Sony’s flagship Android smartphone, the Xperia Z Ultra was unveiled last month and very recently it was made available for pre-booking in Hong Kong. Now the Sony Xperia Z Ultra has been listed on an online shopping portal – Saholic. Though it has not revealed the availability details, according to reports it would be made available by the end of this month, i.e. July 31.
Though price of the handset in India has not been announced yet, but since it has been priced at HK$ 6,198 or Rs 50,000 in Hong Kong, we expect to cost around the same in the sub-continent as well.
The Sony Xperia Z Ultra has a slim profile that is waterproof as well. The device comes with a 6.4 inch display with full HD Triluminos technology based display that claims to provide better visuals. The phone is powered by a 2.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. Even with such large display and a powerful hardware, the phone is just 6.5mm thick and weighs 212 grams. The construction of the phone uses aluminum chassis instead of a plastic one in Xperia Z for durability.
Xperia Z Ultra is water and dust proof with Ingress Protection 55 and 58 certification which even allow the device to shoot videos and images underwater. Its 8 Megapixel camera at the back features “Exmor RS for mobile”, HDR for both photos and film, while Superior Auto mode automatically activates HDR and noise reduction when needed.
Sony Xperia Z Ultra comes with handwriting recognition which is compatible with any pencil and selected stylus or pen (capacitive stylus or metal pen with tip diameter over 1mm).
The phone has connectivity options like NFC, LTE, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio with RDS.