The article below will provide reviews and comparisons of the two high-end smartphone products Xperia Z3 and iPhone 6 that are making waves in the mobile phone market today to find out which is the best product.
Confrontation between two manufacturers phone The world’s leading mobile phones Sony and Apple always attract attention from technology lovers. “Eight ounces for some, half a pound for others”, the products produced by the two “giants” Sony and Apple all have their own outstanding strengths that bring certain advantages in the market. Rarely does Sony and Apple release two high-end phone products at the same time to avoid “making things difficult” for each other, unlike this time. It was like a mutual challenge from two arch-rivals. This has brought about very interesting developments in the smartphone market recently.
Compare Sony Xperia Z3 and Apple iPhone 6
Price
Apple smartphones often have quite high prices when sold on the market and iPhone 6 is a typical example. iPhone 6 16 GB has a selling price in the UK market of £539 (including VAT ~ VND 17.25 million). If you need to use higher memory capacity, users can choose the iPhone 6 64GB version for £619 (~19.8 million) or 128GB for £699 (~24.37 million). Representative of Sony Xperia Z3 16GB has a selling price of £549 (including VAT, equivalent to 17.57 million VND).
The prices of Xperia Z3 and iPhone 6 above are updated at the time of sale in the UK.
However, when consulting the prices of these two products on the leading price comparison website in Vietnam Websosanh.vn, the Xperia Z3 16GB costs about 11 million VND and the iPhone 6 16GB costs from 15 million VND.
Configuration
The Xperia Z3 is equipped with a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor clocked at 2.5GHz alongside 3GB RAM. The iPhone 6 uses a dual-core processor (Apple A8) clocked at 1.4 GHz and only 1GB of RAM.
In terms of the processor power of the two smartphones, it is obvious that the Xperia Z3 is superior to the iPhone 6. If you are a person with high needs for heavy tasks such as playing “heavy” games or multitasking, the Z3 is a better choice.
In terms of internal memory capacity, Apple iPhone 6 offers more options than Sony Xperia Z3. However, Apple is quite “conservative” in not supporting external memory cards because it believes that it will affect the performance and speed of the device. So if you want an iPhone 6 with higher memory capacity, users will have to spend a fair amount of money to pay for Apple’s “conservatism”. For its part, the Z3 has a memory card slot that supports up to 128GB to help users comfortably store data.
Both iPhone 6 and Xperia Z3 support 802.11ac high-speed Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and 4G LTE. They all use built-in batteries (Li-Ion 3100 mAh for Z3 and Li-Po 1810 mAh for iPhone 6). Even though it has a smaller battery capacity, because it uses a lower processor and RAM, the iPhone 6 also consumes less energy.
Display quality
iPhone 6 is equipped with a 4.7-inch LED-backlit IPS LCD screen, 750 x 1334 resolution, 326 ppi pixel density and the ability to display 16 million colors. All help deliver vivid, sharp images with excellent color reproduction.
Sony Xperia Z3 is equipped with a 5.2 inch IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 with a pixel density of 424 ppi and the ability to display up to 16 million colors. Sony also equips the Z3 with two of the best imaging technologies Triluminos and X-Reality to help enhance contrast. With display parameters, Xperia Z3 is difficult to compete with on the market today.
Both products have almost perfect display quality, but overall, the representative from Sony is still stronger than the iPhone 6.
Design
Xperia is a perfect combination of aluminum alloy and high quality tempered glass. The Z3 has a balanced appearance with gently rounded edges and a number of adjustment buttons on the side of the camera body. The product also has very good water and dust resistance when it can “survive” after 30 minutes of being “submerged” underwater. Xperia Z3 offers 4 color choices (black, white, bronze and silver blue). The device has dimensions of 7.3 x 72 x 146 mm (thickness x height x width) and weight of 152g compared to 138.1 x 67 x 6.9 mm and weight of only 129g of the iPhone.
In terms of overall design, we appreciate the iPhone for its compact, delicate and fragile size, but the Z3 has excellent water, dust and impact resistance. Which product to choose: fragile but “breakable” or heavier but highly durable? You decide for yourself.
The iPhone 6 has a built-in 8MP rear camera that can record Full HD 1080p (60 fps) or HD video. 720p (240 fps). In particular, the Xperia Z3 uses a main camera with a resolution of up to 20.7MP that can record very high quality videos at 2160p (30 fps), 1080p (60 fps) and 720p (120 fps). Xperia Z3 also has excellent light balance to help deliver sharp frames and true-to-life videos. Besides the main camera, both have a front camera (1.2MP on iPhone vs 2.2MP on Z3).
Software
Xperia Z3 (Android) vs iPhone 6 (iOS) is equivalent to the confrontation between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Which operating system is better? Perhaps this is a lame comparison that cannot have the most accurate answer. If you are an iOS fan, of course it is understandable to think that this operating system is the best and vice versa.
Conclusion
Xperia Z3 and iPhone 6 are two of the best smartphones today with extremely respectable strengths and the ability to serve users perfectly. Although the iPhone 6 is cheaper, the Xperia Z3 is superior to Apple’s representative in many aspects such as: display quality, durable design, strong performance and support for external storage expansion. Overall, perhaps the Sony Xperia Z3 smartphone will be the better choice.
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