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Buying xperia SP

INSU_cro — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:49:43 GMT

So guys I was thinking about buying xperia SP (c5303) and the price in my country is around 200€...
By the specifications i thought it was a great phone for that price but when i saw the topics on this forum it seems quite buggy (flickering problems, unresponsive touch, illumination lights not working, battery draining and overheating and the wifi range or treshold). Should I buy it or no? Or just buy it and leave it on 4.1.2???

Re: Buying xperia SP

ParaSense1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:53:21 GMT

yep specifications are very good for the price... if you root it and do some tweaks you can play all hd games withoult lags.. but you probably get the flickering problem around 20% and that will make you regret it.. you still can buy it and stay with stock 4.1.2 that it works perfect.. but if i was you i would buy a sumsung or nexus device instead as im really dissapointed

Re: Buying xperia SP

INSU_cro — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:57:42 GMT

I am really dissapointed in samsung... I had 2 samsung phones and that usb port was getting pretty loose and wouldnt charge at the end... I had sent the phone to service and they say its my fault but i never did anything and the phones never fell... The repair costs around 100€ and its better to buy a new phone than repair that piece of ... Btw wouldnt root the phone because i will lose warranty! Any other problems on your SP?

Re: Buying xperia SP

poopcorn — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:36:17 GMT

I have none of the problems you listed above. I'm actually happy wirh my phone, and it isn't expensive at all. I would definitely recommend

Re: Buying xperia SP

3xperia — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:36:11 GMT

Neither do I. I don't have such horrible problems. Just there one thing I haven't found out yet, my LED light is always ON during call, is it normal or abnormal? I don't know. lol

Xperia SP looks prerty good for its price and it suits well in my jeans front pocket. Recommend it to others? I'm not so sure since I heard that this phone will never get new update anymore for Kit Kat. Xperia SP was just released last year and it's already dead. So I think there's no any good point to buy this phone. You'll stuck on JB 4.3.

Re: Buying xperia SP

INSU_cro — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:57:49 GMT

Oh that thing on french forums right? About not getting kitkat...

The news were posted 01 April 2014 - 10:59

http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/183534-kitkat-%C3%A0-l%C3%A9tude-pour-xperia-sp/

The news were posted on April Fool's Day... Must be a joke

The phone seems awesome and i will get it, If i get any problems... warranty is always there!

Re: Buying xperia SP

3xperia — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:14:33 GMT

A French forum? Nope. I actually read it on Twitter. People were talking about it. That's why I joined this forum to find out and make sure myself. lol

Oh, man... didn't notice if this thing was started on Fool's Day. Dayum silly me.

If that news was a lie, and Xperia is gonna get Kit Kat sooner or later.... Then I high recommend you to buy one. Yeah you should get this good one phone. lol

Re: Buying xperia SP

INSU_cro — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:37:14 GMT

Hmm it says still "under investigation" so the chanse is 50%/50%... If kitkat comes in this or next month the phone is surely mine if not i might have save money for the Z or the upcoming M2... Thanks guys, kudos for all!

Re: Buying xperia SP

3xperia — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:19:01 GMT

Yeah Sony's official web says that. But I'm not 100% sure of their story for some reason. Like you said 50-50.

So you don't need to hurry. Give it sometime and find some good phone that you really want the most.

Thanks to you too, and good luck 🙂

Re: Buying xperia SP

XperiaUser1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:24:30 GMT

In response to Parasense can you please give it a rest.

Can you simply STOP going on and on about your obvious hardware problem and quite where you get 20% from I don't know. I've read your thread and feel sorry for you but your assertioans are wrong.

I accept you have had a bad experience but give it a rest and stop trying to disuade people from buying this excellent phone based on your bad luck.

on a price vs performance basis the SP has to be the best value for money phone on the market even after a year.

the new .201 formware is excellent and I am benching 22970 in antutu now more than an xperia z and much more than the more expensive galaxy S3.

Re: Buying xperia SP

Nefertaly — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:35:42 GMT

Please don't buy it. If I could turn, turn back in time.....I wouldn't have bought that thing. NOW I'M stuck and will never be refund. Believe me don't buy it

Re: Buying xperia SP

blackbox — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:54:18 GMT

Specs and benchmarks are fine and that, but they're largely irrelevant in the real world. If you can, go try one out in a shop.

If you don't want to root, then consider the small built in storage. If you're a gamer it can be a dealbreaker as you can't move apps to an external SD card anymore (at least without rooting), and you'll soon run low (and slow!).

The screen flicker? Don't have it myself, but @ParaSense has pretty thoroughly looked into it, and it sure sounds like a software issue as it doesn't happen on 4.1.2.

As for KitKat? It's looking unlikely. In 6 months' time the SP will be past its support lifetime.

Overall, it's a well specced phone that performs just OK and for the money not bad. Would I buy another if I lost it? Probably not.

Re: Buying xperia SP

INSU_cro — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:45:46 GMT

Okay for the memory... I dont care about having lots and lots of apps... I like to keep the phone clean... I think of buying and leaving it on 4.1.2...

Re: Buying xperia SP

blackbox — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:11:01 GMT

For that money (and if space isn't a concern - still, I'd get the 16Gb one as 8Gb is not a lot), check out the Moto G as well. Not as well specced, but getting great reviews. Cheaper too.

Re: Buying xperia SP

XperiaUser1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:52:34 GMT

hi Blackbox

Just out of interest would you care to offer what you WOULD buy if you lost your SP? because the idea that it performs just ok is a joke. it has excellent battery life and offers easily 20% performance over a Moto G for example.

btw The Moto G is a great phone for the price i bought one for my uncle and best friend but the SP is a better phone especially considering you can add storage. the screen is slightly better on the Moto G though.

Re: Buying xperia SP

daverawle — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:47:05 GMT

I have bought 2 of these and once I flashed them with the 1.201 firmware they are very good 'phones for the price so I'm happy. I haven't suffered the flickering screen issue that many have but that might be because I'm using 'Velis' to control brightness with the system brightness handler disabled, maybe it just masks the problem but it works for me. The Sony brightness handler was dire anyway. I also use Nova Launcher which fixed most of the lag issues that seem to occur with Xperia Home.

If you look around it's possible to pick-up X-SPs at a discount following a lot of discontent with the 4.3 upgrade.

Dave

Re: Buying xperia SP

spuser123 — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:59:34 GMT

I would suggest GO FOR THE SP. It's a really good phone!!!:smileysmileythumbsup:

I play good number of games. Games with good quality graphics and animations. There is no performance lag.The internet is on whole day on my phone, plus I listen to music whenever I like, and play games like anything. And the best part is the battery is awesome! In spite of my heavy duty use.

I hope sincerely that SONY relases Android Kitkat latest version to the SP gang. (we have already signed a petition regarding this!).

With the new software update, believe me, the phone will work blazingly fast!!!

Hope people at SONY are listening!

Re: Buying xperia SP

SOS3v5 — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 22:49:03 GMT

Do not under any circumstances buy the Xperia SP, until someone in Sony can be bothered to sort out the terrible software update they have just released which will completely make your phone inoperable. Just read the hundreds of posts and complaints on here since this software update was released....don't do it! Avoid it!

Re: Buying xperia SP

ParaSense1 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:08:14 GMT

Oh.. so all these blogs,sites and many more forums are all created cause they saw my issue hmmmm.. i feel famous..
check this http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-SP/Maybe-its-time-for-SONY-to-answear-about-screen-flickering/m-p/650157#U650157

btw i dont have any other problem... and 4.1.2 works perfect with 22500k antutu
on 4.3 i get 24k antutu but i have the flickering

Re: Buying xperia SP

Ideomotor — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:58:30 GMT

Really... Don't buy it. I bought mine 3 months ago and I never regreted a phone so much.

Get the Nexus 5, it's not that much expensive and it's way better.