Sony Xperia Z3 Compact - Your Thoughts . . .
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So had it a few hours now, loving it so far. Its quite big being my first 5" plus phone but its very nice to hold and extremely thin, it weirdly feels easier in the hand than my HTC One (M7).
The screen is gorgeous, bright bold and very crisp. The keyboard is taking some getting used to as it has a very small space bar, may install a different one.
Battery is superb, been cocking about with it all day, installing apps etc, currently on 88%
Oh and its green, Mint Silver apparently = green. I was initially surprised and a bit perturbed but its actually grown on me very quicky.
The screen is gorgeous, bright bold and very crisp. The keyboard is taking some getting used to as it has a very small space bar, may install a different one.
Battery is superb, been cocking about with it all day, installing apps etc, currently on 88%
Oh and its green, Mint Silver apparently = green. I was initially surprised and a bit perturbed but its actually grown on me very quicky.
Nardies said:
anonymous said:
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Damn you.Just cancelled an order for an iPhone 6, and swapped it for a Z3 Full Fat Minty Green jobbie.
I have installed the Google keyboard as I prefer the space bar.
Oh and the battery. I took it off charge at 12:30, am working at home today so have been playing with it all day and currently on 75%. Its estimating I still have 2 days use left
Glad everybody is liking them, definitely going to be my next phone, just got to decide between the compact and the full size. Need to see them in the flesh I think, currently have a nexus 4 so the compact is similar size. Then there's the sim free or upgrade choice, if I stay with o2 it works out cheaper to upgrade by £20ish I think.
sjj84 said:
Glad everybody is liking them, definitely going to be my next phone, just got to decide between the compact and the full size. Need to see them in the flesh I think, currently have a nexus 4 so the compact is similar size. Then there's the sim free or upgrade choice, if I stay with o2 it works out cheaper to upgrade by £20ish I think.
I got my full fat from O2 for £480 on refresh, he did say he thinks the price will be going up next week or so.Size wise whilst is obviously very personal I'm surprised at how quickly I've got used to it, picked up my HTC One to factory reset it and it already feels small
Aiui the full size has the higher res screen but on a 5" device I don't know how much difference it makes
anonymous said:
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That was the clincher for me, the only negative for the compact was the lower res screen, just slightly less than the iPhone 6. The reviews of the full fat Z3 all bang on about it being one of the best screens on a smart phone to date, so I thought it worth the size increase.Nardies said:
That was the clincher for me, the only negative for the compact was the lower res screen, just slightly less than the iPhone 6. The reviews of the full fat Z3 all bang on about it being one of the best screens on a smart phone to date, so I thought it worth the size increase.
The screen is gorgeous My mrs took delivery of the compact version in green/turquoise yesterday, it's a nice looking phone. I haven't had the chance to rob it off her to check it out yet but it looks very nice and well built. The screen is only marginally smaller than my FFM8, the extra physical size in the M8 is with the speakers top and bottom.
The one irritation that would bug me is the flap covering the charge point which you have to dangle off when it's charging. That aside, looks good.
The one irritation that would bug me is the flap covering the charge point which you have to dangle off when it's charging. That aside, looks good.
Nardies said:
hornetrider said:
The one irritation that would bug me is the flap covering the charge point which you have to dangle off when it's charging. That aside, looks good.
Clicky
Any good suggestions for a car mount with charging and audio out to aux-in?
hornetrider said:
Nardies said:
hornetrider said:
The one irritation that would bug me is the flap covering the charge point which you have to dangle off when it's charging. That aside, looks good.
ClickyAny good suggestions for a car mount with charging and audio out to aux-in?
hornetrider said:
Yeah, just pinged my mrs and told her to order one after reading back through the thread
Any good suggestions for a car mount with charging and audio out to aux-in?
Check out Brodit, I use one of their mounts for my original Z. Fantastically well built and they have used the magnetic charging points so no pissing about with flaps. Not sure if they offer an audio out, but they will charge the phone just as quick as a wall charger - quickar at times. Any good suggestions for a car mount with charging and audio out to aux-in?
Superb bits of kit imo.
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