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sony has a brand new flagship phone and it's called the experience at 5:00 now as a flagship phone it is of course packed with a whole host of top-end tech but it probably the camera that had the most updates it's now rocking a whopping 23 megapixel sensor which just packs the image with detail what that allows you to do is either digitally zoom into a scene when you're taking the shot or even crop into a shot you've already taken without losing much image quality it uses a method of focusing called phase detection which is something that we normally find on pricey DSLRs what it means on here though is that it can focus very very quickly and I found very accurately as well it's really handy if you take a lot of action shots of your mates as it can lock on very quickly it's got a wide-angle lens too which can capture a lot of the scene perfect for these wide expansive scenes here and it has good exposure and colors as well you still find a whole range of modes including panorama there's a backlight correction mode or HDR as everyone else calls it and you'll also find the quite fun augmented reality which can put a dinosaur into your scene you'll notice some tweaks elsewhere as well the body itself has been a lot more squared off and the back panel is now made with frosted glass rather than velocity which i think is a really nice touch the power button on the side is now long and flat and that's because it incorporates a fingerprint scanner which works really well now the zed v has the same waterproof thing that we've come to expect from all of Sony's Xperia said range of smartphones however it's only now says that this isn't actually submersible in water but rather its waterproofing is there to help keep it safe from spilled drinks or appropriately enough from the rain and that note I'm gonna put up my hood you can expand the storage using the micro SD card slot on the side which of course is hidden under a waterproof flap to help keep out the rain the 5.2 inch display is a bright and vivid Full HD affair and inside is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor if you want something even bigger and flashier check out Sony's Xperia z5 premium which has a bonkers 4k display with so many of its key components being quite similar to the existing z3 there's not a whole lot of reasons to upgrade however if you do have an older Sony phone or a different Android brand altogether it's camera and fingerprint sensor alone make it well worth a look I'm Andrew Hoyle for CNET and this is a sony xperia z5