NzBeagle:NZtechfreak: (Finally) Got mine yesterday, seriously impressed with this phone.
True to form, great composition for the photo. Look forward to your experience with the phone. Anything you were hoping for that isn't present or perfect. Things you like that you weren't expecting.
Ha, thank you. What you don't see looking at that photo is the half dozen shots I took until I was fairly happy with the composition (which of course was the one where I thought the least about the composition), and then the time spent dealing with highlight clipping in Lightroom because I didn't get the exposure spot on :)
The Z1 Compact is very mature software wise, benefiting from being essentially identical to the Z1 which has been out for months and had several updates to address issues at release and so forth.
I was really happy to see that Sony are including a USB OTG adapter in the box, I presume because their phones now have inbuilt wireless compatibility with Sixaxis controllers after an initial pairing process that requires a USB OTG cable.
Really like that Sony is still making mass memory connection available to the external SD card. Also like user-selectable control over screen white balance.
All in all Sony have just done everything really well here. The only things I miss are MHL 2.0, and Kit Kat and some of Sony's custom settings like those specifically for connection to external DACs (as per the photo above, external DACs already work, they are adding some more verbose controls over that connection in the Kit Kat update though).