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Sony Xperia Z2 Officially Announced
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cartoon_soldier
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If I could get a Google Play edition for this...I would buy one.
Not sure I want Sony's Android OS
Not sure I want Sony's Android OS
Officially, Z1 is 680€ in my country. Second hand models [brand new or few days of use] go for 350€. When price of Z2 goes down to ~350€, I will seriously consider getting one.
Z1 OS is very close to stock android. Just few changes here and there. It can be transformed into 99% of stock look very easily.
Benjamin1981
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There are two docking stations for the Z2.
The plain docking station DK36 without any features (basically the same as the Z1 docking station) and the new bluetooth docking speaker BSC10 which features a 5 watt speaker, One touch connectivity via NFC, dedicated buttons for call answering, power, volume controls. It looks pretty nice.
YuriLowell
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Please come to verizon, please.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
This is probably my next phone unless the new HTC phone wows me.
OmegaSkittle
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Really need this to come to Verizon. Still rocking a Droid Bionic. I think it's time for an upgrade
Pankratous
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What the hell, this looks way better than Galaxy S5
My upgrade isn't until October...on AT&T (but I have unlimited data :3)
Z was better than S3.
Z1 was better than S4.
Z2 will be better than S5.
The trend continues, Sony are easily the best phone developers and mass-market fails to recognize it. Not to mention very little bloatware, unlike Samsung whose phones are just full of rubbish.
Yeah, I feel like there are 20 apps on my phone that I cannot delete. Looks like I might go Sony this time. First smartphone was Apple, than Samsung, and now Sony <3
Unless the iPhone is somehow better (doubt it!)
You don't think Sony will make a Blue version of the Z2? :3
Oh no.... ;((((((((((((((((
I've just googled it.
Both docking-stations are absolute trash AGAIN!
Done wrong:
This is the BSC10 docking-station for the Z2
Explanation:
You have to put the Z2 in the DS and afterwards you have to move the smartphone left&right until it docks on.
This alone is horrible, because you have to hold the DS with one hand and the smartphone in the other hand.
Afterwards, if you want to take the smartphone with you again, you have to hold the DS again with one hand and pull the smartphone out of it with the other hand.
It's the same with the Z1 docking-station. Horrible!
Done right:
The DK26 docking-station of the Xperia Z
Do you see the "hole" in the DK26?
Just put the Xperia Z into the DS. The smartphone will slip into the "hole" of the DS
and voilà -> it's docked on. Just one hand, just one move.
Better yet -> You wanna take it out of the DS? Just take the Z out of it, easily, with one hand.
The DS won't move, the smartphone un-docks itself -> easy as hell! Just as it should!!!!
Why in the hell have they switched to the "clip" mechanic?
Holding the DS everytime with one hand if you wann pull the smartphone out? WHAT THE FUCK!?!?
Ruins the whole smartphone for me. Will keep the Xperia Z and its awesome docking-station.
Sickboy007
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I'm just waiting for the z1 compact to get a little cheaper to snag one.
Himynameischris
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Ugh this needs to come to Sprint, I already missed out on the first one 
Kiraly
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sweetvar26
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pretty much the same. I crossed out S5 after seeing the leaked designs today. Now it is either the Z2 or the new HTC flagship.
shinshoryuken
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Let's not get carried away...
Z was not better than the s3...with its horrible screen it can't be better than any phone during that time.
Z1 was not better than the the One or the g2...the screen still look like crap.
Z2 so far seems better than the S5.
There is a reason the mass-market fails to recognize it....buthe hopefully it change with the Z2.
UtterlyPerplexed
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It feels odd. Samsung's S5 is due to be announced in a few hours, but the hype for it just feels so flat this time round. So much so I get the feeling we're going to go away tonight more wowed by the Z2 than the S5. Design certainly wows me. It's not much different, but when you've nailed the design as best you can amidst all the other Android OEM attempts, why change it?
I really don't see why they need to release a flagship every six months. It should come to no surprise that each new addition will be very incremental in improvement over the last one given such a short window space between releases.
Plus it makes the tablet situation look a bit weird later on. An Xperia Z3 tablet this time next year will look numerically odd next to the probable announcement of the Z4.
That being said, just got the Z1 Compact. It's brilliant, a definitive step up from my old Samsung Galaxy Ace, but it feels weird that just as the smaller brother of the Z1 comes out, the Z2 pops up. Dunno if Sony should have just went straight for a Z2 Compact instead.
I really don't see why they need to release a flagship every six months. It should come to no surprise that each new addition will be very incremental in improvement over the last one given such a short window space between releases.
Plus it makes the tablet situation look a bit weird later on. An Xperia Z3 tablet this time next year will look numerically odd next to the probable announcement of the Z4.
That being said, just got the Z1 Compact. It's brilliant, a definitive step up from my old Samsung Galaxy Ace, but it feels weird that just as the smaller brother of the Z1 comes out, the Z2 pops up. Dunno if Sony should have just went straight for a Z2 Compact instead.
hitsugi
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Well the mass-market is being influenced by millions and millions of dollars..
longdi
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since Z1C is taking forever here, i would be getting this Z2 instead. But i dont like Sony 6 month schedule, it means Z1 users will feel left out on the software upgrades...technically, almost anything Z2 can do, Z1 should be able...has Sony said anything about supporting older phones?
longdi
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i would be a Z1 user by now if not for the shitty viewing angles, still surprised some here can spin it as anything but crappy, and i a firm believer there was no screen lottery for Z/ZL/Z1, all 3 phones have shit screens no matter the production batch.
Pankratous
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Not sure what broken Z you were looking at, but the screen on mine is incredible. 1080p, incredibly vibrant, full of colour, appropriately saturated.
Samsung phones, from my experience, have a tendency to be horribly over-saturated.
And let's not get carried away thinking that screen is the only factor anyway. Z trounced S3 in both processor speed and had double the RAM.
I'd say they are slowly recognizing it since sonys share keeps going up. They still have a large buffer between them at #2 and Samsung at #1 though
this is extremely subjective but you push it like a fact.....
jonnyp
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Seriously, what's wrong with the Z1 screen? I have one, everyone who's seen it says it looks amazing.
shinshoryuken
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Im using the a Z1 right now...the c6906 model, and have a g2 and an HTC One. If I you are not comparing the screen of z1 with those device then the z1 is passable, but having used other device with excellent screens... It's just downright shameful.
I'm making big deal of the screen cause its what you are looking at 99 percent of the time.
Sickboy007
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Elegance is subjective. I always found the industrial, minimalistic approach of Sony very elegant in its functionalism.
Deadly Cyclone
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I'm up for a new phone this fall and so far this is at the top of my list. We'll see what the iPhone 6 and new Note have to offer.
maquiladora
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I just got the Z1 Compact. All the awesomeness without the hugeness. Highly recommend it,
hitsugi
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perhaps a Z2 Compact won't take so long to come around this time.
Sickboy007
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I hope they give the Z1c some time to breath, would be a real shame if they didn't.
cartoon_soldier
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Really? Wow
I will wait for Z2 to them come out and read reviews. How is Sony about keeping the OS version up to date?
Pankratous
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I can confirm that Sony's OS is indeed close to stock. I'd say it's better, to be honest.
They are about the same as everyone else in terms of updating, at least in the UK.
I've had my Xperia Z since February 28th 2013. It's had 4 updates since then. It started on 4.1.
4.2, 4.3, and two of their own little tweaks to each of those versions. It's due to get 4.4 at the end of this month, or the beginning of March.
I quite like most of the changes Sony made with the launcher and all that, but the lock screen is atrocious.
There are 3-4 panels that were used on the Z1 and at least 2 of them have horrid viewing angles.
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