A Sneak Peak into Sony's 'X' Series: Sony Xperia X and Sony Xperia X Performance
Sony have now come out with a new series of smartphones. They're called Xperia "X" series. Basically they're all but re-branded Z seires but with arguably new features like brushed metal back etc. which wasn't even seen in their Z5 phones. These phones have all waterproofing, stereo speakers
Out of the three, the Xperia X Performance is the so-called "Flagship" right now. Since that's the model with better specifications than the rest of the two. All the phones come in the same size with only internal modifications. Announced a couple of months back, they're yet to sell it in the market. The dominator out of the three is the X performance. Right now, all of the phones come out in a same size device at about 5-inches. Some noticeable changes in displays is that the screen size varies in variants.
The X Performance has a full-HD 441PPI screen while the XA has a HD display with 294PPI screen and there is no change in Xperia X with full HD 441PPI screen.Now only two of the variants that is the X Performance and the X itself comes with two sim-slots which are optional at the time of purchase and users can still opt for a single sim slot phone. The X Performance is the only IP68 certified dust and water proof phone right now in the three variants with Dust and water resistance upto 1.5m or about 30 minutes.
X Performance and simply "X" have oleo-phobic coating, trilluminos display and X-reality engines. All three devices are running Android's latest operating system 6.0.1 Marshmallow out of the box. X Performance is equipped with a Snapdragon 820 quad core chip-set powered by Adreno's latest 530GPU. The XA however has a Mediatek chipset MT6755 octa-core chip-set and supported by Mali-T860MP2 GPU.
The simply "X" variant runs Snapdragon 650 with octa-core chip set and supported by Adreno 510. All three phones have 32GB of internal memory with only the XA running on 2GB memory and the rest of the two with 3GB memory. An expandable storage capacity of 200GB in a micro-SD dedicated slot is also possible in all three of them.
In terms of camera, there are hardly any changes with the X Performance and simply "X". Both of them have a rear-facing 23MP camera and a front-facing 13MP camera. LED Flash is supported in the back. All three of them can shoot full-HD videos at 30fps. Except the XA variant, rest of the two phones have fingerprint sensors.
The X Performance has a 2700mah battery, 2300mah battery in the case of XA and 2620 in the case of simply "X" variant.
