The company announced during its CES press event the newest addition to the Xperia line: the Xperia Z1S. The Z1S, which runs Android 4.3 (lly Bean), is the first fully waterproof phone that Sony has made available in the U.S. The phone is powered by a quad-core 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, features 2GB of RAM a 3,000mAh battery pack. It ships with 32GB of storage a microSD expansion slot, features a 5-inch full HD Triluminos display. The hset’s chassis is dust resistant as well. Sony is heavily touting the quality of the Xperia Z1S’s camera. The phone comes with a rear-facing 20.7-megapeixel Sony G ns, which utilizes the company’s own proprietary mobile image processing engine. The phone also comes pre-loaded with Sony’s new Xperia Camera Apps, which lets you add Augmented Reality effects to photos, shoot in a timeshift burst mode (in which the camera can take 61 photos in two seconds), or shoot with a defocused background for a tilt-shift effect. The company has also added a physical camera button on the phone so that you can press it to quickly take photos video, even underwater. Gamers can also use the Xperia Z1S as a remote control, or purchase ayStation Store game content using the device download it directly to the 3, 4, or ayStation Vita. The Z1S even supports the DualShock 3 wireless control for console-like gameplay with ayStation Mobile games. If this all sounds right up your alley, you can pre-order the Xperia Z1S online beginning nuary 13 at the T-Mobile website. The hset officially goes on sale nuary 22.
