May | 2013 | Sony Malaysia

Sony Mobile yesterday, announce the latest family member of Xperia smartphone that is designed to survive the unintended dunks. Xperia ZR, similar to its 5-inch siblings under the name Xperia Z can stay under the water as deep as 1.5 meters for almost half an hour.

Sony decide to reduce the display of this Xperia ZR to 4.6-inch but it still maintain the crips HD Reality Screen with the use of Sony’s very own Mobile Bravia Engine 2 technology.

Xperia ZR is equipped with a 13-megapixel camera plus a dedicated camera key where you can use the camera to take amazing pictures and even record with in Full HD and all of this under the water. The camera use the advantage of Sony’s Exmor RS for mobile image sensor with HDR (High Dynamic Range) for both photographs and videos. The company also dare to promise that the photos and videos are automatically captured with the best possible settings. User also can tweak the camera burst mode to snap an unlimited number of photo at an astonishing 15 frames per second.

The latest Xperia ZR come with a 1.5 GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor along with 2GB of RAM at its disposal. Sony also announce that the ZR can be utilised the LTE connectivity but did not mention the supported band at the time of writing.

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Sony Xperia ZR also come with latest Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean out of the box. If you always has been a great fan of water resistant phone or the fan of Xperia Z but was worried about it huge size, you can now opt of its smaller yet equally powerful siblings under the name ZR.