Metal cases, fingerprint scanner on power button exactly where your thumb falls, nice performance, very good cameras and photo apps. Brilliant, fast, accurate GPS. But they are not even supported through two Android versions. They claim support for 2 versions and then don't do it,
Agreed. I had SEMC Xperia Play, came with gingerbread. They promised ICS and then never delivered. They did release a beta but it broke controller support (Xperia Play had a slide-out controller and came with a playstation game running in an emulator, and you could buy a few more titles.) The community got the controller working in ICS, but unreliably.
I learned my lesson in just one step and never bought another Sony device of any kind again, not even a receiver, those lying fucks. Byeeeee!