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it's Darcy lack of a we're here with android authority and we are bringing you the finest vs videos from CES 2013 we were just wanted to do the most logical comparison of obviously one of the leading phones in the market just in terms of raw specs and how sophisticated is technologically speaking and that's the droid DNA by HTC on verizon now this is also going to be an LCD capable device from Sony who have a lot of expertise and display technology and in particular optics so both our 1080p 5 inch displays both have very very similar physical footprints as you can see now that's where a few of the differences end now we have a really nice curved sort of matt back whereas with the xperia z we're looking at a tempered glass so it has a little more of a classy look but the HTC does feel really really nice in the hand now it should be known that the battery is larger in the xperia z is packing a 2,400 milliamp hour battery vs HTC droid dna's 2150 in addition to that even though this does look to be a larger camera it is actually only an a megapixel camera whereas on the xperia z we're looking at a 13 megapixel camera with Sony's Exmor RS technology additionally since that is their latest image sensor it also has on the fly hardware accelerated HDR video recording so that means you're able to capture a lot of high dynamic range video which is really really cool it's the first time we've seen this out a particular device and it's going to be calculated on the fly and process on the flash so there's not gonna be any delay afterwards additionally speaking there is one other really cool feature which is the fact that sony has incorporated a dust proof and water-resistant designs it can be submerged for up to 30 minutes we're told both are packing Qualcomm's s4 pro technology two gigabytes of RAM but we have two handed sony for including more advanced optics in their technol into their smartphones everything is really really smooth really really fluid it also has an IR blaster as well which is really cool so you control your home audio and your TV and stuff so we're going to have take a closer look at a few other devices here but let us know which one you think is better HTC's flagship for 2013 the droid DNA both are really exceptional guys you have to see these 1080p devices to really really understand how smooth they are it's really really impressive in the hand you know it has a rectangular design but it feels really really nice and we've got a big fan of Sony's classy design nice rectangular feels beautiful in the hand that's really impressive dice but we also have an HTC too it's nice that it has sort of a curved backing as you can see it's just too bad that they didn't opt for more advanced optics so this is the droid DNA vs xperia z we're android authority reporting live from CES 2013