The Sony Xperia XZs turned out a great flagship in spite of a few caveats here and there. We published our review on Friday and it has been under the spotlight ever since. Many people showed interest in the device and quite a few expressed their opinions and concerns. And we thank you for that!

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We noticed one particular review chapter to be gathering unusually big attention - our low-light camera samples - and so we decided to make an in-depth follow up on that.

What we usually do for our low-light test is shoot the urban landscape from our office balcony. We would take one handheld sample, then we'd use a tripod, and if available - we would snap a long-exposure photo. That's what we do with the rest of the phones and that's what we did with the Xperia XZs.

Our readers became curios about the uninspiring Xperia XZs low-light samples and eventually the discussion gathered traction. We monitored our feedback, so we took the Xperia XZs for another spin at night and the results are in.

The first batch of samples shows how the Xperia XZs performs at capturing different scenes at night when you shoot hand-held, using the onscreen shutter to reduce shake as much as possible, and relying on Superior Auto mode.

The samples are hardly the greatest around, with plenty of detail lost to heavy-handed noise reduction, which ironically isn't doing all that good of a job of masking the noise itself. Not it's not a terrible performance by any means, but it's one that's lagging behind the vast majority of competitors.

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