[drfritznunkie]

Ditto. Small(er) phones are getting harder and harder to find. If I could find a phone the same size as my Sony Xperia Ray with upgraded guts, I'd be ecstatic.

Even so the G has been great for me as well. I hope the new one has a better camera, that's really the Achilles heel of v1.

[to3m]

Well, smaller is definitely relative ;) - I think the Moto G is still a bit large (maybe an inch or so too tall?). But it's definitely one of the better ones of a bad bunch. (And I agree that it's an excellent phone overall, which feels a lot classier than its price tag, and that the camera is... functional.)

(It's strange, but bigger-is-better really seemed to have permeated the Android market. Whatever happpened to the opposite mindset, the one that gave us stuff like the Nokia 8210? The size of friends' iPhones - particularly the 4s - had really seemed just right, and I was rather disappointed when shopping for an Android equivalent to find they were all anywhere from large to hulking enormous by comparison. Even the so-called "Mini" ones were no better, being generally only the tiniest bit smaller than their non-Mini siblings.)

[grakic]

Checkout http://legacyxperia.github.io for CM11 build for Xperia Ray. It will not get you better CPU or more RAM but new software feels better.

[commandar]

It's bigger than the Ray, but check out the recently announced Xperia Z3C. Looking like it should be a really solid phone.