Japanese Xperia Z has different specs

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boshiku

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Jan 23, 2013 at 3:17 PM
One of major differences is that Japanese model has One Seg tv tuner and IR blaster installed. LTE bands are, however, limited to local bands only, so it is not global LTE you can find in models outside of japan.
and btw, it would be available here on Feb 9th, so I guess it will be debut on home turf.:cowboy:
 
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Riyal

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Jan 24, 2013 at 12:57 AM
Did a research lol! :D And yes it's a tv tuner :p and what's great was I found the info on a review of HTC Butterfly J :)

Anyways it's available only on Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru so yeah pretty useless.

But just wondering they all keep saying the devices have the same hardware. So would that mean that even the global Xperia Z has the capabilities of infrared blaster and 1seg but is just disabled?
 
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Jan 24, 2013 at 4:15 AM
Even though the Japanese Z seems to have 'extra' features, remember however that since they wont be available outside Japan, development will be very limited, if any. The safest bet would be to go for an 'International' version with an unlocked bootloader.
 
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martindesu

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Jan 24, 2013 at 8:46 AM
anirudh412 said:
Even though the Japanese Z seems to have 'extra' features, remember however that since they wont be available outside Japan, development will be very limited, if any. The safest bet would be to go for an 'International' version with an unlocked bootloader.
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Unless you live in Japan ;)
 
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Jan 26, 2013 at 1:43 AM
Well, I am seriously considering getting this phone here in Japan; but I would like to be able to root and flash AOSP as I have done with my Galaxy Nexus, which is the Japanese variant.

I'm looking forward to unlocked bootloaders and AOSP ROMs :)
 
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Jan 26, 2013 at 5:22 AM
Japan has no GSM, it has WCDMA, cdma2000-1x, and LTE as well as an almost totally dead 2G network called PDC.

Japanese one-seg tuners may be able to physically receive south american signals but they can't decode them due to different encodings on the streams. ISDB-T is used in japan. Elsewhere uses a slight variant called ISDB-Tb.

Japanese XZ is supposed to be quad band GSM, triband WCDMA and hexa-band LTE-FDD vs I believe penta-band WCDMA elsewhere.
 
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