iam about 2 buy a smart phone and cant choose between s4 and xperia z so i wanna ask few questions here
1-Octa core and quad core.....Much difference?
2-the camera compression which makes pics worse than s4....can it be solved by update?
3-what about sound quality is it that bad as they say in reviews?
thanks in advance
1) no
2) not sure
3) it's alright. Compared to my previous phones like tx, t, zl it's a bit off.
Ill be honest with you, z may not have the best specs Or screen Or whatever. But once you hold it in your hands you don't want to let it go.
S4 has features, but it's a phone that I cant bring out to show off.
The z, it's a beauty with water proof, a phone that I'm proud of to bring out with confidence. I don't even know how to explain the beauty and sexiness of the phone. It's like better than looking at girls ( okay I'm going to far) but you understand what I mean lol.
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iam about 2 buy a smart phone and cant choose between s4 and xperia z so i wanna ask few quee and quad core.....Much difference?
2-the camera compression which makes pics worse than s4....can it be solved by update?
3-what about sound quality is it that bad as they say in reviews?
thanks in advance
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It's actually just 2x quad so in terms of speed, there's no difference
2. Sony is working on an update for the camera and power management, can't say results yet but it will improve.
3 I have no problem with the speaker, compared to s2 I find the quality better here.
But the speaker will get low for about 30 minutes if you drop the phone in water.
The S4 will melt if you drop it in water.
If you're really unsure just test both devices. I went with the Z for waterproof, I myself was faced with this decision. (but with HTC1)
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2. Sony is working on an update for the camera and power management, can't say results yet but it will improve.
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Oh really? Did your magical crystal ball told you or from where you know? I haven't found any statement from Sony regarding a fix yet
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Oh really? Did your magical crystal ball told you or from where you know? I haven't found any statement from Sony regarding a fix yet
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Maybe you have to check sony's forum not xda ,cause they say the camera will be fixed.
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Maybe you have to check sony's forum not xda ,cause they say the camera will be fixed.
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Those guys over on the Sony forum aren't all that reliable though to be fair
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I am about to buy a smartphone like you do.
1- for the hardware there is really not much of a difference between the two in raw power..
2- camera is not so bad, i think it's on par with the S4 without the iAuto mod.. but software will be improved, and you always can use mods..
3- sound quality, have no idea, i still need to buy the phone.. but i guess it will be ok.. but i don't use speaker to listen to song.. so i don't care even if it was low..
I will go with the xperia z, its just beautiful, hardware? almost the same.
i was considering the nexus 4, because of the fast updates ecc ecc..
but the Z is just amazing... so i will buy it next week.
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Those guys over on the Sony forum aren't all that reliable though to be fair
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But we have to believe someone don't you think so?or we all talking bul***t
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Oh really? Did your magical crystal ball told you or from where you know? I haven't found any statement from Sony regarding a fix yet
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Don't be so rude, why would you try to make me into a fool when you have no clue... Christ
abokorayem said:
iam about 2 buy a smart phone and cant choose between s4 and xperia z so i wanna ask few questions here
1-Octa core and quad core.....Much difference?
2-the camera compression which makes pics worse than s4....can it be solved by update?
3-what about sound quality is it that bad as they say in reviews?
thanks in advance
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If I may believe the technical people the 8 core processor should be able to extend your battery life which sounds logical to me. Speed wise though it shouldn't make too much of a difference since only max 4 cores are being used at the time in the S4 and not 8. Despite that I bet the S4 will have a better benchmark score than the Z, the real question though is if it would be a noticeable difference in real time daily use.
If the camera issue can be fixed? I don't see a reason why not since it isn't a hardware issue. Yet again, the question will be if Sony will fix it.
Sound quality from the speakers definitely isn't gonna wow you, I can guarantee. However it's not really that bad.. I agree that it has horrible placement and isn't really loud but I personally never use the speakers. I have my headphones and will soon purchase the NFC speakers so to me it isn't a big issue.
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If I may believe the technical people the 8 core processor should be able to extend your battery life which sounds logical to me. Speed wise though it shouldn't make too much of a difference since only max 4 cores are being used at the time in the S4 and not 8. Despite that I bet the S4 will have a better benchmark score than the Z, the real question though is if it would be a noticeable difference in real time daily use.
If the camera issue can be fixed? I don't see a reason why not since it isn't a hardware issue. Yet again, the question will be if Sony will fix it.
Sound quality from the speakers definitely isn't gonna wow you, I can guarantee. However it's not really that bad.. I agree that it has horrible placement and isn't really loud but I personally never use the speakers. I have my headphones and will soon purchase the NFC speakers so to me it isn't a big issue.
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And the first batches with galaxy s4 will come with snapdragon and not exynos. New octa exynos chips arent even being massproduced just yet and might take awhile. (P.S. This info might being outdated, this is what I last heard.)
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Hi there, first timer here. I'm hoping that XDA will be able to help with this question since I've noticed that there're are a few members who have the Xperia S (XS)and plan on switching to Xperia Z (XZ). Anyway, here goes:
Basically, I'm thinking of switching from XS to XZ.
However I've seen many complaints about how the loudspeakers and camera are subpar, or not as good as expected.
To be honest I don't care if the phone isn't that great. I'd be more than happy if it's better than my XS.
That being said, to the XS and XZ users on XDA, what do you say? I'd really appreciate some feedback on the following two points before I decide to buy.
1) Is the XZ camera better than the XS camera?
Edit: Well, actually, is it alright to say that it is a significant improvement?
2) Are the XZ loudspeakers better than those on the XS?
Or do they sound better (yes, I know this is really subjective...)?
I switched from S to Z.
So far so good
I switched from T to Z...
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Yes it is! I had S for 8 months and Z rocks! :victory:
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1) Is the XZ camera better than the XS camera?
Edit: Well, actually, is it alright to say that it is a significant improvement?
2) Are the XZ loudspeakers better than those on the XS?
Or do they sound better (yes, I know this is really subjective...)?
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I'm coming from XS too.
S was (is) a great phone.
Z is superior to S.
1) Camera in certains conditions can easy outperform S.
2) Speaker sounds good when mobile left on the table etc in landscape mode watching videos etc. Its a bit better when it comes to sound quality, but can't see really difference in volume levels. With headphones it outperforms S aswell.
Screen, battery life. Everything is better. Plus, forget about lag. Nova launcher does the job more than perfect.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
I've made the switch from S to Z. Feels good so far
Hi id like to get those feedbacks people
1 battery life compare to one x
2 build quality is it easy to scratch
3 power buttton being on top is it difficult
4 screen reflectiness
5 sound
6 camera day shots are they decent thanks
sorry for asking too many questions and thanks for answer advance
My Q ?
What is about heating?
WiFi direct file transfer ?
Video call directly from sense not Skype ?
Battery is far better then hox.
Sound is awesome nothing like it. For me it's too loud.
cihanleanne said:
Hi id like to get those feedbacks people
1 battery life compare to one x
2 build quality is it easy to scratch
3 power buttton being on top is it difficult
4 screen reflectiness
5 sound
6 camera day shots are they decent thanks
sorry for asking too many questions and thanks for answer advance
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Here is what I've tried so far,
1- still soon to tell
2- no, 10000 times better that the iPhone 5
3- not for me, but I kinda have big hands
4- waiting for sunshine to test, but the actual screen is awesome, much better than Xperia Z, laminated, excellent viewing angles, natural colors and so on
5- One word, CRRRRAAAAZZZZYYYYYY, the speaker are excellent, think laptop quality
6- Low light excellent, normal light: still waiting for that sunshine
7- No heating so far.
and NFC works beautifully with Sony SRS-BTV5
great any other aswers for other question
Tell you Monday lol
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arknailed7754 said:
Tell you Monday lol
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ok thanks be great
arknailed7754 said:
Tell you Monday lol........
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What about WiFi direct file transfer ? Samsung s2 can do that why not HTC ?
From HTC One S
cihanleanne said:
Hi id like to get those feedbacks people
1 battery life compare to one x
2 build quality is it easy to scratch
3 power buttton being on top is it difficult
4 screen reflectiness
5 sound
6 camera day shots are they decent thanks
sorry for asking too many questions and thanks for answer advance
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Seems good so far
Bit early to tell but I'm casing so won't know
Not really ideally better on side but never mind
Screen doesn't reflect much.
Sound is one of the best positives.its amazing
Camera quality great...its a bit better than one x.not revolutionary though or worth all the hype. But that's a days use so...who knows
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arknailed7754 said:
Seems good so far
Bit early to tell but I'm casing so won't know
Not really ideally better on side but never mind
Screen doesn't reflect much.
Sound is one of the best positives.its amazing
Camera quality great...its a bit better than one x.not revolutionary though or worth all the hype. But that's a days use so...who knows
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thanks a lot more feedbacks from others
Can someone please try taking a call with the phone plugged into the headset port (auxiliary) of a car stereo? With the S3 callers report a terrible echo of their voice when the call is played over the speaker, I didn't have this problem with previous android devices, and I'm curious if the HTC One properly handles this or if the caller hears terrible echo.
cihanleanne said:
Hi id like to get those feedbacks people
1 battery life compare to one x
2 build quality is it easy to scratch
3 power buttton being on top is it difficult
4 screen reflectiness
5 sound
6 camera day shots are they decent thanks
sorry for asking too many questions and thanks for answer advance
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1. Too early to tell. Especially new phone, means I'm constantly messing around with it.
2. Apart from my issue with a very tiny gap, build quality is fine. Some may disagree but in terms of workmanship my iphone is better. Phone does feel solid though
3. Slightly, you get use to it though
4. Good, not much reflection. No sun these days, so hard to get a judgement of reflection in sunlight.
5. Awsome! As good as you ever get on a phone.
6. Sorry, haven't taken any yet.
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1. Too early to tell. Especially new phone, means I'm constantly messing around with it.
2. Apart from my issue with a very tiny gap, build quality is fine. Some may disagree but in terms of workmanship my iphone is better. Phone does feel solid though
3. Slightly, you get use to it though
4. Good, not much reflection. No sun these days, so hard to get a judgement of reflection in sunlight.
5. Awsome! As good as you ever get on a phone.
6. Sorry, haven't taken any yet.
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Thanks
hi all
i was wondering if it worth upgrade to xperia z from Lg optimums 4x, or should i keep it
lg is worse in dev support and camera in the dark can not capture a thing
Do it.
You answered your own question mate.
It's a great phone!
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The sony xperia z seems to have problems, through reading and personal experience. I still think its a great phone.
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that's what worried me
the review seem to be different than personal experience as the case about my current 4x the reviews criticized the phone but it's not that bad
what about the heat issue (i'm normal user -internet, facebook, camera, music- ) and glass crack
If you don't play games this phone is amazing.
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gm007 said:
If you don't play games this phone is amazing.
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does it heat alot while gaming
because i sell my s2 and s3 for the heating issue
heahmad said:
does it heat alot while gaming
because i sell my s2 and s3 for the heating issue
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It heats up just like the S3 or any other dual/quad core cpu smartphone. You won't find a smartphone with a cpu like that which won't heat up - unfortunatelly.
Akiainavas said:
It heats up just like the S3 or any other dual/quad core cpu smartphone. You won't find a smartphone with a cpu like that which won't heat up - unfortunatelly.
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unfortunatelly thats true, so today i went to the shop and try the xperia z and it was great the screen look perfect(i compare it to note 2) the touch and feel of the phone is super great and the phone it self look appealing, there is one thing the sound is bit lower than i expected.
i will buy it the end of the month, hope so! :fingers-crossed:
thank you all
Akiainavas said:
It heats up just like the S3 or any other dual/quad core cpu smartphone. You won't find a smartphone with a cpu like that which won't heat up - unfortunatelly.
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As stated here, no cooling fans etc, high cpu speed packed into small bundle, very limited to disipate the heat generated. No phone is not going to head up significantly when under load, the more Cores and GHz the more heat
Hey guys I also upgraded to Xperia z from the note 2 (went for the looks, ignoring the inside cooks)...
and I also made the dealer apply a screenguard on that phone straightaway...
But the picture quality of the phone seems to be a little bad than note 2....
I compared both the phones having same pic on both the phones but note 2 seems to have sharper images....
Do I have a problem with my phone or is it like this originally.?
rohan999 said:
Hey guys I also upgraded to Xperia z from the note 2 (went for the looks, ignoring the inside cooks)...
and I also made the dealer apply a screenguard on that phone straightaway...
But the picture quality of the phone seems to be a little bad than note 2....
I compared both the phones having same pic on both the phones but note 2 seems to have sharper images....
Do I have a problem with my phone or is it like this originally.?
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Turn OFF the Bravia Engine, then see what you think. I much prefer it off.
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alias_neo said:
Turn OFF the Bravia Engine, then see what you think. I much prefer it off.
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I think you did not get me.....
I said that the displays not as sharp as the s3's or note 2's....
the display is sort of blurrish.....(very little)
very dull.... Colors are not very bright at all......
rohan999 said:
I think you did not get me.....
I said that the displays not as sharp as the s3's or note 2's....
the display is sort of blurrish.....(very little)
very dull.... Colors are not very bright at all......
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I got you perfectly.
Turn off Bravia engine and see what you think, I feel it affected the sharpness, I came from an S3 and think the display on the XZ is incredibly sharp.
As for the "dull" colours, it's probably because the SuperAMOLED screens in the GN2 and the S3 were very saturated compared to the LCD in the XZ, personally though, I always used my S3 in "Standard" display mode which removed much of the saturation and I'm a lot happier with the more realistic colours of the XZ.
The camera on the other hand is a different story, and I find it difficult to get photos that come close to what I could take on my S3, too much post processing I presume on the XZ, and they don't do a very good job of it.
rohan999 said:
I think you did not get me.....
I said that the displays not as sharp as the s3's or note 2's....
the display is sort of blurrish.....(very little)
very dull.... Colors are not very bright at all......
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Take into consideration the resolution of the image you are testing. This is a full hd screen so it needs full hd images to compare or it will just stretch them causing blurred.
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has any one notice or read somewhere about screen leakage
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Take into consideration the resolution of the image you are testing. This is a full hd screen so it needs full hd images to compare or it will just stretch them causing blurred.
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Its not just the image I am comparing, it's also the ui of the phone.
alias_neo said:
I got you perfectly.
Turn off Bravia engine and see what you think, I feel it affected the sharpness, I came from an S3 and think the display on the XZ is incredibly sharp.
As for the "dull" colours, it's probably because the SuperAMOLED screens in the GN2 and the S3 were very saturated compared to the LCD in the XZ, personally though, I always used my S3 in "Standard" display mode which removed much of the saturation and I'm a lot happier with the more realistic colours of the XZ.
The camera on the other hand is a different story, and I find it difficult to get photos that come close to what I could take on my S3, too much post processing I presume on the XZ, and they don't do a very good job of it.
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Bravia engine works only in the gallery and videos, I taken. Into account the user interface as well
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Its not just the image I am comparing, it's also the ui of the phone.
Bravia engine works only in the gallery and videos, I taken. Into account the user interface as well
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I see, I'm afraid I can't really contribute any further to the discussion in that case. personally I think on my device it looks much sharper than my S3 did.
Does this issue show up in a screenshot? Perhaps there is some strange graphical issue with your device.
Hi there,
I was excited when I bought my XZ yesterday. Everything's awesome about this device..except for one thing. The camera quality is a joke. I've had an Xperia Ion prior to the Z and that device's camera was way superior. I expected the quality to be better than the Ion's or at least the same. But this is not the case.
I'm feeling like using CameraZOOM fx improves the image quality a bit, but yet not well enough.
Does anyone know whether I can do something about this issue or not?
Thank you very much in advance.
There is a definite problem with the camera on this phone which so far Sony have both failed to acknowledge or fix.
The lense is the same as the S4 and the image quality on that is a million times better...
Strange
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Either take it back, cos it's faulty, or go to the optician, cos your eyes are faulty!
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T0b3 said:
Hi there,
I was excited when I bought my XZ yesterday. Everything's awesome about this device..except for one thing. The camera quality is a joke. I've had an Xperia Ion prior to the Z and that device's camera was way superior. I expected the quality to be better than the Ion's or at least the same. But this is not the case.
I'm feeling like using CameraZOOM fx improves the image quality a bit, but yet not well enough.
Does anyone know whether I can do something about this issue or not?
Thank you very much in advance.
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Wow...really?
Maybe have a read here.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39383273
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Hi everyone,hi to all my friends.
I want to ask very important question.Z1's camera is very bad I think. I am waiting for a better camera. My old phone Xperia Arc is better than Z1.Is this a software problem? Is there anyone who thinking like me? Or Are there some special settings for camera?
Mazellat said:
Hi everyone,hi to all my friends.
I want to ask very important question.Z1's camera is very bad I think. I am waiting for a better camera. My old phone Xperia Arc is better than Z1.Is this a software problem? Is there anyone who thinking like me? Or Are there some special settings for camera?
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yeah number of people are complaining for camera... actually hardware specs are good enough for a mobile but sony's software is a complete mess... all you can do is wait and try to upgrade it to latest version...
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yeah number of people are complaining for camera... actually hardware specs are good enough for a mobile but sony's software is a complete mess... all you can do is wait and try to upgrade it to latest version...
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What is the best stock firmware for camera? Are all firmwares same?
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Mazellat said:
What is the best stock firmware for camera? Are all firmwares same?
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you should use the latest one..of course latest will be a bit better.firmware is available here just check forum.....or use pc companion
Hello,
I am also very unhappy with the camera.
Today I updated my firmware from 534 to 257 and I cannot see any differences in the pictures.
But this is only my view, maybe there are improvements which I do not see.
What is the problem? I have to admit I am quite happy with the camera.
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Guys these are two shots I took with the new firmware... not too bad I guess
This is @1000 iso... noise level is pretty good and white balance is better than earlier
This is in daylight with plenty of details
I think camera-quality is just where you can realistically expect it.
About on par or better than cheap compacts with same sensor-size, but as you can expect it can´t compete with high-end compacts like Canon G-Series, Panasonic LX, Olympus XZ or similar (I don´t want to mention Sony RX100(II) of course which is far ahead).
On the positive side is relatively low NR of luminance-noise which leaves most fine detail intact, virtually no ugly chroma-noise without the colors being washed out up to the highest sensitivities and quite low contrast which leads to quite good DR for a phone-camera (and of course also doesn´t hide the noise by clipping to black like many other phones)
Negative is mostly the camera-app, unfortunately most other phones aren´t better here as well:
The so called "Manual" mode is a joke, on a real camera this would qualify as P-Mode as most, but certainly not M.
Why are the even give you the chance to adjust ISO while not telling you the shutter-speed the camera will use is beyond me. It is not useful to set ISO yourself when you don´t know which shutter-speed you well get. Of course a real shutter-priority-mode would be much better, but I guess that´s to much to ask.
Superior-Auto is too limiting. I know this mode is meant for point&shoot, but I think the possibility to choose the AR you like wouldn´t be to overwhelming for beginners. And of course that you can only start superior-auto from the lockscreen or with the camera-button also is very stupid.
Besides the scene-recognition of superior-auto is also a bit hit&miss.
Also sharpening can be somewhat high, which emphasizes noise and can destroy fine detail.