Back in October, when Android 6.0 was barely making its way over-the-air to “pure Google” Nexus devices, Sony vowed to update a whopping 14 Xperia phones and tablets to sweet Marshmallow… eventually.Between then and now however, only a small fraction of Z3 and Z3 Compact owners worldwide got a sample of Doze battery life enhancements and Now on Tap cards
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Technically, Sony’s three new flagship Android phones, including the Xperia Z5 Premium, have been up for grabs stateside for several months now for people who were in a hurry and didn’t care about warranties.But official sales, through sanctioned retailers, with manufacturer coverage for first-year hardware malfunctions, are only underway ...
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Someday, our favorite smartphones will be left behind by the tide of progress, no long tapped to receive the latest platform updates and doomed to live out the rest of their days on increasingly feature-poor, insecure software: it’s just the way of the world, as planned obsolescence pushes us towards newer and fancier hardware. But for the time being, there’s still plenty of life left in our favorite flagships, and Android users are experiencing a surge in availability of (admittedly overdue) Android 6.0 Marshmallow updates.
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A couple weeks back we got what sounded like good – if not just a few months later than we’d like – news: Sony was just about to bring some of its latest flagship hardware to the US as it prepared to start sales of the Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 Compact. Better late than never, though, right? Well, if these were the same Z5 and Z5 Compact as we’d seen elsewhere, perhaps we could learn to be happy that we were getting them at all, but it wasn’t long before a new wrinkle developed in this ...
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For a growing and quite vocal segment of smartphone users, hardware that offers a fingerprint scanner is somewhat of a necessity. The need to keep both our phones and the data on them safe is as important as ever, and especially as more and more of us turn to our phones to make mobile payments, strong authentication is either something we seek out or service providers outright demand we use. With more and more flagship devices offering integrated hardware fingerprint scanners, cumbersome PINs and pattern unlocks have fallen out of style, and the discerning shopper demands a fast, reliable ...
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It’s been four months now since Sony gave us its latest smartphone flagships, introducing the Xperia Z5 series back at IFA 2015. And after getting to know the Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact, and Xperia Z5 Premium with that first-of-its-kind 4K display, we’ve seen sales of these handsets come to markets around the globe – just not here in the US. Sure, you’ve been able to import international versions of ...
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Tired of this played out color yet? Even with the real genuine article? Don’t worry. Smartphone industry underdog Sony, as we ...
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It seems like each year we’re coming away from CES seeing fewer and fewer new smartphones (or at least, those from the major brands we know you look forward to the most). And while we still got to check some great stuff like the Nextbit Robin at this year’s show, manufacturers like Sony kinda let us down. That’s fine, though, as Sony’s sure to bring out its latest models in the near future. We’d been thinking we might get to check out some of those at MWC next month, but now ...
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Every chance they got these past few months, Sony’s higher-ups refuted rampant smartphone retirement rumors, as well as recent whispers of the company possibly looking into in-house mobile chip production.At the same time, caution appeared to characterize the Xperia family’s expansion during 2015, ...
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How much longer can Sony avoid the world’s second largest smartphone market with its 4K resolution pioneer? Even if US carriers were entirely to blame for Xperia Z5 Premium’s local scarcity (and they probably are), there’s no logical justification why the 5.5-inch beast isn’t available unlocked directly from the device maker yet.Rubbing salt into the wounds of ...
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If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for Sony to bring at least one of the super-attractive three new Xperia Z5s stateside, you can keep waiting, buy from unauthorized third-party retailers sans a valid warranty, or settle for the old-at-heart Xperia Z3+.This “bad ...
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Sony is definitely the king when it comes to smartphone cameras. The company doesn’t only manage to gain a ton of praise for its camera performance on its high-end Xperia smartphones, but every competing device that is praised for this is most likely using a Sony camera sensor. That said, the user interface is also important in helping the user enjoy the experience of taking a quick photo on the go, and Sony has just decided to do something about it.Sony has just pushed a major update to its camera application when it comes to the user experience. You’ll no longer have to dig within ...
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The moment you’ve all been waiting for (not you, Mr. Bond) has finally come. Following the smallest of the Sony Xperia Z5 trio, and the well-balanced Full HD 5.2-inch configuration, the 4K-capable (sometimes at least) Z5 ...
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Way to kick Sony while its so, so down. Or, way to give it to the man? Apparently, even when Sony Pictures is pitching up a tent, all James Bond wants to do is set the paraffin alight and become an Agent Under Fire. Sorry.Apparently, star Daniel Craig and director Sam Mendes had drawn a creative line-in-the-sand when it came to which smartphone Mr. Bond would grip upon in Spectre. This we know from more emails ...
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With the highly publicized Stagefright security vulnerability discovered way back in July, you’d think that gave Android device manufacturers enough time to safeguard fall flagships ahead of their commercial launches.But apparently, the Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact rolled out to
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