Don't see all the hate, looks pretty stunning to me.
Sony still nail gorgeous high-end design in a way Samsung can only dream of.
Don't see all the hate, looks pretty stunning to me.
Sony still nail gorgeous high-end design in a way Samsung can only dream of.
But it was released last year in SeptemberI just got a Z3 two years ago. Love that phone.
Don't fix what ain't broke.
The Z1 has been the best phone I've owned. Z4 will probably be my upgrade.
Funny, since Sony Mobile is pretty much broke as a joke.
They need to do something else than launching slightly updated iterations of the same phones over and over again.
Looks a little disappointing, if I'm honest.
Still 1080p?
The only upgrade here really is the processor. That's all. And the Z3 is already wicked fast.
After handling a Galaxy S6... everything Sony looks really freaking dated.
The UI in particular reeks of the mid 00's. Sony needs to update its visual layer ASAP.
Disagree mate. Compare Sony album vs Samsung gallery, and you tell me Sony ui is old...
Same thing with the movies, music, dialler, notification, settings. Samsung ui looks guady.
So Sony went back to the design of the Z2? It's exactly the same phone down to the speaker grills, but with a newer SoC and smaller battery. Feels like I just got a new phone lol.
Disagree mate. Compare Sony album vs Samsung gallery, and you tell me Sony ui is old...
Same thing with the movies, music, dialler, notification, settings. Samsung ui looks guady.
Yeah especially on 5.0... Sony's software is incredibly modern looking.
Yeah :/Looks like a slimmer Z2, but with poorer battery on a SD 810....what a way to go out of biz.
I'll never get a Samsung device as long as they put physical buttons on all their models. Give me a clean bezel with on-screen buttons any day.
That being said the Z4 is a disappointment coming from a Z3 owner. Only thing of note is the additional RAM, but not worth upgrading if you already have a Z3.
So you'd rather have the huge Sony bezel? The physical buttons on Samsung prove useful (double tap to launch camera) and the bezel on the S6 is small. Also doubles as their now very good fingerprint reader on the S6. I've seen nothing but praise for it.
There's only one phone that springs to mind that has on-screen buttons and a small bezel, the Nexus 6.
I'll never get a Samsung device as long as they put physical buttons on all their models. Give me a clean bezel with on-screen buttons any day.
That being said the Z4 is a disappointment coming from a Z3 owner. Only thing of note is the additional RAM, but not worth upgrading if you already have a Z3.
There is no additional RAM. Both the Z3 and Z4 have 3GB.
But but but phones need to be thinner!Another battery downgrade. Just lol
Another battery downgrade. Just lol
But but but phones need to be thinner!
I can actually notice the density bump from my iPhone 4S retina to my Xperia Z1 1080p 5" (326 vs 441ppi) It's pretty glaring. Higher? Probably not. It's a sweet-spot for now in phones unless you are doing OLED maybe.Those "thin"- wars are more pointless than the resolution ones, and that is saying something.
Probably the two most idiotic and pointless trends since the point&shoot megapixel wars of the mid-late '00s.Those "thin"- wars are more pointless than the resolution ones, and that is saying something.
I can actually notice the density bump from my iPhone 4S retina to my Xperia Z1 1080p 5" (326 vs 441ppi) It's pretty glaring. Higher? Probably not. It's a sweet-spot for now in phones unless you are doing OLED maybe.
The thin wars are really pointless now. I can't think of why you'd want a phone thinner than an iPhone 4S and certainly not a Z1 not at the expense of battery and in the case of the iPhone 5/5P at the expense of an ugly camera sticking out.
So yeah I agree.
Another battery downgrade. Just lol
Oh I know, well, the spec-bumps have been more or less energy neutral but the real issue is making the batteries thinner. The other problem is that mobile parts are stagnating once again and the bigger benefits you get now are in power management which typically means turning off your phone in creative ways, when this isn't possible, you feel the full burn of the smaller battery.Its the combination of increased specs, while batteries are getting downgraded. It feels like they (they as in the smartphone manufacturers) are building their phones less and less for the customer and more and more to outspec/outthin their competition.