<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Chris Irwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><span></span><div>I have been using Sony Xperia branded Android phones for many years now, and can vouch for their high quality. First the Xperia X10, then Xperia Arc, and now the Xperia ZL. The cameras are the best there is, and the screens are bright and sharp with vivid colors.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I briefly had a Xperia ZL phone, that I sold before going back to a Nexus device. Sony allows bootloader unlocking, but Rogers firmware prevented it. Was very disappointed.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, Rogers are [bleep] that way ...<br><br></div><div>Of the 6 or so Android phones I used over the years, I did not load any third party firmware. The stock firmware works fine once you purge the Rogers/Bell crapware, using a variety of means depending on the specific phone.<br><br></div><div>I find that Sony's user interface to be fast. On older models the TimeScape UI was annoying, and installing a third party launcer solves this (ADW Launcher worked well for me).<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I did consider the Xperia Tablet Z, but could never justify the price ($599 plus taxes for 32GB model when it came out ~ 1.5 years ago). Now, it is not even at Futureshop or BestBuy for some odd reason, and on Amazon.ca, it starts at over $750 ...<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I paid much, much less for it at Best Buy than that. Must have been toward the end of the product cycle.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmmm. If they obsoleted it, then they did not announce a replacement tablet yet. Odd .. Also odder is the higher than MSRP price on <a href="http://amazon.ca">amazon.ca</a> for it ...<br></div></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken<br>
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