This must be a huge faulty batch - there are complaints from all over the world! I have asked Tesco to replace this thing with a proper (non-Android) phone - I don't trust any replacement coating to stay on for very long and in any case I feel swindled as the description doesn't match the goods. Possibly the worst thing is the quite disgraceful camera, but also there is a range of things that look pretty but are completely useless in practice, for example:
wi-fi direct which apparently you need to operate through another application, but even that doesn't work,
android beam - what's that all about?,
NFC - works with youtube links but nothing else. If you try to 'port' a photo or video it thinks it is an app and opens up google play.
Connectivity - it says that 'media content is published to the network', but the only way I have found of accessing this is through Windows media player, but it is so slow that it is quicker to take the memory card out and use a flash drive. If I try to access music that is on another device using the 'walkman' I can see the name of the device, but it always says 'please try again later'.
'screen mirroring'/Sony Facebook integration/PlayStation Certified - eh ????
Another major annoyance is that there doesn't seem to be any way of keeping the volume at a stable level - the volume button on the side is easy to press and I have missed lots of calls as a result, or if I am watching something on youtube and turn the volume up or down this also affects the ringtone volume.
etc., etc. - I've tried to apply them all in some useful way, but without success.
It is all round an awful, awful 'phone'. My wife's Galaxy SIII has similar features but they seem to work better, but still not perfectly. I have really tried to understand these features, but I have given up hope as nobody on this forum really knows and Orange just say 'nobody uses that' when I call their technical line - the peeling back cover is just the final straw.
