Today, Vodafone U.K. officially announced that Sony’s much-anticipated flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z1, is the latest device to be added to its rapidly growing lineup of 4G-enabled devices.

The Z1 is a very respectable high-end smartphone, packing a 5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 (441 ppi pixel density), a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, an Adreno 330 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage (expandable up to 64GB via microSD), a 20.7-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 3,000 mAh battery.

The Xperia Z1 is available for free on both 3G and 4G 24 month contracts starting from £42 per month – these plans include:

3G:

• £42 per month: Unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 2GB of data and 2GB of U.K. Wi-Fi.
• £47 per month: Unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 4GB of data and 2GB of U.K. Wi-Fi.

4G:

• £42 per month: unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 2GB of data (+4GB extra), 2GB of U.K. Wi-Fi, and 6 months free Spotify or Sky Sports Mobile TV.
• £47 per month: unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 4GB of data (+4GB extra), 2GB of U.K. Wi-Fi, and 24 months free Spotify or Sky Sports Mobile TV.
• £52 per month: unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 8GB of data (+4GB extra), 2GB of U.K. Wi-Fi, and 24 months free Spotify or Sky Sports Mobile TV.

If you like the look of Sony’s Xperia Z1 and would like to pick one up on Vodafone – click the source link below.

• SourceVodafone