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. The Sony Xperia Z5 Premium is an up-scaled version of the Xperia Z5 and is the first ever smartphone to feature a 4K display. Similarly to the Xperia Z5, the device also features a fingerprint reader and a 23

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Specifications

Unlike the Xperia Z5, the device features a 4K screen with the resolution of 3840×2160 pixels whilst still retaining 2 hours and 30 minutes of battery life.

Hardware

The Sony Xperia Z5 Premium has a 5.5-inch IPS LCD display, Octa-core (4x1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4x2.0 GHz Cortex-A57) Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage that can be expanded using

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cards up to 256 GB. The phone has a 3430 mAh Li-Ion battery, 23 MP rear camera with an LED flash and a 5.1 MP front-facing camera with auto-focus. It is available in Chrome, Black, Gold, Pink colors.

Software

The Xperia Z5 Premium is preinstalled with Android 5.1 Lollipop with Sony's custom interface and software. It also has been upgraded to run Android 6.0 Marshmallow. On August 23, 2016, Sony announced that the Xperia Z5 Premium would receive an upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat. On February 16, 2017, Android 7.0 Nougat has been upgraded for the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium Dual Sim E6883. On June 28, 2017, it started to roll out the Android 7.1.1 Nougat firmware update.

Variants

References

External links

Official Press Release

Official Website

Official Whitepaper

Official Whitepaper (Dual SIM version)
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