Japanese Xperia Z has different specs - Xperia Z General

One of major differences is that Japanese model has One Seg tv tuner and IR blaster installed. LTE bands are, however, limited to local bands only, so it is not global LTE you can find in models outside of japan.
and btw, it would be available here on Feb 9th, so I guess it will be debut on home turf.

Would like to know what's one seg? I thought it was just an apk bloatware or something lol

Riyal said:
Would like to know what's one seg? I thought it was just an apk bloatware or something lol
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You can watch TV on your phone if it supports 1seg, but that's something only Japan has

Ambroos said:
You can watch TV on your phone if it supports 1seg, but that's something only Japan has
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basically is it a tv tunner???

s-X-s said:
basically is it a tv tunner???
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For a special network, yes. Completely useless outside Japan.

Did a research lol! And yes it's a tv tuner and what's great was I found the info on a review of HTC Butterfly J
Anyways it's available only on Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru so yeah pretty useless.
But just wondering they all keep saying the devices have the same hardware. So would that mean that even the global Xperia Z has the capabilities of infrared blaster and 1seg but is just disabled?

Japan has a totally different 2G network and seems other network also different...

Wouldn't the network band be altered just by flashing a baseband from another variant?

Even though the Japanese Z seems to have 'extra' features, remember however that since they wont be available outside Japan, development will be very limited, if any. The safest bet would be to go for an 'International' version with an unlocked bootloader.

anirudh412 said:
Even though the Japanese Z seems to have 'extra' features, remember however that since they wont be available outside Japan, development will be very limited, if any. The safest bet would be to go for an 'International' version with an unlocked bootloader.
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Unless you live in Japan

jerryhou85 said:
Japan has a totally different 2G network and seems other network also different...
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Actually Japan is 3G and LTE only...there is no 2G...well in the Airport only...maybe

whoa ir blaster would have come handy lucky Japanese
why fix it if it ain't broken ?

lancebukkake said:
Actually Japan is 3G and LTE only...
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Not true...
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Well, I am seriously considering getting this phone here in Japan; but I would like to be able to root and flash AOSP as I have done with my Galaxy Nexus, which is the Japanese variant.
I'm looking forward to unlocked bootloaders and AOSP ROMs

Japan has no GSM, it has WCDMA, cdma2000-1x, and LTE as well as an almost totally dead 2G network called PDC.
Japanese one-seg tuners may be able to physically receive south american signals but they can't decode them due to different encodings on the streams. ISDB-T is used in japan. Elsewhere uses a slight variant called ISDB-Tb.
Japanese XZ is supposed to be quad band GSM, triband WCDMA and hexa-band LTE-FDD vs I believe penta-band WCDMA elsewhere.

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ZL is clocked at 1.7ghz and Z at 1.5ghz but both have s4 pro processor

Sv: Japanese Xperia Z has different specs
i9100g user said:
ZL is clocked at 1.7ghz and Z at 1.5ghz but both have s4 pro processor
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No it don't
Look at this
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...FvRgM8aGn4AfoCHVQ&sig2=AnOregff31k2YYd2K1keCw
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sfkaudi said:
No it don't
Look at this
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...FvRgM8aGn4AfoCHVQ&sig2=AnOregff31k2YYd2K1keCw
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Looks like my sources are wrong :silly:

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OMG!!!!!! i so want to get the Brazil GT-i9000 model it's so sweeet!

Check out their specs:
http://www.samsungmobile.com.br/telefone-celular/samsung-galaxy-s-especificacao
Digital TV = Yes
3G = 850/1900/2100 YES!!!!!
OMG!!!!!! i so want to get the Brazil GT-i9000 model it's so sweeet!
What about the battery life?!
Isnt that normal to all galaxy s'? I got the international i9000 and it has those features as well...
maverickzero said:
Isnt that normal to all galaxy s'? I got the international i9000 and it has those features as well...
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the international i9000 doesn't have 3g 850 (it has 900 instead of 850). Also, the digital tv thing will only work in brazil due to their tv infrastructure (from what I've heard).
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s-3115.php
In this site there are the specifications of the international version of galaxy s, and you can see it does have 2g 850 connection... And about digital tv, what do they mean by that?
maverickzero said:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s-3115.php
In this site there are the specifications of the international version of galaxy s, and you can see it does have 2g 850 connection... And about digital tv, what do they mean by that?
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Can you read? Where has anyone even mention 2g! We are talking about 3G!
Sorry if I sound harsh, but it annoys me when people don't take the time to actually read what a posts says. 3G! not 2G!
And if you're wondering why anyone cares about 3G 850 is because AT&T uses it among other carriers.
The.Opethian said:
What about the battery life?!
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well.. i think anyone smart enough to watch the world cup, or whatever the next big event is, should be smart enough to keep the USB plug nearby
INeedYourHelp said:
Can you read? Where has anyone even mention 2g! We are talking about 3G!
Sorry if I sound harsh, but it annoys me when people don't take the time to actually read what a posts says. 3G! not 2G!
And if you're wondering why anyone cares about 3G 850 is because AT&T uses it among other carriers.
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My bad... Guess it doesn't really matter for me, since I live in europe.. And yes after I posted I saw that you meant 3G and not 2G, but it was too late...
INeedYourHelp said:
the international i9000 doesn't have 3g 850 (it has 900 instead of 850). Also, the digital tv thing will only work in brazil due to their tv infrastructure (from what I've heard).
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yup, they share the same Digital TV infrastructure as Korea,
but the Korea version is all Asian language, so... no one will understand crap which menu option does what
i wonder if you can flash a Brazil ROM into the Korea phone?
according to their website, it's totally different series Korea SHW-M110S vs GT-i9000 Brazil
http://kr.samsungmobile.com/product...100001&pdMaster=&shape=all&imgMenu=9&onPlay=N
but spec wise it's the same as the Brazil one
AllGamer said:
Check out their specs:
http://www.samsungmobile.com.br/telefone-celular/samsung-galaxy-s-especificacao
Digital TV = Yes
3G = 850/1900/2100 YES!!!!!
OMG!!!!!! i so want to get the Brazil GT-i9000 model it's so sweeet!
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Price: US$ 1400 = NNNOOO!!!!!
BTW: Brazil DigitalTV uses a modified Japanese Standard and it doens't work with any other Digital TV Standards. I doesn NOT use Korean infrastructure.
BTW2: It looks li it will only have 8GB version. Also wi-fi b/g only. No "n"
AllGamer said:
yup, they share the same Digital TV infrastructure as Korea,
but the Korea version is all Asian language, so... no one will understand crap which menu option does what
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It's called Hangul, which I had to learn to read in order to learn Korean
AllGamer said:
i wonder if you can flash a Brazil ROM into the Korea phone?
according to their website, it's totally different series Korea SHW-M110S vs GT-i9000 Brazil
http://kr.samsungmobile.com/product...100001&pdMaster=&shape=all&imgMenu=9&onPlay=N
but spec wise it's the same as the Brazil one
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I think the DTV specs are different between Brazil and Korea. Korea uses DVB-H, while Brazil uses some wierd standard called ISDB-T.
AllGamer said:
yup, they share the same Digital TV infrastructure as Korea,
but the Korea version is all Asian language, so... no one will understand crap which menu option does what
i wonder if you can flash a Brazil ROM into the Korea phone?
according to their website, it's totally different series Korea SHW-M110S vs GT-i9000 Brazil
http://kr.samsungmobile.com/product...100001&pdMaster=&shape=all&imgMenu=9&onPlay=N
but spec wise it's the same as the Brazil one
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Korean version has 2 languages, Korean and English. I use English about 98% of the time, I'll flip it over to Korean for voice search in Korean (I really think I shouldn't have to do that, but that's Android) and for my friends to play around with.
TravUK said:
Korea uses DVB-H, while Brazil uses some wierd standard called ISDB-T.
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sounds remarkably similar to the good old ISDN standards for better than dial up model connections
taking a guess it might be a modified version of ISDN for TV over the air
Dandarebr said:
Price: US$ 1400 = NNNOOO!!!!!
BTW: Brazil DigitalTV uses a modified Japanese Standard and it doens't work with any other Digital TV Standards. I doesn NOT use Korean infrastructure.
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$1400? LOL! They can't be serious.
INeedYourHelp said:
$1400? LOL! They can't be serious.
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IPhone goes for similar prices, it's due to three things, last just being a rumor:
taxes
*competition/market size for high end phones @1000 you wont have many *customers (percentage of population-wise), adding an extra 400 won't cost you that many but will raise your profitability by a lot
*bundled services (rumor)
Maybe the needed hardware (except the antenna... obviously) is already in the rests of galaxy s's? Someone has compared the disassembly of both versions? Maybe it can be activated some day lol
If it's in there, hope it is dvb-h (i'm in europe)
this price is not uncommon at all here in brazil. All no-contract phones goes around 1000 US$.
I have tested the brazilian galaxy s and tv reception is fantastic. Worked flawlessly inside a shopping center.
Here in Argentina either. I bought my unlocked SGS (european version) for 900 bucks.

[Q] My G2 is running EDGE only...

hello, i just bought a week ago and htc g2/ vision, had it unlocked so i can have another sim card thats not tmobiles in.
i live in el salvador and my carrier is tigo and calls are perfectly fine and all but data connections are only edge! and i have no idea why??? i also have a x10 mini and i use the same apn and it connects to 3g
anyone know why and how to fix it?
nonione said:
hello, i just bought a week ago and htc g2/ vision, had it unlocked so i can have another sim card thats not tmobiles in.
i live in el salvador and my carrier is tigo and calls are perfectly fine and all but data connections are only edge! and i have no idea why??? i also have a x10 mini and i use the same apn and it connects to 3g
anyone know why and how to fix it?
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Did you check to make sure what GSM frequencies the carrier uses (sorry not familiar with El Salvador)? This sounds very similar to people trying to use G2's on AT&T / iPhones on T-mobile. Not all GSM carriers use the same frequencies for their service. If voice is working, but 3G data is not, this is very likely the issue. For example, AT&T operates both 2g and 3g on 850/1900, whereas T-mobile operates 2g on 850/1900 and 3G on 1700/2100; hence why voice and Edge can work, but 3G cannot.
Poking around a little, the X10 mini world phone version has an 850/900/1800/1900 for edge and 1900/2100 frequency radio for 3G data connection, although there are AT&T versions with slightly different bands too, which you may have I'm not sure.
The G2 runs on T-mobile in the US and has a 850/900/1800/1900 for edge and 1700/2100 radio for 3G data.
All according to Wikipedia from what I can scrounge up right now.
BTW I feel proud that I did this research lol. Enlightening.
I think tigo is at 850, is there anything I can do at this point?
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nonione said:
I think tigo is at 850, is there anything I can do at this point?
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no, you cant add more mhz bands. You should have checked this out before you bought it.
nonione said:
I think tigo is at 850, is there anything I can do at this point?
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If Tigo doesn't run 1700/2100 3g, there isn't anything you can do short of selling your G2 and buying a European Desire Z (same as G2) with the proper frequencies assuming you want the same type of phone. Shoulda checked this out lol just cuz it has a SIM slot doesn't mean it "just works" haha. sorry!
Hahah damn I'm screwed lol yeah I guess ill have to buy a european version I love this phone too much
Thanks a lot fot the help!
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Sell it, buy the canadian bell Desire Z (A7275) and you'll be fine. Its your only option if you want to keep the same phone with 3g data.
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Canadian bell that sounds easier to get ill look for it thanks
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nonione said:
Hahah damn I'm screwed lol yeah I guess ill have to buy a european version I love this phone too much
Thanks a lot fot the help!
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i didnt realize the euro version had different bands
Mog said:
i didnt realize the euro version had different bands
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Well the USA, Canada, and Euro ones all have different bands, depending on the carriers they are generally made for. The issue with the Euro ones can be that they don't come with English out of the box either
martonikaj said:
Well the USA, Canada, and Euro ones all have different bands, depending on the carriers they are generally made for. The issue with the Euro ones can be that they don't come with English out of the box either
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even the uk ones?
Mog said:
even the uk ones?
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Hm? Well yes the UK ones are made for whatever bands the UK carriers run on.
Just how hard is it to have a G2 world phone? Can you add all possible bands?
I believe that the Canadian/European Desire Z is the world phone edition which carries band support for all GSM bands. It is the USA T-Mobile G2 that carries support for the GSM bands specifically for the US market. Correct me if I am wrong.
Regards.
androidcues said:
Just how hard is it to have a G2 world phone? Can you add all possible bands?
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No, you can't just add bands to a phone.

Canadian Z owners

Anybody in Canada have the Xperia Z yet?
If you have the 6603 model (LTE capable) can you post how good the connection is?
Apparently 6603 will have problems with LTE and 3G networks here, hence why the Z is not coming to Canada.
ssj_jaypee said:
Anybody in Canada have the Xperia Z yet?
If you have the 6603 model (LTE capable) can you post how good the connection is?
Apparently 6603 will have problems with LTE and 3G networks here, hence why the Z is not coming to Canada.
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I do hope it works well on only band 7 on fido's network..as advertised.
Will let you know once I get it, hopefully in 2 weeks or so..
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Thanks.
I'm on Rogers currently, but will be switching to Telus next month.
Hopefully they work well too.
I am considering the 6602 model if that works flawlessly here as I do not care about LTE that much, though would prefer 6603 if it actually works well.
Hspa+ should work fine on Telus on 850 MHz but lte not.
Related to 02 version, imo, it's not worthwhile, I'd wait for the rumored 6606 supporting aws.
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millicent said:
Hspa+ should work fine on Telus on 850 MHz but lte not.
Related to 02 version, imo, it's not worthwhile, I'd wait for the rumored 6606 supporting aws.
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any rumored dates for the 6606?
I don't want to wait forever.... might as well get the HTC One or Galaxy S4 instead if we have to wait until April or longer.....
I just ordered the 6603 from Handtec UK.
Once it arrives I will also post results on LTE and 3G performance.
ssj_jaypee said:
I just ordered the 6603 from Handtec UK.
Once it arrives I will also post results on LTE and 3G performance.
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Why would you buy the 6603?
I am pretty sure won't work in Telus lte network.
I am quite at peace with the lack of Canadian lte bands but I am ok with fido myself..
As rumors go, the 6606 will be here in march.
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millicent said:
Why would you buy the 6603?
I am pretty sure won't work in Telus lte network.
I am quite at peace with the lack of Canadian lte bands but I am ok with fido myself..
As rumors go, the 6606 will be here in march.
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Couldn't find the 6602 anywhere to purchase and not enough info on the 6606.
I'll be furious if Sony actually release the 6606 next month.
They are really doing a poor job handling the information and distribution of this phone.
Is the 6606 even official?
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Is the 6606 even official?
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It's on the list of PS certified devices in the US along all other Z models. And some insider info confirmed it's coming to the US (most likely ATT) and thus Rogers will have it too, as usual.
Patience is virtue.
ChrisMCP said:
It's on the list of PS certified devices in the US along all other Z models. And some insider info confirmed it's coming to the US (most likely ATT) and thus Rogers will have it too, as usual.
Patience is virtue.
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Ok. I did hear about the 6066 as being PS certified, but never heard anything official. Then what will happen to the ZL, which is coming to a good handful of our carriers?
I'm hoping the aws version comes to canada..or if wind mobile gets it
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ChrisMCP said:
It's on the list of PS certified devices in the US along all other Z models. And some insider info confirmed it's coming to the US (most likely ATT) and thus Rogers will have it too, as usual.
Patience is virtue.
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Lol patience.
HTC and Samsung will have their flagship phones out before Sony get their **** together.
ssj_jaypee said:
Lol patience.
HTC and Samsung will have their flagship phones out before Sony get their **** together.
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I think iphone 5s will be just around the corner when sony gets its **** together... in canada

[Q] Why can iphone 5s from HK use TD-LTE of China Mobile but cannot N9005 from HK?

Just wondering why iphone 5s from HK can use TD-LTE of China Mobile but Note3 N9005 from HK cannot?
spasspas said:
Just wondering why iphone 5s from HK can use TD-LTE of China Mobile but Note3 N9005 from HK cannot?
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Well, I think I read something about carrier support for the iPhone for this kind of LTE. But actually, this sounds a little like "why can a Ferrari go faster than a Toyota compact car".
Mikegrmn said:
Well, I think I read something about carrier support for the iPhone for this kind of LTE. But actually, this sounds a little like "why can a Ferrari go faster than a Toyota compact car".
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So did you just mean it is a hardware problem? Perhaps the iphones support TD themselves. But in my view, MSM8974 of Snapdragon Series should support all kinds of LTE as what they peacock before, I don't know whether there is someone really good on "unlocking" the ability of that.
spasspas said:
So did you just mean it is a hardware problem? Perhaps the iphones support TD themselves. But in my view, MSM8974 of Snapdragon Series should support all kinds of LTE as what they peacock before, I don't know whether there is someone really good on "unlocking" the ability of that.
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I'm not saying that it's the hardware. But search the internet for something like iPhone with LTE is coming to HK or so. I think I read that it's depending on whether the carrier supports it and has the network available for it.

Sony launches 'updated' Xperia Z1 in China

http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/12/1...ches-in-china-as-the-xperia-z1-l39t/#comments
Big changes:
-aluminum frame replaced by chrome plastic frame
-No microsd support, default 32GB storage in device
-Different placement of headphone jack
Internals are all the same. This is believed to be the Z1s 'refresh' that people were talking about being released. Looks like an inferior version of the current Z1, albeit a little bit lighter.
The most important thing is support for LTE-TDD I think as I can't open the link now.
And another why you guys focus on the Z1's follower, at least SoC or some more important things added like nexus 5's Senors batch access. Other small change not a big deal for sell the phone in your hand and get a new one.If Sony begin the rule in world like in Japan, the phone will refresh 3 months, and what, told yourself I must get the new one?
Sorry for the last part but can't stand for some guys wish to ruin such a good phone.
it is just a variant rather than "updated" Z1. it is almost identical with just minor changes rather than improvements.
This is just the China Mobile variant of the Z1, nothing more. China Unicom's version was the L39, this will be the L39t. China Mobile runs their own proprietary version of CDMA and this device will be compatible with their TD-LTE bands. If you live in China that's a great thing, outside of China this will only work on 3G bands.
jlevy73 said:
This is just the China Mobile variant of the Z1, nothing more. China Unicom's version was the L39, this will be the L39t. China Mobile runs their own proprietary version of CDMA and this device will be compatible with their TD-LTE bands. If you live in China that's a great thing, outside of China this will only work on 3G bands.
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I just got the L39t and i am outside china, i can use it with TD LTE/ FDD LTE /WCDMA / GSM
however, all the existing root method are not applicable to this variant Z1 L39t
Probably the interior is not same as the normal version
But... what's the purpose??
KWOKSFUNG said:
But... what's the purpose??
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Maybe when US version Z1s have root, it'll work for China version also?
People in China must be pist off with no sdcard slot.?
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epsix said:
Maybe when US version Z1s have root, it'll work for China version also?
People in China must be pist off with no sdcard slot.?
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I'm quite sure that it wont be a hard job if those chinese want to get the international c6903
btw, was it c6906 or c6943 in america?? they can be rooted
epsix said:
Maybe when US version Z1s have root, it'll work for China version also?
People in China must be pist off with no sdcard slot.?
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For the China version Z1 L39t, its only Android 4.2.2 while other version of Z1 is 4.3

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