It's available on pay monthly or for £550 outright

Jun 21, 2015 23:13 GMT  ·  By

Sony Xperia Z3+ has been on pre-order in Europe for a few weeks now, but the Japanese company announced that the smartphone would hit shelves this month.

Well, it looks like the UK is one of the first European countries that are getting the Xperia Z3+. The smartphone is now available for purchase at Carphone Warehouse for no less than £550 (€770 / $875) unlocked and SIM free.

But Carphone Warehouse has a special offer for those who agree to grab the Xperia Z3+ on pay monthly or are willing to upgrade.

All customers that order the Sony Xperia Z3+ on pay monthly from £40 per month will receive the ultimate Hi-Res Audio bundle headphones worth £275 (€385 / $435) for free.

“Your new phone will come in an exclusive box that contains a set of hi-res headphones so you can start hearing more of your music straight away.

“It'll also have instructions on how you can get a free three month subscription to Tidal, the hi-res music streaming service, and download six hi-res albums,” explains Carphone Warehouse.

The new deal is available until the end of the year

It's also worth mentioning that the UK-based retailer will exclusively sell the Ice Green version of Sony Xperia Z3+, which means you won't find this particular version of the smartphone at other sellers except Carphone Warehouse.

Although for the time being Carphone Warehouse is the only retailer in the UK selling the Xperia Z3+, we expect the smartphone to hit shelves at other authorized resellers in the coming days.

The Xperia Z3+ will ship with Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system right out of the box, but it's expected to receive an upgrade to Android M sometime next year.

The smartphone is powered by a 2GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, an Adreno 430 graphics processing unit and 3GB of RAM.

Unlike the Xperia Z4v recently announced by Verizon, the Xperia Z3+ comes with a 5.2-inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display that supports full HD (1080p) resolution.

Other highlights of the phone included 32GB of internal memory, 20.7-megapixel rear-facing camera, 5.1-megapixel front-facing camera, LTE support and microSD card slot for memory expansion.