Of course you can't always read the small print that is rendered, but it's quite surprising how often, and how much, can be read. It is irritating that viewing angles aren't great for sideways glances at the phone, but we feel we are niggling a little there in the face of a superb hardware feature. An innovation we're not so happy with is the transparent strip that runs horizontally near the bottom of the phone.
Embedded in it are icons for the Android Home, Back and Menu functions. But there's no touch sensitivity in it, and so to activate those functions you need to tap at touch sensitive dots in the area above the strip. Even though they are very small it is weird not tapping the icons themselves, and the sensitivity of the dots isn't great.
The strip also glows to deliver alerts, which will either endear or irritate you we weren't great fans , and it integrates the antenna. This strip adds a couple of millimetres to the overall size of the Xperia S too, making it a rather lanky mm tall. It is 64mm wide and This makes it too big for some pockets and too large for many hands - including mine - to reach right across the screen for one handed use. The handset weighs a slightly heavy g too.
There is another little irritation about the chassis design. We rather like its square look - rounded corners are everywhere, and the square ones here are distinctive. But the slightly convex backplate annoys.
It does nothing for grip, but it does mean the phone wobbles a bit on the desk if you tap at the screen. A minor annoyance, but for a phone into which Sony has put such design effort, one worth noting. These are far from widespread at the moment, though we expect them to become more popular as time goes on.
While Sony may have moved us with its screen it has irritated us with its attitude to battery and memory.
Sony equips the Xperia S with a 1,mAh battery. That's capacious for a smartphone battery, but it has a lot of work to do keeping the processor and screen going. Image stabilization mostly worked and I even tried shooting video in HDR mode, which works in certain extreme conditions shooting under direct sunlight, for instance.
I believe this will soon become a common feature in most high-end smartphones. Sony has promised to update it to 4. I like the fact that the UI on top of stock Android is minimal and that Sony has gone with onscreen navigation controls than having three buttons below the display. The feature essentially kills all background updates while the display is turned off and saves battery during standby mode.
It is a nice addition for non-power users and it is customizable too to add apps to the whitelist that can access the Internet during that time.
During my testing that lasted for a week I could barely pass through 15 hours with my heavy usage with two email ids, a Twitter account, about two hours of calls and about four hours of Internet usage. With similar usage, the HTC Butterfly lasted me for slightly almost 22 hours. Having said that, switching on the stamina mode improves the performance drastically. The Xperia Z should easily see through a day of medium usage.
I did not experience any lag whatsoever and the phone essentially would take on any app or game currently available on Android Play Store with no difficulties. I did not face any problem with the call quality and neither did I face any call drops. It performs its job as a phone. The Xperia Z is really a mixed bag kind of device. The design is pretty but has its own set of flaws. The camera has the highest resolution sensor available in the market on an Android smartphone today but its performance is average.
The battery performs above par if you are willing to sacrifice being online at all times. The display has the highest pixel density on a smartphone for now but suffers from poor viewing angles. The only thing that really works for the Xperia Z is its pricing but that is more about HTC failing to price the Butterfly sensibly. It is water resistant too but it remains to be seen whether that is a killer feature for which buyers would choose the Xperia Z.
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