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Hello Mr. Travis.
Is is possible to update Xperia Z processor’s driver?
Unfortunately game Real Racing 3 suffers a low framerate, sometimes it drops resulting with stuttering. The same for NFS: Most Wanted.
Can you please work with game studio to improve the framerate?
The device has 2GB of ram, I think it should also make use of it.

Thank you.

Hi Ant,
It’s been a great pleasure seeing so many improvements in the 2013 product lines. I’d go straight to the point on what I feel after reading feedback, also personal experiences with Sony phones:

- Sony use to have the advantage of easy flip to activate the Camera with K810i, but it’s no longer present in Xperia Z. The long press camera activate feature lacks the feel of reliability. I had many encounters when I needed to record video, the phone crashed. Also, if you can optimize the camera app’s starting speed and reliability, it’ll almost give the feel of a point and shoot camera. My point is a real camera activate button, startup speed and standby reliability.

- OS upgrade schedule still haunts the Xperia branding a lot. People want the latest and greatest OS release the soonest, and it’s often compared among brands. Sony’s schedule is glaringly lacking in this department.

- People buy smartphones for features to get excited about. It’s a common psychology that whether it’s a gimmick or not, you have so many features that other flagships don’t have. Samsung has done right historically, some are very interesting and convenient features to have. So Sony has to revamp the software department to compete in this sense.

- The camera quality in Xperia flagship is no longer the best in the industry. Obvious lacking features are auto focus speed, still captures while video recording, compression ratio setting, sharpness setting, shutter speed settings, stabilizer tech.

- Loudspeaker functions are also lacking as current lines are too soft for practical uses, especially in city environment.

What I like about the 2013 lines are water & dust proof and design.
Personally, I’d wish for an Xperia Z phone that’s 4 inch in screen size, extremely long battery life, thin bezels on 4 sides. Along with the improvements mentioned above.

I hope this helps. Thanks for the time.
Regards

please for the future, creating a more sophisticated smartphone faster, hold the hammer ..,,, anti-scratch and durable knives and loud speakers are loud,,, do not lose the same vendors from Korean competitors

i love sony technology

where? Xperia S Android 4.1.2 Jelly bean sony ????????

today is 3/26 sony?

SAMSUNG Galaxy S2 note is 4.1.2 To updates very long time

Hi Ant,
Just to add a couple more ideas, since it came to me. I hope the product planners could take sometime here.
Among the 3 most popular flagships of 2013, Xperia Z does lose a substantial amount of flares. It’s been compared in detail in gsmarena.com and I can see Xperia Z loses in many departments not marginally, but a lot. Especially in Sony’s own key strong areas, the Camera, Audio & Battery department. The only advantages that Xperia Z has is in the build quality and outlook.
As you can see, the only advantages are not the desires of most people in their top wish list. Moreover, these will soon be caught up by your competitors. From what I can see is obvious, the top wish list goes by the following orders:

1. Top end internals, e.g. Snapdragon 600, PowerVR SGX, Wifi 802.11 AC, every sensors that’s available to mobile. Since each flagship prices are close to each other, most people tends to go for the best and most featured internals.

2. Most featured software conveniences, e.g split screen, most flexible UI customization etc.

3. Best camera quality and customization features

4. Sense of security of how soon software problems can be fixed and upgraded.

5. Built quality, e.g. water proof, dust proof, high impact shatter proof etc.
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My impression is Sony focuses on the following orders: 5, 4, 3, 1, 2.
It’ll be devastating if competitors caught up with the built quality, as Sony’s identity in the key areas (Camera, Built, Audio) are replaced.

I’d suggest 2 different league flagships a year, much like Samsung’s GS4 and Note2. To create excitement in each half of the year. Example:
- Top end all rounder in the first half of the year, and a top end camera centric phone in the second half. Top end game centric phone is a good option too, perhaps phablet too.
Anyway, those are purely my personal opinion, I wish they’re constructive enough to cause changes.
Thanks a lot.
Regards

Hi Ant,
Please forgive for my lengthy comments. I’d like to add a little bit more feedback:

- Maintain the top notch built quality of the Xperia Z as it has no match from the competition. Its drop test at human height is impressive and its heat resistant is jaw dropping as well.

- I love the idea of packaging the docking station and car charger adapter with the phone. That’s a great value pack, e.g. Xperia Acro S package.

- I suggest the dock’s shape be designed to place horizontal & vertical as well. Without blocking the aux-out and HDMI port of the phone.

- Include function to wake the phone by voice command.

- Add an NFC accessory that plugs into existing HDMI / Aux-in ports for wireless media streaming from phone to older TV models / amplifiers.

- SmartWatch accessory is a highly potential device to become mainstream product. Please focus on functions like remotely control phone camera from watch’s viewfinder, watch functioning as a handsfree kit, wake / lock phone from watch, voice commands from watch, phone profile switching from watch etc.

- Improve the Smart Connect application to include recurring date, day of the week. Extending its abilities as much as possible.

Thanks for listening.
Regards