No, I was Xperia fan and I still own XZ.
I am about to upgrade my phone soon but for the moment I decided to move away from Sony phones due to several reasons:
1. Camera - they still does not want to provide us with much better picture quality and serve almost the same since years: same old G lenses, same F2.0, same BAD algotithms, constantly no OIS, blur on the edges because of wide angle lenses, horrible low light pics. For some unknown reason they still focus on low resolution videos (while ditching 4K mode on the other hand - they abandoned this mode and just made a copy paste of the same app from Z2) while people mostly use cameras in phones for pictures. Slow mode may be funny for an hour or so, but then people will forgot about it. And yeah, it is 720p in 2017, please... Let them still focus on the videos and I will pick a smartphone that takes better pictures. They developed curved lenses to eliminate the issue with blurry edges they have, where is it???
p.s. even laser autofocus works wrong in Xperias since it "beams" only for a milisecond instead of constantly focusing like in other brands (LG), users reported this issue many times but they still did not fixed it in XZ.
2. UI - since years they use the same looking UI that just BORED me to DEATH.
Besides they keep to make it more and more stock which for me looks UGLY since I do not like stock Android looks. They took away a lot of widgets, animations, small apps and so on.
3. Cutting the costs in so called Premium devices: plastic frames, really? Again same poor, low volume stereo speakers?
4. Battery - in the past (Z2, Z3 times) they were kings in terms of battery, after that they keep to lower down the battery capacity making it only worse and worse (which is also a part of cutting costs). Now they are at the point with no difference to chinese brands.
5. Design - looks like they have no clue how to design it hence they incorporte exactly the same design as year ago. Their designers run out of fresh ideas.
6. Bezels, I do not bother it that much, but it doesn't means they can leave it giant on the top and bottom. For top bezel at least they have excuse (rear camera is there for no hump so ok), but the bottom one?
7. XZ Premium colors - even if I would like to buy this phone I do not like the mirrir - another fingerprint magnet after Alkaleido... then you have only one choice in terms of color - (at least) black. This is not wide selection.
I am samsung fan?
I am with Sony since T630 and you probably do not even remember it... but it is a time for change since they do not listen to the customers. If you will take a look at the trend you will see I am not the only one. Less and less people buying Xperias, soon Sony will play with their devices on their own.
Alone.
