Share your experience!
1. It may happen from time to time, especially in dark conditions. If it is too dark phone doesn't recognize your movement and can't properly stich images. Then it drops such error. Of course same goes if you just move too fast or in wrong direction.
2. Gray area is normal when you end before full 180 deg view. I think I'd like to have button "end panorama" because not always you can go full around. But for now you need to cut gray area in built-in (or any other) photo editor on the phone.
I completely agree with you...
Even my old Motorola Atrix (2010) can take better and HIGHER res panorama pictures than the new 20.7MP camera on Sony...
The good thing is that you can add on features to your camera (under Modes)... In my opinion the best pano pictures are taken by the Nexus Camera, actually not panos but I tend to choose Sphere Pics instead.
It really **bleep** that with such great camera, processor, sensors and all included in our phones, the panoramas are shoot as an archaic old point and shoot, with 5 MP results.