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Why you should be excited about the Sony Xperia Z3 range

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Two days ago, Sony announced their new range of phones and tablets, the Z3. Promising that they’re going from good to great, Sony then invited a bunch of local press to a sculpture park in Krugersdorp to hear more and eat some fancy food. But here’s why you should care.

Yesterday, our Mattstick told you that the Z3 lets you remote play with the PS4. As the press release said, Sony phones and tablets will be the only ones with this compatibility, but is it really all that great, and isn’t this just stealing the Vita’s thunder? Well, there’s more to it than that.

Remote Play on the Vita is excellent, until you need the triggers. Then the whole experience starts to feel different and sort of painful. Remote Play doesn’t take advantage of the Vita’s other abilities, and instead feels like an inferior way of playing the game. With the Z3’s remote play, that’s not an issue – you still use the DS4 for all the controls so it really does feel like you’re playing the normal game, just on a smaller but still really crisp screen.

Matty was wondering if the weight of the device would make the controller uncomfortable after a while. Well, they let us play with a prototype yesterday and I can say that it was really rather light. But more importantly, there was no lag between the device and the PS4 – I was watching both screens and the action was spot on. Perhaps it was just the excellent wifi that they were using at the event, but it really was quite impressive.

The Z3 has a range of attributes that they explained to us yesterday will make it really quite wonderful. I mostly focused on eating all the oysters, but the camera, durability and new wearables are quite cool. Mainly, the Z3 will be like a better version of the Wii U’s gamepad – helping to save marriages by letting one person remote play on the PS4 while letting their spouse use the TV for other gaming or viewing pleasures. I will be testing all this quite thoroughly when the device arrives locally (probably around October/November) for my review.

Last Updated: September 5, 2014

8 Comments

  1. Kikmi

    September 5, 2014 at 14:15

    helping save marriages *slaps knee*

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  2. Hammersteyn

    September 5, 2014 at 14:19

    LOL, I wonder how long before you can Remote Play via XBOX One on your Nokia Lumia?

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    • Nikola

      September 5, 2014 at 15:09

      Hahahah lol

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    • FoxOneZA

      September 5, 2014 at 15:36

      You can do it with PC to Lumia easily.

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  3. Nikola

    September 5, 2014 at 15:12

    I am seriously definitely getting the Z3 phone, was gona get z2 anywyas but now I shall wait:)) Love this remote play feature brilliant move by Sony.

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  4. FoxOneZA

    September 5, 2014 at 15:35

    Takes new Sony phones about 6 months to arrive in S.A. That’s why so many that just bought the Z2 are complaining.

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    • CypherGate

      September 8, 2014 at 09:52

      Sony releases a new flagship every 6 months. Thats there strategy. I had the Z1. Loved the phone. Then about a month later Z2 popped up. I was annoyed. So now i sold my Z1 and well… am borrowing a phone for the time being until i can buy either a Z3 cash or wait for a Z4. The problem is that people need to realise that your phone will be outdated within 6 months where the latest model is concerned but where the specs are concerned isnt too much of a gap to justify an upgrade.

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  5. Willem Swanepoel

    September 5, 2014 at 15:45

    I cannot wait for the Z3 because I am not really interested in the Z3 with its PS4 compatibility.

    I am more interested in the price drop of the Z2 😉

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