For readers who are considering buying the Sony Xperia Z Ultra or the Samsung Galaxy S4, here is a specs and price comparison between the two devices in Australia. The comparison could help readers make an informed decision.

Display and Design

The Sony Xperia Z Ultra comes with a 6.4 inch capacitive touch screen, rendering 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution. The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with 5 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, rendering 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution.

The Sony Xperia Z Ultra comes with 179.4 x 92.2 x 6.5 mm dimensions and weighs 212 grams. The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm dimensions and is comparatively lighter, weighing 130 grams.

Hardware and Operating System

The Sony Xperia Z Ultra is equipped with a 2.2 GHz quad core krait 400 processor and Qualcomm MSM8274 or MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 chipset. It comes with 16 GB of internal memory, which can be expanded by up to 64 GB using a Micro SD card.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is equipped with a quad core 1.6 GHz cortex A15 & quad core 1.2 GHz cortex A7 processor and Exynos 5 Octa 5410 chipset. It comes in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB internal memory variants, which can be expanded by up to 64 GB using a Micro SD card.

Both the devices run on the Android platform and come loaded with the Jelly Bean operating system. Both the devices have 2 GB of RAM.

Camera

The Sony Xperia Z Ultra sports an 8 MP primary camera with autofocus and the secondary camera on the device is 2 MP. The Samsung Galaxy S4 sports a 13 MP primary camera with features like autofocus an LED flash. The secondary camera on the device is 2 MP.

Battery

The Sony Xperia Z Ultra comes with a non-removable Li-Ion 3050 mAh battery, which allows for a talk time of about 16 hours on 3G or music play of about 120 hours. The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with a Li-Ion 2600 mAh battery, which allows for a talk time of about 17 hours on 3G or music play of about 62 hours.

Price in Australia

The Sony Xperia Z Ultra is priced at around AU $569.95 and the 4G LTE variant is priced at around AU $589.95. The Samsung Galaxy S4 16 GB variant is priced at around AU $599.95 and the 32 GB variant is priced at around AU $679.95 in Australia.

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