SonyXperia Z3 Compact UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Black

This phones description stated it was unlocked but it is LOCKED and I have had to contact my network provider to try an unlock the phone to which they have asked me to wait over a week for a code. This has been an inconvenience.Apart from that, the phone is in good condition.

Product received in perfect working order. Condition was as new, not a single scratch or sign of use.

Been in use from day one a trusted unit

I have received the phone four days in advance. Good quality and no issue so far.

Got the phone 1 day sooner than expected from Diamondteck. At the moment everything looks nice will see how this phone will do in the future :)+ i got some candy in the box too :D

£150 from Vodafone for a brand new phone is a fab bargain. Very pleased with it. Not sure why Amazon & others are charging so much for an old (but very good) phone. Already have the huge Xperia Ultra which is also amazing & I use to replace a pen & note pad at work, so needed something smaller for personal calls to keep in my pocket.

Put side-by-side with the very latest devices, this still holds its own. You can see the difference in performance benchmarks, but I'm not sure you'd see them in day-to-day use. There are faster full-sized phones and tablets, but it's hard to beat the Z3 Compact if you need a device this size.Its features are mostly the same as any Android smartphone. A nice, uncommon feature is that it will do noise-cancelling with Sony's proprietary ear-buds. It's not as effective as a dedicated noise-cancelling headset, but it's not bad. In addition,the Z3 Compact is advertised as waterproof or, at least, water-resistant, but I haven't tested this. The O/S has relatively little bloatware, compared to (say) Samsung units. It still has some, sadly.The glass-like case material is very sturdy, and there is no flex at all; the downside is that the device is very slippery, and tends to slide off smooth surfaces.Now the bad...I have two of these units, and neither is more than two years old. Both have niggling faults. Most prominently, one unit has a failed face proximity sensor. That means that it thinks it is against the user's face, when it isn't. The practical result is that after making or receiving a call, the screen remains switched off. At present I can recover by squeezing on the sensor itself. The other has lost sensitivity in the top row of touch-screen pixels. This does not affect many operations, but it does mean that the swipe-down gesture to show the notification bar does not work. There's an app for that (isn't there always?) but it's still irksome.The Z3 Compact is too expensive to have a fault-free service life of only two years.In short, it's a powerful, versatile compact phone, but offers poor value for money when considered in terms of service life.

not that good