---->Design and build
-->Sony Xperia Z1
The Z1 features some crucial yet minor differences as compared to the previous Z smartphone. The Z1 has the same glass front and back but now uses a two tone aluminium frame to join the two together. The Z1 is 8.5mm thick and weighs 169g. The Z1 comes with Sony’s clever 'OmniBalance' design that evenly spreads its weight across the whole smartphone so that it always feels 'in the hand.'
The phone is held together by a sturdy silver-coloured aluminium frame that adds to the phone's weight. Since the Z1 is water and dust resistant phone, all ports and slots are covered with fibreglass flaps to protect the phone. This means it can survive being fully submerged in more than 1m of water for more than 30 minutes.
-->Samsung Galaxy Note 3
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 looks a lot similar to the first-generation Note than the Note II, which was more curved. Essentially the Note 3 is plastic but on the back the company has given it a textured finish to make it look like leather and this also offers the much needed grip. The good part is that you can remove the plastic cover to access the Note 3's sizable 3,200mAh battery as well as the microSD slot which is cleverly stacked on top of the microSIM port.
But somehow, the company managed to make the Galaxy Note 3 slightly smaller than its predecessor, measuring 151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3 mm. Thanks to a more manageable weight (168g) the device is certainly the most manageable Note smartphone to date. .
--->Display
Sony Xperia Z1
The Z1 comes with a 5-inch, 1080p (441-ppi) LCD display that you are most likely to fall in love with. The display is enhanced by Sony's proprietary X-Reality Engine and is built on the OptiContrast design (it eliminates the air gap between the glass and the screen, which reduces glare).
With Z1, Sony also seeks to distinguish itself from both the competition and its predecessors. .
However, despite all this, the Z1’s display is a letdown as the smartphone is said to suffer from poor viewing angles and faded blacks, or amazing sharpness. The Xperia Z1’s screen looks fantastic when viewed head-on, but like so many Sony phones, tilting the device in any direction will quickly distort the colors.
Samsung Galaxy Note 3
The Galaxy Note 3 comes with a full-HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels packing 386 pixels per inch. Like Galaxy S4, the Galaxy Note 3 uses a PenTile ‘diamond’ display, which means that the sub-pixels are arranged into a diamond shape. It could be a problem with a smartphone with a lower-resolution screen, but but here the 386 ppi pixel density is high enough to make it a non-issue. This is a super-sharp screen despite being oversized.
Just like the Galaxy S4, Samsung offers the Note 3 with an Adapt Display, which optimises colours as per the ambient light conditions. You can choose between four manual modes (Dynamic, Standard, Professional Photo and Movie) and automatic modes if you select the Adapt Display option. The phone also offers the option to adjust the screen tone automatically to conserve battery power.
Overall, the Note 3’s display is best among the Note series. The screen renders clear and sharp text and images, along with vibrant colours. Browsing the web is also a pleasant experience. And as is the case with any good OLED-type screen, contrast and black levels are excellent in the Galaxy Note 3.
-->Camera
Sony Xperia Z1
The camera resolution in Z1 has improved from an already impressive 13 megapixels to an astounding 20.7 megapixels. The sensor size too has been increased to 1/2.3-inch, which is bigger than the sensors you'd typically find inside smartphones. The larger the sensor, the more light can be taken in, which should help give overall better clarity, particularly in lower-light scenarios. The Z1 uses a wide-angle (27mm) Sony G Lens camera with a bright F/2.0 aperture and a BIONZ image processor. The result: the Z1 produces excellent quality images.The Xperia Z1 images show "good overall exposure, excellent detail preservation outdoors, pleasant colors and low noise levels in all situations". The Z1 also performs well when using its flash. On the downside, the Z1 may produce slight color shading and excessive exposure times in low light under 20 lux (that causes motion blur). In video mode the Xperia Z1 also displays a good overall performance.
The Z1 can take some stunning close-up shots — and shoot in 20MP with enough lighting and you’ll capture an incredible amount of detail.
On the software end, the Xperia Z1 comes with lots of new features, including manual controls and social features like the ability to live-stream video to Facebook. The camera app lets you toggle the flash options (fill, auto, and red-eye reduction) on and off, and activate more advanced features like the smile-detection tool, burst mode, geotagging, and the auto-upload feature, with the latter wanting to dump copies of your pics to Sony's own PlayMemories Online cloud server. Sony has further added an Apps toggle to the camera, which houses the photo effect tools, manual mode, timeshift burst mode, panorama stitcher, its Info-eye augmented reality search tool and more.
While manual mode lets users select their own white balance options and choose from some present scenes when recording video, the augmented reality comedy features lets you add a variety of computer generated scenes pop up atop the image.
Galaxy Note 3
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has a 13-megapixel camera with a single-LED flash. Specs-wise it is similar to the Galaxy S4, with an f/2.2 lens and a 1/3.2-inch sensor, resulting in tiny sensor pixels of 1.1 microns. In testing, the camera can quickly focus and fire. It takes good outdoor shots but dark areas sometimes lack detail. In indoors, the focus was soft, and the noise was kept under control well. The front-facing camera takes bright selfies that are of decent quality. Samsung has cut the dedicated Night mode out of the Note 3. Instead, it relies simply on the Auto mode for low-light shots. The Note 3 also performs better than the S4 in creating depth of field effects.
The Note 3 is very similar in use to that of the Galaxy S4. It is easy to use and is designed to operate with just the one thumb. The Note 3 camera is set to full auto, meaning you only need to pick the subject of your shot. There’s no physical camera button on the phone, but fast focusing and virtually zero shutter lag means that you can really enjoy the photography on the go.
Aside from Auto, in total you’ll see 12 photo modes. They are: Drama Shot, Beauty Face, Sports and Golf modes, as well as HDR (High Dynamic Range), Panorama, Sports, Surround shot and Live effect. Among them the best are Rich Tone (an HDR mode), Panorama and Sport. HDR merges multiple exposures types to bring out more detail in your snaps, perfect if the lighting conditions are poor, or if you’re shooting a scene with overcast clouds; Panorama is self-explanatory, shooting a wide view of your surroundings; and Sport keeps the shutter speed quicker than it would be in Auto mode, making fast-moving objects appear sharp. There are some less useful modes, too, like Beauty Face and Drama Shot, which don't seem to accomplish much.
Beauty Face softens faces to get rid of wrinkles and spots – it’s a bit odd. Drama takes multiple exposures and merges them, to let you get multiple instances of one moving object in a single picture. Eraser takes multiple exposures too, but with the aim of removing moving objects from a scene. The weirdest of the lot is Golf, which is designed precisely to capture a multi-exposure shot of a golf swing.
-->Processor/Performance
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is powered by Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa 5420 processor which is basically a set of two quad-core processors- a 1.9GHz Cortex A15 quad-core processor and a 1.3GHz Cortex A7 quad-core processor that work together to optimise the processing power. It comes equipped with 3GB RAM onboard, and a Mali T628 MP6 chip for processing graphics.
With Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, the navigation is smooth with no signs of any lag. Users can easily launch apps, play games, scrol web pages and switch between apps. Besides the default browser the Galaxy Note 3 comes with Chrome.
On the other hand, the Z1 joins the Sony Xperia Z Ultra and the LG G2 in getting a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked at 2.2GHZ with Areno 330 graphics. It's accompanied by 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage (12GB available to use) and can be expanded by a further 64GB via microSD. This makes the Z1 a seriously powerful smartphone. It comfortably runs Real Racing 3, and graphics look polished on the full HD display. Likewise, streaming HD content is handled with ease. Browsing the web and swiping through homescreens show no signs of lag or a delayed response.
Strikingly, a couple of benchmark apps measuring the overall performance of each device – Quadrant, AnTuTu, and Vellamo Metal, throw up striking results. All figures meant the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is one of the top performers overall. But the LG G2 and the Sony Xperia Z1 are well capable of reaching similar results.
On Quadrant, the Note 3 revealed a score of 22,270 with Sony Xperia Z1 at 20,277. On AnTuTu, the Note 3 came out with a score of 31,543 as against Z1’s score of 30,838. Similarly, on Vellamo Metal, the Note 3 scored 1214 while the Z1 has a score of 1115. Thus, it comes out that both the smartphone run neck to neck in terms of performance.
On GFXBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Offscreen, used to measure graphics performance, the Note 3 delivered a result of 23 while the Z1 scored 21.
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