Sony Z2a manual

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    White paper June 2014 Xperia TM Z2 a Note: Screen images are simulated.[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 2 June 2014 This document is published by Sony Mobile Communications AB, without any warranty*. Improvements and changes to this text necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies of cu rrent information or improvements to programs and/or equipment may be made by Sony Mobile Communications AB at any time and w ithou[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 1 June 2014 Table of contents Product overview ............. ............. ............. ............. ................ ............. ............. .......... 2 Xperia™ Z2a ......................... ............. ............. ............. ................ ............. ............. 2 Facts – dime nsions, we ight, [...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 2 June 2014 Product overview Xperia™ Z2a • A large 1/2.3 inch 20.7 MP Ex mor RS™ for mobile im age sensor , Sony’s G Lens, and intelligent BIONZ™ for mobile image pro cessing engine. Video mo de in 4K resolution with St eadyshot™ technol- ogy. • A high level of waterpro ofing (IP58 an d IP55). Durable, slee[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 3 June 2014 Facts – dimensions, weight, performance and networks Operating system Google™ Androi d™ 4.4 (KitKat) Processor 2.3 GHz Qualcomm Snapdr agon 801 Quad -core GPU Adreno 330 Size 137 x 72 x 11 mm Weight 163 grams Available colours Black, White, Turquoise SIM card micro SIM Main screen Colours 16,777,216 col[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 4 June 2014 * Memory comprises approximately 4GB of firmwar e, plus 12 G B of “Inter nal storage” f or music, pictur es and movies, and downloaded applications and their data. For more de tails about memory, see “Memory in Android™ devices” on page 18. * * V alues are acco rding to GS M Association Batter y Lif[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 5 June 2014 NOTE : The battery performance may vary depending o n network conditions and conf igurations, a nd device usage. NOTE : Perf ormance metrics wer e all measur ed under labo ratory co nditions.[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 6 June 2014 Categorised feature list Camera 2 0 . 7 MP ca m e r a w i t h S on y E xm o r RS® for mobile image sensor 8x digital zoom AR Effect Auto focus Background De focus Burst mode Creative effe cts HDR for photos an d movies Face detection Flash/Pulsed LED Flash/Photo light Front-facin g camera (VGA ) Geotagging I[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 7 June 2014 Communication Call list Facebook™ application* Google+* Hangouts™* Noise suppression Polyphonic ringtones Slow talk Smart call handling Speakerphone Talk equaliser Twitter™ application* Voice enha ncement Xperia™ Socialife* Messaging Conversations Email Google Mail™* Handwriting recognitio n Instant[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 8 June 2014 * This service is not available in all markets. ** In compliance wit h IP55 and IP58, t his smartphone is pro tected against the ingress o f dust and is waterproof. Provided t hat all ports and cov ers are firmly closed, th e phone is ( i) protected agains t low pressure jets of water from all pra ct icable d[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 9 June 2014 Technologies in detail NOTE : The information outlined below is general and levels of compliance t o standards an d specification s may vary betwee n products an d markets. For mo re information , contact Son y Mobile Developer W orld or your Sony cont act person where ap plicable. Device-to-device communicat[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 10 June 2014 Bluetooth® wireless technology More information: www .sonymobile.com/developer www .bluetooth. com Bluetooth® profiles supp orted Advanced Audio Distribut ion Profile v1.2 Audio/Video Remote Contr ol Profile v1.3 Device Identification Pro file v1.3 Generic Attribute Profile Client/Server over LE Handsfree [...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 11 June 2014 Wi-Fi® Supported standards IEEE 802.11a/b/g/ n/ac and Wi-Fi® Wi-Fi Direct™, Wi-F i Protec ted Setup, Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint, Wi-Fi Certified Miracast Connectable devices Wi-Fi® access points Wi-Fi Direct compatible de vices Frequency ban d 2.4 GHz/5 GHz Data transf er rate Up to 433 Mbit/s Security O[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 12 June 2014 DLNA Certified® (Digital Living Network Alliance) Supported Device Classes M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server Media Types: imag es, music and vi deo Summary: The digital media server exposes the media files in your device to a Wi-Fi® netw ork. The files can then be acce ssed from o ther DLN A Certified?[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 13 June 2014 Messaging MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) According to OMA Multimedia Me ssaging Service v1.0 + SMIL Email More information : www .sonymobile.com/developer www .openmob ilealliance.org Bearer type (IP) GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS Character sets BIG5 Traditional Chinese GB18030 ISO-2022-JP Japa nese ISO-8859-1 ISO-8[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 14 June 2014 Positioning – location based services Supported standards: • OMA Secure Us er Plane Locatio n (SUPL) v1.0 & v2.0 • 3GPP™ Control Plane location (incl. Emergency loc ation) • Qualcomm® GPSOneXtra™ Supported satellite systems: •G P S • GLONASS NOTE : GPS and GLONASS are use d together to c[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 15 June 2014 Multimedia (audio, image and video) Audio Playback Decoder format Supported in file format AAC (AAC-LC, AAC+, eAAC+ AAC-ELD) 3GPP (.3gp, 3gpp), MP4 (.mp 4, .m4a), ADTS (.aac) AMR-NB, AMR-WB 3GPP (.3gp, .3gpp), MP4 (.mp4, .m4a), AMR (.a mr, .awb) FLAC FLAC (.flac), Matr oska (.mka) MIDI SMF (.mid), XMF (.xmf)[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 16 June 2014 * NOTE : H.265 is not available in all markets. Video Playback Decoder format Supported in file format MPEG-4 3GPP (.3gp, .3gpp), MP4 (.mp4, .m4v) Matroska (.mkv), AVI (. avi), Xvid (.xvid) H.263 3GPP (.3gp, .3gpp), MP4 (.mp4, .m4v) H.264 3GPP (.3gp, .3gpp), MP4 (.mp4, .m4v), Matroska (.mkv) H.265* MP4 (.mp4[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 17 June 2014 Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync™) OMA Data Synchronisation proto col versions 1.1.2 and 1. 2 OMA Data Form ats: vCard 2.1, v Calendar 1.0 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® prot ocol version 2.5 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® prot ocol version 12 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® prot ocol vers[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 18 June 2014 Memory in Android™ devices To use Android devic es efficiently, users should be aw are of the different types o f device memo ry. This knowledge is impo rtant in orde r to understand, f or example, where music, pho tos and videos are sa ved; how many apps can be downloaded from Go ogle Play™; and how pho[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 19 June 2014 This type of memory is used to store all applicat ion downloaded from the Go ogle Play™ Store (and other sources ) as well as the ir settings and dat a (such as em ails, messages a nd calendar events, for example). All applic ations have an alloc ated area which no other applica tions can access and where [...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 20 June 2014 On the other hand, when it comes to reading from an extern al SD Card, you will be able to access content (for example, videos , photos and mu sic) on a memory card inserted in this slot withou t any specia l consideration s ince the Andro id system sear ches all available memory for content. T herefore, suc[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 21 June 2014 Note 3 : For a develo per, it is important to note that from a p rogramming point of view the loc ation name s used to refer to the differe nt memory areas desc ribed in Note 1 a re still valid, i.e., th e area used for application s (“/ data”) is still present, as is the area used for content (“/sdcar[...]

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    White paper | Xperia™ Z2a 22 June 2014 Trademarks and acknowledgements All product and company names mention ed herein are the trademarks or registered tr ademarks of their respective owners. Any rights not expressly grante d herein are rese rved. All other tr ademarks are property of their respective owners. Visit www .sonymobile.com for more in[...]