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[German Video] Galaxy Note vs HTC One X

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNUd1ZoYbzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FxJb99E7Fhk

If only I could understand a word he speaks
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Is that stock note? Filled with bloatware and useless stuff that makes it so slow?

note for the win

I was really considering the One X before i watch this video (even though I don't have a clue what he is saying ) but after seeing this it's like there is a HUGE difference in screen size!!
I was thinking 0.6 wouldn't be that much to lose but it seems it is, damn you Note

Yeah I thought exactly the same but screen size on ONE X seems a lot smaller and I think we are all doomed to wait for Galaxy Note II or so!!!

I still say this phone is going to have major battery complaints.

MrDSL said:
I still say this phone is going to have major battery complaints.
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That's what i said in the video ;-)

MerXury13 said:
That's what i said in the video ;-)
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Can you do the vid in english? Thank you.

My Note does everything I want to do, so I'm sticking with it. I buy for usabilty rather than specifications. I'd not be happy ●downgrading● to a smaller screen. Lol.
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Galaxy note i think still the best phone out there , it needs a beast to beat that phone

Galaxy note rocks for its supreme display
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I'm going to get One X when it is on sale in the UK and sell my Note. As much as I enjoy using the Note the last 5 months and still think the Note's screen and expendable memory is great benefit compared to the One X. I'm mainly changing for the 4.0 software shipped with HTC. Had Samsung kept their promise of ICS update by end of April, I'd be happy with keep on using Note, but I'm starting to get sick with general slowness of Gingerbread.

The pic alone should be sufficient to see how this comparison does not make any sense as all the others comparing the Note with "the rest"...
The Note is THE SOLE AND ONLY ACTUALLY USABLE SMARTPHONE TODAY, the One X is just one of the other countless, useless stupidphones I am no more interested in.

Most concerning part of htc one x is battery.
Does 1800 mAh battery will enough for 4.7inch device?
Note have 2500 mAh
One more thing i suspect is GPS, note have dual support gps + glonass, n thats y mote having marvelous gps fix, hardly i do have read complain about this, i think one x don't have glonass.
No memory card slot also annoying part for one x.
Some positive thing is powerful processor, n preinstalled ICS for htc x.
Overall i do stick with note only, if i explain just one reason, can't compromise screen size anymore.
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He basically put down some specs and display comparison. He has that the one x, has that outsticking camera is a minus for the phone since it more likely gonna scratch. He also said that the screen viewing angle is almost edge on edge but NOTE is slightly better. Both are fast phones. Also his conclusion is the HTC one x is a great phone smaller better pocketable but the Note is still the slightly better all around phone. But the size can be a issue with some. And I didn't translate it word for word just a short version.
Samsung Note

Ketan words made me remember some wise words:
Someone said: "Size don't matter".
Well, either this person had a small penis or didn't had a galaxy note.

I'm going to ask my Austrian friend to watch and translate the video.

dante501 said:
He basically put down some specs and display comparison. He has that the one x, has that outsticking camera is a minus for the phone since it more likely gonna scratch. He also said that the screen viewing angle is almost edge on edge but NOTE is slightly better. Both are fast phones. Also his conclusion is the HTC one x is a great phone smaller better pocketable but the Note is still the slightly better all around phone. But the size can be a issue with some. And I didn't translate it word for word just a short version.
Samsung Note
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Yeah, that's almost right - sorry, i do not own the phone, that was a hands-on with pre-series and i cannot make another english version.

Big update in the first post
i put some other comparison pics in the first post, also another video (but that one is more focused on the one x, only a short note comparison)
Have fun and the german here might follow www.allaboutsamsung.de on facebook.com/allaboutsamsung or twitter.com/allaboutsamsung

Battery Life tested by GSMArena

Seems that pre-production unit has some nice battery life!
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Here's the source.
Samsung talked alot about battery life so I kinda expected this results. Maybe phosphorescent green pixels helped to achive better results in web browsing tests, or this technology never made into SGS III? What do you think?
See how other phones performed in same tests:
One X
iPhone 4S
Galaxy Note
Galaxy SII

Awseome! :-D
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Besthiroeu said:
Seems that pre-production unit has some nice battery life!
Here's the source.
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I came

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_ics_vs_gingerbread-review-737p4.php
Web browsing is only slightly better than their SGS2 ICS review though.
Call and video tests are fantastic though! Hopefully we're looking at a little more life than the S2. I usually have the screen very low anyway ;D

SirCanealot said:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_ics_vs_gingerbread-review-737p4.php
Web browsing is only slightly better than their SGS2 ICS review though.
Call and video tests are fantastic though! Hopefully we're looking at a little more life than the S2. I usually have the screen very low anyway ;D
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Yes but remember GS III has a 4.8 " display HD...

ale0crysis said:
Yes but remember GS III has a 4.8 " display HD...
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Which is very true, but GS3 also has a massive battery. 2100 instead of 1650mah
Still good numbers though!

SirCanealot said:
Which is very true, but GS3 also has a massive battery. 2100 instead of 1650mah
Still good numbers though!
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the important is you can enjoy the device 1 full day on hard use and maybe on daily use 2 days

This makes me sooooooo excited

Wow very good. A larger battery but a more battery consuming screen comes out a better score than HOX.

Wow really good results

The question is how long before Samsung release a 2500 mah extended battery? That would make it even more epic.

45hours
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I haven't owned a phone for a while where the battery time didn't see improvement on some of the roms and see no reason why that would change with this one. I do notice as I read threads like this that most people seem to be happy running their screens at lower brightnesses. I'm not one of them lol, I like it nice and bright at all times.

i smell bull****.
I very much doubt the video playback numbers, unless it was a video playblack of a black screen.

Intratech said:
The question is how long before Samsung release a 2500 mah extended battery? That would make it even more epic.
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I hope they'll release it soon and that it will be same size as stock one.
FISKER_Q said:
i smell bull****.
I very much doubt the video playback numbers, unless it was a video playblack of a black screen.
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Check other AMOLED results, they have similar performances.

Besthiroeu said:
Check other AMOLED results, they have similar performances.
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Like the Galaxy Nexus at almost half the video playback time?

FISKER_Q said:
Like the Galaxy Nexus at almost half the video playback time?
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Do you know the Galaxy Nexus use a different CPU/GPU or you are not considering anything just the SHAPE...

Intratech said:
The question is how long before Samsung release a 2500 mah extended battery? That would make it even more epic.
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Only 2500? Id like to see a 2750 or like that. Wont add that much to design and it would be awesome! 40+ hour's is great, add on maybe +5 and that would be great. Wishful thinking if it was a 3300 ext battery like a RAZR. If only it wasn't Motorola.

ale0crysis said:
Do you know the Galaxy Nexus use a different CPU/GPU or you are not considering anything just the SHAPE...
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Yes, of course.
But i still don't believe that the display uses less power than the internals in a low power state with the 3g antenna active.

FISKER_Q said:
Yes, of course.
But i still don't believe that the display uses less power than the internals in a low power state with the 3g antenna active.
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You do know it's using a new low power radio as well don't you?

[REQUEST] Real world photos

I'm toying with the idea of getting one of these cameras, maybe it's a bit too soon to ask but, can some of you with the camera, post some photos you've taken with it, real world photos from actual owners and not just press shots.
Not really fussed if you've used the built in apps for editing the images you post, as it will just add to the "things you can do with this device" I just want to get the opinions from actual users who have spent their hard earned cash on it and get their points of view about their experience with it, what the performance is like, how good/poor is the daily use image quality of the camera like, whether you think it was worth the £399 etc... etc....
TIA.
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Real Photo Taken By Me
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A Rich Tone:
And a Normal:

Slow Motion Video
Here is a Slow Motion Video:
http://youtu.be/tcQtKfO16bo

Some more pictures
I took these photos this morning...
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Interesting. Some purple camera flare in the shoot with the sun. Just like the Iphone 5

Here's a handful I took a few days ago.. (Dropbox Link)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sgjjatb3zv06ib8/_VGWEPCPiq

It all looks really good, has anyone ventured into the manual settings much?
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apprentice said:
Here's a handful I took a few days ago.. (Dropbox Link)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sgjjatb3zv06ib8/_VGWEPCPiq
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Nice shots - just got my galaxy cam but don't have any paths nearly that beautiful to walk with it. Would love to see photo spheres come this device.

I'm no photo bug but those look like some nice shots to me.
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Here are 3 live videos of Gary Barlow on Monday evening. I was stood well back hence the enhanced shaking hand effect http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb4AsPYRrYlN6bcceKarcDlCtMSf_Ueui

The Moon
This a picture I shot of the moon using manual settings.

Video quality is really good, and surprisingly so is the sound.
Swyped, from my finger to your face, on my Samsung Galaxy Note II

I've bought the camera on the very first day of availability, 7th November, directly in London's Samsung flagship store at 5pm when the boxes were brought in I might be the first to have bought the camera officially...
However, on my Flickr account I've collected some pictures that I've made since then.
The lens is amazing, the CMOS chip not so, zooming into pictures details become just a mess of pixels. Or should I say mash?
But it's just a point-and-shooter and it does very good pictures at low light. Unless you don't zoom in too much, that is.

paulikxp said:
I've bought the camera on the very first day of availability, 7th November, directly in London's Samsung flagship store at 5pm when the boxes were brought in I might be the first to have bought the camera officially...
However, on my Flickr account I've collected some pictures that I've made since then.
The lens is amazing, the CMOS chip not so, zooming into pictures details become just a mess of pixels. Or should I say mash?
But it's just a point-and-shooter and it does very good pictures at low light. Unless you don't zoom in too much, that is.
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I know it's a bit apple and oranges but which one would you consider this one, or the Sony. I currently have 2 S3s in my household + my current phone is Note 2. Maybe that's a bit too much of the Galaxy goodness, what do you think?

victorator said:
I currently have 2 S3s in my household + my current phone is Note 2. Maybe that's a bit too much of the Galaxy goodness, what do you think?
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Haha, I sold my S3 and a Nexus 7 to help fund the purchase of a Note II and the Galaxy Camera, I considered keeping the S3 at one point, as I love Samsung's Galaxy range! So now the camera and Note II are my absolute favourite gadgets of all time ツ
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Cape Manza in Okinawa/Japan
Hello, I shoot two pictures at Cape Manza.
One is the bird with tele-mode(zoom-in), other one is the cap with wide-mode(zoom-out).
I shoot with out the tri-pod.
Thanks.
riki0081 from Japan.

I took these shots of the weekend at a bodybuilding show... The battery lasted for about 4 hours of very use... I was using the picpush app to stream photos to facebook as I was taking them... This is a very cool device! remove the space in the url lol
facebook dot com/media/set/?set=a.10151155433826297.435735.584311296&type=1&l=87f30869cc

After seeing lots of photos from you guys I don't think I will be getting this camera. I will go for the sony hx20 or lumix tz30 (leaning towards the lumix, although sony kills it with image stabilization and speed of operation).

victorator said:
After seeing lots of photos from you guys I don't think I will be getting this camera. I will go for the sony hx20 or lumix tz30 (leaning towards the lumix, although sony kills it with image stabilization and speed of operation).
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That's your decision... but both of them are not comparable to the Galaxy Camera in my opinion as they don't come with Android/touchscreen/3G.
I think only somebody who really wants those features will buy the Galaxy not because of its picture quality, which is good but far from perfect.

Jelly beans
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Samsung live event now!

legion1911 said:
LIVE, right Now... presentation of S 4
http://www.samsung.com/th/samsungunpacked/
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For those that missed the live show, here is the RECORDING:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaw6CSaPnfk
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http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5622/99973566.jpg
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Disappointment is all I have to say....
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True bro, sooo true
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Possible to get some of these functions ported over to Note 2?

The camera and camera software looks like the biggest enhancement, no mention of cpu or gpu tho.
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madpete said:
The camera and camera software looks like the biggest enhancement, no mention of cpu or gpu tho.
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It's either a 1.9Ghz snapdragon 600 or a 1.6 Ghz exynos 5 octa depending on the region ( it is confirmed). The Galaxy S IV is definitely not worth "upgrading" if you're coming from a note 2. But if you're like me phoneless then it is a great choice!

The S4 is a 'nice' upgrade from the S3, mostly on the software side. Hardware is a modest upgrade. But I would not consider upgrading from my N2 to a S4. N3...we shall see...

Think the LCD touch got great improvement with air touch and even with gloves.Nice for winter

Are any of those features come ti note 2? Camera is better but cpu update is pointless for me now. I really don't game that much and note 2 feels super smooth. Half of those apps could and should come to note 2. Any infos?
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What I like:
- Their presentation (Finally something different, not just a guy standing on the stage blabbing about new features. Also stream was good quality and stable)
- New CPU (Although difference would really be only in games - S3/N2 is already incredible smooth. Also I'm not sure about battery usage of the chip. Must be incredibly high with all cores online)
- Air touch (mostly for interacting with mouseover elements on web pages like drop down menus, don't care much about gestures. Still I can pull out S pen on N2 if I find that page, which are thankfully rare nowadays)
- Glove thingy (does it work with thick ski gloves or just thin ones?)
- Smart pause (although it most likely does not work with 3rd party players which makes it useless for me. Maybe xda will step in? (somehow link it to simulating physical pause button))
- Temperature sensor (barometer on N2 is not really useful, at least there are no useful apps for it except for just displaying sensor data. But temperature could be somewhat useful)
What I don't care about:
- Most of the software improvements (mostly gimmicks - things nice to have and show around, but not really that useful.).
What I don't like:
- Pentile screen
So unless you have spare 600 dollars laying around, I don't think its really worth upgrading from either S3 or N2. We have reached point (or we are very near reaching it) where interface on phones is completely smooth and lags are mostly caused by badly written apps or apps waiting for resources (NAND, Internet etc.), so speeding up CPU will not do much, except for games. And things that could make use of that power (voice recognition etc.) are being moved to the cloud.

legion1911 said:
LIVE, right Now... presentation of S 4
http://www.samsung.com/th/samsungunpacked/
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For those that missed the live show, here is the RECORDING:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaw6CSaPnfk
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5622/99973566.jpg
http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/9228/specss.jpg

matejdro said:
What I don't like:
- Pentile screen
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Pentile again??? pfffff.......... can't wait to se a macro shot of the secreen next to a 5" 1080 non-pentile from the "competitors" . I'm really curious to see if it would suffer from the lower percieved resulution "issue" on such high PPI count. Personnaly i don't find either the s3 or the non pentile N2 to have a sharp screen... hopefully the N3 will come out full hd with RGB.
P.S not a fan of the octa... those 4 low powered cores running the UI might and most surely will cause small stutters, i've already seen some hick-ups on a "hands on" video from the conference, but those phones weren't running the final release software soo... fingers crossed..looks like the days IOS is crushed in smoothness are still to come.....

The most detailed Z3 compact review on the net

Google search "notebook checker .net"
Scroll down to October 14 and click on z3 compact.
Aplogies for no direct link, being new to the forum prevents me.

Great review. Thanks for posting it.

"Plastic and glass are the materials of the Xperia Z3 Compact. The frame is, unlike the Xperia Z3, not made of metal, but the high build quality reminds us of other family members. Unfortunately, this is also true for the stability, which is not perfect: You can twist some of the corners and there are picture distortions, the same happens when you push down certain spots at the back. Once again, you cannot open the Xperia Z3 Compact, so you cannot replace a faulty battery by yourself."
Built quality also criticized.

Here's the link itself
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-Xperia-Z3-Compact-Smartphone-Review.127925.0.html

techguyone said:
Here's the link itself
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-Xperia-Z3-Compact-Smartphone-Review.127925.0.html
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Notebookcheck is a great site, their own reviews are very complete and professional and unbiased

degraaff said:
Notebookcheck is a great site, their own reviews are very complete and professional and unbiased
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I was pleasantly surprised by their level of detail in reviews and bookmarked them for the future
So many tech sites (engadget, the verge, etc) don't really review... well... anything. They simply write an article for page hits as quickly as possible and say things like "the brightness is good" or "the battery life is excellent" thinking that is sufficient for a review
If anything most tech websites out there are simply "preview" websites (not review) since all really do is reread the spec sheet / keynote points fed to them by the OEMs and disguise it within a fancy written article.
The only websites, besides this one I just stumbled upon, I've seen give actually testing data about the phone beyond just the spec sheet numbers is Anandtech and Ars Technica.

for battery run time, does it mean Z1 compact is better than z3 compact?

ap3604 said:
So many tech sites (engadget, the verge, etc) don't really review... well... anything. They simply write an article for page hits as quickly as possible and say things like "the brightness is good" or "the battery life is excellent" thinking that is sufficient for a review
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http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/479
Nilay Patel address just that in the episode of Twit above. He basically says most people just want to know how it's going to affect their life, not the specs and the technical differences. I guess to the masses, he's right, and perhaps it shows with the popularity of his site.
I'm a techy, so I appreciate in-depth reviews at sites like ars, anandtech, and the site linked earlier in this thread.

Nice review, I was looking for something like this. Most reviews were very superficial, I want to see hard numbers and comparisons.
Anyway I also made a review after I got it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2ib1on/sony_xperia_z3_compact_review_oc/

ap3604 said:
I was pleasantly surprised by their level of detail in reviews and bookmarked them for the future
The only websites, besides this one I just stumbled upon, I've seen give actually testing data about the phone beyond just the spec sheet numbers is Anandtech and Ars Technica.
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I'd add Phone Arena to that list.
http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Sony-Xperia-Z3-Compact-Review_id3794

unk3 said:
"Plastic and glass are the materials of the Xperia Z3 Compact. The frame is, unlike the Xperia Z3, not made of metal, but the high build quality reminds us of other family members. Unfortunately, this is also true for the stability, which is not perfect: You can twist some of the corners and there are picture distortions, the same happens when you push down certain spots at the back. Once again, you cannot open the Xperia Z3 Compact, so you cannot replace a faulty battery by yourself."
Built quality also criticized.
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Guess you'd agree that criticism is on a very high level though...
On the GPS performance:
My experience with the Z3C's GPS performance, luckily, is completely different (FW .98 DE). The shots below have just been made, about 15 seconds after turning on GPS (GPS only, no Google services/A-GPS!) and having started the App. Condition: overcast sky, urban area, outside, between buildings, GPS used last time = some 5 days ago. As you can see, it took exactly 3 seconds for the Z3C to get and keep the signal and I always see this behaviour:
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But, let's go one by one...
"It is not possible to locate your position indoors and it takes a while outdoors before the smartphone finds enough satellites to locate our position down to 10 meters (~32.8 ft)."
-> Conditions? How many floors above? Anyway, how relevant is using GPS indoors?
-> Outdoors, My Z3C has no problems to nail down accuracy to 3 to 4 meters all the times.
"We test the Xperia Z3 Compact on a bicycle ride and compare it with the professional navigation device Garmin Edge 500. The Xperia Z3 Compact indicates around 400 meters (~1312 ft) less than the professional device, and the location points are also a bit confused at the bridge and let us "fly" above the crossing road. The situation is better in the forest section, but the Garmin Edge 500 is still more accurate."
-> How long was the ride showing on a standard bike tachometer in order to judge the 400 meters difference? Who says that the Garmin is more accurate!
-> How was the Z3C actually mounted, side-by-side with the Edge 500 or anywhere else?
-> Better situation in the woods is very strange.
-> What App has actually been used for recording? There's a huge dependency on the App.
I've tested with MapFactor Navigator and have not seen a single glitch on now 3x 50+km rides.
As I had already written in a different thread, the Z3C GPS performace is easily on par with my Garmin Oregon 450 as well as 600, if not better then the 600 even.
Why the testers of notebookcheck site have seen such bad results is something yet to clarify. Bad unit, older/different FW... ?
Attched is the very first track I recorded with the Z3C, see and judge yourselves.

effort appreciated
RainbowSwag said:
Nice review, I was looking for something like this. Most reviews were very superficial, I want to see hard numbers and comparisons.
Anyway I also made a review after I got it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2ib1on/sony_xperia_z3_compact_review_oc/
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thanks for your review. much better getting reviews who actually own the phone as their own and not just a 10 minute quick look. I had the z1 compact and the camera was useless so I went back to my iPhone 4s, which post iOS 8, is now pretty slow and i fancy a change but without compromising on the camera or anything much bigger to hold... size, camera and battery life are probably things I look for in a phone so the z3c seems a logical choice.. still happy with yours?