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Sonne comes back to Aoife with a brand new flagship in their experience Joshua car from Android authority what's going on everybody and this is a first look at the Sony Xperia z5 at first glance at the Xperia z5 it might look a lot like all the other experience but that's something we probably expected already in the Xperia z5 however there are a few new features on here that should sweeten the pot a little bit and hopefully this phone is going to make it to many more audiences aside from just the European and Asian markets a 5.2 inch 1080p display is available here and yes there is a z5 premium that we're going to talk about a little bit later but for now we're going to take a look at the main z5 that's powered by the Snapdragon 810 with three gigabytes of RAM 32 gigabytes of storage with a micro SD card slot as you can see here and this entire body is water and dust resistant but what we do really like about the z5 here is the somewhat different look on the side what we have here is a much larger silver power button that doesn't quite look as iconic as it did before as we remember from previous experiences but still has a very unique look but the reason why it's a lot wider now is because Sony's fingerprint reader is embedded in there so if you're going to be unlocking the phone with your right hand holding the thumb there is going to be how you will unlock the phone and it actually feels quite nice just tap the button in order to wake the phone and hold your thumb there and it will unlock quite easily feasibly you should be able to do this with let's say your index finger on your left hand for example but really in our testing right here I went ahead and put a fingerprint on there and it seemed to really work quite well in general however the experience d5 feels really nice in the hand as most experience do because it's symmetrical design just feels quite solid and is really easy to grip and really just sort of tumble around if you need to get to the notification drop-down at the top for example or go from left to right the Xperia z5 still continues that great handling experience especially in the size that it keeps at 5.2 inches in the display now the display technology is still being boasted about by Sony and we do think that it looks quite nice especially in our first look here but really what we really notice here is just how fast the phone is the Snapdragon 810 is doing great job of powering the Xperia UI which is backed by android 5.1.1 and as I'm going through the recent apps screen and really hitting all the apps that I possibly can it really feels like one of the snappiest editions of Android that we've seen thus far it's definitely up there and the Xperia U eye does try to keep things fairly Spartan with only a few features here and there including those little small apps that you can access from the recent apps screen but even then it still feels really really smooth and very rapid but what we're really excited for is checking out the new camera now this is the first time in the Xperia line in a long time that we've had a reimagined camera module in the back and we're really looking forward to putting this 23 megapixel Exmor RS sensor to its testing what really is intriguing to us is the fact that Sony really put out there that their imaging department has been one of the best and yes they have come up with some great alpha cameras and hopefully now we'll be able to see that kind of quality in their smartphones the z5 also sports one of the fastest autofocuses and I tried to test it in this particular unit and it did seem to do a really good job even in this somewhat low-light situation that I was testing it out in of course 4k video capture will be available on there and a steady shot technology will hopefully be able to stabilize all of the photos and even the videos in a way that makes it very pleasant to the eye the front-facing camera is of a 5 megapixel construction but really when you're looking through the camera app it's tough there's so many options and this is something we've been used to from Sony for a long time now everything from AR to even all of these different ways of just manipulating the shot panorama modes slow motion fast capture and everything that you could really hope for inside of the camera to make your photography just that fun but really we can't wait to see if the quality of this phone is up to snuff compared to all the other great flagship Quogue that we've seen in 2015 already and finally we are going to take a look at the Xperia z5 premium now we do have a meeting with Sony coming up in a day or two where we're going to get a closer look at it because at the actual press event no one was actually able to get their hands on the premium we've been told that we'll be able to tomorrow now the z5 premium does have a 4k display which is kind of insane when you say it out loud but at a 5.5 inch display you have and one pixels per inch just a number that we saw on their display there and they were really touting it up being one of the best displays that has been put out especially with the highest resolution that we've seen on a smartphone to date but what they're also going to do as Sony does with their televisions and this is an intriguing thought is the phone itself is going to upscale all of the media content so that it actually has a 4k look to it now we are a little bit skeptical about that even though a lot of media out there is still around 720p resolution 1080p when you're lucky it will get up scaled and might have a different type of look to it as a result but again we're really excited to get our hands on and actually compare these displays once we have our hands on a review unit and if you're thinking about battery life for a 4k display the 2900 milliamp hour battery of the original z5 gets a bumped up to thirty four thirty in the z5 premium and hopefully that's going to be enough to put this phone through its paces across the day whether it be for work and play but with the stamina modes and the great battery consumption options that you have on the Xperia line you should be able to get this phone so kind of stretch itself out for quite a long time but until we get our hands on a review unit we're going to be waiting with bated breath to get the Xperia z5 in our hands and really put that camera at least through its paces we do really like the fingerprint reader in the side power button and really it just looks like a pretty solid phone that we had a pretty good time with in our short time with it already so keep it tuned to Android Authority for even more from Aoife in Berlin as we are here at the Sony booth bringing you the Xperia z5 stay tuned for more