Below is list of Sony Experia Z Bluetooth, wifi & dnla profiles.
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Sony Experia Z – full list of Comms, Messaging, Design, Connectivity, Fun, Organiser Features
Below is photo of full list of Sony Experia Z Communication, Messaging, Design, Entertainment, Organiser and Connectivity features.
Sony Experia Z – list of camera, music & Internet features
See picture below of the full list of features for the Sony Experia Z camera, music and Internet.
ZTE to add voice control
At CES this week, ZTE announced a new partnership with Nuance that will bring voice recognition software to ZTE’s upcoming smartphones in 25 different languages and feature a new car mode app.
Following Apple’s Siri it seems voice is the new must have feature, and many smartphone manufacturers wants their own voice integration. ZTE’s partnership with Nuance, will be adding the feature to its own smartphones this year. Car Mode will enable users to make calls, read text messages, and control their media using their voice. Unlike Siri, it has been designed to work well in noisy environments, and won’t require a network or data connection.
The requirement not to need a data connection is excellent, but if you have no data connection you won’t be able to make calls or send texts!
Sony Experia Z
Further to my post here yesterday, I have been thinking more and more about this new smartphone from Sony.
Often with smartphones, there is always one feature that isn’t quite as good as you would have liked, but thinking about the Sony Experia Z, everything seems fit for a king.
Firstly, the design is very drool worthy. It’s glass front and back and made with precision. It’s has a decent size screen at 5 inches. For clumsy people it is water resistant and dust proof, so using it in the rain shouldn’t be an issue. How many times have you had you phone ring but you didn’t want to answer it as it was raining. Then there is the audio quality. Sony claim to be using Walkman sound I this device. So this phone could be your high quality MP3 player. Next up is the camera optics. We all know Sony camera optics are excellent, and the Experia Z features class leading smartphone optics, even including software available in its own DLSR cameras.
And then you have this powerhouse of a phone and the battery goes flat too fast. Sony have thought of this and have battery controls to enhance phone life by up to 5 times on standby.
There is so much more this phone can do but in summary not only do you have too notch features throughout, but actually a phone that looks gorgeous.
Samsung Announces the Exynos Octa 5 Chip – info
Samsung’s second keynote was held today at CES. They have announced the Exynos 5 Octa chip, based on the ARM big.LITTLE / Cortex A15 architecture. Designed to be a low powered, high performance mobile processor. Samsung claims that the 3D gaming performance is twice that of anything available. Watching movies hardly draws on power.
Could this new chip appear in the new Samsung Galaxy S4 or Samsung Note 3? If so,this could really be interesting to see what could be capable from a smartphone.
Has Apple stopped Innovating?
Everyday I read an article about how iOS 6 and the iPhone hasn’t changed much and how it has not innovated and gone stale. I read articles about how great the Samsung S3 or Nexus 4 is , and how these people who were hardened Apple users, come out the closet and state how much better android is now.
Last January, I got frustrated with my 4S. I had had the 4 previously. So in essence I was looking at the same shape for nearly 2.5 years. In geek land that’s a lifetime. So I moved to a Samsung Note. I wrote tons about how amazing it was. Then on the S3’s first day of release I did a great deal with Carphonewarehouse and moved to this phone. I was so convinced the S3 was better than any iPhone. It did more, it specification was magical. And then the iPhone 5 arrived. I had both side by side, and in that instance I was decided to sell the S3 and keep the iPhone 5. I used the iPhone 5 for a week first just to make sure. You see the iPhone 5 was stunning to look at, and the S3 bland. Anyway, it’s has been 3 months plus with the 5 and it actually feels like I am doing tasks faster and quicker. The audio and camera quality are superior too. The S3 has more features, no question about that, but the 5 with Apple’s infrastructure, its a win for me at the moment.
So what’s my theory. Well there is nothing wrong with the iPhone. It’s brilliant. Except it feels boring. It so good. But since 2007 it still looks the same. And has a similar interface. Android has evolved. It has all sorts of tweaks and options and hardware. It has the novelty factor but also it has improved leaps and bounds. For some reliability is everything. But for others change is needed. In reality iOS has improved dramatically, but it looks the same. Some might say that’s important as people don’t get frightened by change.
And that’s Apple’s problem. Everything works great but for some it’s not enough even though it performs well. That plus competing phones are adding the glitz.
Sony Experia Z update
Samsung Profits & Sales Rocket
With successful devices like the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Note 2 and 30 plus other handset derivatives, it is no surprise that Samsung is producing such stellar results as below. They are selling a massive 500 handsets per minute in the last quarter of 2012 alone.
The consolidated operating profit is expected to be $8.28 billion. Consolidated sales for the third quarter of 2012 are at $49.10 billion, while operating profit is recorded at $7.58 billion U.S. dollars.
Revenues for fiscal 2012 are estimated at $189.18 billion on consolidated basis, and operating profit is expected to be $27.29 billion.
Staggering figures. The challenge will be to maintain these results. But with Samsung releasing refrigerators with Evernote integration anything is possible.
The ZTE Grand S – the thinnest phone
Below is the 5-inch HD (1,920 x 1,080) display of the Grand S, powered by a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro which will debut this quarter in China with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It’s has a 13-megapixel auto-focus camera on the rear and a 2-megapixel camera on the front which are capable of recording video in 1080p. The Grand S boasts 2GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, and despite its super thin 6.9mm enclosure, it features a microSD card slot. Disappointingly it appears that ZTE sacrificed battery capacity to meet the size constraints of the Grand S, as a 1,780mAh battery is sealed within the phone’s unibody enclosure. With LTE on board, this phone is likely to need to be very close to a charger.
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