Thank you for your reply, i will play with the camera and see how it goes. Overall i am happy with the phone, i am kind of getting used to it and once i make it less slippery with epoxy, i will be even happier. I will point out few things here though that kind of bother me, maybe there is a solution or maybe not:
Things i dont like:
1) notification bar where i quickly change things like wifi, bluetooth, silent ... I prefer samsung with its big icons. And here i have to tap twice to get wifi and other settings. First i just get notification bar, then i have to click again to pull it down and only then i can turn on wifi for instance
2) To put phone into silent mode for the night, samsung it only takes 1 click, here i have to click, interface opens and only then i can select be silent for the night, except alarms
3) Camera interface: samsung, its much easier to switch between video and pictures
4) when i plug the phone in, i have to click on my phone before i can access its files. Its not much but still its an extra click
5) flashlight widget is missing. And now i have to use app where i click on it and have to wait for like 5 seconds before flash turns on. I use flashlight often so it bothers me
6) flashlight is very weak compared to s4 mini and samsung alpha
7) phone call history - at samsung it includes sms so its really cool to see all your history of calls and sms and u can quickly respond to them. Also its easier to add new numbers into phone book
😎 i prefer samsung alarm thingy. Also in general, there is more options at samsung. For instance i could set sms delay which was very usefull since i sometimes write typos and only see them after sms i sent
9) i prefer samsung interface. I dont know if its because i am used to it or because it is better. But right now it just seems so much better and many neat options are included
10) still very slippery but will solve that with epoxy
THINGS I LIKE:
1) Obviously with 4x 2.5Ghz it is very very fast. Could be faster sometimes in interface but its fine
2) really fast read speeds. This is awesome when i transfer pics/videos from internal memory. Its read speed is about 200mb/s and write is 40mb/s
3) 1 thing i really like is that when i open DCIM folder on internal memory, right away i get thumbnails of all pictures and videos. This is extremely awesome and usefull, on s4 mini and even samsung alpha, when i open DCIM, i have to wait for it to show me thumbnails 1 by 1, it takes many many seconds when i have lots of pictures
4) smaller screen than samsung alpha - its really usefull and much easier to handle than alpha
5) less bloatware then alpha, still to much for my taste, but i disabled many things so its fine
6) obviously the only reason i use z3 compact is to get used to xperia dimension and interface. It is all because i plan to get xz1 compact. Otherwise i would use samsung alpha but the thing is that samsung alpha is a dead end. I would have no other samsung phone to go to from samsung alpha while with sony, i have xz1 compact to go to in the future
