Everyone needs to learn from the Sony Xperia ZL.

Posted by ryallen23 on March 6, 2013 10:38 am 8

I have a Galaxy S3 and I don't mind the size. Its a small price to pay for how much screen real estate I get. I do think though, that the top, bottom, and even the side bezels could be shrunk down a bit. I'm sure that would have added a significant enough cost to each device if Samsung tried to do that, and so they didn't which is fine. They did sell 80 million after all...

I am surprised though, how no manufactures have tried to make a device with a 4.8+ inch screen that was easy to hold. It could certainly have been done by now. If there was a will, there would have been a way.

Sony is the first company to try, and they sure have succeeded. A lot of people talk about the Xperia Z, because it looks nice, is so thin, waterproof, etc. The ZL was announced at the same time and nobody cared nearly as much about it for whatever reason. The back is rounded, so it actually feels nice in hand. It's not waterproof, so every port doesn't need to have a door (that would drive me insane the number of times I plug in headphones), and it even has an IR blaster to control your TV.

But the most impressive thing about it is that even with the same 5 inch 1080p display from the Xperia Z, its smaller. So much smaller, that its even beats the Galaxy S3 on size. I dont understand why no other OEM has done this before? Its so.... nice.

Some phones are egregious with the way they waste space. The iphone comes to mind immediately with its top and bottom, and the nexus 4 has the same problem. That's taken even further with it's on screen buttons, which take away screen real estate, when capaciative buttons could have much more efficiently been placed on the bottom, and all that space wouldn't have had to be wasted. But I digress...

Everyone complains about all these new phones being too big. Sony's the first company to realize that the screen can get bigger, but the phone doesn't have to. Hopefully everyone else catches on. I'm buying a ZL here in India when the price drops a little thats for sure...