[Xperia Z2 General] One Twelve:
- US does not have 4G everywhere, China's telecom companies are all state owned. Having said that these two, especially China would be fair models to compare with India. Any idea what 4G service quality & cost is like in China ?

- companies are in business to make a profit. What wrongs are we talking about here. If prices are high that means either the market hasn't got enough demand or the market is protected from foreign competition. There are no foreign telcos providing service in India because FDI regulations do not make it attractive to do so. Infrastructure tends to be a strategic concern so letting foreigners into the telco space is not going to happen. Let's look at 73 crores figure you mentioned. This is a number bandied about for total number of subscribers. it's a lot larger than the reality as many have duplicate numbers. GSM association in London put the number of unique subscribers in India at the 130 million mark. Now since we are talking about internet, just how many of these 130 million actually pay themselves for internet. The number of wired internet for the whole country is around the 15 million mark. The remainder either access internet from the office or college. They see internet as a luxury that they will access on somebody else's dime. 3g subscribers i'm not sure of the figure. At the price asked and service provided it isn't going to be high because 3G does not handle congestion very well. So lower figures here aren't a reflection of actual demand. So you see just there that in India competition is stifled to a certain extent and demand is stymied for other reasons. Yes, costs are going to be high. There is one more element here. Reliability. You can get cheaper providers but they aren't reliable. In the wired space it was an absolute nightmare to deal with cable wallahs, disconnects every day that too with a 64kbs connection. Then Airtel came to my area around 2006. No cable disconnect to this day 8 years later. They are more expensive than other providers but i'd rather deal with lower speed than regular disconnects. So quality of service is the most important.

- i don't know yet what the reason for call quality issues is. I suspect its more to do with the network than the unit. QA issues can be mitigated if the unit is tested before buying. This means no internet purchase. Open the box, do a test and if it passes then part with the money. This incidentally is what i did when i got my note 10.1 a year and a half back. The samsung shop would not open the box, but i found another shop that was more than ready to do it and offer me a discount over the samsung shop. To this day no problems with the note 10.1. Availabity of spares and service centres is another issue. It might be premature to consider oppo at this early stage. The earlier, N1 model that was released in india was not the CM version so not worth considering.

As for horror stories, you can find one for every flagship that has ever come out right here on this board. The sony forum is a surreal place to read about crazy things. I come here to preserve my sanity. Point being unless you look into these so called horror stories i would not put too much stock in them. Take the Z1 and 'camera issues', turns out Z1 needs more manual intervention, SA did not do a good job. Then there was the flash bleed issue which affected the Z1 compact. Automatically this became Z1 camera is crap. Solved with a replacement from the vendor, but people did not like or want to do that and expected Sony to do a recall of faulty units. I notice with Z2 this isn't as much of an issue, have yet to see somebody complain about flash bleed with the Z2.

- yeah, Z3 will be like Z1 and you see Z4 beating out Z3 like Z2 beat out Z1 ?

Is it worth it to upgrade from Z1 to Z2. hmm, if you can then why not but i don't know if its that compelling. Is it worth to upgrade to Z2 from Z, same answer again. What i can see the Z3 doing is fixing some of the issues the Z2 has, maybe it will have a still better screen and louder sound and include 4G. Does not seem like much or worth waiting for. Z3 will be out in Nov here which means Jan 2015 to actually buy it. Frankly i don't know if i could wait that long.

As for QHD, its not worth having on a 5 inch device, will consume more battery as now twice as many pixels need to be pushed will slow down frame rates in games even further. This is an open point whether games will be optimised to make use of QHD, it might not be worth it to do that right now, in which case they will render in 1080p on a QHD screen. From what i can see of the G3, the difference is noticeable if you look carefully but whether it is really required is subjective.

64 bit depends on how many apps can make use of it. iphone has had 64 bit OS for over a year now, how many apps actually make use of 64 bit on ios. So i don't see much point to 64 bit. When it came out in pc's, servers were the ones to make the quickest use. personal pc or clients only if you had high performance requirements and again if the software was modified to actually use it. Another pointless marketing talking point for a mobile.

You know what bugs me, getting a Z2 today and 6 months later, some guy with a moto g with lte shows me how nice his you tube videos stream and he only paid like 15k for his device :mad: