Speed and precision is everything with Sony's camera system and it makes a big difference. Sure, there are some differences beyond the screen size to get the price down, but the essence remains intact, and this phone arguably strikes a better balance between price and specs. It has an excellent 6. It also has a great triple-lens camera, with 12MP main, ultra-wide and telephoto lenses, plus a high-end Snapdragon chipset, and a decent build — which, thanks to the smaller size, is much easier to hold than the Xperia 1 II.
Read our in-depth review: Sony Xperia 5 II. The Sony Xperia 1 II shows the company listens to feedback, as it fixes some of the biggest issues of its predecessors while bringing a lot more to the table. The Xperia 1 II - that's 'One Mark Two', as Sony seems to have taken naming inspiration from its Alpha range of cameras - has an impressive 4K display in a resolution, three rear cameras that take great photographs, and a long-lasting battery that fixes one of the biggest problems with older Xperia phones.
Sure, the price is definitely on the high side, and the phone is too big for people with small hands an issue the Xperia 5 II fixes , but if these aren't problems you'll mind, the Sony Xperia 1 II is one of the best Sony phones around. Read our in-depth review: Sony Xperia 1 II. The loss of pixels meanwhile is unlikely to be noticed unless you have the phone pressed against your eyeballs, as at x you still get pixels per inch. And in most other ways the Sony Xperia 5 matches the Xperia 1 — it has the same aspect ratio that makes it great for movies, the same high-end Snapdragon chipset paired with 6GB of RAM, the same amount of storage, and the same triple-lens rear camera.
Plus, the battery lasts slightly longer and the price is slightly lower. Read our in-depth review: Sony Xperia 5. It didn't look like was going to be Sony's year after the poorly-received Xperia 10 and 10 Plus, but the company knocked it out the park with the Xperia 1. It's a true premium smartphone, that utilizes the best parts of previous phones and charges it up with improved specs in loads of areas.
The Xperia 1 has a screen, and now there's content to match. It's also got a dedicated film-making app for budding directors, that recreates the experience of using a Sony Alpha camera. On top of that you've got three powerful cameras, a cutting-edge Snapdragon chipset, and 4K screen.
Although it is definitely on the expensive side, it's close to being the best Sony smartphone you can get right now. Read our in-depth review: Sony Xperia 1. Tom's role in the TechRadar team is as a staff writer specializing in phones and tablets, but he also takes on other tech like electric scooters, smartwatches, fitness trackers and more.
North America. Sony Xperia 1 III. Specifications Release date: August Weight: g. Dimensions: x 71 x 8. OS: Android Screen size: 6. Resolution: x CPU: Snapdragon Battery: 4,mAh. Front camera: 8MP. Reasons to avoid - Tricky to handle, for some - No in-screen fingerprint sensor. Sony Xperia 5 III. Specifications Release date: April Dimensions: x 68 x 8.
Sony wasn't quite finished with phones in though, squeezing in the launch of the smaller Z1 Compact before the end of the year. The phone came with Android 4. Also notable was the 4K resolution video recording offered by the phone, a real innovation back in Our Sony Xperia Z2 review mentioned a lot of plus points, though the minuses included some bugs with that 4K video recording, and what we described as a "bezel-heavy design" compared with what other phone manufacturers were doing.
Sony's two-flagships-a-year approach continued with the arrival of the Sony Xperia Z3 later in , but there was barely any change from the Xperia X2. The IP rating went up to IP68, the battery got slightly bigger, a 32GB storage option was added, and the phone came running the newer Android 4. And that was it: this is one of the smallest upgrades in smartphone history. The cameras, processor and screen size and resolution were all identical on the Xperia Z3, so there really wasn't any need to upgrade if you had bought the Xperia Z2 a few months prior.
The design was improved slightly though, and the display got brighter. Read through our Sony Xperia Z3 review from the time and you'll see that we found ourselves rather impressed by the phone, even if it wasn't a massive leap from what had gone before. The premium design came in for particular praise, showing that Sony has always known how to make a decent-looking gadget.
The Z3 had both a Compact and a Tablet version as well — the full set. Again, the upgrade was a rather minor one, which is going to happen if you're releasing two flagships per year. The LCD screen was once again a 5.
In the end though, we concluded that it didn't have the "wow factor" we were hoping for. The next flagship that Sony put out in was the Xperia Z5, which at last gave us a significant upgrade, at least in the design — remember that if you changed your phone every two years, you would be four Xperia flagships down the line based on Sony's launch strategy at the time. This phone significantly improved the design of the Xperia devices, and was the first to add a fingerprint sensor, in the power button.
The rear camera did get an upgrade to 23MP however, and it's worth mentioning that there was also a Z5 Compact and a Z5 Premium with a bigger screen and bigger battery. Android 5. Our review of the Sony Xperia Z5 was full of compliments for the new design — with a frosted glass back and fewer flaps to protect the sockets from water and dust — and we also liked the new fingerprint sensor and the improvements in battery life.
The Z5 is definitely one of the better Xperia flagships we've seen down the years. And so to the Sony Xperia X, with Sony now apparently moving backwards through the alphabet for some reason. There was a lot of choice here, with a more powerful Xperia X Performance, a cheaper X Compact, and a budget Xperia XA launched at the same time — yes, we were pretty confused back then too. The rear camera was a 23MP module again, while the x pixel resolution LCD screen measured just 5 inches corner-to-corner this time around.
In the TechRadar Sony Xperia X review , the tweaked design and the camera software were two of the highlights picked out for mentions, though the handset ended up being rather underwhelming overall. The screen and the camera continued to be strong selling points for the Xperia phones, even as the line-up became rather needlessly complicated. In some ways it was the proper successor to the Z5, and it certainly came packed with power and functionality.
The phone came running Android 6. The 5. With a couple of flagship releases every year, plus plenty of other sub-flagship phones as well, it hasn't always been easy to spot where the upgrades have been in the Xperia series. Our Sony Xperia XZ review from the time commented on yet more design refinements and camera performance tweaks, while also mentioning how each Xperia flagship wasn't all that different from the one that came before it. There was a cheaper XZs and a more expensive XZ Premium with a bigger, higher resolution screen a few months afterwards too, as if there weren't already enough Sony phones to pick from.
The software jumped all the way to Android 8. The LCD display was — yes you've guessed it — a 5. Our Sony Xperia XZ1 review listed the display, battery, processor and camera as core elements that Sony had got right, but the phone didn't particularly excel in any area.
While this is the only entry in this list for , the Xperia XZ Premium and Xperia XZs mentioned above came out earlier in , rather than in with the Xperia XZ — so Sony wasn't really slowing down much. This time around Sony expanded the LCD display to 5.
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