Comments on: Sony’s new Xperia™ Z flagship comes with quad core CPU, 5” 1080p HD display & HDR video camera [video]

By: Joe Padre

Joe Padre — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:55:26 +0000

Hey Priit,
Happy to hear that you’re loving the phone. I understand your concerns regarding BLE support, and will share that feedback with the BLE team.
Sincerely,
Joe from Developer World

By: Priit Nigola

Priit Nigola — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:16:42 +0000

Loving the phone but limited bluetooth LE support is very frustrating. Motorola and HTC both support LE better than Sony, even though Google is offically not supporting LE at all and doesn’t say when it will (which is even weirder). I would really like to use my heart rate monitor with my phone but can’t. When will this be fixed ?

Regards

By: binh nguyen

binh nguyen — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:47:45 +0000

I love throw feature on xperia z .. but then i find out my LG smart 55LM7600 have miracast and widi which support mirror screen .. i tested with LG optimus G pro they work .. but it can not work with xperia z , the phone scan failed every time to find connection.. please update in next firmware
thanks

By: binh nguyen

binh nguyen — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:43:00 +0000

i have lg smart tv 55lm7600 which has miracast and widi .. but sony can not detect or connect to it.. it failed every time scan .. can sony dev update in next firmware ?

By: Joe Padre

Joe Padre — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:26:46 +0000

Hey Derek,
No, sorry, we currently do not have an Xperia Z public BLE API available.
Thanks and best regards,
Joe from Developer World

By: Derek Kuo

Derek Kuo — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:58:30 +0000

Hi Joe, Do you know have Xperia Z public BLE API version is available for download?

By: Matthias Anhalt

Matthias Anhalt — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:25:19 +0000

Hi there. I’m a happy owner of the XPERIA Z C6603 for over a month now. My girlfriend is getting the ZL within this week. Everything fine so far. However, I’ve got some serious questions:

1. Both phones should support HD-Voice (even they are not official certified). Our carrier (t-mobile Germany / Telekom) supports HD Voice. So we should able to have HD Voice calls between the Z and the ZL, right?

2. In my Z the AMR-WB Codec is not listed under Service Info > Configuration > Available Speech codecs. Do I have HD Voice capabilities or not?

3. Bluetooh. Seriously, I don’t get it. You and Ericsson together INVENTED Bluetooth. But why has your flagship phone, the iPhone Killer, the S3 Defeater only a handful of profiles? Samsung phones have about three times the bluetooth profile from the start. Sure, nobody needs them all, but why didn’t you at least put RSAP in the mix? It’s so much better than HFP and Headset profile. Any chance this will be in the phone with the next update (Android 4.2.x)?

4.Bluetooth again. I’v just read that you guys have licensed apt-X technology from CSR. When will the Xperia Z and ZL get apt-X? Next update?

5.Urgent suggestion for the Update: Give users a choice within the camera app for the Z. Let me configure the volume rocker either as digital zoom or as focus and shoot (like: camera button). This would be so great, it’s the only button I’m really missing. Can’t be that hard to code, it’s done in the stock ICS camera app. And even Apple got it right .

I’m looking forward to your answers. Keep up the great work.

By: Joe Padre

Joe Padre — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:58:18 +0000

Hi Simon,
Thanks for your feedback regarding ANT+. Agree with you 100%! We’ll keep bugging the development teams to put ANT+ support back into the phones.
Best regards,
Joe from Developer World

By: Simon Evans

Simon Evans — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:00:24 +0000

Great phone, but very disappointed that this premium phone doesn’t support ANT+

It seems that that the phone manufacturers think BT Smart is a replacement for ANT+ and I guess don’t like the fact they have to pay ANT licensing costs.

The reasons why BT Smart will not replace ANT+

- The majority of fitness equipment is ANT+, It will be years before the equipment also supports BT Smart.
- For the majority of people who use fitness products, this situation is very common:
http://www.thisisant.com/developer/ant-plus/ant-ble-comparison#384_tab (and BT Smart will not do this)

Bottom line…. If you want to tap into the fitness crowd with your devices, you need to support ANT+

By: Filip Glavinceski

Filip Glavinceski — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:09:22 +0000

Sony missed a chance to make the perfect smartphone.
This one has EVERYTHING except ANT+

I’m still looking for my ultimate cycling computer.