[OFFICIAL]Xperia Z vs Galaxy S4 & All Upcoming Phones-Don't start new threads

[xperiax10.awesome]

Hi guys,
What you guys thinking, are you gonna quickly buy Xperia Z or planning to wait for the official announcement of Samsung Galaxy S4 or other phones!!

CONCLUSION

Buy Xperia Z - if you believe in Style with sufficient power.
Buy Galaxy S4 - if you want power house with Galaxy Signature design
Buy HTC One - if you want better sound, better display + Style << Xperia Z

XPERIA Z - My Opinion:
As m coming from Galaxy Note 2, i will compare these two and here are what I think the Pros & Cons of Xperia Z:

Pros:
-Beautiful Design
-Waterproof
-Good Camera (Rear only)
-Good Screen (View Straight)

Cons:
-Not the best screen (viewing angles)
-Speaker position is horrible
-Poor Battery Life (compared to Note2)
-Front Camera not so good
-Overheating Issues (can tolerate as its waterproof)
-Cannot use Default Launcher with Xperia Widgets: Lags like anything

WHAT I AM MISSING COMING FROM NOTE 2:
-MultiWindow
-Large Screen
-Customizable Notification Bar
-S-Pen

For Below Comparison - credit goes to Bjray

MOD EDIT: Please use this thread for all your comparisons between the Xperia Z and any other phone you're thinking of buying to reduce clutter in the forums with repeat threads.

Thanks

 

[Tomatoes8]

It is only a couple of months so I would wait. Of course two months could seem like an awfully long time so easier said than done. lol

 

[Jimmy34742]

S4. I want to be able to install an extended battery.

 

[brangalm]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

S4. I want to be able to install an extended battery.

Agreed. Or swap batteries. Either way. I was planning on going with Sony this time around, but since no other company will be smart and allow it, my money will unfortunately continue to go to Samsung.

 

[ssj_jaypee]

S4 will be significantly better.

Xperia Z only competes currently with S3 and it's an old device.

 

[grimmyrippy]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

Wait another 5 months if you can, in that time many new devices will come up specially if there's a new nexus device

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[lokenok]

damn bought the nexus 4 1 day before they announced the ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

 

[LitoNi]

Isnt there another flagship phone from Sony for the H2 of 2013?

Rumors said its Quad core A15 cortex. phone with 3300 mAh battery and 16mp Camera.

 

[sachinaik]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

My experience with Sammy:

1. Bought s2. The audio quality was real ****ty. Then the cheap plastic feel. The plastic thing surrounding bezel cracked in two places. Sold it.
2. Bought S3. Immediately disappointed because of how 833 MB ram is always occupied by Sammy ****ty bkground processes.
- frequent foreground app kills
- volume button creeking sound.
- fed up with protective back cover getting getting shaded by dusty color. Yes they forced everyone to buy white s3.
- ****ty battery always at 44 - 48 degrees.
- very plasticky n i've managed to never drop it. Living in a fear.
- cross hatch patterns on screen is viewable.

So I know what Sammy does. It wants to always keep their loyal customer buy their phone every year.
Also 8cores in 28nm will be a disaster I think.

But if I buy Xperia Z, I feel I can be happy with this phone for another two years.

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[-A-P-M-]

I had all Galaxy S phones and currently still got Galaxy S3. There are a few things which I hope Samsung will improve, if not, I won't buy their phone again. One is cheap materials - for example, a lot of SGS3 from first batch had a silver trim, which cracked even if phone didn't drop. Second, Samsung doesn't provide needed sources and developers (CM) can't build stable rom without bugs. Because of those reasons Im tempted to get Nexus or Xperia Z. Since Nexus 4 is hard to get, Im considering Xperia Z, because it looks very premium, they used high quality materials and also Sony provides sources to developers - opposite to Samsung.

 

[xperiax10.awesome]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

Isnt there another flagship phone from Sony for the H2 of 2013?

Rumors said its Quad core A15 cortex. phone with 3300 mAh battery and 16mp Camera.

I am going to buy Xperia Z and hope there will be no other flagship from Sony atleast till year end !!

sent from Giant Killer Galaxy Note 2

 

[i9100g user]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

Hi guys,
What you guys thinking, are you gonna quickly buy Xperia Z or planning to wait for the official announcement of Samsung Galaxy S4 !!

I want Sony to release Xperia Z at the earliest (by Feb end atleast) to avoid confusion amongst probable buyers !!

sent from Giant Killer Galaxy Note 2

I guess you should wait for something better than xperia z it still uses s4 pro processor/gpu which is still around the note 2 s so I think wait for s4, optimus g2, or something newer

Also battery would be unremovable
And I guess a bit less than note 2
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[pongnamu]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

I will buy xperia z. It is like when you wait for s3, a better one comes out. We wait. Another better one comes out........ Electronics improve day by day.

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[AayushDhuria]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

I guess you should wait for something better than xperia z it still uses s4 pro processor/gpu which is still around the note 2 s so I think wait for s4, optimus g2, or something newer

Also battery would be unremovable
And I guess a bit less than note 2
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S4 pro is around note 2??? Don't tell me you're talking about benchmarks.

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[C-Drum]

With this being a developer forum, I can't for my life understand why you're even considering Samsung products, since they're not very developer friendly.

Samsung has failed time after time to deliver what the developers want.

Sony on the other hand is working closely with the developers and don't change very much from the provided source.

If you want to root your device and have custom roms on it in the future don't go for Samsung.

But as others already have mentioned in this thread. Mobile phone developement is going amazingly fast and in another 2 - 3 months, if you can wait, prices will have dropped on current phones and new ones will be availible. On the other hand: If you're waiting for newer and better stuff you can wait forever. Especially in the line of electronics hardware.

 

[MadMike10]

I would wait and see if a new display driver improves the quality of the contrast, which I think is really low in comparison what should be possible right now. Other than that I really like the Sony UI (better than Sammys) so if Battery life and Display is ok I'm buying one, also because S3 (and hopefully not s4) is a cheap plastic gadget. Also the development section might be better for the Z. Maybe the new HTC M7 is the phone we should wait for, because they really need a strike.

Greetz...

 

[noxlord]

I will buy xperia z. It is like when you wait for s3, a better one comes out. We wait. Another better one comes out........ Electronics improve day by day.

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Right, I played the waiting game too much already and I know it's not worth it to wait forever ...

With this being a developer forum, I can't for my life understand why you're even considering Samsung products, since they're not very developer friendly.

Samsung has failed time after time to deliver what the developers want.

Sony on the other hand is working closely with the developers and don't change very much from the provided source.

If you want to root your device and have custom roms on it in the future don't go for Samsung.

+1 I doubt they will release kernel sources for that octacore cpu. Sony is much more "XDA friendly"

I would wait and see if a new display driver improves the quality of the contrast, which I think is really low in comparison what should be possible right now. Other than that I really like the Sony UI (better than Sammys) so if Battery life and Display is ok I'm buying one, also because S3 (and hopefully not s4) is a cheap plastic gadget. Also the development section might be better for the Z. Maybe the new HTC M7 is the phone we should wait for, because they really need a strike.

Greetz...

You mean something like This ?

 

[mileyxperia]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

Sony Xperia over Samsung any day developers welcome Sony listen to there customer's even made a flash tool for us to use
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[i9100g user]

Re: Xperia Z - Quick Buy or Wait for Galaxy S4 ?

S4 pro is around note 2??? Don't tell me you're talking about benchmarks.

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Yes s4 pro is a bit better than exynos 4412 but the difference wont be like upcoming A15 quads and s4 primes
And we have already seen a s4 pro 1080p phone quite a time ago.
And those upcoming phones might just 2or3 months away


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[Galactus]

I have never bought a device at the beginning of the year and never will. Happy to wait till april/may to see whats on the horizon, including the S4.