SonysmartphoneLast featured May 2022
Sony Xperia 1 IV
Worth it if…Worth it, with caveats.
A thoughtful, media-focused flagship with a great 4K screen and speakers, but weaker camera processing, battery and software support than Samsung's.
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- Price when I covered it
- £900+
- Featured in
- 1 video · 2022
- Category
- Phones · Flagship
What I liked
- 4K display much brighter than last year
- great speakers
- headphone jack, microSD and shutter button
- top-class media experience
What I didn't
- camera processing lacks software intelligence
- dated camera app split across three apps
- battery around six hours screen on
- only about two years of updates
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“the xperia one mark iv has merit there are legitimate reasons why you might want to buy one”
“it's absolutely top-class media experience”
“it doesn't hold a candle to the intelligence of a mainstream flagship”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
0:00Is Sony finally better than Samsung?A thoughtful, media-focused flagship with a great 4K screen and speakers, but weaker camera processing, battery and software support than Samsung's.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Minimal
“you can tell that sony isn't playing the game of we've got to make sure our phone looks different every year”
▶ 1:49 - Camera nerd
“what you see is what you get”
▶ 7:00
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