Posted by feryshad
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/24/sony-mwc-2014-liveblog/
http://live.theverge.com/sony-mwc-2014-live-blog/
Posted by Xajel
Xperia Z2 announced
Posted by Supa_Fly
Z2, 4K recording holy f**k!
Posted by CrownedAkuma
Footage taken from Xperia Z2 showed on DAT AWEZOME TV
4K Confirmed
Waterproof Confirmed
Posted by feryshad
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/p[....]rder-in-waterproof-smartphone/
Posted by CrownedAkuma
Sony's adding digital noise cancelling to the Z2. "You get up to 98% reduction in ambient noise."
Xperia Z2 launches globally from March.
Stereo speakers
Powerful dual stereo speakers make your Xperia Z2 audio experience come alive even more. Two separate speakers deliver a more dynamic sound with a depth that replicates real, natural hearing.
From sony's page
IT HAS STEREO SPEAKERS
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Posted by >>SAMEH
xperia m2
http://reviews.cnet.com/smart[....]a-m2/4505-6452_7-35835121.html
xperia z2
http://reviews.cnet.com/smart[....]a-z2/4505-6452_7-35835120.html
xperia tab2
http://reviews.cnet.com/table[....]blet/4505-3126_7-35835142.html
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Posted by josephnero
Look what i found dudes
Our brightest and most vivid viewing experience ever on 5.2” Full HD TRILUMINOS™ Display for mobile with Live Colour LED powered by X-Reality™ for mobile
Posted by feryshad
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/p[....]st-lightest-waterproof-tablet/
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/p[....]-smartphone-tech-in-its-class/
Posted by CrownedAkuma
Tablet Z2 announced...
The screen looks awesome
With his remote...
also launching from march
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Posted by moogoo
To be honest, I'm not really wowed. They should have included all this with the Z1
Good that they are doing it now, but it's a year too late to really make a big difference, i think.
noise cancellation and 3GB of ram is nice.
design hasn't changed at all.
it is a good step but it's not a big enough step to make an Z1 user like me want to upgrade. and in my opinion, not a big enough step to take market share away from apple and sammy.
hopefully the reviews for it from all the major tech outlets are glowing, which will definitely help its sales. I hope it does well! But I will be waiting to upgrade.. (not that my wallet could handle it now anyway
)
Posted by CrownedAkuma
Xperia M2
i like that they use letters with the same font as Xperia
There's a Bond between Michael Jackson and Xperia... The spot for Tablet Z2, Xperia Z2 and M2 will be linked with everything Jacko
With a new 90 sec film feature about the King of Pop
Some NEW ACCESORIES
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Posted by CrownedAkuma
VIDEO OF Xperia Z2
https://www.youtube.com/watch[....]w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
New VINE app
IPS Confirmed
LOL the are saying it hads BEAUTIFUL viewing angles...
maybe they learned...
It has "Battery: 3000 mAh minimum" what means minimum??
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Posted by vivftp
Some Youtube videos have popped out of Sonys Xperia channel:
Details make the difference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ9HkICDuOI
Smartband:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xue9YLqPDwg
Z2 Tablet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBuj69mOPg
Xperia Z2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGyVUZ97IBU
And there seem to be some comparison vids from random sites that just popped up too!
Phones4u Z1/Z2 comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wb4T9JoroU
GadgetJM Z2 review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJquEOrTj1Y
Posted by Away
Was wondering for a long, long time how Qualcomm would differentiate the msm8974ac from ab and the original. Snapdragon 801. Nice.
Everything looks good.
Posted by vivftp
GadgetJM confirmed the shatterproof sheet is still on the Z2
Posted by maloqs
Stupid phone haha....so called ?!??!!?Z2
Posted by Xajel
Xperia Z2 official thread...
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=206674
Posted by ascariss
The included noise cancellation is awesome but you will have to take out the massive phone when you want to change songs or find a new one. I prefer the Bluetooth NC set I bought since I don't have to always take out the phone to pause, play and etc.
The Z2 is what the Z1 should have been from the start, minus the massive 5.2 inch screen.
Did Sony mention any era for KitKat release for the Z1?
Posted by Gitaroo
It has "Battery: 3000 mAh minimum" what means minimum??
[ This Message was edited by: CrownedAkuma on 2014-02-24 08:11 ]
I think it means actual size, most company like samsung and others don't list battery in actual size but theatrical one to look better for marketing.
Posted by CrownedAkuma
On 2014-02-24 09:14:27, Gitaroo wrote:
It has "Battery: 3000 mAh minimum" what means minimum??
[ This Message was edited by: CrownedAkuma on 2014-02-24 08:11 ]
I think it means actual size, most company like samsung and others don't list battery in actual size but theatrical one to look better for marketing.
On a lot of sites they say 3200mAh... I hope for this amount!!
Posted by vivftp
Interesting accessory, stereo microphone for your phone for better audio recording. Kinda like that music-oriented Handycam they launched last year... this accessory kinda makes that thing obsolete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCAaD6xMDFk
Posted by CrownedAkuma
First Z2 advertising...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ9HkICDuOI
I Love Jacko
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Posted by Supa_Fly
Slightly off focus but I must comment.
Due to.my background I feel Sony, just at the very last part of their presentation showed a bit of poor class. Let me explain.
Using an unreleased track featuring vocals by Michael Jackson - I care less about his later years of skin appearance he's still black - I'd highly doubt his family who now has rights to his music was granted to Sony; but who really knows. MJ has publicly before his untimely demise shown distrust with Sony Music management for his music and caused a legal concern. Now add to this the tradition again of poor taste of a specific middle class taking something born out of a culture of another unfortunate class (break dancers moves innovative, used to choreograph dancers for a theatre production giving back no reward for the blatant inspiration) is just not cool. Heck it could be intentional but it's stupid to be blatantly blind about it.
My sister is a choreographic artist in Dance, worked and did the battle dance for the movie Honey, so I know first hand about this done far too often.
Jazz, Acro, Tap think where they came from, the era they were born in and why!
Rant over.
I probably will get the Z1 Compact or the Z2 since BlackBerry hasn't been doing much beyond the Z30 for me personally. I'm curious to see what this last video represented as a teaser - exclusive video and music release for MJ album, un released video exclusivity to Sony Music Unlimited subscriptions??
Posted by CrownedAkuma
Finally they ditched those grayish Wallpapers... Time for some colours
when is the Unpacked event? curious to see the S5!
Guys I watched the Gadget JM video... c'mon... they say it has the same 5,2" TFT LCD screen as Z1, it has IPS for f**k's sake! (I know IPS has TFT... but it is not the same as Z1...
The sound seems WAY RICHER... even if they used a Lame song to show it...
They said that water proofing is not important and useful... and is a pain in the ass for audio and other aspect of the phone... what?
it says the CPU is the same as Z1, if I understood correctly this is not true...
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Posted by Ricky D
Did anyone else notice the keyboard dock? Nice work Sony
Posted by vivftp
RickyD: They had a somewhat similar dock for the Tablet Z, but it seemed to disappear and never made it to Canada at least.
Hmm, tempted to get the Tablet Z2, even though I just got my VAIO Flip 13, lol. I'll try to hold out
Posted by ascariss
Hmm the keyboard may sway me to get the tab z2. this is what was missing on the current tab.
Posted by Ricky D
I'm disappointed by the lack of the 'any pencil/pen' input support, unless I missed it from the press release. That is a real killer feature.
@vivftp The keyboard cover they had before was 3rd party believe and only ever available in Japan, and it looked quite bulky.
Posted by amirprog
About Z2:
the good:
sony fixed at least some of the Z1 cons - IPS display, slimmer design, 4k recording, and maybe more.
added new features - stereo speakers are very nice, noise canceling, 3gb ram can never hurt, etc.
the bad:
Z2 is what Z1 should have been - does that mean that from now on for IFA sony will release a prototype and for MWC sony will release the matured device? it seems like that. Z>Z1= big change but still prototype. Z1>Z2=smaller change but matured device. in a sense, IFA announcement doesn't look so appealing now.
shatter film is still there.
still only 16gb internal.
overall:
looks like a great offer that will be able to stand against its rivals especially if they also improved the camera processing. let's wait for the reviews though.
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Posted by qqqw
Regarding the shatter film.. Here in the Russian preview a Sony rep tells that they are not using films anymore (hooray!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsgJWwnTz-o#t=128
Posted by maloqs
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/p[....]-smartphone-tech-in-its-class/
Being the world’s slimmest 4G smartphone in its class2, Xperia M2 combines the ultra-fast Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 400 processor with 1.2 GHz quad-core CPUs and 4G LTE for fast performance and a 2300mAh battery with STAMINA Mode 3.0. Ideal for long days of heavy usage, Xperia E3 provides speed and durability for users on-the-go.
Posted by HxH
Why don't you think that Z2 is may attract user from very first Z to upgrade
and next Z3 may attract Z1's buyer to considering upgrade?
sound insane but we're living in the fast-pace shifting trend.
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If Sony split Japan's trend from the rest, there will have someone going to cries out loud again
why don't release this / that for worldwide model
find the balance act between these differences trend is hardest one, I think.
Xperia SX is very good example.
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And don't you know that what was happened with Samsung in Korea's market last year
late April they made official GS4 Exynos LTE, but two months later GS4 LTE-A was up by their major carrier, then by the year end GS4 waterproof version.
Posted by sami92a
Damn i was asleep and missed everything
Anyways the Z2 looks good and releasing it with kitkat is an amazing choice! good to hear that, i won´t be buying it tho cuz im satisfied with my z1C
Posted by CrownedAkuma
Another accessories...
It's called BSC10 it's a stand with magnetic connector to charge the phone, EVERY Xperia with magnetic connector will be usable... it also has Bluetooth and NFC with built in speaker to reproduce music or doing phone calls...
I'll surely buy it... it's a Magnetic Charging Dock plus a speaker and more... I love this accessor
it also has a LED to look fancy and for Notification
I say again... I LOVE THIS
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Posted by CrownedAkuma
I know that this is not the place, that it could start war and so on....
But guys there arre leaked pics of the Samsung Galaxy S5...
http://www.tuttoandroid.net/a[....]immagini-live-mwc-2014-177342/
Directly from the MWC... I do not know about hardware and software so I'm not judging that...
But honestly, they have done it, this S5 is even uglier than the S4 IMHO!!!!
also Bezels are bigger... maybe for waterproofness... if this is the real S5 then the Z2 comes out as a winner (just talking about DESIGN)
What is THIS SHIT?
I DO NOT WANT TO START A WAR... simply this is an answer to all those who are saying that the Xperia design is always the same... yes it is... but at least it is good
Posted by amirprog
@CrownedAkuma
Agreed. it's uglier then all galaxy phones which were ugly by themselves. my dislike for samsung design just rises to new heights. i think that now more people understand that bigger bezel probably got something to do with waterproofing design as well as other internals and that only sony can design waterproof phone that look great.
Posted by vikeviki
^
Rofl,hahhaha
Posted by -XYZ
Jesus that is one UGLY phone. The GS4 actually looked a lot better than the GS3, but goddamn, they f**ked it up real bad if that the GS5. Looks perceptibly worse than the Z2 and the HTC One (2014)....Looks worse than a GS4 even....
And that horrible faux-chrome ring that is so obviously plastic....
Posted by CrownedAkuma
On 2014-02-24 16:05:27, -XYZ wrote:
Jesus that is one UGLY phone. The GS4 actually looked a lot better than the GS3, but goddamn, they f**ked it up real bad if that the GS5. Looks perceptibly worse than the Z2 and the HTC One (2014)....Looks worse than a GS4 even....
And that horrible faux-chrome ring that is so obviously plastic....
Absolutely... At this point I hope for samsung that this is not the real S5, just a prototype...
Posted by HxH
well!!
Posted by Gitaroo
like ALL samsung device, they sure know how to cut corners to maximum profit, just in a bad way that is too obvious this time around lol. (Use absolute cheapest material you can possibly find on the face of the earth). From the leaked Z2 software shots, it looks like Z2 will be rich with software features, even has some motion control that is not present in others. Only disappointment was that Sony still don't care about multi tasking. It looks like Small apps is still the same as they were. Samsung multi screen or was it from windows 8, is still a real multi task feature that every other phone should have.
On 2014-02-24 16:46:34, HxH wrote:
well!!
easy win, stick that nokia underwater and see what kind of picture it can take.
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Posted by rickrz
I don't know if it is because everything got leaked, but I'm not that excited about these launches.
Xperia tablet z2 is definitely best android tablet so far, if I had the money, I would be looking for it.
as for the Z2 and E3 announcements, my words are: We'll wait (me and my contract
) to Compact Z2 or whatever is next, phones are getting bigger and bigger and I can't hold it anymore, I was already planning on selling my ZL because it's too big for my hands
Posted by Smaug
On 2014-02-23 23:14:56, goldenface wrote:
So, What do you think will happen?
Goldenface, I'm afraid I'm not really at liberty to say with much conviction. Your guess is as good as mine.
In a purely personal capacity, in vague terms: much may depend on Sony's restructuring. No company can survive bleeding finances for long (zombie companies aside). Sony have stepped up in recent months and the sell-off of non-core divisions such as VAIO was necessary, if not painful. I'm unconvinced that Bravia is the next to go. R&D for VAIO stopped last year but it continues in Bravia. 4K may be the last bastille as margins are much higher, but that too will erode.
Other divisions are brighter. FS remains their cashcow. Playstation is running ahead of estimates but the gaming division is not the ATM it once was. Questions hang over whether Sony can sustain the momentum. Imaging continues to impress, even if consumer sales don't. The positive outlook lies with Sony's B2B sensors. They hold a commanding position in the $7.7 billion market for sensors; over 30% market share. The nearest competitor holds half that. About 80% of sensors Sony makes are found outside Xperia.
Kaz has good vision but execution is always harder than generating ideas. Sony is akin to an oil tanker, not a hovercraft. Jettisoning cargo hardly helps turn the ship faster, so it is a question of time. Marketing and R&D budgets have increased the past year (which is a good sign), but they still pale in comparison to the multi-billions that Samsung spends. Some call Samsung the biggest marketing company in the world, not just electronics.
As for Xperia specifically: I'm concerned by lack of clarity and fast-rising rivals. Sony stated last year they would focus on mid and high-end smartphones, yet Kaz set a goal of being the 3rd largest phone maker. Even Apple concluded that they can't focus on high-margin flagships alone. Xperia sales did increase last year, but rivals are growing faster.
It's not the Koreans that pose the biggest danger to Sony; it's the Chinese. Huawei and Xiaomi are defying gravity with their "good enough" strategy of decent but affordable phones. They have ambition to move into foreign markets and are pushing hard into high-end products. Xperia designs have always been lauded, but the Chinese are not afraid to rapidly copy a winning design and sell it for half the price.
Sony knows they can't compete on specs alone and content will probably play an increasingly important role. Rapid updates of Xperia phones may help Sony stay one step ahead on paper temporarily, but it is not a sustainable strategy due to development costs and lack of economies of scale.
Posted by Gitaroo
Bravia line is quite important, atlaest their R&D are or we wouldn't have the awesome triliminos screen. W900 is amazing. Sony just need to find a away so they just have to break even and keep them around.
Posted by HxH
Don't be too worry dude, when the next economic collapse happen (thanks to all banksters)
everyone will be set at same start again
Posted by Xajel
According to local technology site...
Xperia Z2, Tablet Z2 & Xperia M2 will all be available in the area in April
Local prices are
Xperia Z2 : BD269 ($715)
Xperia Tablet Z2 : BD249 ($660)
Xperia M2 : BD230 ($610)
While the first two seems logical, the M2 I think it's a typo...
Posted by motvikt
Rofl @ samsung galaxy s5.
Posted by ascariss
S5 looks like s4 which looked like S3, nothing special about design. Depending on what you value the most, it has IP67 vs IP58, so more dust protection, slightly less water protection. Minor difference.
I am curious how big the sensor on the S5 is, I am wondering how the addition of hybrid autofocus will affect the camera, sony used it on the new alpha6000 and claim it to be the best autofocusing camera on the market.
I seriously hope the Z2 features migrate over to the Z1, at least the bulk of them, which can move over, otherwise I may wait for the Z3 and see if that is worth it if not then I'll grab the z2 at a discount then.
Posted by Jubei1
So much for the 64-bit 500 core Galaxy S5
Like i said, we wont see any high end 64 bit chips until late 2014 from any Android OEM.