[Xperia Z General] RCJ89:
Thank you, while HTC and Sony are my favourite OEMs. I don't do biasedness because quite frankly It is childish and at the end of the day people generally make decisions on whats best for them anyway.

Ok, seeing as I have held both phones side by side, you do notice the Z is slightly taller and despite being thinner feels thicker due to the 4mm thick sides on the One and the fact that the back of the One is rounded so fits better in your hand, the one also feels smooth where as the edges of the Z feel sharp.

Taking the on screen buttons into account the screen size is more like 4.7 on the One and 4.8 on the Z.

when the buttons disappear on the Z you do notice the difference in size I must admit but you do also notice that the Z is taller and wider.

I feel the One only has a 4.7inch screen due to the fact it has speakers under the screen and in order to have a 5 inch screen plus the speakers it would have been much taller.

I heard some people on these forum saying theres too much bezel on the one, I mean seriously you have gotta be kidding me from sides of the phone to the screen they both are the same width and from bottom to top the Z looks to have more wasted space.

The 4.7inch doesn't bother me at all and my last smartphone was the galaxy note 2!

I am not one bit concerned because the screen on the One is superior to the Z and the Note 2 (unless your a AMOLED fan and even then I think you still have to agree the screen on the One is better), for that alone I can sacrifice .3 inches compared to the Z.

Then as I mentioned before I just find sense for more interesting to look at, Sony's UI just feels too ordinary (far better than touch wiz though imo) once I look at sense.

Then camera/video/audio is better on the one and all of a sudden the Z jsut feels ordinary again.

I was even in my local three store today and alot of people were like have you got the new HTC they were like no the demos will be in store later on this week but we have got the new xperia z and alot of people were like nah, im waiting for the htc or the S4.

Don't get me wrong the xperia z is a great device especially when you look at it by itself you think great phone because it is and I tell you what I was so excited about the Z and i still feel sad I had to cancel my pre order but when I had both phones side by side it just felt so ordinary and then things like the design didn't even matter any more and now I think the one is better looking.

I think the major things that will put people off on the one (not from development purposes but I mean people who don't root their phones etc) is no mirco sd maybe and when you hear only 4mp camera but when you actually see what the 4mp camera can do you will be surprised believe me it is fantastic! I showed my friend the HTC one and the Z as he is in the market for a new phone and he is a die hard sony fan, so die hard he is biased beyond belief but he had to admit the One is superior but he still wants the sony because he is sony biased.

I myself was skeptical about the 4mp camera and when I saw some poor images on the net on sturday morning but when I was playing with it on saturday afternoon, taking pics and videos, especially the ZOE feature outside the shop with the HTC rep and testing out phone calls, GPS, (Tested wifi today aswell it is fast), 3g connection and then showing me the remote feature which I know is going to be useful as My daughter bless her is always hiding our TV remote lol. I just knew I wasn't making a mistake in cancelling my pre order from the Z. Roll on march 15th.