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On 2013-09-20 03:53:03, Shotokan81 wrote:


You mean fortunately for the clients, and maybe unfortunately for esato reputation?

I would say that in terms of rumors, with the xR system, this is where esato reputation will be made.

Anything that is written outside of the XR system by anyone else than the rumor thread owner would not be considered as part of the esato effort. Then everyone can post anything, what sticks is what is in the XR system.

BTW, Razec, just an idea.
For the new thread, you may want to have a post on the first page reserved for the Z2, the 4 incher and the next phablet specs.
In the form of 3 table, one per flagship, in front of each feature you have the feature value, and the XR rumor.
For instance: Z2
Screen resolution 1920x1080 XR5

Build Quality

"The Xperia Z1 is as high as it gets in the smartphone food chain and Sony has spared no expense building it."

"Another thing that deserves commendation is that Sony has worked in a good deal of easily accessible ports and slots - the microSIM and microSD card slots can be opened with bare hands, unlike most unibody phones that require a SIM ejector and omit the memory slot altogether."

Display

"The native display contrast of the Sony Xperia Z1 that we have is great and surprisingly, it's even much better than that of the Z Ultra. Colors are also nicely punchy, but still fairly accurate. If you'd like a bit of extra punch to your images and videos you should enable the X-Reality engine, which is the successor of the Mobile Bravia Engine."

Performance

"The Sony Xperia Z1 is one of the fastest smartphones (phablets included) available on the market right now. There's a noticeable performance lead over the Snapdragon 600 competitors and the snappy chipset makes its presence felt in almost everything you do around the Android OS. Once you get your hands on the Z1, you can't help but appreciate the muscle under the hood."

Audio Quality

"The Sony Xperia Z1 did impressively well in the active external amplifier part of the audio quality test. There's very little quality drop when you plug in a pair of headphones."

Camera Quality

"The end result does capture more fine detail than the 13MP cameras of the competition thanks to the extra resolution. Colors look accurate and the white balance is good, though slightly cool."

"Actually, it looks like there's a lens defect as the image just right of the center looks softer than it should be (we even checked for smudges on the camera and retook the photos). So much for "Sony G Lens". Still, you need to keep in mind this is a pre-production unit we have here for a review (one obtained from Sony itself nevetheless) so quality control oversights are possible."

Video Quality

"The Sony Xperia Z1 is a reasonably powerful camcorder. It captures 1080p videos at just under 30 frames per second with a good bitrate of 17-18Mbps with stereo sound recording with a bitrate of 132 Kbps and 48 kHz audio sampling rate."

"Sony has introduced a new digital image stabilization enhancement dubbed SteadyShot. It works pretty well for a digital stabilization system, you can check the sample below to see it in action."

On 2013-09-20 05:01:25, moogoo wrote:
i think a display lottery is a given as NO vendor will rely on ONE supply chain for production. that would be bad business. i think the nuance is whether the display lottery means (1) different manufacturers or (2) different LCD panel types (VA (and sub-types) vs. IPS (and sub-types))

which is confirmed dacha and how have you confirmed it?

@reeflotz - i agree. such a review should be saved for a retail unit. especially since their reviews hold a lot of weight on the internet. people will read and assume it's true for all Z1 and that small bit about it being a pre-production model will get lost.. it's sort of irresponsible of them if you ask me. but, on the other hand, Sony should have made sure the device that went to them was top notch in every way. pre production model or not. so shame on sony for messing up there.

On 2013-09-20 05:09:58, DACHA wrote:

According to Shotokan81 if the XR rating is not used it is valid info. We all have seen that the XR rating doesn't work and over 50% of the XR5 rumors were wrong.

Other manufacturer also use multiple suppliers for displays but displays used by Sony are of totally different quality.

On 2013-09-19 13:52:25, DexterMoser wrote:


I think that might be accurate.
Look at the teardown, in this picture that white thing on the bottom could be the speaker, there's only one of them.
On the other side of the speaker grill there could be the microphone.

On 2013-09-20 05:33:58, supercoolman wrote:


wonder if one small speaker can generate stereo properly...

On 2013-09-20 05:52:54, moogoo wrote:
careful geoffxx.. he might take one of your ears