHL and NFC support.

Sony has also included a 1/2.3-inch 20.7MP Sony G lens Exmor RS rear sensor on Z1 with 8x digital zoom, dedicated camera shutter key, LED flash and mobile BIONZ image processing system along with 2MP Exmor R front facing camera. Both the cameras are capable of processing 1080p Full HD images and videos.

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The smartphone is water and dust resistant (IP55/IP58) and comes with range of camera applications including Social live - which helps broadcast the precious moment live on social media, Info-eye - which helps to gain information in an innovative way, Timeshift burst - captures 61 frames over 2 seconds before and after you press the shutter and AR effects.

As an introductory offer, Sony will provide unlimited streaming & download for 6 months from 1.5 million songs across genres (Sony Music), lifetime free streaming of popular programmes from Sony TV (Sony LIV), free 3 months premium service of Magisto Video Editor & Maker, 3 months of online streaming for free (BIG FLIX) and free Asphalt 7 game with 3 freemium games and 2 try and buy games.

Sony Xperia Z1

Sony is also giving away few freebies along with the smartphone — Premium Case worth Rs. 2,990, 5,000mAh Portable Charger worth Rs. 2,790 and Xperia Accidental Damage Cover (Protect Secure). Sony has also partnered with Vodafone to provide 8GB of free data to Xperia Z1 buyers for a duration of two months.

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