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SONY Xperia Rumors 2013 Edition |
Ricky D
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I'd pee myself with laughter if the Paris event yielded nothing a regional variant of a a low-end handset. 
Obviously it won't. It'll most likely be Z Ultra or honami or this mystery Z2 or a variant.
and, I'm still very dubious about 4K. I don't think it'll be in there.
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randomuser
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Not really recommended, cracks may appear in the glass with extreme change in temperature.  |
vivftp
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I wonder... if Honami is going to be waterproof, dustproof and shockproof, I wonder if Sony will also make it freezeproof like their rugged cameras 
Canadian winters can be cold and it'd be nice to not have to worry about your phone if you leave it outside for a while. |
randomuser
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Freezeproof ?   |
vivftp
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On 2013-07-03 10:01:34, randomuser wrote:
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Freezeproof ?
Yeah, their Cybershot TF1 and TX30 (amongst others) are dustproof, shockproof, waterproof and freezeproof |
supercoolman
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walking from a well heated indoor space to -20C outside environment is not unusual for Canadian winter. wonder how phones are going to stand against that |
Azerila
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Optimus G2 will have 3GB of RAM so Honami will be behind the curve in terms of hardware just like every other Sony flagship.
btw Why do people say things like" Sony have always been bad in updates", "every Sony flagship has last year's hardware" etc. While Sony Mobile is just around 1 year old. You can't judge a one year old company by their past. |
vivftp
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Umm... what in the blue hell on Android requires that much RAM anyways? Not saying more isn't necessarily better, but I'm just curious what can really take advantage of all that RAM.
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BTW, if you're going to accuse Sony of having Honami be behind the curve, it's worth remembering everything else Honami brings to the table:
S800 processor at 2.2 - 2.3 GHz
Adreno 330 graphics
2GB RAM
16/32 GB internal memory with mico SD expansion
5" 1080p dislpay with triluminos tech. Supposedly with constrast ratio above 2000:1
X-reality engine
20MP 2/3" Exmor RS sensor
Mobile BIONZ processor
Clip-on lenses
f2.0 28mm equivalent Sony G Lens
Camera shutter button
Camera has steadyshot tech, and can go up to ISO 12800
4K video recording
3000 mAh battery - Sony expects battery life to measured in days, rather than hours
Metal + glass body
NFC and LTE
IP58 dust/water resistance + shock resistance rating
Approx 9-10mm thick
Stereo speakers
S-Master MX audio
IR blaster
Headphone port that does not require flap
Magnetic charging dock connector
Lanyard hole
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XperiaJunkie
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On 2013-07-03 10:21:10, vivftp wrote:
Umm... what in the blue hell on Android requires that much RAM anyways? Not saying more isn't necessarily better, but I'm just curious what can really take advantage of all that RAM.
EDIT.
BTW, if you're going to accuse Sony of having Honami be behind the curve, it's worth remembering everything else Honami brings to the table:
S800 processor at 2.2 - 2.3 GHz
Adreno 330 graphics
2GB RAM
16/32 GB internal memory with mico SD expansion
5" 1080p dislpay with triluminos tech. Supposedly with constrast ratio above 2000:1
X-reality engine
20MP 2/3" Exmor RS sensor
Mobile BIONZ processor
Clip-on lenses
f2.0 28mm equivalent Sony G Lens
Camera shutter button
Camera has steadyshot tech, and can go up to ISO 12800
4K video recording
3000 mAh battery - Sony expects battery life to measured in days, rather than hours
Metal + glass body
NFC and LTE
IP58 dust/water resistance + shock resistance rating
Approx 9-10mm thick
Stereo speakers
S-Master MX audio
IR blaster
Headphone port that does not require flap
Magnetic charging dock connector
Lanyard hole
[ This Message was edited by: vivftp on 2013-07-03 09:22 ]
Google are planning on making future versions of Android more RAM friendly anyway. To be honest 1GB of RAM would be enough with the S800 and Adreno 330 pulling the strings all 3GB of RAM is going to do is use more power with out any benifit.
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MartenR
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I think it would be a good idea if Sony puts their 56 inch 4k OLED TV on sale in US. They surely can make 20 of them and if they price it like 70000 no more than 20 they have to make. |
JoJotaro
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Android is a multitasking OS. More RAM is always better when multitasking! |
Xajel
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I very liked the idea of widening the use of the magnetic power plug, to unify the docking solution ( no need for different dock for every phone ), and to make it easier to charge the phone without opening any flaps ( specially in the car )...
But I hope they will make a small change to make the plug unidirectional, I mean no need to check the polarity of the plug, it will plug any way and the phone will fix it any way ( integrated diode bridge )... exactly same as Apple's Lighting and before with MacBook Pro chargers... this thing is already an issue with microUSB and no body thought about finding a solution for it maybe coz the USB consortium doesn't care about it...
PS, I hope the new magnetic dock is steady enough to support the phone even when we need to touch it...
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kurtdean
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Guys, I think the honami design is not that ugly at all. Try imagine this phone with full black glass like xperia z and it would look great. This pic is not black enough like Xperia Z and it looks dark grey thats y it doesn't look stunning IMO. Try imagine it with black xperia z glass color  |
razec
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I'm interested at how the mobile G lens would fare against its siblings in the compact camera category (H-series) or even against this:
I'm not expecting it to be as good as its DSLR counterpart  but at least I'm hoping that the mobile G lens in Honami will wipe the floor with the competition on a certain area that it excels alot(sharpness and bokeh) it's about time that we taste some soft and smooth bokeh output from a smartphone camera
I'm not against a 3GB RAM but I think having more memory bandwidth for now is more essential given that the GPUs inside the SoCs keeps improving, and to achieve that we need either to have an LP-DDR5 memory chips built into out smartphones or have higher bus-width (128Bit or more). Experience told me that people are usually misled by quantity on selecting components for their custom built PC, I think it's no different in the mobile space.
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Xajel
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On 2013-07-03 10:42:47, aurelius wrote:
On 2013-07-03 10:36:07, JoJotaro wrote:
Android is a multitasking OS. More RAM is always better when multitasking!
There's nothing in your phone that would use more than 200-300mb at a time. Every single phone
out there would be good with a max of 1,5-2gb.
There's absolutely no reason to have 3gb of RAM, no reason at all! If you think so, you are greatly mislead by the hardware-race.
You reminded me of two quotes
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers", Thomas J. Watson from IBM in 1943...
"No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer.", Bill Gates in the 1970s, thought he denied that he said that once...
I hope we don't see your reply being quoted after few years
Current Android is a multitasking OS, more ram will help bring more multitasking features, while at this time you see no need for it, the developers actually limits the features they implement coz of these limitations ( low RAM, low processing power, power consumption )... Android will evolve now or later, and for me when I moved from 512MB to 1GB to 2GB I saw a benefit each time, The more apps, widgets you have.. the more ram you need... now a midrange usage of a 2GB RAM high-end phone will have 500 ~ 900MB of free RAM... Android dev's and manufacturers sometimes making some decision based on how much free RAM you will get later...
I know no body want bloatwares, but some features really needs more RAM, even some apps... later if you found an Image/Video editing software on your phone or tablet ( a real application with plenty of features ) you will really need more RAM and processing power... infact you can't find a decent app like this coz of these limitations... some developers are finding their way of doing it.. like for example using personal cloud processing/storage... editing in your tablet/smartphone and processing in your home PC... thought I didn't saw any real world applications that have such possibility....
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