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So far I have seen 3 people with xperia z1, me n my 2 friends.
I have got to face black screen issue twice and one of my friends got it once. The device got overheated while using camera and the camera was shut down itself, it didn't start again and i got a replacement within a week. Third issue i noticed was the device kept on getting slower with time. Some minor lags were noticeable in the UI. While playing graphic intensive games,the phone was overheated again and that was the last time I used it(again black screen). Now the device is dead and i didn't have any time to go to there crappy svc and waste my time.Also, the kinetic scrolling feature was too bad, everytime while browsing the screen zoomed in and out and using the browser was not a very good experience.! :banghead:

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My friend has one with with no problems though. U got a bad batch I think. I myself have had good experiences with Sony service centers(Maybe they are too good here). What I say is let's bash every company equally

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I've had my share of problems with Sony also, specifically xperia mini, s.

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Ya may be you have experienced good service by sony. But the point is, why the hell we are going to the svc after spending 40k bucks. Aren't we supposed to get premium devices? IMO sony is good for gaming consoles and televisions only, smartphones are not spny's cup of tea. I have used many devices and in a day or two i 'll be getting a note 3 as well(fingers crossed) ,i don't know the locations of samsung nokia or lg svc,thats what quality is buddy. If i am spending an hour at the svc after buying the best of sony,then its better to buy a mmx. And no offences brother, its my opinion.

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My experience is also bad about Sony-Ericsson ,Sony whatever they call it
In 2011 I had the xperia play everything except gaming worked on it what a joke it was !!

Thanks to my bro I have now

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Since the discussion is about Sony phones, let me put forward my experience about Sony NEO V.

The phone was working fine initially. But, as time passed, the phone started aging. The scrolling started lagging big time. Phone would heat up while charging, calling, using internet. The battery went kaput in just 1.2 yrs of usage. Also, the USB pin (used for charging also) went kaput. Have to use the Samsung USB cord now.

Only few niggles

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Hmm... I have both the Z Ultra and the Z1. First Sony smartphones purchased by me. Both of them are very good and the absolute best, I believe. The ZU got dead in 10 days, so I got it replaced. Other than that minor niggle, both the devices are working very well. Butter smooth and very stable indeed. Not even a single random reboot or force close. And they're water resistant. However, tiny niggles like some ghost touching in the ZU when the screen is wet prevents it from being, well, perfect.

Samsung, I feel, is not worth the money. Plastic body, lagging performance, over saturated AMOLED displays plus the sheer amount of bloat puts me off. Add the fact that they don't support Open Source in the way they're supposed to, I won't be buying a Samsung phone again. And this is coming from a Note1 (busted this monsoon, due to rains ) and a Note3 (exchanged for Z1 after using for a week or so) user.

HTC is the Apple of android phones. They makes very good smartphones, no doubt about it. However, they charge a premium pricing. The premium doesn't justify the device we get, IMO. Screen, speakers, UI, performance - everything is good. The pricing is the only downside. Case in point, the recently released HTC One Max. I briefly considered buying it. But they're charging 50k+ for what? A S600, build quality that's a downgrade from the One, a worse camera, and a gimmicky fingerprint scanner? No, thank you HTC, but I won't be buying the second best thing for 50k.

LG has great screens, cameras, performance...... and that's it. UI is horrible, button placement is stupid and build quality is Samsung.

The Indian companies aren't even worth talking about as they don't give this kind of performance. In fact, they don't give any kind of performance at all.

And we come to Apple. Premium devices with premium pricing. Great apps selection, great screen, great speakers, great everything! And even great Service Centres . The price, its the only weak area, but if you can afford it and can deal with the small screen, go for it! I'll be jumping ship as soon as they manage a 5.5" display, at least. Preferably 6".

Okay, that about covers almost all the major players, have I forgotten anyone else?

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Nokia?


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Oh yeah, Nokia!
Great build quality, great cameras, very good displays. However, the OS is a drawback. Very VFM for the low to mid range models. But without any qualms if you're looking for a great camera, and very little customization. UI is extremely simple and no clutter at all.

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Hmm.... First of all, are you saying z1 is way way better than samsungs?. all that coming from a Note 1? Don't tell me about note 3. Its performance is just far far far far far better than all the apples, HTC, n sony. Its the best device in the market at this point of time.IPhone has got thw worst UI, its super boring and freakin useless. Apple is for those who want a presentable handset when they show it in public, sony is useless, nokia has got too too too good UI for people who just use their device for social networking and calling . You wrote that samsungs have got poor build quality with laggy UI, if you are telling this about note 1 then FYI a dual core handset with 1gb ram can't be lagfree, other than that, 2011 was a different era ,that time was totally different. Tell me a device from sony htc ,etc which had got these features in 2011. And if you are saying that note 3 is laggy,then my friend, sorry to say, you have not used or even seen that device. And coming to thw build quality,show me any premium from samsung with poor plastics,i'll throw my samsungs from burj-al-arab....! Also my xperia's screen got cracked when it felled from my pocket,but my iphone keeps on falling, its in perfect condition!

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Read my post again mate, I did own the Note3 for a week. To believe me or not is your prerogative, after having sold it off, I have no proof of ownership. And I never stated that the Note 1 was laggy, I said Samsung phones are laggy. That includes all of Samsung phones, down from the Galaxy Y's to the Notes. As for the build quality, I don't understand your statement so just go ahead and throw it out.
And no, the Exynos Octa is in no way a match for the S800 used by the Z1. If you want proof, just compare the synthetic benchmarks from the S800 used the European Note3 vs the Exynos ones. 8 Plus, the graphics module used in the Note3 (PowerVR something, I think) doesn't support the latest openGL when it was released and can't be updated to support it.
The breaking of a screen depends upon many factors - height, materials, point of contact etcetera.. No conclusion can be made from your statement.

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Obviously, octas would be better than quad cores, but i totally disagree to the statement you made regarding samsung. Idk about note 3 bcs my bro is using it and i gonna get it in few days, but after using note2 and s4 , i want you to know that these devices are not lagging even if i try to do so, i switched on both the devices for the first time in 4 months ,they booted quickly and are fully functional along with the performance i had in the new handsets. May be you got a defective device or it was a software error which can be easily rectified and removed by samsung, even nexus 5 had lagging issues with 4.4.0 but google rectified the issue. And regarding qualityof hardware, i wanna say that ,it is not as good as apple , but it is better than all the sony's

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I stopped reading after this. I don't have to.
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First of all, let me tell about myself something, I've used about 14 different phones since 2010, all of them being above 15k up to 30k.
Now answering your post.
1. Build quality. Samsung is pathetic in most cases (leaving tab 2, NS,s2,s4 and note 3)
Read about plastic quality of Samsung on internet.with yourself with thousands reviews.
Sony is king after HTC.
2.Samsung lags the most
If you've any technical knowledge, then you should've known why..all thanks to that crappy touchwiz ui and s- apps. Experienced sammy users first root and remove all these bloatwares to use their phone.
3.best phone this time is iphone 5 followed by Nexus 5(currently using)
4. Dual core and 1 gb ram fail in 2013. ..? Please use a LG l9 and galaxy core/ s2 at same time and see difference,on my father's L9 internal memory is just 200MB left(hardcore games like shadowgun,dead trigger, gta) check even l9 has a bigger screen, so more processing, but it never lagged on me in my 7 month usage and my sister still scolds me when his almost empty galaxy core lags even now and then.
So conclusion, I will never buy Samsung again and most people are thinking same as designing is cheap class in Samsung, a 4k sammy phone looks like a scale model of 40k premium flagship device.and people are getting tired of that nonsense.
If you love android phone BUY ONLY NEXUS (kickass), for phablets it's Samsung
LG after using 4 LG products, I've been bound to buy LG forever.
ANOTHRR YHING ABOUT FEATURES AND LATEST TECH.
1. First touchscreen phone was LG prada
2. First camera phone was also by LG (don't remember name.
3. First dual core phone was LG 2x
4. First quad core phone was LG 4x
5. First curved phone is LG gflex ( it launched only a couple of days before galaxy round but still)

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Regarding octa better than quad. Don't just follow sheep trend.
A quad vote is fully dedicated
A octa core on other hand, is divided into two parts, one quad core for gaming and another for normal tasking
So in end current octa is slower in terms of performance than quad.
Example Samsung s4 quad core (usa) is more faster than a octa core s4. Octa core has more battery life as it saves on processing.so current octa core devices are not True octa core. Recently mediatek has launched a TRUE octa core chipset (18 HOURS AGO) so in upcoming future, a octa will be faster than a quad, bit not now, especially in sammy s4,N3 etve

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