Thats y for me these water resistance feature is a precaution in case we accidently dropped the phone into the water. But to test it by submerge it for fun still a bad idea.btw my cousin's acro s also water leaked inside when he was playing with it in the pool. And even samsung s4 active suffered from this issue.

Yup, it seem to used a single camera that can be use as front cam n back cam.

in my opinion regarding this viewing angle issue, of course i wan the best screen on my phone, compared my XZ and my iphone 5, i amazed with the contrast, more vibrant color and deep black level of the iphone 5, how i wish my xz was using that kind of screen panel. however most of the time i look at the straight on and the screen is still beautiful. im surprised that z1 didnt use the same panel as zultra or tablet z as these 2 didnt have any viewing angle problem.

btw i totally agree with u, i dont think this viewing angle be too much of an issue to the mass market. the normal average consumer dont care with this kinda of thing, only us techie people are bothered with this kind of thing, things like specs and so on. i met a lot of people - my colleague, or customers, using phones that doesnt has viewing angle issue like s3,s4,iphone 5 note1,2, htc one, but what funny is that these people mostly applied matte type of screen protector. demm matte sp definitely will ruined the beautiful screen, everything looks demm grainy. not to mentioned people that applied privacy or mirror sp. these are even worst, totally killed the viewing angle view.

so i can conclude that, as long as head on view are beautiful, for normal average consumer, they still will buy it. other example are if sony has viewing angle problem, then samsung has this build material issue where they used plastic on their high end phones, but does it affect their sale? not at all.


i still hope that sony will continue improving and give us even better product in the future, my dream phone from sony will be super excellent display for the screen, audio chip from their walkman, good speaker, and excellent camera and software optimization.