White paper | Xperia™ Z3 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 September 2014 First released version Version 1 Sony Mobile Developer World For the latest technical documentation and development tools, go to www.sonymobile.com/developer.
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2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC Quad Core Adreno 330 Size 146 x 72 x 7.3 mm Weight 152 grams Available colours D6603/D6653 Black, White, Copper and Silver Green D6633 Black, White, Copper D6616 Black D6643 Black, White SIM card...
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LTE (upload) Cat 4, up to 50 Mbps LTE (download) Cat 4, up to 150 Mbps HAC/TTY HAC** D6633 M4/T3 D6603/D6653/D6616 M3/T3 TTY** Talk time (GSM) Up to 14 hours*** Standby time (GSM) Up to 890 hours*** Standby time D6633...
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GB of “Internal storage” for music, pictures and movies, and downloaded applications and their data. For the D6603 model, memory comprises approximately 2.8 GB of firmware, plus 11.6 GB of “Internal stor- age” for music, pictures and movies, and downloaded applications and their data. For the D6616 model, memory comprises approximately 2.8 GB of firmware, plus 26 GB of “Internal storage”...
White paper | Xperia™ Z3 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) 25 mm wide-angle Google™...
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White paper | Xperia™ Z3 Design/Other features Communication Messaging Auto rotation Answering machine* Conversations Battery STAMINA mode Call list Email Bluetooth® unlock Facebook™ application* Google Mail™* Direct touch Google+* Handwriting recognition Face Unlock Hangouts™* Instant messaging Gesture input Noise suppression Multimedia messaging (MMS) IPX5 and IPX8 (waterproof)** Polyphonic ringtones...
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Radio (FM radio with RDS)* Charging Dock Connector Stopwatch Reader mode* DLNA Certified® Timer SensMe™ slideshow GLONASS Sony Entertainment Network* HDCP TV launcher High-Res Audio via 3.5 mm audio Video streaming jack and USB YouTube™* MHL 3.0 support + 5-pin support Media Go™...
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White paper | Xperia™ Z3 www.sonymobile.com/testresults. * The IP65 and IP68 ratings mean that the Xperia™ Z3 is protected against the ingress of dust and is waterproof. Usage conditions and limitations apply. Go to see www.sonymobile.com/ testresults for more information *** This feature is only available when you play music using the Walkman®...
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™ Z3 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™ Z3 DLNA Certified® (Digital Living Network Alliance) Supported Device Classes M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server Media Types: image, video and music 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™ Z3 Messaging MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) According to OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.0 + SMIL Email Bearer type (IP) GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS, LTE, Wi-Fi® 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...
White paper | Xperia™ Z3 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. For the Xperia™ Z3, about 12 GB of Internal Storage is available out of the box for the D6643, D6653, D6633 and D6603 variants. About 26 GB of Internal Storage is available out of the box for the D6616 variant.
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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™ Z3 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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