Sony Xperia Z review: Battery life and connectivity. It's difficult to get an accurate battery life reading, because the Sony Xperia Z is not just a phone. Gone are the days when we'd simply quote talk times, since you're more than likely to spend more time on the web or using apps than actually speaking to friends. Sony itself claims you'll get up to 1. Of course, that is in optimum conditions (and on 2. G - which is two levels down from the norm these days, but there's nothing quite like massaging figures). Buy the latest Sony Xperia XZ mobile phone, compare plans on Telstra's superfast 4G network. Telstra Personal Small Business Business & Enterprise Health Sport & Entertainment. Xperia Z2 Android Lollipop update: when will I get it? Touch the screen to wake up. And while the battery is large at 2. Ah, we'd say those estimates are pretty optimistic. Firstly, there is normal use - and then there is advanced normal use. What we mean by the latter is that the Sony Xperia Z comes with advanced power saving capabilities, including Stamina mode. This enables you to turn off data when the screen is disabled (with the exception of stuff such as Whats. App or email, which can be exempted individually through an additional setting). Anybody who has ever used the incredibly popular Juice Defender app on Android to wring as much potential life out of their device will be familiar with this. We enabled Stamina Mode and got to work on the Sony Xperia Z. Sony Xperia Tablet Z: WiFi connection issues August 21, 2013 It took a while, but I’ve finally joined the tablet generation;-) I actually got my Sony Xperia Tablet Z a couple of weeks back (and I love it!), but as I’ve had issues with continual WiFi connection. If you want to know how to set up Wi-Fi on the Sony Xperia Z, here at Phones 4u we've got you covered. You'll learn how to scan for wireless networks and activate a connection with our handy tutorial, here to guide you through getting your Sony Xperia Android smartphone connected. To read the complete guide to the Sony. Purchases on Xperia Z5 at Sony Store, Sony Store, Online (Hong Kong), customer can enjoy the below offer. Compare, research, and read user reviews on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play phone. The Xperia Play breaks some new ground in the world of multimedia cell phones and certainly is a game changer for consumers who are particularly interested in gaming on their. The results weren't bad at all. Sony's Stamina Mode is definitely a real step forward in battery life management. After taking the Sony Xperia Z off charge at 8am on Sunday morning, we checked our emails and tweets (we'd exempted a few key apps in Stamina mode). We listened to the FM radio for about 1. Then, we browsed the web intermittently for about 2. Wi- Fi. Over the course of the next few hours, a handful of Gmails were sent and received, six text messages, one 2. Skype call over 3. G and some photo shooting were thrown into the mix. By 4pm, we were down to 2. We then left the Sony Xperia Z untouched and the power went down slowly, but we had only gone down to 1. Listening to music for an hour while on the way home killed it eventually. We noticed that playing music uses up power like any other memory process - certainly a lot more than an i. Phone does. We thought that was good, bearing in mind many smartphones would struggle to make it through the day on that kind of usage. You'll still need a USB cable or portable battery handy if you're really going to be hammering the Sony Xperia Z, but it's not a bad result. We've certainly seen far, far worse. Should you take it out of Stamina mode, it goes without saying that you'll struggle to get results like those, but overall we were really impressed with the upgrade in battery life Stamina Mode offers. If you're thinking of taking a few days away without a charger and just need a phone with calling and text ability, you'll definitely get days' of use out of the Sony Xperia Z. Connectivity. The Sony Xperia Z comes with pretty much every form of connectivity you could possibly want or need these days - and then some. Wi- Fi is obviously all there - though we found it doesn't support 5. GHz, only 2. 4. GHz. Nonetheless, speeds were fast and we were able to surf at lightning levels, if not as stable as on other phones with dual- channel bonding. Bluetooth is naturally supported (Sony's former partner, Ericsson, was synonymous with the technology in the early days) as is HSDPA+/LTE (4. G) and NFC. It's low- power Bluetooth as well, (version 4. Basically it means the phone is future- proofed - consider this a good thing. NFC is still at that stage where manufacturers are introducing it, but are unsure how to harness its potential or figure out how it can help them. Still, with the use of smart tags, it comes into its own. The idea is that as soon as your phone goes near a particular smart tag, it'll complete a function you've determined. You have to have some contact - it's not like a Wi- Fi range where you have to be within x feet - but it's a quick swipe against the rear of the phone to the tag that takes all of a second. It may be that doing this turns Wi- Fi on or off, it may send a goodnight text to your partner, pair with a Bluetooth speaker or set an alarm. It's super- lazy - but also super- clever. Sony also includes an app called Xperia Link - the idea being that you install an app on your computer (Windows only, remember. Have we mentioned the lack of Mac support?!) and then you can use your phone's connection to surf the web on your computer. Yep, welcome back to 2. This would be great if it wasn't for the fact that you can simply turn the phone into a Wi- Fi hotspot far more easily, by going into the settings. We've already mentioned DLNA and the Throw technology included in the Sony Xperia Z. There's also the ability to mirror your screen to the television, but despite having success with Throw, we couldn't get the mirroring to work on our Samsung TV. It could be that this is only compatible with Sony televisions. After all, the Media Remote control app included is only for use with Sony devices. Hardly a massive surprise, but a shame that there isn't a universal solution included. PC and Mac support. For connecting to your PC, you just use the micro USB cable and it instantly installs the necessary software. However, with Mac support, you'll need to use Sony Bridge, which can be a bit tricky to install. When you plug the Xperia Z into a computer via USB, a message pops up on the screen of the phone, telling you it will install the relevant sync software on your machine. On a PC, it does it seamlessly, but on a Mac, it just then follows with an error message telling you it can't go any further. We looked at the Xperia Z section of the Sony website and the support area and, at the time of writing, there was absolutely no mention of Sony Bridge for Mac. Indeed, had we not just searched using Google just now, we'd still be none the wiser. Anyway, once Sony Bridge was installed, we could tell Sony had put some work into it. It looks different to how it fared under Sony Ericsson and has been given a nice lick of paint. But it's not without fault. Things got off to a good start when it immediately recognised the Xperia Z was plugged in and was able to tell us how much memory was left. But it went downhill quickly. After looking like it was all about to sync i. Tunes playlists, it then told us we had 0. KB of data being used and 0. KB available. Only three reboots managed to fix this. We then synchronised a short i. Tunes playlist and two albums from i. Photo. Even the following day, those songs were nowhere to be seen on the Walkman app (though they do appear on Google Music) and the photos did sync, but rather than syncing albums, they were all just thrown into one big visual pit and jumbled up. We can see Sony has tried here – but it clearly needs more effort, from not just showing that Sony Bridge is available to actually making it do what it's supposed to properly. Considering Sony really hopes to entice i. Phone users away, this should be top priority. Sony Xperia Miro review: Battery life and connectivity. The Sony Xperia Miro has an impressively decent battery life. It only has a 1,5. Ah battery, which wouldn't go far on some handsets, but thanks to a small screen and low specs - you know, the things that are otherwise seen as a negative - it gets the job done. In standby it seemed to generally drop less than 1% an hour, even with Wi- Fi on and emails and Facebook alerts being pushed to the phone. In other words, if you're not using it much it will keep on going for a long, long time. But there's little point in having a smartphone if you're not going to make use of all its features, and thankfully the battery performs pretty well even with moderately heavy use. We never had a problem getting through the day - and that was with us putting it through its paces to test it out. Photos, videos, web browsing, calls, texts and games can all be done in moderation on a single charge. Sony claims that the Xperia Miro can manage up to 5. G, up to six hours of talk time and up to 3. The six hours of talk time over 3. G seems about right in our experience. We're slightly less convinced about the 5. In our own battery test - running a 9. Sony Xperia Miro had dropped to 7. Connectivity. The Sony Xperia Miro doesn't skimp on connections, either, with Wi- Fi 8. DLNA support, Bluetooth 2. HSDPA at 7. 2. Mbps and HSUPA at 5. Mbps. It even supports Wi- Fi direct and can be used as a portable Wi- Fi hotspot. These connections are all very easy to set up, with options in the settings screen for most of them. The exception to this is DLNA, but while that seems to be absent from the settings screen, it's built right into the video player. You can plug the Sony Xperia Miro into a PC using the micro USB port, and from there it mounts itself as a drive. Then it's just a matter of dragging and dropping to move content to and from the device, just like a normal USB drive. This is a fairly standard option on Android, but it makes moving files around incredibly simple. Of course there are other options too. Apps can be downloaded straight from Google Play, and most of the major cloud storage services have their own apps, making it easy to access any content stored online.
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