The Sony Xperia XZ Premium has a gorgeous 4K display. Better yet, a 4K HDR display! The latest Snapdragon 835 chipset is pulling the strings and delivering lightning-fast LTE while the Adreno 540 is firing up millions of pixels in a heartbeat. With or without the mirror finish, this is one of the classiest designs around and waterproof, too.

A brand-new 19MP main camera does stunning slow-mo videos at 960fps. There is a 13MP autofocus selfie camera, true stereo speakers and one of the best skins around, the minimalist but feature-rich Xperia launcher.

It's no secret that only native 4K content can put those eight million pixels to good use, but the good news is that more and more of that content is becoming available.

What's not available, in the US at least, is fingerprint scanning. No, not even the company flagship is getting away with it, and that's a spot on Sony's reputation stateside. There is little anybody can do about it, up to Sony to sort it or move on.

A full disclosure is due: we've never been big fans of the Premium moniker ever since the Z5 Premium came about. It's about as creative and meaningful as Deluxe in a phone's name (we're looking at you Asus!) Let's hope the industry doesn't get to Executive and Superior somewhere down the line. But we digress.