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aah - of agar from android authority of what's going on everybody and today I have another blockbuster versus for you this time pitting two of the best performing 5-inch screen devices on the market today now a company called Appa might have come out of left field with their first big smartphone offering and it happened to be one of the best while we're gonna pit it against Sony's best with their flagship device so let's see how they stack up because this is the Sony Xperia Z versus the Oppo find five let's start it off by throwing up the scoreboard for the Xperia Z alright here we have a black slate look with a rectangular fully flat design the Z is quite the looker and all those flaps give it water resistance and now for the Apple fine 5 that sleek white back is the contrast to a large display and front both are really attractive phones and get numerous complements wherever they go so we have a tie on design but when it comes to feel it is the Xperia Z that gets the point why because of that button layouts having the big silver button and volume rockers half way down the right side makes them so much easier to reach than the rather typical layout of button opposite volume on the Oppo fine 5 if you've been following our an Xperia Z coverage then it's no secret that the TFT 5-inch 1080p screen has some poor viewing angles it becomes even more apparent when you put it up against the awesome IPS LCD performer of the Apple fine 5 seriously look at how vivid the screen of the fine 5 looks no matter how you're glancing at it you'll get a great experience with the Xperia Z when looking dead on but it's obvious that the Apple fine 5 has the advantage here you're looking at the same processor packages in either phone a 1.5 gigahertz Snapdragon s4 pro processor with adreno 320 GPUs and 2 gigabytes of RAM while they might carry the same performers within the Xperia Z does routinely score around 20,000 in antutu benchmark over the average score of 18,000 for the fine 5 while these scores do put the Xperia Z on top both are still admittedly very snappy in practise and neither truly feel slower than the other it is in the hardware department though that the Xperia Z makes some extra headway while both phones can offer 16 or 32 gigabytes of memory installed only the Xperia Z makes it expandable with an SD card slot also the Apple find five only comes with HSDPA connectivity while LTE versions of the Xperia Z are available quite simply put the Z offers a little bit more here all right so we're onto software both have jellybean 4.1.2 installed with their respective skins the Xperia U eye looks very much like Ice Cream Sandwich which gives it and a simplistic elegance the Apple UI on the other hand looks a lot more bloated but that isn't necessarily a bad thing some people like the me UI style blocks and blobby widgets other than that everything looks very bare-bones and doesn't ever really exude extra functionality so I give the Xperia UI the point here not just because it is sleeker but because it includes higher functioning apps like the Walkman and even small apps for quick multitasking again it just offers more here and finally the cameras both the Xperia Z and the fine 5 have 13 megapixel shooters though the sony exmor RS sensor is a factor here nonetheless the resulting picture quality is quite comparable for both the Xperia Z ops for a darker tone generally but the details in both are still pretty well captured once again however the Apple fine 5s bare bones nature makes the camera pretty simplistic the sony editions of superior auto and various scene modes puts the higher functioning Xperia Z on top and finally we land on price the Xperia Z might have an advantage when it gets on a carrier as it can then get a lowered price on contracts but when fully unlocked the Apple fine 5 actually has the lower price tag starting at 499 dollars compared to the generally over $700 price of the Xperia Z and so there you have it the Xperia Z is like a very high functioning laptop made by a big manufacturer while the Apple fine 5 feels more like a bare-bones but still high-end notebook the Xperia Z does offer a little bit more than the Apple fine 5 though so it walks away in this battle but the really really great screen on top of the very good specifications that rival the Xperia Z make the fine 5 still a great contender figure out what you really want from these two handsets though and you really can't go wrong with either choice and as always we want to remind you that there's always great content going up on the Android Authority YouTube channel so don't forget to subscribe and then once you're done with all of that head on over to Android Authority calm your source for all things Android