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[Xperia Z3 General] Turb0wned:
My battery life went WAY up after 5.0 with my G3....
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
This is what I was referring to, glad your are getting better battery though :).

http://blog.gsmarena.com/benchmarking-android-5-0-lollipop-battery-life-samsung-galaxy-s5-lg-g3/
[Xperia Z3 General] esselite:
Yes, We would expect from Japanese high quality and on time release, but if they dont commit any date in public, then nothing to expect from them.
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
I'm 100% positive its coming this month :).
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Yeah..it is now obvious they will announce at mwc...on z4 tab...
[Xperia Z3 General] caqo71:
Meanwhile on SONY company..........
[Xperia Z3 General] sekac55:
I hope we dont must wait 3 weeks for the Kernel source after lollipop release
[Xperia Z3 General] mvaal:
Sony, tik tik tik
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Another one who likes reposting huge photos instead of quickly trimming them. Why?
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
So, tomorrow is MWC. I really hope that Sony will atleast announce the schedule for their lollipop updates. Everything else is just inacceptable.
[Xperia Z3 General] yoorie016:
well im gonna watch it and o hope theres a free stream to it.
[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
Sony is not having a press briefing at MWC as it's not launching any flagship phones, only tablets and some mid range M4.
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
Embarassing for them if they only release those devices and dont announce or release lollipop..
[Xperia Z3 General] RHBH:
They'll probably not announce Lollipop at MWC, what's the point of saying to the press: "Hey, we'll release Lollipop in the end of March..."

Wtf was Sony doing all this time? Google is about to release 5.1 next month...

It's better to not announce anything because this will be the real embarrassing.
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
People need to understand Sony is doing a lot right now. Still recovering from hack they have shifted focus to the gaming division. It will come soon enough people need to take a pill and chill nothing wrong withb4.4.4 on the z3
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Different company.
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
Actually it isn't Sony is one company phones games movies its all Sony . not like before where Erickson was making the phones

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The phones and tablets may soon be a different company as Sony is talking about selling that division also
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
What he meant was the following:

They are different divisions, gaming division and TV division has no bearing on mobile division giving updates etc. They have their own heirarchies.
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
True but its still one company so problems in one division can affect others. There are delays on the game side too so I think the whole company is behind since the hack
[Xperia Z3 General] Newt182:
How and why are they still recovering from being hacked? How is it affecting their mobile division?
[Xperia Z3 General] danw_oz:
Sony's biggest mistake is to launch too many flagships in a small space of time, and now they have to try to support all of those with updates. Not enough staff, and probably much less excited about working after Sony's announcement that they are likely to pull out of the mobile market. I think quality control was a big factor in this, because the number of people who have had to exchange devices because of hardware defects.

At least the Z3 should have lollipop by now, it must be close and the testing must have finished because screen shots have leaked, if they are real.

Regardless of what you say about them being busy, if they are indeed busy they shouldn't announce early February to start releasing, and then releasing nothing even after the end of February

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Because it is being hacked :-p, maybe the hackers should lease lollipop for us ;)
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
The only problem is things change things come up . I find it wired all the issues people have had with hardware I've never had a issue with any of the 5 Sony devices I have. And they are probably going to sell the mobile division cause its not as profitable as the PlayStation division.

I find it funny how crazy people get about updates. Its coming everybody needs to relax

Could be worse they could sell the mobile division and not get any updates

The whole world is just so impatient now a days
[Xperia Z3 General] Newt182:
No. They were hacked months ago.
[Xperia Z3 General] Prasad:
I care about the people who take my money, being able to keep their word. Would you like your doctor giving you incoherent information, only for you to realize it'll all work out in the end? Why did the Sony rep have to announce update in February? What was the need for that? I would have been content being told lollipop would never arrive. I would have made my purchase decision accordingly. But to promise something to millions of users, only to fail on delivery, that's just pathetic and shameful. Of course the update is coming. Nobody's disputing that. But provided they gave us a time frame, there are some of us who expect results, especially after spending our good money.
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
Yes it was months ago but do you know how long it takes to redo security for there systems? When psn was hacked in 2011 it cost Sony like 3.5 billion to build a whole new server center. So recovery takes time plus they were on damage control for almost a month alone

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There are test versions but hard to get

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It was originally suppose to launch mid Feb but things happen and it got delayed. It hapoens . look at games almost every game has been delayed in some way. So lollipop got delayed no biggie. They could have made a announcement concerning the delay but crap happens. And they haven't failed to deliver anything its coming so there's nothing pathetic or shameful about it. It happens to lots of companies .

Kind of a ignorant statement.
[Xperia Z3 General] Prasad:
Delays happen and that is fine. When HTC missed it's 90 day time-frame, moversi on Twitter came forward and explained the situation. Most, if not all users were sympathetic towards the situation. How does Sony expect loyalty with such sh!tty communication?
[Xperia Z3 General] oualidbenadid:
We said no.

So stop, Sony is made from separated divisions it's work like that.

They work alone
[Xperia Z3 General] Akiainavas:
And that's, my friend, the entire issue in 1 sentence.

They announced the time-frame, and then... silence. The deadline passed - still silence. Not even a word on twitter or anywhere else - more busy with teasing the Z4 tablet with countles entries...

This is simply disappointing, especially that this is not the first time it's happening, so while I personally don't give a f... about Lollipop - it is still disappointing to see how Sony handled things. Especially that instead of announcing the delay, they chose to keep quiet about it.
[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
They might have orders from the GCEO to tighten security for all companies and its subsidiaries.

I think enough is enough. It's getting annoying that we see the same few people making repetitions of their irritation of Sony. You hate Sony, I love that my current firmware is stable. You lack patience, get a Nexus, want better communications, get a HTC. Problem solved

Cheers!
[Xperia Z3 General] Akiainavas:
What I think is annoying, is people trying to silence other people's irritation. Everyone has their right to express it - if you don't like it - you don't have to read it or reply to it, especially that you're doing the same thing you're trying to criticize.

And no, I don't hate Sony. If you took a few minutes to actually read the posts instead of trying to "act cool" - you would know it's not the case and I've been actually recommending exactly the same thing you talk about.
[Xperia Z3 General] danw_oz:
Yep their Sony pictures division

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Read post above, yes and I am sure that they will be investing more money is securing the rest of Sony.

At the end of the day this hack was before the promise of the release date
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
Wasn't only pictures division PlayStation was down for 3 days due to the hack. They got info from all of Sony. But its all being worked out and 4.4.4 is solid so lollipop isn't a huge rush
[Xperia Z3 General] danw_oz:
Yep and they put aside 15 Million to fix, out of their 700ish Million fourth quarter profits

There is a wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment_hack
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
Cheaper then last time they got hit lol
[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
It's a little bizarre being accused of "acting cool". The last time I came across it was a Kindergarten teacher commenting about these tots using this term too often.

And nope, I'm not trying to silence anyone except broken tape recorders, repeating the same thing over and over.
[Xperia Z3 General] Newt182:
Do you have a source for this: "When psn was hacked in 2011 it cost Sony like 3.5 billion to build a whole new server center. "?
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage

I think it was 3.5 billion yen which is like 300 million us
[Xperia Z3 General] russell664:
I remember that outage, I had a week off and couldn't access PSN at all for well over a month.

Let's hope Sony mention something, or even hint it a little bit about what their plans are in regards to the Z3.
[Xperia Z3 General] zombiej79:
Yeah it was bad that time . I'm sure it will roll out in the next week or two
[Xperia Z3 General] goTouch:
Good news.

http://www.xperiablog.net/2015/02/2...series/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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[Xperia Z3 General] Dadovvv:
Old news :P
[Xperia Z3 General] jsscx:
GOODBYE sony
[Xperia Z3 General] user91:
So, from the looks of it (http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_mwc_2015-review-1219p3.php), all the fuss in this thread is about the new clock widget....
[Xperia Z3 General] ConstantHeatCheck:
An interesting point from an article on TheVerge about Sony's new mid-range phone the M4 (weaker then Z3 spec wise).

"The Lollipop-powered interface is impressively, almost surprisingly, quick and fluid on the M4 Aqua, and Sony has kept with the spirit of Android's new Material Design by emphasizing "that distinctive minimalist approach to user interface, interactions and native apps." "

Also some stuff about the fact that they seem to be focusing on the camera software with this phone.

Now we won't know how well Lollipop will perform on the Z3 until it releases but, this article seem to suggest it might be a good update.
[Xperia Z3 General] bahmanup:
Android 5 in M4 Aqua

[IMG="1"]http://digiato.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/vs02-23_1439cxs.0.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="2"]http://digiato.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/vs02-23_1438cxs.0.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="3"]http://digiato.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/vs02-23_1440cxs.0.jpg[/IMG]
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
So, they show off the new OS on an upcoming midrange device before releasing it to their flagship? Bad move Sony, bad move. Hope they have it in the pole position for the Z3 today.
[Xperia Z3 General] caqo71:
it's funny to read new news from march 2 2015 about lollipop update on Z series.

notice the date of the news. :laugh:

Source: http://customstoday.com.pk/android-5-0-lollipop-update-to-be-available-on-sony-xperia-z1-z2-z3-moto-x-g-2014-htc-one-m7-m8-in-2015-115/
[Xperia Z3 General] Prasad:
Our update got delivered to the wrong parallel universe.
[Xperia Z3 General] freddy1991:
Am I the only one who is wondering what happened to Walkman?

Lol
[Xperia Z3 General] ArcherLuke:
wow, this must be news in a parallel universe.
[Xperia Z3 General] zlays:
So their MWC event ended and not a single word on Lollipop for Z3 or other Z series...this is shameful I feel so disappointed...
[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
They didn't have an event or a press conference. It's just booth there.
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
*irony on*Kinda nice isnt it? *irony off*
[Xperia Z3 General] Akiainavas:
I think Sony might phase out Walkman branding from their tablets and keep it only on phones. But it will still - most likely - be exatly the same app...
[Xperia Z3 General] WujekT:
Or they slowly delete own brands from mobile device because of plans to sell mobile division...
[Xperia Z3 General] hebbe:
Agree.
[Xperia Z3 General] Akiainavas:
But that would most likely kill the brand itself as well. I think Sony smartphones are the only place for Walkman to live right now - let's be honest, who buys standalone MP3 players these days ? And from those few % that do, how many will choose Sony over an iPod or cheap Creative players ?

Interesting to see what's going to happen in the end... hopefully they won't kill/sell Sony mobile as their devices are the only flavour of Android I can use. No Sony will most likely mean no Android for me.
[Xperia Z3 General] persian_redhat:
Guys please stop talking about selling mobile division by Sony
[Xperia Z3 General] itsjustJOH:
They won't, don't worry. People who like to talk about it are those who are b*tching about a delayed update and those who are naturally Sony haters.
[Xperia Z3 General] ncthanhkr21:
You guys may have a quick glance at Sony's Lollipop UI here

http://youtu.be/PB4R2a_Tnas

The notification, quick settings and lock screen are quite similar to stock, and the Album icon is the old one (though in the z4tab it's the new one), so I hope that this is not the final lollipop firmware :(

There are many more hands-on videos on youtube so y can check out the design of Settings and other apps.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Another dodgy Asian site. "Worlds first indepth newspaper on Customs" "Worlds..." hang on, you mean "The World's.." Don't forget the definite article. "Indepth"? No, that's two words. A simple spell checker would have told you that. Newspaper? Well, not, it's a website. "in depth newspaper" would be bad grammar even without the missing space. "on Customs"? Why is customs capitalised? It's not a proper noun. Honestly, if you can't get that right I'm not sure how people are supposed to take anything you print seriously. It's at the top of every single page on the site! Hilarious.
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
It's very close to AOSP. I like it very much.

I also noticed Linux kernel 3.10.

We now need it on the Z3 and to be a stable, bug free and battery friendly release.

No Z4 luckily, we still own the Sony flagship.

OT: the Z4 Tablet is fantastic. OT closed.

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[Xperia Z3 General] pascalbrax:
I don't like the AOSP vanilla icons in the quick settings, they're so ugly compared to the icons used by Sony... :(
[Xperia Z3 General] joepontanoni:
Wait, so Sony haven't given any news at MWC towards when Lollipop will actually be coming for the Z3? Doesn't that spell bad news?
[Xperia Z3 General] melogray:
That wouldn't explain why the M4 Aqua also shows a music icon instead of the Walkman application... maybe they're going to rebrand the app to match PlayStation Music? :confused:
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
I think the same..
[Xperia Z3 General] Akiainavas:
Oh right. I didn't spot that. A bit confusing... but you might be right - maybe they want to rebrand everything to PlayStation as their leading brand.
[Xperia Z3 General] dnzdeniz:
You're not alone :/
[Xperia Z3 General] Hana88:
http://www.tuttoandroid.net/sony/so...ipop-sara-rilasciato-questa-settimana-258075/

Translate: sony say that will release the lollipop update for sony z3 THIS WEEK
[Xperia Z3 General] Akiainavas:
Interesting where they got that information from ? No other media sites that attended MWC seem to report this statement from Sony ?
[Xperia Z3 General] kernald:
This french blog claims the same: http://www.frandroid.com/marques/so...ny-xperia-le-deploiement-debute-cette-semaine - no source specified.
[Xperia Z3 General] Arju:
I'm glad they're going to keep their look as stock too Google as possible. Hope it still has Sonys theme engine. I'm sure themers would be able to give us a much better desired look. I'm super excited and does not care that I'll have to wait. (but I do agree that it was bad style by Sony to leave us in the dark during last month.) oh well, let's look forward, hopefully they've taken good time to iron out potential bugs.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
The french one doesn't claim the comment came from sony, whereas the italian one did. The screenshot (of some device or other) shows 5.0.2 which has only been out for a month or so, so that's pretty fast work.
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
Well I guess that if you are done with 5.0, moving to 5.0.2 is a matter of some changed lines of code. Nothing compared moving from 4.4 to 5.

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[Xperia Z3 General] danmak89:
Sony did just announce a new Theme Creator which looks like it has a lot of cool features, so this should make theme building easier for devs. I agree with keeping it as stock as possible. This gives theme designers a cleaner slate to work with and I'm happy to wait as long as I need to do for the update (well, as long as it isn't a ridiculously long wait).

Sony Theme Creator BETA
[Xperia Z3 General] Arju:
Looking at the video on that site, it seems really easy to make a theme. Guess Sony makes it easy for themers after all. Compared to the manufacturers I'm sure just making their theme engine work would be an extra process. No wonder it takes a bit extra time for Sony. I'd rather have that feature bug free than rushed. Let's cross our fingers and hope we see the release this week.
[Xperia Z3 General] corallus:
That's the tablet Z4. Quick work getting it on there
[Xperia Z3 General] session20:
Sony's Lollipop looks unfinished. A rushed update to show case in MWC. Look at the screenshots which I took from hands on videos. In one of the album icon is old one and in one is stock home circle icon. Old walkman icon and some where it shows music icon replacing walkman icon.
[Xperia Z3 General] Cozmos23:
Yea 5.1 is coming this march too.

5.0.2 was released 19th December to the Nexus 5.

The Developer preview of 5.0 was released on June 26th.

So I would call it everything but not fast :)
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
Lmfao. 6 months and they can't change simple Icons ??
[Xperia Z3 General] SweDunda:
"Stay tuned; Jun Makino from our product team will be doing a Q&A with us live from #MWC15. Ask a question w/ #AskSony "

https://twitter.com/SonyMobileNews/status/572378046726049793

Spam with Lollipop q's ! :p
[Xperia Z3 General] session20:
http://youtu.be/90Nfi4nqnd0

Lollipop running on Z3
[Xperia Z3 General] King p1n:
Themes...
[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
Looks not bad actually. Quite smooth too.
[Xperia Z3 General] session20:
May be you are correct. Lets hope that changing themes changes icons as well as status bar icons
[Xperia Z3 General] King p1n:
You can do it on KK, so I don't see why you can't do it on Lollipop.
[Xperia Z3 General] Jecmenn:
Now we can only Hope that they will change UI for Z4 just like Samsung did With S6 and S6 Edge.
[Xperia Z3 General] dante2086:
Hey Sony, what gives?! That Lollipop on the Z3 looks finished. Why you no release it?!
[Xperia Z3 General] session20:
Yes it is possible with root but they should change completely with out root also fonts change would be great.
[Xperia Z3 General] danmak89:
Interesting. I've seen this build number mentioned before as well. Looks pretty solid to me.
[Xperia Z3 General] King p1n:
Its possible without root..m
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
I've as ked for source on the blog with no luck. The team is in Barcelona, so I hope it is coming from a reliable Sony employee...

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[Xperia Z3 General] radicans:
Nice! Thank god they did not keep the material design white background for the apps listing (at 1:11 in the video)!
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
Still 3.4 kernel. Z4 Tablet has 3.10. Not sure if it make any perdormance/stability difference though....

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[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
S5, G3 lollipop uses 3.4 too..
[Xperia Z3 General] mo3553:
Did anyone noticed that they changed the name of Walkman to Music?
[Xperia Z3 General] boncaunhaquynhanh:
Yes, but don't know why.
[Xperia Z3 General] mo3553:
I think it's odd that the album and the playstation app icon has changed in this video, but if you look at xperia m4 aqua video they are still the same as those we got now?
[Xperia Z3 General] Drzfr3shboialex:
T-mobile has an update page and I didn't even see the Z3 on it.
[Xperia Z3 General] kernald:
These apps can be upgraded without upgrading the whole ROM, so it's not a big deal. It's probably the factory ROM on the M4, which has probably been finalized before the icons were updated. M4 owners will probably have a day one update for these apps.
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
That is because they probably have to get it to the D6603 first and then they will work to update the carrier versions. I don't think Sony has given any info to TMO yet.
[Xperia Z3 General] danmak89:
Hey guys look, an official update from Sony:
[Xperia Z3 General] SweDunda:
Yep, **** 'em and the word soon!
[Xperia Z3 General] slim207rc:
Wooooooooow????✌????? sorry I couldn't find the middle finger by itself
[Xperia Z3 General] danmak89:
I heard 50 Cent was offering Lollipop at some candy shop. Maybe it'll work on the Z3.
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
....and it's mentioned twice. Pretty useless posts. In my opinion this means a minimum of 2-3 weeks.

If they'll roll out in 2-3 weeks for all Zs I'll clap my hands.
[Xperia Z3 General] King p1n:
Definitely not coming this week lol
[Xperia Z3 General] Geant39:
Useless post on Twitter
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
It's Sony, what do you expect?
[Xperia Z3 General] minamfm:
Well the bright side is that years from now we're gonna nostalgically look back at that thread on our 5.0.2 z3's and remember that warm November night when we received that update prompt.
[Xperia Z3 General] goTouch:
Off topic:

I really like USB port without a flap cover on M4.

Nice improvement.

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[Xperia Z3 General] bartolo5:
If it serves any consolation, the video shows 5.0.2 lollipop version. Even my Nexus 5 doesn't have 5.0.2 yet, so if they released it soon maybe my Z3 would get a fresher version of Lollipop than my Nexus 5. Just saying.
[Xperia Z3 General] arq7203:
Delete
[Xperia Z3 General] Luhccas-X10:
Almost finished.

Lets just wait for a way to keep our phones rooted.
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
I'm starting to hate the word "soon"!
[Xperia Z3 General] caqo71:
It's an undefinied amount of time. [emoji35]

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[Xperia Z3 General] Arju:
Here's another video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DjVob8CeDRQ
[Xperia Z3 General] persian_redhat:
Ohh it's better idea to make ftf from that phone instead of making just a video :D:D:D
[Xperia Z3 General] cem_jimmy:
Lol
[Xperia Z3 General] SkyS1gn:
They achieved it on the smartband so idk why Z3 have flaps really...
[Xperia Z3 General] jonmorris:
I hope the Z4 has the coverless USB port but doesn't get rid of the magnetic charging for docks/holders.
[Xperia Z3 General] ssj_jaypee:
There's rumors the Z4 will have wireless charging which will best the magnetic charge dock.
[Xperia Z3 General] corallus:
Soony
[Xperia Z3 General] ALEKSDKS:
Lol
[Xperia Z3 General] caqo71:
hahahahahahahahaha, lol
[Xperia Z3 General] sfkaudi:
http://m.androidcentral.com/sony-mobiles-leader-says-rumors-divisions-sale-are-completely-untrue
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
They really must hav some guts to post that...f**** soon message again...
[Xperia Z3 General] nikunjpasricha:
lollipop on z3

. Guys check this out...

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z2/general/lollipop-update-z-series-february-t2998634/page15

Just check the youtube link.. As i am a new user i cannot post out side links...