Sony Xperia Z5 Compact SIM-Free Smartphone (UK Version) - Coral

Sony do not get enough recognition they do great smartphones with best Android battery life it is just their cameras always suffer. Under medium conditions nearly get 2 days battery. The cam is a little better than Z3 compact but still can have over sharpening oil painting look.There is plenty of customisation and every now and then video things pop up and the phone has stitched photos/vids into a mini movie type thing. It is solid built 8/10 audio quality through headphones and will not really drive high impedance earphones, it only has medium volume with my 32 ohm TT-Pod earbuds,earpiece is bit tinny in phone calls. Flash is same as Z3C not that bright. Screen detailed colourful but only giving it 6/10 for screen legibility in sunlight outdoors.Overall competent, sturdy, stable good battery life phone.

Superb phone. Very, very fast. Of course it puts heat out when you are first booting it - it's massively powerful in a tiny package. Tough and waterproof. Dropped it a bunch of times onto tiles - with a hard shell on because I am not stupid and I keep a case on it all the time - with no problems with screen breakage or any kind of damage. Sony make very tough phones in a sleek, even pretty form. Fingerprint sensor works great and I remember my PIN as an alternative security because why wouldn't you? With the latest Android it's easy to turn off all the annoying Sony garbage if you don't want it - personally I really appreciate the Walkman music player and I'm sure other people would like at least some of the other guff Sony load for your convenience. My mates all have Apple phones and they all think this phone is nicer to look at and hold. What more can I say, buy one.

After much searching for a small screened close-to-premium-but-not stupidly-overpriced, I settled on the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact. It's actually quite expensive directly from my network provider, but on Amazon, it's priced much better considering it had been out on the market a good 10 months or so when I purchased it. I've had it just over a month now, but have only been using it about 2 weeks in total.I love the pink colour. I am not a particularly girly girl, but I didn't want a boring black phone - it was white or silver for me, so the pink was a compromise even though I tried really hard to find the lime version at a decent price, but unfortunately, to no avail! I settled for pink (coral).I upgraded from a HTC One Mini, which was about 2 and a half years old and I was getting to the point of not being able to install new apps or constantly trying to remove apps to increase its usability, plus the battery didn't last the day towards the end... I really didn't want to upgrade to a phone over 5 inches so this was perfect. I like the design of the phone and how it feels in my hand, but the corners are just a little too square for my liking. I do like the way the screen goes almost right up the edge of the phone.Unfortunately, Pokemon Go was installed quite soon after I received this phone (it was released in my country a week or two earlier, so everyone was going mad for it), so the battery zips through quite quickly after an hour of that. Without any Pokemon, it's much better than my old phone, but the battery was not as amazing as I thought it would be.. just decent enough!My phone broke after 2 weeks. It turned itself off and wouldn't power up again. This made me a particularly unhappy camper considering my last phone had many bumps and bruises and didn't need any emergency repairs during it's 2 and a half year existence with a clumsy person. I read a lot of negative reviews about Sony's repair process, sometimes repair centres would hold your phones for weeks on end, charge you money even though it was in warranty etc.. but my experience was perfectly fine. I sent my phone in the post on a Monday afternoon, to a freepost address, it was returned to me Wednesday afternoon the following week, well within it's 10-working days policy. No one called me or charged me for the repairs. The phone battery was replaced, so I think it might have had a bump that knocked the battery out of place, which is annoying and I hope it doesn't happen again. Maybe I was unlucky on this occasion.After my near miss, I purchased the NFC-enabled-window phone cover to go with it, and I'm having a load of fun with that now.The phone does heat up when being used a lot (heaving downloading/installation/processor use) but nothing any more than you'd expect from most other phones. I don't find it to be that big a deal.I miss some of the HTC features, and really don't like almost all of the Sony pre-installed apps, but most can be deleted or disabled. I think I mostly miss my HTC camera, which always took fantastic photos - I don't think the Sony front camera is that great. It does have a handy torch feature which my last phone didn't have.Overall, I quite like this phone so I'm not disappointed with my choice so far. Let's hope I don't have to ever send it away to get repaired again.

I purchased this phone at Christmas as a present for my partner. The phone itself is okay, excellent battery life and build quality is superb. However, there is a horrible echo when using the speaker phone. It seems to echo everything back to the other party when they speak. She is on her second device, and I'm sad to report that the issue still persists. Aparently Sony are not doing much about it:https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z5-Z5-Compact-Z5-Premium/Sony-Xperia-Z5-Compact-has-an-echo-when-making-calls/td-p/1058981/page/6Shame that their Support and Service has let them down on what could have been a beautiful all round of a phone.Will be sending back for a full refund.

Absolutely great phone, size, features, camera - if it didn't get warm enough to toast marshmallows on.During 1st time setup it got very hot while downloading all the apps and syncing contacts etc - I could forgive that, it's not really normal everyday behaviour. But during normal browsing/usage it gets noticeably warm and when I tried a 4k video (once I got past the "This device might overheat and shutdown" warning) it got really warm, really quickly. A browse of internet and there are a lot of sites complaining about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor getting hot. I'd read a few reviews that mentioned this but thought it was for heavy download/gaming - not what I'd planned to use phone for. But it even gets warm in just general everyday use.It's not going to burn you or set fire to your house but the constant heating/cooling cycles and the device running hot will not be great for component stability & therefore long-term viability of a >£400 phone. I decided to ditch it and get my money back before that could become my problem. As a chip design engineer myself, kind of amazed they are shipping regardless. Don't know what to go for now, most other recent Androids are enormous.