Review on 'Sony Xperia Z' smartphone & design of 'Sony Xperia Z series'.

I have purchase 'Sony Xperia Z' on 17th September 2014, so I am sharing my experience and observation with you which are may be limited but different and from my perspective, (It may be also relevant for new Sony Xperia Z series e.g. Z2, Z3 as their body shape is exactly the same) for clarity in three headings:

Vantages:

1- Hardly hangs in any of the operations

2- Good provided ringtones

3- Wow, Camera quality, as always with Sony mobiles, both front and rare cameras are amazing

4- Itself ask to update latest Android

5- Fast processing even with high definition games

6- Good memory space and you can add microSD cards as well

7- Great battery life, play games on and on.......best among the phones I used and heard of


Minuses:

1- Speakers are not that powerful (same issue as my old Xperia Sola phone)

2- Location of the speaker is not suitable for people who hold the phone on his right hand, hand covers it & also when you play games and hold it horizontally, finger also covers it

3- Very soon & easily gets really heat-up, if you have not used any other waterproof phone, then especially at first it surprises & annoys you

4- When you set Alarm, first tap 'Set' but does not set the alarm, then on the next window you have to tap 'Done' as well. (New issue introduced, as it was not there with my old Xperia Sola)

5-Too much extra space around the display, especially at the bottom

Suggestions to introduce in your mobile:

1- Wireless FM radio should now be introduce, even Pakistani 'QMobile' phones has wireless FM radio system

2- Dual speakers on different positions should be introduce like 'OnePlus One' phones or something to have that great music effect that dual speakers produced

Conclusion:

All in all a very good mobile for those who wants to purchase a good & latest Android mobile, one year ago it used to be the flagship mobile for Sony but still good enough to have as an excellent mobile

For more about this phone:
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-z/
and
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z-5204.php

Purchasing Date: 17-09-2014
Price: 31k Pakistani Rupees

My related blog:

1-Review on 'Sony Xperia Sola' mobile phone
http://bit.ly/ZWyHtP

2-Review on 'Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro', Nokia 101 & Samsung C160 Mobile Phones, its Vantages and Minuses
http://bit.ly/w3es4S

Review on 'Sony Xperia Sola' mobile phone

I have purchase 'Sony Xperia Sola' on 24th December 2012, so I am sharing my experience and observation with you, for clarity in three headings:

Vantages:

1- Hardly hangs in any of the operations
2- Amazingly reactive touch screen
3- Great themes, especially its main picture
4- Good provided ringtones
5- Wow, picture quality
6- SmartTags are a good thought, but for those who have to open few things at the same time


Minuses:

1- No front camera, alasss.......
2- Speakers are not that powerful, and also they are behind the mobile but has 3D surround sound enhancement which is even Sony Xperia's prime mobile Xperia Z lacks
3- It hurts when your friend's Samsung having good WIFI signals, and you're Xperia Sola is disconnecting off and on (It happened only once, but Sony has a very high standards, so I am writing it as a minus even it happened only once)
4- Android version is 2.3.7 (Gingerbread), you may find information that its upgradable to Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich) but when you try to update software through 'Sony PC Companion 2.1' it says that softwares are already updated, so you may have to find another way
5- Setting Alarm, you can easily understand from one example, i.e. if the time is set 2:30 and you want to set it to 3:00, then you have to scroll minute section 6 times.

Neither good nor bad:

1-Its new technology of  'Magic Touch or Floating Touch', after the enhancement of this technology this can be the future delight but not now, you need hours and hours practice to touch the icons, all you can do easily with this is to play with the theme's main picture but the wallpaper which animate with magic touch its phenomenal 
2- Battery life is neither great nor very bad but somewhere in between

Conclusion:

All in all a very good mobile for those who wants to purchase a good Android mobile which is not very expensive.

For more about this phone:
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-sola/
and
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_sola-4408.php 

 

My related blog:

Review on 'Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro', Nokia 101 & Samsung C160 Mobile Phones, its Vantages and Minuses

http://bit.ly/w3es4S

Review on 'Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro', Nokia 101 & Samsung C160 Mobile Phones, its Vantages and Minuses

1st time I purchased a mobile phone 'Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro' which has a mobile operating system and it happens to be 'Android 2.1 Eclair', So I thought I should write my review regarding the phone

Vantages:

1. Sony Ericsson camera is by far the best this was the most cheap mobile phone at least among well known mobile companies which had 5 Mega pixel camera, and it has facilities of Auto, Macro, Twilight and Sports, good video quality as well
2. Very powerful flashlight
3. Extremely good response of touch screen
4. Small size so it does not take much space in pocket
5. Fast processing
6. Excellent Sound
7. QWERTY Keyboard    
8. Scratch-resistant glass
9. Good life of Battery
10. Android operating system
11. Very solid & durable, people often regard Nokia as the champion in that perspective but I have my personal experience, short story that made me to say that; when I was on top of a running bus and it fell down from my pocket, its back cover and phone was scattered on the road the few cars and motorcycles must have passed from it as the back cover was flat and there were scratches on the phone, then I came from one stop ahead as bus dragged me there, the phone was turned off, when I switched on the phone it took some time but surprisingly it turned on, only the external memory card (SD Card) which I purchased separately was not working, otherwise phone was working fine and there was not a single scratch on the screen. :)

Minuses:

1. Android 2.1 cannot be upgradable to any further advancement, so all applications install on mobile and not on SD Card
2. Only 128 MB of internal (mobile memory), so if you want to install a bit heavy application then uninstall other applications
3. Mobile is kind of heavy 120 g or .12 Kg
4. Does not have multi-touch
5. Extremely bad Bluetooth (Even Bluetooth applications does not work well with it)
6. No default zoom in Camera
7. Some people really like it but I personally don't like threaded view SMS

Price: In (May 2011) the price of the mobile was 18,500 Pakistani rupees.

Note: This review is given on the basis of default functionalities of the phones, android applications may enhance these functions.

For details of phone: http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_x10_mini_pro-3147.php

                             
                   My 2nd phone for review is 'Nokia 101', it is a simple phone with 2 SIMS capability

Vantages: 

1.  Relatively cheaper phone having 2 SIMS among well known mobile companies
2. Very loud &  good sound quality (Mp3 player and Radio)
3. Perform operation at a faster pace, good software
4. Has reasonable no. of games for this price mobile 
5. Urdu language support
6. MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 16 GB
7. Good quality battery
8. Flashlight quality is good
9. Good no. of themes & screen savers

Minuses:

1. Biggest minus of this phone is that SMS inbox and outbox timings & dates do not show with SMS
2. Once the contact is added, you can't edit the name, only number you can edit 
   
3. No MMS
4. Can't play MP3 without connecting handset with the phone
5. No facility for Internet
6. After reading SMS pushing side navigation key button do not allow you to enter into the next or previous SMS
7. When you navigate FM channels by numbers, it sound a loud 'BEEP' which is hurting on ears
8. Battery charges very slowly

                                           

Price: In (December 2011) the price of the mobile was 2,450 Pakistani rupees.

For details of phone: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_101-4121.php 


                                My 3rd phone for review is 'Samsung C160', it is just a simple phone
Vantages:

1. Internet availability at this price among well known mobile companies
2. Very light Weight & slim
3. Good & loud quality of sound for Radio
4. Good quality battery
5. After reading SMS pushing side navigation key button allow you to enter into the next or previous SMS

 Minuses:

1. Can hold very less no. of   SMS only 100
2. Very slow software

                                                           

Price: In (February 2008) the price of the mobile was 18,000 Pakistani rupees.

For details of phone: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_c160-1922.php


Also check my related blog:

Review on 'Sony Xperia Sola' mobile phone
http://bit.ly/ZWyHtP