Sony Xperia Z3 vs. Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus Features, Specs, Display, Battery Life: A Comprehensive Comparison and Review

By Aishwarya Oct 25, 2014 03:23 AM EDT

Sony Xperia Z3 vs. Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus Features, Specs, Display, Battery Life: A Comprehensive Comparison and Review

Two high-end smartphone from Sony and Samsung will compete against each other with their latest smartphones where Sony Xperia Z3 and Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus mesmerize. The dazzling devices offer most advanced technology with strong specification. Let's have quick review of both the devices.

The Samsung's unreleased Galaxy S5 Plus is expected to arrive with 5.1-inch display carrying 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution. The display type will be the latest Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 432 pixels per inch pixels density. The Corning Gorilla Glass 3 is provided for the glass protection. Sony also stands strong with 5.2-inch display in Xperia Z3 that contains 1080 x 1920 pixels. 424 pixels per inch pixel density is very sharp in a 5.2-inch display size. The display type is provided with IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen that carries X-Reality Engine to enhance the color quality. Sony web page cites Xperia Z3 is IP68 certified while S5 Plus is IP67 certified and both the devices can survive under 1meter of water for over 30 minutes.

The camera department of Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus contains same categorized camera as Galaxy Note 4 with 16MP rear sensor and 2MP front camera sensor. On the other hand, Xperia Z3 has 20.7MP rear camera sensor with 2.2MP secondary selfie camera just like its processor Xperia Z2.

Galaxy S5 Plus and Xperia Z3 both come with high-end hardware specification where Galaxy S5 Plus concludes Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset with Quad-Core 2.5GHz Krait 450 processor as mentioned in the Android GS. The GPU segment is captivated with Adreno 420 chip. According to GSMARENA Sony Xperia Z3 brings Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset coupled with Quad-Core 2.5GHz Krait 400 processor. The graphics section is packed with Adreno 330 GPU.

When it comes to the internal storage, both the devices allow 16/32 GB model with 128GB expandable memory storage facility while Sony Xperia Z3 has 3GB of RAM slot and Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus is powered by 2GB of RAM. Xperia Z3 runs on Android 4.4.4KitKat while S5 Plus will unbox with Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Xperia Z3 leads the power management segment with 3100mAh battery capacity while Galaxy S5 Plus will come with 2800mAh battery.