S VEGAS—Sony has had a tough time turning its Xperia br into a household name, but it continues to press on with hset releases in the hopes that something will stick.
The company announced during its CES press event the newest addition to the Xperia line: the Xperia Z1S. The Z1S, which runs Android 4.3 (lly Bean), is the first fully waterproof phone that Sony has made available in the U.S. The phone is powered by a quad-core 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, features 2GB of RAM a 3,000mAh battery pack. It ships with 32GB of storage a microSD expansion slot, features a 5-inch full HD Triluminos display. The hset’s chassis is dust resistant as well.
Sony is heavily touting the quality of the Xperia Z1S’s camera. The phone comes with a rear-facing 20.7-megapeixel Sony G ns, which utilizes the company’s own proprietary mobile image processing engine. The phone also comes pre-loaded with Sony’s new Xperia Camera Apps, which lets you add Augmented Reality effects to photos, shoot in a timeshift burst mode (in which the camera can take 61 photos in two seconds), or shoot with a defocused background for a tilt-shift effect. The company has also added a physical camera button on the phone so that you can press it to quickly take photos video, even underwater.
Gamers can also use the Xperia Z1S as a remote control, or purchase ayStation Store game content using the device download it directly to the 3, 4, or ayStation Vita. The Z1S even supports the DualShock 3 wireless control for console-like gameplay with ayStation Mobile games.
If this all sounds right up your alley, you can pre-order the Xperia Z1S online beginning nuary 13 at the T-Mobile website. The hset officially goes on sale nuary 22.
