Quite content today

DUTR

Si682000 wrote: »

How's it going with the Xperia Z, DUTR? Any criticisms?

Oddly perhaps, the power management counter
when I 1st had the device, if you switched the battery stamina on, the estimated standby time would jump up to several days from 10s of hours.
Yesterday switching battery stamina on, offers no change and remains about 20hrs, I suspect though the counter tracks history usage for the estimate.
I did get over the estimated 20hrs and an overnight charge still shows the counter back to 20hrs. I will let the device run well low before a recharge and see if the counter changes.
Looking on other sources (don't know how many got their devices so soon January 2013) seems it maybe a bug.
I would have preffered a dedicated camera button to take the pictures.

Si682000

Despite the lack of a dedicated button, are you impressed with the picture quality?

DUTR

Si682000 wrote: »

Despite the lack of a dedicated button, are you impressed with the picture quality?

Yes, before I had the Ray, I had a Satio, which featured a 12meg camera, although pictures are not just about megapixels, I did notice when viewed on the PC the difference .
Here are two pics taken this morning, as I am planning a garage build
sadly the picture host reduces the picture,so you may not notice a lot of difference





Just before I had this I became aware of the HTC one, but looking at the reviews there is a marked difference on the pictures taken with the HTC One compared to the Z and iphone 5, so the Z still stole the deal for me.

I tried a video recording too on Saturday and very impressed with it.

Si682000

Nice! I am very tempted....

DUTR

Si682000 wrote: »

Nice! I am very tempted....

here are a couple of videos, the car is taken with the Ray, the restaurant with the Z





Click on the pic to play the video

Si682000

Thanks DUTR. Nice GTi too

robbies_gal

thanks for the vids looks good i saw one on cpw the screen looked amazing

DUTR

gabbyevs wrote: »

thanks for the vids looks good i saw one on cpw the screen looked amazing

It is good for the size, as it was sunny today, I was able to try the screen outside and it is plenty viewable.
I popped into a shop to check the battery stamina, they said theirs is on charge all the time, so will let this run overnight until the handset switches itself off and then charge it up, and see if the estimated standby time changes.
The location based wifi (more likely a JB addition) works well too, it is on wifi now I'm back at home, if I go out it switches to 3G.

DUTR

By the way folks, you cannot tell the difference in pics on this forum, on another forum the difference between the Ray and Z is instant.

DUTR

In post #32 I mentioned about the battery stamina mode, it does appear it 'learns ' the usage and bases the estimate upon past usage.
Since yesterday some screenshots



So it has lasted well with plenty of novelty use.



battery stamina mode off



stamina mode on, it would appear that those with lighter usage (understandable) will benefit more so from stamina mode
ps stamina mode has been left off on purpose since yesterday.