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welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality pc components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is linksys we've got Jeremy from sony Mobile to tell us about the Xperia Z this is a 1080p smartphone with a 5-inch display that has a number of pretty cool features Jeremy tell us what makes this thing so special so some of the cool features on this guy first before I give them power on the screen something like the Omni balanced design so very square very kind of cool sharp images or sharp corners on it it's a fully tempered glass front and back on the decisive very overall cool design we've got a milled aluminum power button on average most people are hitting their power button on their device about 67 times a day to bring it in and out of standby mode so why not make it something cool and standoffish and also something that like just overall is really cool and easy to use and you give you that whole Sony look to it I don't want you to power it on quite yet can I haven't actually held this yet oh wow so this is probably this is actually a lighter or maybe the same way to something like an iphone 4 isn't it alright see smell you around the same weight yeah it's but it's got to be pretty close it feels actually lighter to me in spite of as you guys can see the significant size difference so obviously something like a double glass approach on the front and back is something we've seen before but with the iphone 4 it added a lot of weight and you could see that Apple when went away from that with the iphone 5 but because you guys are using tempered glass you don't have to worry so much about having such a thick piece of glass then so once I turn on the display you're going to see that it's a beautiful 5-inch 1080p full or high resolution or high definition excuse me display we've got 1920 x 1080 resolution and it's driven by the bravia 2 engine so the bra v2 engine is what's going to give you that higher contrast better picture better saturation better blacks overall once i unlock the device you get right into the sony user experience with the sony you I you can see it's very nicely laid out moves very slow very very fluid and very nicely you can customize it very easily as well if I just pinched on the screen I'm now going to access to all my home screens and I can customize them however I want so in the past you'd have to drag and drop your apps from your from your widget taskbar from your app now you just can click on your apps and I can simply throw them right onto my home screen if I want to delete a home screen or out of home screen I can simply just press the X button it's going to get rid of that home screen for me so tell us about the durability so durability in terms of this device one thing that's really really cool with it is is water resistant so you can submerge it up to 1 let's go to the demo okay let's go the dome now what I really meant was in terms of the durability because we were planning to come and look at the water resistance demo later but i just want to show you guys very briefly what kind of an io sort of structure we have it's got an aluminum frame all around it so durability wise it should be as good as almost anything else with the tip yeah absolutely i mean it's with any smartphone you obviously want to throw it off a building or anything like that but it should be pretty durable I'm pretty strong for anything you're gonna throw at it I mean I'm a huge fan of the whole glass on the front and the back thing because what I love about glass is that you gotta really work at it to scratch it whereas with plastic if you're a galaxy s3 owner and you're not using a case at guarantee your phone is scratched to high hell and back microsd expansion is included and next to the power there's just a volume rocker but other than that the design is very minimalistic so so yeah your headphone jack everything is hidden because of the water resistance everything everything is hidden underneath and it's all water seals so that we can throw it in the water we've got a little wide demo right here so if i press this button it's gonna dunk the phone in the water pull it back out you can dunk this into water up to one meter for up to 30 minutes and enough is gonna happen on the phone so we're just gonna wait for it to dip in one more time you're gonna see it is totally working that is a real phone thank you very much Jeremy nobis I'm Gus this was very helpful guys don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage we are going to be here at the show all week and make sure you are subscribed to Linus tech tips thanks for watching Linus tech tips at CES 2013 powered by Corsair seagate technology and linksys you