Hot deal, not a big enough improvement over my current Z3 compact but still a nice price.

You can pick up the Z3 Compact for as little as £130 second hand. The improvements in this model are minimal - it still has only 2GB of RAM, which is fine but you'd have thought they could have put it in line with its bigger version and given it 3GB.

Basically it has a slightly better camera, no flaps on the USB port (although there is now no dock connector), a slightly improved - albeit maligned - CPU upgrade and a slightly less premium feel if you ask me.

If you really want one of these though, this is a good price - and coral is nice and funky!

Sony gives 2 years warranty anyway.

Seems to have expired, now showing £349.99

Completely in agreement with you about the size. If I want a large screen I use a tablet, laptop or desktop PC. For carrying around with me, I want a compact phone.

I'm currently looking at mobilephonesdirect, as they have the phone £299 simfree and then a Vodafone simonly deal (cashback) with 3GB data which works out at £6 per month. Yes there is the hassle of doing the cashback, but that's not a problem if you put a reminder in your calendar when it needs to be done.

Yup, very happy with it. Camera is superb, good battery life and a comfortable size phone.

Can't be doing with the current trend for phablets and this is the best "small" (see: normal size) phone out there right now.

The phone is £300 so contract is effectively £9.50/mo and for that's good for 2Gb of data on a major supplier.

Think this is a pretty good deal on contract

All sd810's are the newer version.

Oneplus also did "optimisation" such as no two cores next to each other can be loaded 100%... Well it doesn't work.

Just check out anandtechs thermal throttling graphs. It's still a problem. The oneplus 2 doesn't throttle as much as others but it still gets hot and performance isn't amazing.

Sd810 is quite simply a turd, you can polish it so much but it's still a turd.

http://anandtech.com/show/9878/the-huawei-mate-8-review/5

Sony also just announced an sd820 phone that is 5"...

It is a funny one this I have owned this phone for a few months, my perspective is slightly different. This phone is an investment that got to last me at least two years , it is powerful and compact. I wanted a small phone that I could fill up with tons of apps over the years. Considering it is the only small android option I think it is a pretty badass little phone. I think it is better geared to someone who loves productivity apps, a power user rather than a gamer

I would look at reviews for Simply Electronics first. I considered them, but decided it must be cheap for a reason after reading many bad reviews, with similar stories!

I considered the s6, but the less compact design, no sd slot, not waterproof and I don't think MHL support swayed me to stick with the Sony compact.

The screen on the S6 was obviously crisper, but it's good enough on the Sony and all the other features are more important to me than the screen.

The S6 is a great phone, but not better for my needs. Depends what you find useful I suppose.

That said, I wouldn't go with Vodafone for free.

That's a very good price and heat added, but it's slightly cheaper on Simply Electronics at £292.95. Is there any reason not to go for this over Tesco if you don't care about Clubcard points?

Edit: I see that the URL has been changed from what I typed in - is that a sign that the retailer isn't trusted by HUKD?

Coral .... so PINK then

Good deal but camera not as good as Sony make out

hot deal... because it uses the SD810, literally hot.

Don't buy it... MWC is tomorrow...

I'm on iPhone now but I was previously on the Z1 compact and I loved it so I can only imagine how much better this phone is.

Before anyone says: "Why didn't you get this one then?"
I like using all phone OS's, I just rotate each time I get a new phone. Next time I will be back to Android.

Does anyone know if this offer is available in-store? John Lewis have refused a price match because apparently, prices on the Tesco Direct website are independent to those in-store....

Yes we understood you don't like Sony phones 2 posts back.

Agree that it's not much of an upgrade from the Z3C and the really heavy discounting since release, while welcome, is a cause for concern as this usually suggests hardware issues like the LG G3/4. Worth a go though if you are looking for a compact and are still on the Z1C or an earlier smartphone with a smaller screen.

I was really looking forward to the z5 Compact, pretty disappointed with it when came out though. Normally phone designs don't bother me much but the Z3 Compact is much nicer to behold and I got one of them for £150 (grade B, but been great) from Smartfonestore instead.
It has shown me that whilst it is nice having the smaller size, I do prefer the screen size of the S5 which is just about perfect size for day to day use for me.

Hot deal, not a big enough improvement over my current Z3 compact but still a nice price.

I've had the Z3 Compact and the Z5 Compact, it's not worth the upgrade, currently... I'm hoping the imminent release of Marshmallow changes my mind.

Been after this for ages! :smile:

love Sony, I currently have z1 compact and due upgrade in March. I want the z5 standard size now I think....

great find, and best phone in its class, thanks OP

Mobile World Congress

​me too and screen super fragile, back to my motog all the way!

I've had 2 Sony phones, a budget one and a flag ship one.I won't be owning a third....

Fingerprint scanner works well, and it being combined with the power button is a good idea.

​u forgot the fingerprint scanner..
it's a good phone and the current model. hot deal

IIRC the resolution is lower so the RAM shouldn't be a problem

Still in a class of it's own.

Ive got one of these and it seems quite a lot of these (including mine) suffer from a problem with lag/random restarts, freezing. Hopefully will be resolved when marshmallow is rolled out for it next month. If the update fixes this it'd be a great phone. Good price.

been looking at this myself heat

Hmm, tempting but after being on the Z1 Compact since launch, I'm about ready for the step up to the regular sized Z5... any deals about for that atm?

Heat for the this though OP, if I wanted another Compact I'd be all over this!