Cons :

1 - Volume + power button not suitable if u r using left hand . Where do they expect us to hold the phone , top ?

2 - Call volume very soft even set to max , barely can hear what the other party is talking in a noisy environment .

The writing using stylus so far I can only use pencil. It doesn't work with my old ballpen n plastic stylus
You can only use Sony keyboard n must select write mode n write on the pad. I see no point using it as it is too troublesome to invoke it.  You need to write slowly to have accurate capture. I rate it hopeless to me.
At first I thought can just write straightaway on any note app without all these constraints

This is the verge site.  I can easily read without zooming

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May I know how you toggle to the smaller keyboard ?

I thought the launcher suppose look like below where all is like that during announcing and also any of it current commercial look.

Thought of getting the XPZ Ultra today. Went to KLCC and Mid Valley Sony Retail store and they don't sell the phone until 1st of August. What a bummer....

Although LTE might be futureproof, but why the needs of very very high speed internet? for hotspot sharing and download? or the higher the better, nothing to lose.

well for me. i asked the sony centre worker. he said.
free gift. screen protector, casing.
so its from Sony Center. meaning original...screen protector and casing,

Ya, I believe we shall seen more improvement in next firmware updates, Sony need to sort it out.

In my opinion, it still better out something similar with press, not that far big different, the new home launcher not only design different but different way of functionality as well.

They don't even have LTE in Z ultra eventhough its flagship. Hahaha... that's how rush they want it to be in the market.

I would imagine if Note3 is out with S800 proc+3GB RAM, Z Ultra might lost the market. So they really need to capture it right now. 

or maybe the repeat of S4 3G will happened. S4 3G start with RM2299. Now SME 3G set sometimes drop to RM16xx after S4 LTE arrived. 

Good point. I doubt they are just testing waters here considering how sony is releasing almost all the handsets they announce recently to malaysian shores (Z, ZL, Tab Z LTE, Tab Z wifi, ZR), high hope is still there for an LTE XZU imo.

But with a price tag of 2499, only tech / gadget enthusiasts, sony loyalists, and the rich lot are going to fork out cash for it early in its release. Or maybe people will just settle for the 3G version if they are planning to buy the XZU as a second device.

Please don't say that

I do hope the LTE version would come around.

Regarding the palm-rejection tech...I sort of have a wild theory. As joytest has mentioned...no one did a test for it. Could it be because the firmware isn't mature enough yet? So Sony is actually rushing to release the phone first, then fix it with the firmware later on? Which means they give out phones for reviews but tell the reviewers not to review that particular aspect?



Just a wild thought really

I'm not sure why the huge fuss over the handwriting recognition input when the stock android keyboard or swiftkey is so accurate and efficient in text prediction, I wonder if that feature is really needed at all or simply another nice to have 'party trick' feature

I see what is going to be on Garage Sales soon 

He already sold his One. If not you can buy that 

Actually I know myself won't ever use that stylus thing, but ... Sony still need to sort it out as better as it can since this is one of the main attraction part being advertise.

Moral of the story, don't read too much into a marketing proposition.

My car has a feature where I can write on a console pad with my fingers to either search a destination on the GPS or a contact on the directory.  It works as advertised but is also so clunky that I'd preferred to just search a contact on the phone itself then hold the conservation over Bluetooth.

Similarly here, the stock keyboard and swiftkey seriously negates the need for a handwriting app, maybe except for scribbles which that by itself is already rare.

Bottom line, these buggers will cram half baked ideas as their own and make it a marketing proposition, take it as a nice to have but stick to the proven methods

Someone ask me to post how this phone look holding it to the ears. This is a picture of me

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Go with black.  It's supposed to be a mini triluminous Bravia TV in the first place.  Or get purple to accentuate the attention even further. 

I think black would be best so as not to further magnify its already mammoth size compared with the other contrasting loud colors.

Sony, just launch the LTE version with the SBH 52 headset and take my money

true, not as ridiculous as I think it would be 
buy white la shock, seems like you are more attracted to white device lol 

Manage to found 1 supplier doing this.

My turn :3
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using buzz Launcher
btwi check my firmware already same as UNcle Benny one

shockk. No sleep/wake feature bro..

To those who are using this phone, can you download talkbox and see whether the app aren't optimize for this display? Looks really weird on mine

Any Sony staff here? Wanna ask about the staff price - Can more than one device be bought at the same time using the 20% discount?

Also, just to add, I've asked regarding the SBH-52 at a Sony store and the lady said that it would be released together with the Ultra...sometime next month. Still no exact date.

Though going by what uncle Benny said, most likely late August?

Oh and to the guy saying only 6-footers would look ok holding the phone. I'm a 6'1" and fairly large in frame with larger than average hands...the phone still looks kinda big

It's more manageable but doesn't change the fact that it's still gargantuan. Reaching for the app drawer can be somewhat of a problem. I'm speaking in terms of one-handed usage of course.