New z3 heavier than older z3

[Hartleyh69]

I bought a Z3 back in October, on Saturday it was sat in the cradle in my car and spontaneously cracked; initially I thought it was the glass protector I had on it but to my horror when I got home found the glass protector in one piece and the phones screen cracked like a spiders Web. It's March in the UK so hardly hot inside the car and the air con wasn't on. I ordered myself a new Z3 and it arrived yesterday, I replaced the glass protector with the same brand and put the same case as I'd used on my broken phone and thought no more of it until last night when I went to put it on charge; it strangely wouldn't fit the charging dock, after faffing about for 20 minutes I gave up. This evening my friend whose an engineer looked at the 2 phones and could see no reason why it didn't fit the dock until I weighed them; hey presto 10 grams difference, both had the protector on the screen and out of the case.  Has Sony done a sneaky job and reinforced the screen due to a known issue. Just to make sure I got another friend who has a Z3 to come round and weighed his, 10 grams lighter than my new one. Interesting...? 

[Uliwooly]

That's quite interesting, could you post more info on this, actually weight the phone w/o anything on it, no SD cards no SIM cards, no protective film nor case and take pictures > post them here

[Hartleyh69]

Unfortunately I've sent my broken phone away to be repaired under an insurance policy. We had taken everything out of the phones when weighing them. Also placed them on a flat surface and placed a steel ruler across the two phones, the new one was definitely thicker, albeit marginally. I'm hoping Sony have realised the cracking of screens is a problem and have made some alterations; this would make sense. I've also had two z2 tablets that have the same problem; the screens cracked for no apparent reason. I'm not clumsy and look after my gadgets, I had iPhones and ipads for years and had no problems.

[Uliwooly]

let us know when you get it back