Sony Xperia Z3 vs HTC One M8 Design, Features, Specs, Price: A Comprehensive Guide

By Aishwarya Sep 29, 2014 10:42 AM EDT

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Sony Xperia Z3 vs HTC One M8 Design, Features, Specs, Price: A Comprehensive Guide

Sony Xperia Z3 and HTC One M8 are big rivals in the smartphone arena. So let us take a small review about those smartphones.

Sony Xperia Z3 has more rounded edge than the Xperia Z2. It is lighter than the Z2 and weights 152g. The whole body seems solid with IP68 certified dust and waterproof resistivity, which lets user to dive over 1 meter underwater for 30 minutes. HTC One M8 is based on Aluminum alloy with metallic texture. It has a unique design and weighs 160g.

Sony Xperia Z3 hits 20.7MP camera rear camera, which has dual LED flash. Other features like geo-tagging touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama and more. It has the capability to record video at 2160p at 30 fps, 1080p at 60 fps and 720p at 120 frames per second. The secondary camera contains 2.2MP sensor that can record 1080p video at 30 fps. On the other hand, HTC One M8 stands nowhere near to Xperia Z3 in terms of camera configuration. It has 4MP dual rear camera sensors along with dual LED flash tone. Features like geo-tagging, HDR, Automatic face detection, panorama etc. are available.

Sony Xperia Z3 has very powerful configuration with Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset with quad-core 2.5 GHz krait 400 CPU and the GPU offers Adreno 330. HTC One M8 also offers updated hardware configuration with Qualcomm MSM8974AB Snapdragon 801 chipset and Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400 CPU. The GPU is same as Z3. Both the devices possess quite impressive hardware configuration but the HTC One M8 lags in RAM. Xperia Z3 offers 3GB of RAM while HTC One M8 offers 2 GB of RAM. Xperia Z3 operates on Android v 4.4.4 KitKat while HTC One M8 runs on Android v4.4.2 KitKat which is upgradable to v4.4.3 KitKat.

Xperia Z3 has brought Li-Ion 3100 mAh battery, which provides 2 days battery backup with normal use. HTC One M8 has Li-Po 2600 mAh battery, which provides Up to 271 h (2G) / Up to 496 h (3G) stand by time.