[Xperia Z2 General] se1000:
My impressions after almost a week

Wow I love this phone. I've had a ton of phones from all different makes and including the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5. To me, the Z2 has that "wow" factor, and not just because it's glass.

- Build - The guys at Sony are doing things right. I guess the only thing I would change from a build standpoint would be to move the flap on the left hand side of the device down to the bottom, and then relocate the volume rocker to the top left of the device but honestly, that's such a minor observation for me. The flaps are a necessary evil and even then, I think they're done quite nicely with a sense of quality. Keep in mind I've never thought plastic builds were bad, I honestly liked plastic because it's easy and inexpensive to replace.

- Software - IMO, the stock rom is great. I've used all kinds of rom's, CM, AOKP, Touchwiz, Sense, etc etc. I'm just not one of those people to whine about things, but I do like a lot of what Sony has done. Seems like they've done a fantastic job at optimization and keeping things lite and smooth. Two very minor things I'd like to see is the ability to remove the NFC icon (you can remove most of the others), and some options to manipulate the nav buttons, but otherwise, really feel they've done very well.

- Hardware - Phone is smooth, works well. There are a lot of little things I appreciate all over this device. I don't care what anyone says, 3GB RAM is better than 2GB of RAM. Shame on Samsung for not having this in the S5. I'm not sure about the S5, but the SD card read/write speed is MUCH quicker on the Z2 compared to my S4. Then there's the battery. Wow, I consistently get +6hrs of SOT, with 8hrs easily attainable. To me this is a game changer. I always felt like on my S4, if I had a really heavy day of usage, I'd need to charge halfway though, but with this phone I feel like I can completely hammer it and still make it through a complete day. I travel quite a bit and just having the confidence to not have to worry about charging up will be huge for me. The camera is phenomenal. I thought the effects would be gimicky, but things like background defocus work surprisingly well for me. The dedicated camera button is awesome.

The biggest surprise that I've felt is, I feel like more than any other phone I've had, the Z2 does the things I do most frequently, REALLY WELL. I text, email, take pictures, browse the web, and use social media 95% of the time on my phone, and all of the things I've mentioned above help in these critical areas. Little things like how the SMS app is polished, unobtrusive and smooth also play a part. The huge notification LED is a nice touch here as well, not sure why more manufacturers don't pay more attention to this (I'm looking at you HTC)

A few things I'd like to see in the Z3:

- Album app needs folders.

- I personally like capacitive buttons, make it like the other new devices so you can disable them and everyone will be happy.

- Stock launcher needs the ability to hide apps in the app drawer

- There should be sort options in the "own order" option. It's a pain to have to move all of the icons around

- Cam is fantastic but can overheat

- 32/64GB internal memory options would have been great

tl;dr - phone is win