Good news for Sony Xperia fans, Xperia Z will land on Malaysia market as early as 6th March 2013. The pre-book of the flagship smartphone is now available at Sony Mobile outlet, according to my colleague that pre-book Xperia Z, exact price still unknown but to be estimate around RM 2299.

Seems like the gorgeous design Sony Xperia Z is tougher than it looks, despite of glass materials covered front and back panel of the phone. Instead of already known water resistant and dust proof features, the phone also comes with highly durable tempered glass. Check out videos below:

You can take a look on teardown images of Sony Xperia Z at “Annex C Internal photographs of the EUT“. For full FCC (Federal Communications Commission) documents, head to this site: http://goo.gl/lRXMf

Videos, lots of promo videos! Sony Mobile released a huge amount of short-length clips on YouTube for their recent announced premium Android smartphones. Total of 18 videos, 11 for Xperia Z and 8 for Xperia ZL.

i) Sony Xperia Z

ii) Sony Xperia ZL

The Japanese giant electronics products manufacturer’s mobile department, Sony Mobile Communications (“Sony Mobile”) introduced its new flagship Android premium smartphone – Sony Xperia Z.

Alongside of Xperia Z (Yuga), a design variant will also be released in Q1 2013 in selected markets, dubbed as Xperia ZL (Odin). Xperia ZL delivers the same immersive entertainment experiences as Xperia Z but in a smaller form factor.

Xperia Z Features:

i) Xperia Z Specs:

ii) Xperia ZL Specs:

Differences of Xperia ZL:

Check out more information about Xperia Z and Xperia ZL at these links:

Read this post “Download some festive wallpaper for your Sony Xperia” from Xperia Blog. There are two new sets of festive wallpaper released by Sony Mobile Japan and available for download (free) for limited time, from now until 7th January 2013.

The beautiful Chirstmas and New Year themed wallpaper offered in multiple resolution and will fit your personal computer, Xperia smartphone and Xperia tablets. To collect it, head on the official site: http://goo.gl/hNYtz

Sony, are you kidding me? While other Smartphone brand users are enjoying ICS by now, Sony decide to delay the rollout from March to mid-April. Even worst for newly launched Sony Xperia S, users need to wait until late of Second Quarter 2012. Read the official article here, “The van’s around the corner: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software upgrade coming to 2011 Xperia smartphones starting from mid-April“

In addition, no OTA updates avaialble, according to official: “we’ll only be making it available for download via PC Companion and Bridge for Mac (i.e. not over the air via 3G or WiFi), and you also won’t receive any update requests or notifications.”

Kindly read through this article too, “Learn about the technical differences between Gingerbread and ICS “. It sounds like Sony is not encouraging users update to Android 4.0 platforms. As this quote from the artile, “…although ICS is new and compelling in many ways, we would like all of our users to make an informed decision when selecting what Android™ software to use. We are actually proud to say that our Gingerbread software is very stable and has great performance, so it’s not a bad idea to stay on this platform if your top priority is extreme stability.”

As a Xperia phone user, i am pissed off. Be ashamed Sony!

March 27, Sony Corporation has announced a new strategic re-arrangement. The “One Sony”, a structure with three core electronics businesses (digital imaging, game, mobile) that will begin on April 1, 2012.

Opinions it is obvious Sony smartphones lineup are trailing behind those big boys (Samsung, HTC), judging by its slow Android 4.0 software update and hardware specication of recent Xperia S. Ex: #1 both Samsung and HTC started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich to outgoing flagship (Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Sensation XE). #2, Sony still stick to dual-core processor while quad-core is available.

Hopefully the re-arrangement will create flawless technology cooperation between departments on producing up-to-date competitive products.

Full story can be read here: Sony Establishes New Management Structure
- To Drive Revitalization and Growth of Electronics Businesses and Deliver Compelling User Experiences as “One Sony” -

As some of you might already know, Sony Xperia S (LT26i) is coming to Malaysia as soon as Thursday, March 14 2012. There are two telco (U Mobile & Digi) that going to offer Sony Xperia S, refer sites as below:

  i) U Mobile Sdn Bhd: Sony Xperia S – Registration Page
  ii) Digi: Sony Xperia S

The Sony Xperia S manual is officially available to download now, lengthy 140 Pages .pdf with 7MB file size. Download this if you want to understand more details about the phone before buying or keep a digital copy for future reference.

  English User Guide: Userguide_EN_LT26_1261-9418.1.pdf
  Different Language: Xperia™ S support-documents