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Yes true Samsung even supported the GS2 upto last year. The 6 month Sony flagship policy is a bad move as people sign contracts for two years and not everyone can just opt out and buy the next Sony flagship sim free 6 months later. But a certain person in the Z2 thread said to me it's my fault for signing a contract. What a bad attitude that is,imagine of Sony said that to it's customers?? Anyway be interesting to see how well battery is improved over the S4 which Recombu claims is brilliant

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Posted: 2014-03-09 02:04:00
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while they didnt specifically say what is next, Sony next flagship in 6 months can be ultra 2, which is like how Samsung doing 6 months, or less between regular Galaxy and note line up.
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Posted: 2014-03-09 09:04:04
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This really will be something I'm gonna miss, no matter which device I'm getting next.
After the S4 I'm looking for 'something different' now, so no S5 and no phase detection for me

@XperiaJunkie:
Regarding AMOLED vs water, it shouldn't be any problem if the device is really water resistant or even waterproof. If you have water inside your phone you have more to worry about, I guess.
Samsung maybe needed all capacities for the S4, the yield rate of 5 inch 1080p screen wasn't that high, making it more expensive and more rar. But idk really.

@2 or 1 year or 6 months flagship strategy:
I don't really care, if there's a device I really want I'm gonna get it, I'm not going to adjust my needs to any business strategy. Even though I have a 24 month contract but that's only to subsidize my S4.
I'm even gonna say the obvious thing, with a 6 months strategy the manufacturer will be able to keep up to advancements coming from SoC, camera, display,... manufacturers more easily. A 2 year strategy would be horrible with this, and of course with sales.
Even Samsung is opting for this strategy to keep up with technological progress, of course this involves the Note and the S series, but doesn't change the fact that each Note has upped the specs to what is possible at that time and therefore way better than the same numbered S. I'm kind of surprised that the S5 has only 2GB RAM...

Btw. Regarding the heart rate monitor, I have two Apps on my phone which measure my heart rate very accurate in few seconds. Just with the help of the LED and camera. Am I the only one who uses these Apps and realized that?
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Posted: 2014-03-09 09:46:16
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So I see a few people on this thread are complaining about Sony's 6 month flagship strategy and how it isn't fair to the customer. First of all how many different versions were there of the GS4 a total of 19 in the space of 10 months (20 if you include the GPE) albeit not all were available worldwide and now onto the GS5 how many customers will be annoyed when Samsung announce the roumored GS5 Prime a month or 2 after the release of the first version so stop complaining about Sony when Samsung are just as bad with multiple variants of the same phone with maybe more memory, lesser camera spec, lower screen resolution and so on.

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Posted: 2014-03-09 16:56:50
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A short upgrade cycle for the customer is a good thing. They're more likely to have a phone with the latest tech when it comes to upgrade. If the upgrade cycle was 24 months then some customers would only be able to upgrade to a phone which could be almost 2 years old. Who would want that?!
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Posted: 2014-03-09 17:58:45
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^this
^^this

You people assume your 24 month contract will begin the second the phone is released, and will end the second the successor's successor is released. You people also assume everyone has the same contract length, that they even have a contract.

Bonovox, forget 24 months, when's the last time you stuck with a phone for 24 weeks?
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Posted: 2014-03-09 18:28:59
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clutching straw much? All the version of gs4 released last year are dumbed down version. There was a s800 version but that was not released worldwide. Anyway gs4 active was not meant to replace gs4 like z2 replaced z1 or z1 replaced z
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Posted: 2014-03-09 19:33:21
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I never once mentioned anything about the S4 being replaced by another variant just the differences in the variants. Sony also produce 6 month flagships to prevent their products from shall we say going stale Sony know they can't match Samsung for sales so to have a mid year refresh is good business for Sony and this has show in year on year increase of sales. another advantage is a customer can get a slightly older model at a cheaper price but still with top end spec and not pay a premium for it which in a customer point of view is good business
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Posted: 2014-03-09 19:44:47
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What's that got to do with me & my phones?? I said generally with contracts & other people, not about myself. As usual you have to come here to have a pop at me cos I am saying something bad about Sony in ANOTHER thread I can't even say anything about what I generally think about something without someone having a pop at me am sick to death of it
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Posted: 2014-03-09 20:18:17
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Personally I prefer the yearly updates however I can see how for Sony and even a lot of customer the 6 months upgrade cycle makes sense . At the end of the day unless you want to have the latest / best for a longer period of time I don't think you would be bothered to much about it. I personally want to have the latest / best which is why I prefer the longer cycles. I can't cope with changing my phones every 6 months 😊
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Posted: 2014-03-09 21:24:29
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