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Read more.This phablet has a 1080p Triluminous display. Also Sony SmartWatch 2 shown.
£610? Really?
This seems a far better proposal than the Galaxy Mega in terms of specs - Full HD, quad-core at 2.2GHz etc. I would actually buy this a sopposed to the Mega.
God, look at the size of it in that woman's hand - it's like a bloody Kindle!
Not interested in the Xperia Ultra - too large to use as a phone while being too small to use as a tablet.
The SmartWatch2 on the other hand looks a lot better than I was expecting. I wonder what ridiculous price they're planning to shift that for? Water resistance was definitely a good move - makes it far more useful as a "remote control" for a non-WR phone that you'd want to keep in your pocket.
Career status: still enjoying my new career in DevOps, but it's keeping me busy...
I really like the look of Sony's recent offerings, they come across as premium best-in-class devices. Nothing I'd particularly want, but the desire factor is definitely there.
Hang on a minute Sony are releasing a device with the current version of android. That should be the headline news!
It'll be a few generations behind again before you know itOriginally Posted by keithwalton
Having had a transflective LCD on my old N900 I can say they're was absolutely great in sunlight, all the colours washed out of course but do you really need them for twitter/texts/callerID and music control? The one thing that did annoy me though was the stock automatic brightness controller when presented with bright sunlight didn't give up and let the transflective LCD do what it was designed to do, instead it rammed the backlight up to full brightness which didn't help anything as it was too dim, all it did was drain the battery faster in sunlight
So, Sony, I'll buy your smartwatch but please give me the option to turn off the backlight entirely in bright sunlight, you know it makes sense for a device that needs excellent battery life.
Sony are nailing the aesthetics of their smartphone (and related) range at the moment IMO. I have a low-end Sony smartphone (Xperia U) and it looks great. Works well, too.
1- Create a "phone" so large that is unwieldy to use as a phone.
2- Create a "smart watch" with a reasonably sized screen for the *phone* functions, sold separately.
3- ??????
4- PROFIT!
How cool would I look walking around talking into my watch?!?
There is a bit of me really likes the idea of this.
Huge phone in your bag, smart watch to deal with basic control etc, and a set of bluetooth stereo headphone for actually talking on or listening to music. Sounds like the perfect setup to me. Granted it will hammer the battery....
Turns out there is a reason for the size of this thing. 6.4" is not an arbitrary size plucked out of thin air, it's the largest screen they could get to fit in a device "could fit into the width plus a similar thickness of a passport". Actually makes sense.
Engadget has an interview with the design lead: Sony's Jun Katsunuma on the inspiration for Xperia Z Ultra's design
Huge phone in your bag, that you will need to haul with you everywhere you go. What's the plan at a party? leave it somewhere safe and try not to walk too far away from it to stay in Bluetooth's range? Look like a dork hauling your bag everywhere you move, including the dance floor where there's a chance to smash it against somebody else? (remember the bigger the screen and the thinner the "phone", the more fragile it is.)
It's definitely pretty.
But I'd rather just get the Asus Fonepad and pocket the £430 difference
(Paying 3.5x more for something that will still be outdated in a year's time is just crazy to me. You can get full x86 convertible tablets like the Acer W700 with Core i3 and Windows 8 for less than this. I know it's a lot bigger but it's simply worlds apart in terms of power and features).
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