Sony Xperia Z user reviews

praveen7796 21 February 2013

Good: Screen, design

Comment: @ivan did u clear all the running apps on the retail device? They usually have a lot of apps running as no one closes them. I ran into this at a 3 store that I visited. After clearing A LOT of running Apps the phone ran like a dream and was not laggy

ivan 20 February 2013

Good: 1080p screen, water and dust proof

Bad: lag in my experience.

Comment: Had a go on one in a 3 store, seemed awfully laggy compared with my nexus 4. Better than s3 and one x but the nexus 4 (especially since 4.2.2) seems faster. Probably will be better after a few updates though.
Liked the screen but colours seemed to distort, very slightly at an angle, and there was little difference between 1080 and 720 p screens.

tgw123 19 February 2013

Good: Water/dust/scratch protection, high-end specs

Bad: See comment: Sony's terrible customer service & reliability record

Comment: Owners of the new Sony Xperia V (released in December, 2012) with its more manageable 4.3" screen are having with problems with random freezing of the phone and hot batteries. My fear is that the Xperia Z will suffer similar problems. If so then you can forget getting any communication from Sony. They just don't bother!
I think I am right in saying that the Xperia V was originally going to be released with Android OS, v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), but in the end release was delayed and it came to market with v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) onboard.
By the way, how confusing is it that Gogle has now released Android 4.2 and are still calling that Jelly Bean?!
Either way owners around the world of the Xperia V continue to have problems and instead of replying to its customers Sony just keep plugging the new upcoming Xperia 'Z' and has failed to reply to owners of the V on its own website!
Is this a Sony issue or a Google/Android issue, or both? Either way Sony's customer service is at best terrible and at worst completely non-existant! You can read about the problems with the Xperia V here (all 22 pages of comments which shows the scale of the issue and the lack of response from Sony):
http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/60422?start=150&tstart=0

Carl Richards 19 February 2013

Good: looks stunning & the stats speak for themselves, would love to know if you can use the camera to actually take underwater pictures as this would be the deciding factor for me buying the phone

Bad: fixed battery, but it would be difficult to have interchangeable battery in a waterproof device

Comment: I have a galaxy note now & am either going to get this or wait for the note 3, depending on whether I can use camera under water.

Rick Heckenlively 18 February 2013

Good: pushes the smartphone envelope, camera

Bad: reported gap between screen and body collects dirt (ie build quality); fingerprints

Comment: Apple needs to consider a bigger screen.

Ina Grecu 18 February 2013

Good: nice design and confortable

Comment: i would like to have this super android :)

Hooman Kaveh 18 February 2013

Comment: nice phone
good job sony

Abdelrahman Adel Mohamed 18 February 2013

Comment: I really like this Xperia Z and I will buy it when it released .

Wang Cn 18 February 2013

Good: 1080p Full HD screen, quadcore 1.5ghz, 2gb ram and 13mp exmor RS sensor

Bad: only TFT screen,

Comment: I really like this Xperia Z and I will buy it when it arrive to Malaysia.
Just abit sad that the screen doesn't upgrade to any others screen like OLED, IPS than the old TFT which possible bring better display and most important lower battery consumption on display.
Saw a taiwan review on Asus padfone 2 which has almost identical specs with XZ but can watch 7.7hours of FULL HD movie with it's IPS HD+ display with 2030mah battery.

Anywhere, will just get this beast and try to lower screen brightness for longer usage.

Monique de Boer 18 February 2013

Good: nearly everything

Bad: no removable battery, no android 4.2.2?

Comment: It would be quite desirable, but I'll wait for the S4 to be released to make a comparison.
Then I'll decide which is the best.