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Xperia Z5 buying advice

snippet — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 08:08:27 GMT

Got a deal Xperia Z5 refurbished for around 25000 (370$) Is that a good deal? canI buy Z5 or go for any other choice??

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:08:23 GMT

As long you make sure it has no problems. and still in good working condition.

you can check Xperia Diagnostics and maybe go to a sony service center to check for waterproofness (vacuum test)

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

dandy63 — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 13:51:08 GMT

Follow @nolramlb advice but also make sure the Z5 comes with a good long quality guarantee :smileysmileythumbsup:

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

Bhonder — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:09:30 GMT

Isn't a little too expensive for a second hand phone?

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

snippet — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:36:09 GMT

Is it so ?? Xperia Z5 market price is around 600$. I thought it was a good grab

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

ThKlingenberg — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:02:00 GMT

All Z5 devices have terrible performance. Avoid them at all costs.

Source: I had a Z5 Premium, my GF has a Z5 Compact, to friends have Z5 Premium and three other friends have the Z5 regular sized one. They all hate it. It's slow to the point of unusable. I've had many Sony phones through the years, and all Z-generations. Z5 is best forgotten.

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

tarpon — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:35:01 GMT

@ThKlingenberg wrote:
All Z5 devices have terrible performance. Avoid them at all costs.

Source: I had a Z5 Premium, my GF has a Z5 Compact, to friends have Z5 Premium and three other friends have the Z5 regular sized one. They all hate it. It's slow to the point of unusable. I've had many Sony phones through the years, and all Z-generations. Z5 is best forgotten.

check the phone and of it is working well, buy it for this price, you enjoy a lot.

I am not agree with "ThKlingenberg".

I have Sony Z5. this phone jas only 3 problems but in other areas is very good.

Pros:

- sound quality is very good

- Voice quality is very good

- Screen is amaizing

- Camera is very good

- The Androind in Sony is very stable (6.0) no even one crash

- it is very fast phone

- Network very fast

- size (for me) very good

- protaction against water and dust

- has very good communication with other Sony products

Cons:

- Battery life is not long

- Heat whrn you record 4K or when you put sevral massive tasks

- The screen is not good when there is a lot of Sun light

I think the problems came from CPU 810.

if there is any update in the future that reduce the problems that I wrote, this phone for me will be super!

I hope that Sony will update to Android N,

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

idono — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:30:24 GMT

Ahhh should have pushed for premium

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

vgs21 — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 05:24:49 GMT

@snippet wrote:
Got a deal Xperia Z5 refurbished for around 25000 (370$) Is that a good deal? canI buy Z5 or go for any other choice??

I would advice you against buying Sony phones after going through the horrible experience with my Z5DP.

First of all Sony updates are hard and very very slow to come by

With every update they remove some important feature which you get used to of and can't live without.

Just like what they did with MM update in my case they removed Dual ringtone feature from a DUAL SIM phone(Can you beleive it!!!), battery ultra stemina mode.

Bluetooth stutters.

3 months have gone by since MM update and they have not come up with their solutions.

I would say spend 7Ks more and get brand new OnePlus3 or second hand S7 series.

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

SSJGOD — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:17:26 GMT

No dont ever buy refurbished bad experience almost all the time just go to Amazon any buy one from there it's better and new and if anything happens to it you can contact Amazon and they should be able to replace it make sure that it's the fulfilled by Amazon as well

Z5 worst Sony phone to date

marshalleq — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 07:46:14 GMT

It overheats (yes that does matter because the perfomance of the phone is reduced - quite a bit)

Speaking of performance, it's laggy. I've never seen such a laggy phone since Android was new. My guess this is the overheating and the processor throttling performance

The Marshmallow update made the phone drive itself in your pocket. I've had to turn off all sorts of settings to reduce it, including the fingerprint sensor which became too sensitive and somehow woke up the phone will screen was turned off. It happened in my hand.

This makes all the buttons press in your pocket, flashlight turns on, airplane mode, brightness goes on full etc. This didn't happen before Marshmallow and yes I've done a full factory reset.

Can feel the screen is loose in one corner. Sony is supposed to have a superior build. This is my third sony.

It takes ages to boot. Way longer than any other phone

The speaker in the phone has lost it's quality during phone calls. I'm not sure if this is after the update or if it's a hardware failure.

If I run the Grid computing app it throttles due to overheating and ultimately performs about 1/10th of the Z3.

On the plus side, the speakers are an improvement over the Z3 I had for audio, it's great not to have a flap over the USB port and it's good to see it moved to the bottom. The camera software is better in the Marshmallow update (in terms of startup speed).

The trouble with this kind of problem is the service centres usually don't possess people that can understand your issues properly. This forum is littered with overheating comments, when it's known this is a poorly chipset that overheats. I'll have to give up my phone for weeks and as a result of that I'll get a 'nothing wrong' along with it having being opened and causing the water fastness to reduce. If they do fix it, you probably get a refurb, you can't win.

What I'd really like to do is take it back to the shop and ask for a return. I'd rather go back to the Z3, it was a far superior phone.

This phone is not fit for purpose really.

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

snippet — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:42:30 GMT

But I feel the camera from them are always best in class. My significance in a phone would be a camera. They gave me with 6-months brand warranty and 12 months seller warranty. Hope everything goes on well.

Thanks all for their suggestions

Re: Xperia Z5 buying advice

snippet — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:59:45 GMT

Never gotta deal 😕