The Z5 Compact is amazing

[Deeko]

I've had the Sony Z5 Compact for a couple of weeks now, and it's one of the best phones I've ever owned. It's leaps and bounds better than my wife's GS6 Edge in terms of performance, battery life, camera quality. The fingerprint sensor works WAY better than I expected too. The only knock on the Compact is the 720p screen, but even that's surprisingly good quality (and the larger Z5 that more directly competes with other flagships solves that issue anyway).

It's really a shame Sony has little to no relationships with US carriers, and terrible marketing for their phones. They do really good work. Plus they're the only company still making smaller phones that don't suck, which is one of my pain points with modern phones.

 

[linkgoron]

As I've stated in other threads, I have an xperia z3 compact - and I agree that the compacts are great phones. It's a shame that Sony has bad phone marketing, because the compact are really unique in the current market.

 

[cronos]

I'm so jelly. Where did you get it from?

 

[Red Storm]

Didn't the Z3 compact launch just a year ago?

 

[Deeko]

I'm so jelly. Where did you get it from?

eBay. $500 shipped brand new, not a terrible deal for a phone not available here.

 

[cronos]

eBay. $500 shipped brand new, not a terrible deal for a phone not available here.

Nice. When I looked about a month ago on eBay it's still $550. With quadruple or quintuple eBay bucks at $500 it would've been a pretty sweet deal.

 

[Qbah]

Love my Z5c Perfect size, great battery (I never think about it! first time ever), amazing camera, great speakers, little customization on the UI, waterproof and very sturdy (dropped it a few times already). Best phone by far I have ever owned and my two previous ones were HTC One M8 and HTC One. Battery, camera and perfect size are the top 3 things I like about it. And I always recommend it to my friends (some already got it based on the recommendation and they're extremely happy too).

 

[cbrunny]

Wife has a Z3c. It's really something amazing. I am extremely jealous. My next phone will likely be a Sony. My Note 4 can't compete with that thing on just about any level.

 

[Oyeve]

I really am surprised at sony for not hyping its phones. I have a Z3v and even tho it probably wont get lollipop let alone marshmallow, its a damn fine phone.

 

[paperwastage]

Didn't the Z3 compact launch just a year ago?

sony had been doing a 6-month refresh cycle
(granted there's no z4 compact, so z3c -> z5c = 1 year)

z = March 2013
z1 = Sept 2013
z1c = Jan 2014
z2 = April 2014
z3/z3c = Oct 2014
z3+/z4 = Feb 2015
z5/z5c = Oct 2015

 

[mrochester]

Great hardware, let down as always by the software. Wish we could put iOS on these things.

 

[shabby]

Great hardware, let down as always by the software. Wish we could put iOS on these things.

Its actually possible, one guy is having success on his htc hd2 http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/06/ios-on-htc-hd2

 

[Qbah]

Its actually possible, one guy is having success on his htc hd2 http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/06/ios-on-htc-hd2

Wow, that works rather well too! :awe:

Spoiler

I hate you

 

[Artdeco]

Its actually possible, one guy is having success on his htc hd2 http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/06/ios-on-htc-hd2

Holy crap, and I thought i was doing good with 3 OS's on my HD2, what an amazing phone and the developers @ XDA are awesome.

 

[paperwastage]

Great hardware, let down as always by the software. Wish we could put iOS on these things.

why would you?

iOS is built specifically to tailor the apple hardware

if you port it to somewhere else, you won't get those optimization... get worse battery life/...

 

[Artdeco]

Sony was Apple/Samsung back in the day. Every once in a while I'll pick up a bit of tech and think, huh, feels like a Sony product used to feel.

 

[tuan209]

I am loving mine too! Great size and features.

I may be switching to Google Fi though, so if anyone wants a good deal on it let me know.

Tuan

 

[holden j caufield]

Wife has a Z3c. It's really something amazing. I am extremely jealous. My next phone will likely be a Sony. My Note 4 can't compete with that thing on just about any level.

Really? I have put a debloated rom on my note 4 and it's just so smooth and fast. Only thing I don't like is the fingerprint scanner as it's not reliable.

 

[shortylickens]

I see no reason to move up from my Z3 Compact right now, (cuz its awesome) but maybe next summer I will.

 

[Snappysneaky]

nice..I'm jelly