SonysmartphoneLast featured May 2020
Sony Xperia 1
I'd skip itI'd give this a miss.
Likeable in the hand with a tall display, but the camera is less reliable and battery life is weak.
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- Price when I covered it
- £900+
- Featured in
- 4 videos · 2019–2020
- Category
- Phones · Flagship
What I liked
- Generally good camera hardware
- fits well in the hand
- tall display good for feeds
- 4K OLED display
- Cinema Pro app
- cool ultra wide cinema-style display
What I didn't
- Confusing naming
- Near-identical designs for years
- Camera didn't take the best photos
- Poor review-unit PR
- unreliable camera
- weak battery life
In my words
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“the camera system is just not as reliable as Samsung or Apple's and the battery life is just weak”
“I just don't think this is going to become a mainstream format”
“for most content the screen space is just not being used very efficiently”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
15:5512 BRUTAL Smartphone Fails they want you to forget.Sony's confusing naming, stale designs, weak photos and poor PR earn it the worst fail score of 9 out of 10.
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1:29Top 20 BEST Smartphones of 2019.Likeable in the hand with a tall display, but the camera is less reliable and battery life is weak.
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2:58The Biggest Smartphone Unboxing EVER?The 4K OLED is impressive on supported content, but he doubts the tall format will catch on.
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0:32Top 15 BEST Smartphones of 2019 (Mid Year).He wanted to like the cinema-style display, but the screen space is used poorly and battery life looks weak.
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