White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Purpose of this document Sony product White papers are intended to give an overview of a product and provide details in relevant areas of technology. Document history Version February 2014 First released version Version 1...
White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Product overview Xperia™ Z2 • A large 1/2.3 inch 20.7 MP Exmor RS™ for mobile image sensor, Sony’s G Lens, and intelligent BIONZ™ for mobile image processing engine. Video mode in 4K resolution with Steadyshot™ technol- ogy.
2.3 GHz Qualcomm MSM8974AB Quad Core Adreno 330 Size 146.8 x 73.3 x 8.2 mm Weight 163 grams Available colours Black, White, Purple for D6502/D6503 Black, White for D6543 SIM card micro SIM Main screen Colours 16,777,216 colour TFT Resolution...
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White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Battery (Embedded) 3200 mAh minimum * Memory comprises approximately 4GB of firmware, plus 12GB of “Internal storage” for music, pictures and movies, and downloaded applications and their data. For more details about memory, see “Memory in Android™...
White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Categorised feature list Internet Music Camera Bookmarks 3D Surround Sound (VPT) 20.7 MP camera with Sony Exmor Google Chrome™* Album art RS® for mobile image sensor Google Play™* Bluetooth® stereo (aptX®, A2DP) 8x digital zoom Google™...
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White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Design Communication Messaging Auto rotation Call list Conversations Battery STAMINA mode Facebook™ application* Email Direct touch Google+* Google Mail™* Face Unlock Hangouts™* Handwriting recognition Gesture input Noise suppression Instant messaging IPX5 and IPX8 (waterproof)** Polyphonic ringtones Multimedia messaging (MMS) IP5X (Dust protected) Slow talk...
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Radio (FM radio with RDS) DLNA Certified® Setup guide Reader mode GLONASS Sketch SensMe™ slideshow MHL 3.0 support + 5-pin support Stopwatch Sony Entertainment Network* Media Go™ Tasks TV launcher Media Transfer Protocol support Timer Video streaming Micro USB support YouTube™*...
Technologies in detail NOTE: The information outlined below is general and levels of compliance to standards and specifications may vary between products and markets. For more information, contact Sony Mobile Developer World or your Sony contact person where applicable. Device-to-device communications (local) ANT+™...
White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Wi-Fi® Supported standards IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac and Wi-Fi® Wi-Fi Direct™, Wi-Fi Protected Setup, Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint, Wi-Fi Certified Miracast Connectable devices Wi-Fi® access points Wi-Fi Direct compatible devices Frequency band 2.4 GHz/5 GHz Data transfer rate Up to 433 Mbit/s Security Open Authentication...
White paper | Xperia™ Z2 DLNA Certified® (Digital Living Network Alliance) Supported Device Classes M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server Media Types: images, music and video Summary: The digital media server exposes the media files in your device to a Wi-Fi® network. The files can then be accessed from other DLNA Certified®...
White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Messaging MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) According to OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.0 + SMIL Email Bearer type (IP) GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS Character sets BIG5 Traditional Chinese GB18030 ISO-2022-JP Japanese ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 Eastern Europe ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic ISO-8859-7 Greek ISO-8859-9 Turkish ISO 8859-11...
White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Positioning – location based services Supported standards: • OMA Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) v1.0 & v2.0 • 3GPP™ Control Plane location (incl. Emergency location) • Qualcomm® GPSOneXtra™ Supported satellite systems: • GPS • GLONASS NOTE: GPS and GLONASS are used together to calculate the position.
White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync™) OMA Data Synchronisation protocol versions 1.1.2 and 1.2 OMA Data Formats: vCard 2.1, vCalendar 1.0 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 2.5 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 12 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 12.1 Microsoft®...
Paper is noted as such. Types of memory The types of memory described and numbered below are consistent with the terminology used in Sony mobile device menus and in other content relating to 2014 Xperia™ devices: 1. Dynamic Memory (also known as RAM) is used by applications that run when the device is turned on.
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Settings > Apps. In the Xperia™ Z2, about 12 GB of Internal Storage is available out of the box. Please note that in Sony Mobile 2014 products, “Internal Storage” is now the combination of what was previously known as “Device Memory” or “Phone Memory” (for applications and their data – also previously known as “/data”) and “Internal Storage”...
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4. SD Card (known as “/sdcard1” from a programmer’s point of view, or by other names in other Android products) is the name for the removable SD memory card in all 2014 Sony Mobile products. As described above, this External Card memory is generally more limited in that any application can read from it, but many applications cannot save to this card.
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White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Note 3: For a developer, it is important to note that from a programming point of view the location names used to refer to the different memory areas described in Note 1 are still valid, i.e., the area used for applications (“/ data”) is still present, as is the area used for content (“/sdcard”).
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