Sony Xperia XZ F8332 64GB Mineral Black, 5.2", Dual Sim, GSM Unlocked International Model, No Warranty

It has been 6 months and it works great for me so far. At first, there was a slowness or lagging with overheat problem. After resetting to the factory default with proper updates, it finally work stably. The battery life, camera and screen are good. Somebody may not like its bulky square shape which is Sony phone style but it is fine for me. I switched my phone from Windows phone to Android phone. This phone is the first phone for me to learn and get used to Android system. A major reason I chose this phone is it provides a dedicated camera shutting button just like Nokia Windows phone and it is a very convenient function to bring up camera quickly without looking for camera application on the screen. The international version provides fingerprint unlocking on the power button and it is another convenient design better than US version. For Android on this phone, I recommend disabling the auto update to prevent the unexpected problem from Google. There used to be a buggy "google" update causing malfunction on SMS text message and few weeks later another update fixed the problem. Also the new Google Play service will consume the battery power quickly so I have to uninstall the update and wait for an official version update from Sony. Without the new Google Play service installed, I can keep the phone battery lasting pretty long time although some app like AVG, Maps and Gmail can't be upgraded. In overall, this phone performs very well for me and it is my good life partner.

I got this phone for my wife. I have had one for a couple of years, and she always liked mine. She was upgrading from an iPhone 5, and could not be happier. Although there is some learning curve going from iOS to Android, she is picking it up pretty quickly. She was also able to easily move her contacts, photos, files and everything else pretty easily, with the exception of her iTunes library. This is not easy, and may be impossible, so it is something you should consider when changing OS platforms. Her purchased library was not that big, so she decided it was definitely worth it. The phone is very fast, and download speeds seem to rival wired internet connections (we are on T-Mobile with LTE). The camera is pretty good, but I have to admit that it does not do as well in low light. You get pictures OK, but they seem pixellated on the screen when you go to look at them. The main bonus with this phone is that it seems to have bottomless memory, which is important for us. The Android OS has also been great for translating to various foreign languages, and we routinely use the phone as a hotspot for our daughter's iPad when we are driving. It really is what you want a phone to be. Be careful of games that eat batteries though (as is true with any phone).

The international version includes the fingerprint option which is nice. Had the phone for less than a month before it went black after being shut off. With that happening it needs its original charger to charge it again to even turn on if you try another charger it doesn't work with the phone. And since it's been so long until I review this again so now am rating it.The phone itself is great besides the not turning on problem. Seller do you know what I can do? I mean I love the phone very much and it's been too long since the phone been bought. Is there a defect of the phone's battery?

I last had an Android phone sometime around seven or eight years ago. It sucked. The interface was ugly, and the thing crashed constantly; I had to pop the battery out for a hard reset every couple of days, on average. The Samsung design was cheap-looking and boring.As a result, I did the NOKIA/Windows Phone thing for several years, and largely loved it. Loved the solidity and ease of the interface, and definitely loved the simple, elegant "slab" design of the devices. Sadly, they ran that thing into the ground, in terms of the ecosystem, and it was eventually time to replace my phone (though well designed overall, the USB jack started failing).Despite middling reviews, I was immediately set on getting this newer Sony phone. It's just beautiful to look at, fitting my slabby tastes to a T. I took a gamble, on the hunch that professional phone/tech reviewers tend to make up silly distinctions (nit-picking screen resolutions well past human visual acuity, for instance) in order to justify their jobs.Turns out, it's a very, very nice phone. It's plenty fast, runs cool, and doesn't ever crash. The battery life could be better, but it charges rapidly and "intelligently" so that shouldn't be an issue for many people. Feels just right in my hand (a bit of comfy weight) and seems to be robustly built. The colors are uniquely subtle and fit the design perfectly.The only area where the device comes up short is the camera. I have no idea why Sony hypes this angle of the phone so heavily; there's nothing special about the images, and in fact I would largely say they've been sub-par. Some sort of auto-sharpening filter is applied to everything, making those 20+ MP pictures look weirdly muddy (almost like a "paint" effect, on a small scale). This is particularly disappointing because Sony helps other manufacturers on the camera front, and makes highly-competitive actual-cameras as well. I own -- and love -- a couple of these models, myself, which is good because I can ignore the crummy camera on the phone. But anyway; If portable imagery is a key component of your phone, you'll absolutely be happier with a different model.