While it is sadly true that Nougat updates for the Xperia Z5, Z3+ and Z4 Tablet are halted, Sony vows to crush all bugs and restart the rollout "ASAP."
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Sony's Android 7.0 Nougat updating tour de force officially continues with the Xperia Z5 Compact and Z4 Tablet.
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It’s never wise to assume a certain unreleased smartphone model will eventually see daylight just because it comes from a long line of beloved devices, especially when its makers are undergoing transitions, cutting expenses, and streamlining product portfolios.Still, even with the Xperia Z brand out the ...
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Before you even think it, don’t go there. Just… don’t. We know it may feel like Apple is boldly swimming against the tide in trying to bring compact phones back in the spotlight, but Android manufacturers such as Sony never gave up on diminutive flagships.Granted, the Japanese OEM that continues to offset big mobile losses with a well-oiled gaming machine did recently decide to
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Sony didn’t exactly play all its cards right in terms of US availability for the Xperia Z5 trio, launching the high-end phones a little late, a little pricey and a little crippled. Worse yet, the Xperia X trio entered
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In addition to working diligently and simultaneously on Android 6.0 updates for a bunch of new and old Xperia devices, Sony took its sweet time to start rolling out Marshmallows in order to make them feel special and personal.Thankfully, there doesn’t seem to be too much bloat tacked on stock M features like ...
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Sony sure took its sweet time getting Android 6.0 goodies ready for the fall 2015-released Xperia Z5 smartphone trio, but apparently, that’s because the Japanese company’s software engineers were simultaneously working on updates for a few older devices also.Namely, the previous flagship handheld, the Xperia Z3+, unveiled in May 2015, and the latest jumbo-sized hero, ...
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Just as Samsung and LG tend to release software updates for their Android-based devices in Korea first (and Poland, for some reason), then the rest of the world, Sony seems to have finally begun the Xperia Z5 trio’s Marshmallow makeover in Japan.Not just any carrier in the company’s homeland, since NTT DoCoMo comfortably leads in local subscriber numbers, hinting at this OS promotion less than a month back. Hopefully, the polished,
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Unlike most other Android device manufacturers, Sony tends to work simultaneously on software updates for a host of phones, thus stalling the rollout’s start and refusing to give new flagships preferential treatment.The upside is made obvious in a recent tweet from the company’s British Xperia arm, as the Z5 “series”, Z4 Tablet and Z3+ might all receive over-the-air Marshmallow goodies beginning March 7. Granted, we still expect small gaps between deliveries of 6.0 enhancement packages for those products, as well as traditional distribution in so-called waves.But chances are
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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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Hurr durr, it’s that joke that every tech YouTuber’s making on Twitter, right? But even though Sony isn’t really shredding the pipes at CES this year, at least on the mobile end, it’s at least trying to impress all of us with some impressive video quality — and it’s all coming out of 12 Xperia Z5 Compacts.Those handsets were arranged in a special 3D-printed rig for 360° video and was sent to the Rise Ski & Snowboard Festival in Les Deux Alpes, ...
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