IMHO, it's their marketing strategy. if Z Ultra LTE released too near with Note 3, the competition for sales is high thus they need to pour a lot money to beat Samsung's ad campaign. so they launch the non-LTE first and headstart with the ad-campaign. then when LTE comes, just add in "NOW WITH LIGHTNING FAST INTERNET SPEED" in the ad campaign slogan. since they didn't manage to get LTE of Z Ultra into market before note 3, they have to do it after with support by complete accessories to accompany the XZU. SBH52 jz come into market. when SW2 reach market, accessories for the sony phablet will be complete and might sufficient enough to attract a bit more sales~

i am more along the quantity is not always quality

have yet to see the note3 but i have to assume it to be true due to the pixel density

This post has been edited by thatisazam: Sep 25 2013, 05:15 PM

wondering the same...care to elaborate on the usability, titi? i jz scare i buy either one of them but end up rarely use

yea dn think is good idea to share ur personal stuffs here...stalkers are everywhere these days

on the other story,

do give a first impression review on it when u got it ya i want to see if practical or not...if practical i might as well skip Z1

i think any bluetooth speaker can do this...dnhav to fork out a lot money for sbh52 jz for the loudspeaker XD i'm more concerned on call voice quality, battery life, n effective range

so good ur generation...back when i was ur age, my GBA barely survives from teacher taking it...that time, gadgets are banned n smuggling is a skill XD

good to hear this...do let us know on the battery life

This post has been edited by thatisazam: Sep 26 2013, 12:17 AM

LTE will use more power. It's similar like you hire a normal graduate (as in HSPA+ : RM15/hour) and an expert (as in LTE : RM90/hour) to do same job on same working hour everyday. Expert does it faster but you need to 'pay' Expert higher salary. you may save some by letting Expert take a flexible working hour (turning off LTE when not using).

Wifi works fine, must be IP clash or DHCP of the router not functioning well with so much device connected to it.


After the recent firmware updates, Stamina Mode learns from your usage to calculate the estimated time.

this i call innovation XD imagine transforming an old home theatre with this..


true hero dn mind scars

at 344ppi maybe barely go against Note 3's 386ppi. but for a 6.44" with more than 'Apple Retina-display' density, it is a pocket monitor indeed. under bright light, it definitely perform well compared to Super AMOLED panels.

on some units, will face the bugs listed in 1st page. on lucky unit like mine, those bugs not exist. usually is due to screen/proximity sensor i guess as firmware seems ok from the logs i compared. some of those bugs exist after updating phone also quite confusing because as far as I found out, there's no major prob with firmware. maybe a sensor or screen panel got misconfigured after the update.

these probs exist on some unit due to fact tht the phone is 6.5mm thin thus circuit gets very flat. need really good QC but there's a limit on how QC is done (probably only 1 out of 10 phones are tested for detailed QC) usually the standard QC applies standard hardware tests but not thoroughly. if u get buggy unit, juz go claim warranty coz i can assure u there are good units like mine.

With my Moto RAZR last time, at 7.1mm thin, I sent it for warranty 3 times to get perfect unit. thin device like this usually if hardware prob warranty will giv u new phone i guess~


can try with other android phones to see if it's not issue with Android OS or the wireless beats in general? coz it could be that it's how Android OS deal with such situation

This post has been edited by thatisazam: Sep 27 2013, 09:35 AM

on average daily usage my SOT is 6.5 hours with wifi almost 5hrs with 3g.

ya lor...with 3G i jz get about 5 hrs at most...auto brightness though @@" n i thought th's a good SOT ady..lol!

Xperia Z1 already available at 1Utama Sony Store for 2399. They have no demo set yet however