Sony Xperia ZL (C6502) [4/25] Product overview

White paper | Xperia™ ZL

4 January 2013

Product overview

Xperia™ ZL – Experience the best of Sony in a

smartphone

Say ‘so long’ to hum-drum and enter a bigger, brighter world. Xperia™ ZL sets a new standard of

excellence, with an ultra-bold screen and fully loaded with years of Sony engineering. The 5” 1080 x 1920

full HD screen, created with the expertise of BRAVIA® TV engineers, brings you images so sharp, you feel

like you’re really there. Running on Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, this smartphone helps you create the magic as

well – with an advanced 13 megapixel fast capture camera that excels in any light. The real magic? How

Sony designers and engineers came together to pack advanced smartphone technology into a phone that

fits in your pocket. The amazingly compact 5” smartphone, with a maximised display and a very high

screen to phone size ratio, Xperia™ ZL puts entertainment centre stage.

A screen as impressive as HDTV

Feel like you’re there with the razor sharp and super bright full HD screen. Xperia™ ZL brings you

entertainment that’s bigger and closer than ever. Expertise from our BRAVIA® TV engineers goes into our

mobile screens, to bring you the same quality you’d expect from a top quality HDTV.The 5” 1080 x 1920

full HD display has very high pixel density – 443 ppi—and superior brightness. That’s a lot of numbers that

add up to mean unbelievably crisp and seriously bright, even in sunlight. The Reality Display™ with Mobile

BRAVIA® Engine 2 uses the same contrast enhancement technology as the latest BRAVIA® TVs.

Immerse yourself in your favourite game, a chat with your best mate, or watch the latest flick. Time to go?

The OptiContrast™ panel makes the phone seamlessly, strikingly black when turned off.

Pushing the boundaries of design

Can you make the display bigger without increasing the phone size? Xperia™ ZL manages the design

impossible: a display size that’s second to none, in a phone that fits your pocket. When creating Xperia™

ZL, Sony’s engineers optimised components architecture and layout, to increase display size while

keeping the phone as small as possible. The result is an amazingly compact 5” smartphone, with a

maximised display and very high screen to phone size ratio. What stands out instead of a large frame?

Sharper, brighter entertainment that seems to overflow the phone in your hands.

Exmor RS™ for mobile – the world’s first image sensor with HDR video for

smartphones

Torch-lit tent. Backlit peak. Midday beach. Now, with Xperia™ ZL, you can capture ultra-sharp photos

and videos in any condition. Our smartphone camera modules use the same expertise and components

as leading Sony cameras. And thanks to Exmor RS™ for mobile with next generation BSI sensors, you

can take stunning shots in any light. With low-light capabilities on both front and back, Xperia™ ZL is the

world’s first dual Exmor R™ for mobile camera. So what if the sun is shining right behind your subject?

Xperia™ ZL, with HDR photos and HDR video, takes beautiful stills and movies in backlit conditions as

well.

More interested in the moment and not a pro with settings? Superior Auto mode automatically activates

HDR and noise reduction when they’re needed. Adopting the technology of luminance and colour noise

reduction allows us to realize detailed results with low noise in challenging lighting conditions, and

reproduces objects in more vivid colour. Your device is automatically optimised for 36 different scenes, so

you always get the best shot. You focus on your target, the camera does the thinking.