Sony’s 2013 flagship will have a glass-back, is this a deal-breaker for you?

if back glass strong as dragontrail it will be nice

So nice. Can’t wait…yes with the Xperia V which will replace my S.

Yes, it’s Sony after all.

Glass-back can be a deal-breaker for me. As well as silver-painted pseudo-metal parts or lack of camera dedicated button. I mean cmon – when I see this kind of design solutions, I just want to magically transport into Sony’s Design Manager body and fire half of my team.

Yeah, it is… Will not buy it if back will be with glass…

Will keep my TX until something more user friendly will be released.

By the way, some recent Xperia models and leaks like this show that Sony started to lose its design edge. Most of their new phones look alike too much with each other and with the competition, being simple rectangle boxes and having no distinctive exterior design features. They need some more bright ideas, like the light strip on Xperia S et al.

I actually don’t mind it as long as they remain unique and elegant :/

We “use” a mobile phone, not to carefully holding something with fragile and hypocritical called-fashion.
Before creating and selling useless designs, you should know how to choose them.

Xperia S wit its NXT Designs beats all being a mile stone. Also yuga glass-back look stylish but it would be good if that would be accompanied with rubber edges. Big aluminium round power button looks very great, and makes good overall impression (especially with 5FHD,Quad, and should be 2GB ram and Exmor RS)

But arc design in so many models. In style Arc succesor is XT and stylish succesor for X10 is well known XS! i see it like this. Hope new designs or improve NXT, or more glass i dunno

den v will b outdated

Absolutely a dealbreaker for me, it’s terrible design.

I’ve dropped my orginal Xperia arc onto the floor 3-4 times already with the only result being that the back came off and the battery catapulted out. No damage.

With a glass back I’d likely not be as lucky.

Indeed mine was dropped about 8 times already (clumsy), few dents on the edges can be seen but no biggie. If it was made of glass I doubt It could survive, thus I’m very skeptical about that glass back of the Yuga. . .

‘dragontail’ glass or not, no phone should have glass as a back cover… at least.

It’s Dragontail glass, so no.
What will be a deal breaker for me though, is if it has a puny little battery and below average battery life. I want class leading battery performance from Sony, like the Sony from the 90s.

It’s good. No issues at all. At least for me.

Omigosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The King is coming back.

hope it has led bar ? 0.0

no problem at all. do you actually think they would put fragile lame glass as a phone’s back cover? come on, be grateful a bit . they have a reputation at stake. from most the phones out there, what I love about Sony’s phones are definitely their sophisticated designs. just buy active if you’re the type that drops phone often.

I drop my phone more than I can count, so… glass back is no, the front glass is more than enough risky to me.

and NOW after my post A15 is old news according to this http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/Allwinner-A20-A31-ARM-cortex-a7-processors/

I have the GX (since early August) which is the same as the TX but with LTE and it’s largely quite good and looks great… too great to put a case on it…. so I’m glad it doesn’t have a glass back yet is rubbery textured (feels a lot better in hand than shiny plastic)

Most issues on the phone can be resolved by rebooting (like most android devices) except the the camera performance in low light or even somewhat low light where it becomes incredibly sluggish, takes a long time to take a photo, and is too difficult to take a quick photo in a situation.

you should research a little bit first before you post or write your opinion. do you even have a clue how tough a dragontrail glass is?

Sony is the best….shit Apple ändern Samsung

Is this make by glass back,
Then will be like( No microSD card slot, no versions with more storage, Non user-replaceable battery)is same like iPhone and nexus,OMG,sony pls,don make like that,my first phone is K810i,and X10,third is ARC,after updated to ICS android vision,is very lag,but this year 2012 sony phone really disappoint,all is dualcore,so i sold my X10.and i buy Galaxy S3.NOW IM WAITING NEXT YEAR SONY WILL REALISE HIGH END SMARTPHONE ALSO CAN FIGHT OTHER SMARTPHONE.

for me it is more than enough, i just dont want a samsing wong guy to tell me his phone is better.

Not unless it’s made out of Gorilla Glass =)
I know my previous N8 had scuff marks all over. Yes, managed to drop it so badly that it made dents all over certain areas of the aluminum. Yet the screen is still brand new and scratch free =)
My current Xperia S is 10 months old, had a small dent on the top left conner from a drop. No scratches on the screen so far =)

Though having Gorilla Glass on the front and back PLUS it’s a Sony, is gonna make the device bloody costy $_$

Because the glass used on existing glass-backed devices isn’t tough enough?

The problem isn’t scratches or tensile strength, it’s the fact that glass is inherently prone to /shattering/ in ways plastic is not.

The deal-breaker is lagdroid, not the glass

One of news i got for 2013 SONY ROAD MAPS … seems intresting

dude that’s just the name for their chipsets they’re still armv7. a15 architecture is still the newest one around

well the glass used on previous devices were not dragontrail glass.(iphone’s case). that’s a fail on their side.

if you ask me, plastic breaks/scratches more easier than dragontrail glass. you should check out the youtube video for xperia active so you’ll have an idea how tough this glass actually is

I confess I’m not an expert but until proven otherwise I’m going to assume that any glass shatters more easily than plastic.

Like I said, it’s not a question of scratch-resistance or tensile strength – in those cases I’m sure hardened glass will do better.

> glass-back, is this a deal-breaker for you?

Was it a deal-breaker for those who purchased the Apple iPhone 4/4S?. NO they stood in line for days to buy it and WE heard how GREAT its was for a very long time, even after ‘Antenna-gate’ (REF: http://www.cultofmac.com/190499/why-apple-is-killing-off-the-bumper-and-why-you-wont-need-a-case-for-your-iphone-5/).

Many things are made of glass nowadays, Shatterproof Windows (which withstand Sledgehammer attacks), Car Door Windows which withstand years of the Car Door slamming, they even make bulletproof Glass (what they make that of I will leave for you to guess).

Obviously they know enough to use scratch resistant glass otherwise we will have Screen Protectors on the back instead of the front of our Phones. Just because another Company did not test their design sufficiently does not mean that the rest of us can not learn from their mistake (otherwise what would the basis for your question be).