Major Sony Xperia Z Ultra firmware update brings support for the mobile X-Reality engine, adds new features

posted by Chris P. / Aug 28, 2013, 10:01 AM

Major Sony Xperia Z Ultra firmware update brings support for the mobile X-Reality engine, adds new features

A new 14.1.B.510 major firmwareupdate for the Sony Xperia Z Ultra (C6802) has started rolling out in the Asia-Pacific region, and it brings along some overdue goodies.Among these are support for Sony's highly touted mobile X-Realityengine, which promises to increase the overall playback quality oflocally-stored media, such as photos and movies, by adjusting thelevels of sharpness, saturation, contrast, noise-reduction and evenreproduction of lackingpixels. The rest of the reported improvements and new featuresinclude:

Overall performance increase and improvements in battery life
New stock widgets – Clock, Alarm Clock and Calculator among others
Multiple small apps can now be opened at once
Refreshed design as far as the messenger and e-mail apps are concerned
Superior Auto mode added to the camera appearance
One-handed text input now possible
Background UI has gone white-grey

The update measures at 770MB, andyou'll need to use Sony's PC Companion suite to download and flashit.

New Sony Xperia Z Ultra firmware

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9 Comments

1. Amir1 unregistered

x-reality is already awesome screen, sweet, but should have come with its release, sony, wake up.

posted on Aug 28, 2013, 10:20 AM 0

6. Feanor

Posts: 1420; Member since: Jun 20, 2012

I agree. Obviously this built is the one that will debut in the forthcoming Xperia Z1 too and it was meant for the Z Ultra too, but Sony rushed the Z Ultra in order not to have these models presented too close to each other. This means that the Z Ultra debuted with half-baked firmware. Not so nice.