Hasta La Gadget!

Folks living in Japan and who are rocking out to the Sony Xperia Z, otherwise known by its model number SO-02E, listen up! There is a new firmware update that has been made available for this particular smartphone, where it carries the version number 10.1.D.0.333. Just what kind of goodies will this new firmware bring to the table? Well, a couple of main features are headed your way to the NTT DoCoMo handset, with the first of them being this – it will fix the Sleep of Death issue that has been the bane of some Xperia Z handset owners, while the second would be the ability to adds the ‘White balance’ display calibration setting which was originally found in the Xperia ZL.

I guess this is a glimpse of what one can expect in the future, especially for the Sony Xperia Z models that are bound for the Western world, where it will carry the model number C660X instead. Perhaps in the next firmware update cycle, things in the west for the Sony Xperia Z will shape up accordingly to match the advancements and changes enjoyed by those living in the Land of the Rising Sun.

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If you were planning on getting the Sony Xperia Z, you might want to hold off on your purchase just yet. According to several reports (1,2), there are Xperia Z owners who are complaining that their phones are randomly shutting down. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if the phones could be turned on again. Yikes! So far no one has been able to find a workaround or figure out what the problem is. Some have reported success in rebooting their phones by doing a hard reset (hold power + vol up), but it seems that it does not necessarily work for everyone. We did not encounter such problems during our review of the Sony Xperia Z, so it could be an isolated incident or completely random. In the meantime Sony has responded to the complaints and claimed to have come up with a fix for these random shutdowns. The fix is expected to make its way into the phone’s next update, so keep an eye out for that.

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In a move that is most probably playing it safe, remembering the adage to not put all of one’s eggs in a single basket, Sony Mobile must have approached a couple of suppliers to churn out displays for their current flagship device, the Sony Xperia Z, which is also water resistant to a certain extent, and that means it will play nice even when your fingers are wet. The two suppliers in question are JDC (Japan Display Central, part of Japan Display Inc) and Sharp, where both of them hail from Japan.

Of course, this means that one Xperia Z with a display from JDC does not necessarily mean it is better than the Sharp-equipped Xperia Z, or is it? The folks over at XDA Developers did run a poll in order to find out just which of the two displays is the superior one, and most of them voted for Sharp compared to just 20% being on JDC’s camp. Of course, there is nothing scientific about this poll, and until someone actually places both devices side by side to make a comparison, the entire shebang is still up for debate. Which of the two do you think has the better smartphone?

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So, you have been in two minds as to whether you would want to pick up the Sony Xperia Z or not. Well, I know that not all reading material is worth going through, and manuals themselves tend to make for extremely dry reading material, which is why the Sony Xperia Z user manual that has appeared online should appeal only to an extremely small segment of the tech community.

The Sony Xperia Z smartphone, which will be a somewhat pseudo-rugged model considering how it is dust-proof and water resistant, has already made an appearance in select markets, although we do expect to see the Sony Xperia Z “explode” across different countries from tomorrow onwards. Folks who want to know more about the Sony Xperia Z inside out can always check out the user guide, which comes in both C6602 (HSPA+) and C6603 (LTE) flavors, weighing in at 131 virtual pages. Of course, the English manual should be the most popular model, but for those who want a different language to check up on the Sony Xperia Z, you can give this link a go.

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Just how tough is the Sony Xperia Z? Well, this is most probably the most tough flagship smartphone to date from all the other manufacturers out there, whether we are talking about the Android, iOS or Windows Phone 8 platforms. After all, in the video that you see above, it showed just how the Xperia Z managed to continue working even though it had dropped into the toilet bowl – or rather, purposely soaked in there for a moment.

Well, I am not quite sure about you, but I have known some folks who have dropped their handsets into the toilet bowl, and sometimes, it was after they had, erm, done their business in it, so to speak, which would mean the handset is doubly condemned. Anyways just to sidetrack for a while, what business does a smartphone have in the toilet? The Xperia Z’s water resistant feature definitely worked as demonstrated in the video above, but you would best get a bottle of Dettol to disinfect the handset’s exterior before speaking into its mouthpiece afterwards. Would this video convince you to pick up the Xperia Z?

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