Sony phones are like vehicles . Their designs are iconic and classy and you would stick to older ones cz they still look great. the z3 has the most beautiful & slim design the z5 premium has a mirror at the back lol the xz3 has a curved display Xperia 1 Cinema Wide screen
@@jakilahmoulien9070 I know right? I have had Xperia T, Z, and I'm using Z5 compact. They are all so beautiful and distinguishable. The first Xperia (S) still looks cool, too.
I agree I've had only Xperia phones because I'm loyal, I've had z1 compact,Xperia m2, Xperia z3 and Xperia Xz Only bad thing is the temperature thing, gets hot easier than otter device which makes the phone slow
@@anthonysteinerv yea sony mobile marketing have been terrible even for now actually, but for me it's good because all my friends will be shock when they see sony phones
@@nabilhakim8691 yup it's a great feeling to be different. I currently have my Sony Xperia 10 Plus and my coworkers with iPhones and Samsungs were amazed and curious about it when I showed them a few months ago
Sony did the side-mounted fingerprint for a while, so it felt weird to hear "some of them are doing the side one, Sony is doing the same" when I actually associate this concept with Sony haha
Due to Apple's patent in the USA they couldn't and still cannot implement their power button and fingerprint sensor as a single button on the side.. Apple patented the technology right after Sony announced a practical model in Japan. That's why now you have separate buttons for both power as well as FP.
@@vinaykumartn5573 why doesn't Sony integrate the fingerprint sensor with a dedicated shortcut button ( and patent it), that might be more useful and would be a great middle finger to the Apple patent application bot
@@vinaykumartn5573 Interesting, after your reply I read a little more about it online. I even found out that some models actually were built with the fingerprint sensor but they locked in the US like the Xperia XZ, you had to flash them to activate it. Damn.
Just support their products. But they need to drop prices - that's for sure. Keeping high prices at low-interest points always ends badly. And the companies always repeat that mistake.
I have used the Xperia E3, Xperia M4 Aqua, and now the Xperia XZ1. I must say that I dont feel like using no other phone other than the Xperias. Theres something soo unique that keeps me glued to them. The Xperias.
I agree, I got the Xperia E my first smartphone in 2013, then the XZ, I switched last year to a Zenfone 5z but I miss my Xperia, I bought a Xz3 and I really love it.
I'm writing with xperia1 after a vacation with a big family. They all have iphone x, I'm the only one with Xperia1 and xpera xz2. They stopped taking photos with their iphone. They were really surprised by the xperia photos. The display is big and really great 4k oled with a great sound. Netflix and RU-vid has a different feeling. Great quality, I had xperia since day one, no one broke. Great mobile never to leave sony
I'm loyal with Sony phones since SonyEricsson K800i ;] My first Xperia was SE X10 I also have PS4, Xperia SP, Z4, and now 1 (this) :p All great products except of slowest budget SP xdd
mhm this is what i would call the actual phone improvements, 4K Oled and 21:9 Aspect Ratio (also notchless) really does get you different taste of nowadays full of notch and shameful aspect ratios of this they still have their characteristics and i dont want them to lose it and blend, keep being stood out from the pack
@@92000 omg i hav sp too it really is slow ass phone since last update idk maybe around 2014 i guess.. phone gets slow when turn on wifi so i dont use it anymore for calling but rather for music listening only, i love those illuminating lights under the chin and use kinda like ipod i guess lollz
@@freedom24v86 because that's difference between Sony and Samsung about that.. Sony use push button + fps in one place (see Z5 'till XZ1 version) , Samsung just fps to open close
Sony started the whole portable electronics scene with the walkman back in the 70s' and from then on out, you didn't have a portable cassette player, you had a walkman, in the same way you didn't have a vacuum cleaner you had a Hoover. Sony deserves Utter Respect! :)
Back in the 70's thru the 90's yes for sure Sony's brand was top tier, especially their WETA TV's. Those 32" totally flat CRT's (look it up youngsters) where monsters.There was no competition in that price point. But now days Sony's brand has been smashed by Samsung and LG.
He has not mentioned RAW FORMAT noise reduction, your Samsung crap phones don't have that. Sony Bravia eye focusing, Ten shot a second burst mode and that is just to start. Sometimes I think you lot are PAID Samsung AstroTurfer :d
Starting up from Sony (cellphone then smartphone), tried an iPhone (for the camera and iTunes), get an OnePlus (admittedly hype), switched to Samsung (great specs on paper), and finally... coming back home for Sony.
Sony has LDAC which streams wirelessly at 24bit/96KHz 990 kbps with compatible Sony LDAC headphones, earbuds and speakers. Nobody else comes close to Sony in Bluetooth sound quality.
@@ClassicRedEye are you sure your phone needs to have Bluetooth 5.0? I'm using a s6 edge (with Bluetooth 4.1) on oreo and used my sony headphones with ldac
I got rid of my S10 once I have tried this beast. On that moment I remembered that we live in a world of propaganda. I had never seen a review that would convinced me to buy the Xperia 1. I had to try it by myself to know it. Don't let this RU-vid guys take decisions for you. They all get paid at the end of the day to tell what they have been told to do.
Do you think the new version of this phone (Xperia 1 II ) would last for at least 3-4 years? In term of longevity like Apple does. Because I am using Galaxy s8 now and wanna change it (I got it in December 2017). I was thinking about iPhone 11 because of the longevity and it doesn't start freezing after a year and half like my S8. Also S8 doesn't work with instagram. You take video for instagram story, it looks like it was taken with a damn calculator lol. What are your general thoughts about the phone? Pros,cons? Thank you very much in advance!!
@@lukmanulhakeemabang3078 He has never used a Sony phone nor has he reviewed one. He didn't know what to do for this review. No one is keeping the default sound. We'll customize it, that's why we paid the $900+. He didn't even cover the front camera yet he did for apple and them. This review was just lacking to be honest
i had the sony xperia z2. a perfect smartphone. now i use iphone because i realized that the software is the best thing ever happened to me. ios is the way to go. other companies must create their own OS for me to switch from iphone. its the perfect optimalization and constant updates and ios upgrades every year which makes the iphone feel brand new once again
@@Albanez39 I used them and there is nothing inovative about the Xperia 1 Wow it has bigger aspect ratio?? Wow, something no one alive wanted Please fuck of, this is a barely mediocre flagship at best The better question here is have you used actually good phones, because Sony hasn't made a single good one in 3 years
I loved all my Sony phones. Right from walkman series to the original Xperia Z. But after that i felt like they need to step up their game again. Good to see them back.
I have different feelings for Sony mobiles. Last time I loved one was a Sony Ericcson, before smartphones, that had really good music capabilities for the time. I had a Sony Xperia something 5 years back or so. Admittedly it was a budget phone, but still. The camera was amazing, but it had a tiny memory even for its time, and wouldnt allow installing apps on SD, so it was effectively a coffee cup holder with a good camera. Ten apps and it was full. Completely useless.
S7 edge user here my phone is the last one before Samsung went Insane and the only problem was the curved screen. Now we have Bixby buttons and no regular buttons the headphone jack is gone they changed the shape of the usb port for some reason and probably something else I'm missing
Sony never left. Had my XZ premium 2 years now and still slick as when it came out the box and getting a real 6-8 SOT on a full battery regularly. Not as many gimmicks as maybe Samsung but solid build quality and longevity. Great to finally see Sony get some recognition from bigger youtubers.
@@jlue1993 How does Samsung have gimmicks? When the Xperia has a 4k display which is a gimmick the human eye can not pick that up on a 5 or 6 inch screen.
That side mounted fingerprint reader has been with Sony for a few years now. This is nothing new, if the YT community pays any attention, they would know Sony has been pioneering things from waterproofing to fingerprints and cameras for all the manufacturers for a well over than half a decade now.
@@kapilbusawah7169 Kinda It's a patent by Philips that wasn't really aimed at phones that's causing the problem. But their phones are the only side mounted power + fps on the market
I actually really respect what Sony does with their phones. I’m not an android user but their phones have ALWAYS attracted me for some reason. Glad to see they’re still in this market with awesome stuff like this.
I only had two problems with xperia devices. 1 is the wi-fi problem WHICH happens even on their modern devices. 2. is their camera that they're restricting because it might hurt their camera department(which i doubt). Other than that, Xperias are beasts, I'm still using xperia z2 back from 2014. Still fast af with no lags (just heat and short battery life since 28nm chipset)
@@Miro. I kind of agree. Sony are last to the party when it came to shooting in RAW. Apparently the Xperia 1 is the first.. Never made sense to me that other phones had the ability, yet they used SONY sensors. Why deliberately shoot yourself in the foot like this? I know RAW is more for professionals, but SONY have always hyped their cameras on their phones. And let's be honest, they don't have the best image processing by a long shot. I came to the conclusion that SONY are only interested in selling their image sensors.
Sony has been making 4K display since 2016 in its Xperia phones. But this is the world's first 4K display phone with OLED. Pretty impressive and highly underrated in my opinion.
I've been using the Xperia z2 I'm writing from for the past 4 and a half years, and never got a problem. I only changed the battery after 4 years because it didn't last a full day anymore, but besides that it's the most reliable phone I've ever had
Xperia series has been the most underrated phone for the last 5 years, solid phones without throwing in all the useless "buzzword" trends and bragging about it.
There was once when Sony made solid phones like the Xperia Z and Z1. Then Sony made its downfall when the Z3 and Z5 devices launched. Until now Sony came back again.
Bullshit.I had the Xperia M4 Aqua,great phone but terrible storage management,and while the design was ahead of its era,the build quality was so low it couldnt protect the internals...
I've had my Sony Xperia Z2 for almost 5 years now and it still works incredibly well! Sure it's a little behind on technology, but it's still super usable, and the camera quality is still respectable. Sony is quite underrated in the smartphone game.
The only problems with like a Z3 is the fact it's glass back, glass front and really hard to swap the battery (+ the flap that makes your USB port and SD & SIM card slot waterproof becomes loose) But otherwise? it's a really nice phone.
I had the z3v and unfortunately It slid off my car and completely shattered. I got an xperia xz premium, loved the 4k display, and now my xperia one is shipping next week. Once an xperia fan, always a fan. Sony makes great devices
@@SpencersStuffTV Back when iPhone 5 was still a fresh thing, i actually replaced it with an Z3 Compact because i needed the tougher type of phone for a while and afterwards even though it served me well i sold it to replace it with a really, really cheap Galaxy S6, well, my operator effed me over with that S6 and didn't get me one so i had to take a Galaxy A3 (same price, you can get why i went for the S6, oh and S8 was like just announced and not even out yet at that point so S6 was really, really good value for that 200 or so bucks converted) But yeah, the worst part about the A3 was the fact it's camera broke from unknown reason, all i know is that the top glass was shattered and that i had to change it, replaced it with a Moto C Plus. Even though i've had an iPhone and a Samsung and a Moto, i still somehow feel that i should get an Sony but they're always either way too high in price or don't give a perfect value for what it is, granted there was XZ3 for half the price just now on sale but... yeah. From all my experiences, i'd say that a Moto is perfect budget phone, reputable brand, decent quality and all-around just works and you usually can get them with good sales so you can even get a 400 phone for 100 or less. Meanwhile, an iPhone is like a really easy to use simplified phone that just works, it's expensive AF but you pay for the ecosystem and usability comfort. Samsung (Galaxy more precisely) is pretty much the iPhone of Android, a flagship type of phone that usually mixes multiple good things into one but shows that the fact you have everything or almost everything means it will cost a lot of money or you will lose in other things like battery capacity and such, also the software is very heavy to run. However, even though those three are basically best of their worlds, what is Sony on the other hand? well, they have just as good internals as the other flagships and Sony is well known for their Audio, Camera and Screen technologies which are probably nearly the best you can get in same package, the fact why Oneplus 7 Pro for example is technically "better" at marketing is the branding and the fact they use the great cameras that are MADE by Sony, so basically all that Sony is left with is their great screen. I think it was Austin who started to state that the only thing that you pay for/get in a higher grade phone nowadays is a better camera and that technically is true.
I have a Sony Walkman. I don't know the name of the model but it's the one Star-Lord (Peter Quill) has in Guardians of The Galaxy and Guardians of The Galaxy Vol.2
Sony's problem along with HTC is they don't put these phones on carrier subsidies anymore. If they would offer these phones through carriers again, I think it would be a great contender.
My Sony Xperia XZ Premium has a higher pixel density 807 ppi. Me being a Sony user, so weird all the functions that i'm already familiar with that Lew isn't.
Either he forgot he never used a sony phone or what those looked like since there was never a phone frok sony, worth his attention or he just straight up lying that he knows what sony phones are like!
It actually is. I'm actually multi tasking a bunch on this phone, whilst I rarely did on my Note 9. I'm really happy I got this, though I do miss the spen at times.
The reason for the separate fingerprint scanner/power button implementation is due to a US patent that previously prevented Sony from having the fingerprint scanner enabled on their integrated power button/fingerprint scanning units on their Xperia lineup (such as the XZ1) in the US only. Sony changed to having the scanner on the back with the XZ2 and XZ3 before reverting slightly and making a compromise for the US market with the seperate implementation now found on the Xperia 10 and 1.
And the ironic thing about this is that the patent is owned by Apple. They don't even use fingerprint scanners anymore! Why would they own this patent? To scrutinize the others who actually want to make side-mounted fingerprint scanners?
GoldenRetroGaming Gaming Memes patents last for years and years regardless of whether you use the design or not. And deliberately holding on to a patent makes sense if you want to be prepared to use it again.
Sometimes Sony falls under the radar but they're so unbelievably reliable. They hardly slow after years of heavy use in my experience. Unfortunate that they don't get as much attention as they've also pioneered many incredible features. 4k screens, waterproofing etc. If im not wrong they were the first to do so.
Sony has the best screens.... No other phone can beat it.. Once you watch videos on a Sony phone..and then switch to another brand, you feel the difference a lot. Everything in Sony is about *Quality*,the screen, the icons, the letters, the pixels, resolution...everything . That's why when a person uses a Sony phone, will not change to another brand.
@@yumi8928 I had a z2 It lasted 3 and a half years with all the falls it took and one time it fell which wasn't so hard, so glass cracked couldn't do anything and the replacements are crazy expensive but if u ask me it's crazy good but I didn't upgrade to another Sony tho
@@ml3677 sure, I mean it's worth spending 999$ to have over 50 cans worth of aluminium as a stand you're welcome to go ahead and buy it (by the way it costs 20$ max to make)
My first device similar to this what's a CD player but everyone else around me had the ones that don't have a storage medium everyone called them MP3 players or iPods and if you had an iPod then you were an idiot and everyone else was an idiot for thinking you were cool damn iTunes
I have the Xperia XZ2 and that battery is complete shit. Also only had like 4 software updates in a whole year. Sony skimps on their phones. My phone even has wireless charging, but this new phone doesn't and it's 900+ dollars.
I have been a Sony fan since the Xperia z ultra. I now have the xz premium. It's pretty outdated compared to the Xperia 1 but one thing which is not are the dual front facing speakers. Once you have dual front facing speakers you just can't go back.
I have the Z5 and I totally dig the dual speakers aswell as the side mounted fingerprint. Both are must haves for me now, a shame that they dropped the sensor after Z5 and XZ
I love Sony mobile phones. They just mix up every of their products like their dslr, tv oled and their speakers which are massive to one device and name it xperia
Always been a Sony fan since the start, I remember my first, Sony Xperia Sola and how I've always wanted an Xperia Z or any from the Z series and all my friends going crazy about Sony, I'm glad they're making a comeback with the Xperia 1.
Your comment reminds me of my first love for a Sony Ericson T610! That is the 1st ever phone, if I'm not mistaken, that has a Bluetooth capability & a joystick of sort to navigate the phone! The battle was Nokia vs. SE at that time!
@@yengsabio5315 OMG yes, the T610, you won't believe back in '03 and '04, I was dying to experience and play a game using that joystick and thought how cool would that be. And yes sort off first in Bluetooth, color screen and more!
@@yengsabio5315 Whoa, yes the first one with a camera too and you're really lucky have to owned that phone, at that time, that was only a dream for me. I got my first Nokia C2-02 in 2012, off topic but true story
I have loved Sony phones for quite a while, until I got my Huawei Mate 9, The battery on Huawei phones and the fast charging is just RIDICULOUS man! Makes it so hard to switch to others!
Xperia! Thank you.. lot of people who r famous RU-vid reviewers chose to ignore Sony phones, and don’t review them though it’s definitely worth it.. Cheers mate
Don't use it like the way you use Samsung or One+ .Try the 3D creator app, Dive into Camera manual mode, Remote Play with PS4, Album app is slick Featured and simplicity, the Music app is amazing. The X1 will keep surprising you.
Thing is,people usually buy a Samsung or iPhone overpriced shit, because they like the non naturalistic colours and automatic mode to get vibrant non realistic pics, when instead if you put manual mode you can take way better pics
@@ChicanoCreator sound is louder now yet the quality of sound is still good. Pictures are sharper where as Z2 was soft but still produced beautiful pics. 4k no longer app but you can always turn on in settings. Side sense is really really useful for short cuts to recents... Reviewers are iffy on this but once you get use to the phone and double tapping the side's ain't that hard 🤦🏾♂️😂 When you get the phone let me know what you think 👊🏾
Who thinks the year 2016 was the gold era of unbox therapy? The moment this video is uploaded, I was scrolling through the old videos of this channel and they are still more exciting than newer videos
and that's a sh*thole honestly, I like the 4k idea but how z5 was built it's so messed up, even the earphone/audio drama that got never fixed because it's past 3 gens. No system updates after 3years btw. been a loyal sony user but that product is a total sh*thole, Wished I didn't buy that. But hey, CEO was changed, there were sad news about Sony not investing much to smartphones aspect of the biz, I really do hope they put more effort. Otherwise, their phones gonna s*ck while their other product are still at best.
@@chedmacr still using the Z5P. Still every shit works flawlessly. Sony messed the 4k switch timer in album in Android 6.0 and since then the 2sec switch time became 10+ sec. Battery didn't fail but I did replace it in 3 years losing the ip68. Only screens that are better than this are all from Sony. The one on xz2p and the one on Xperia 1. Only fault was using the awful SD810 which overheats and running this phone
@@amlan3669 Yeah but it isn't avaible everywhere in the z5 premium , for example in youtube the maximum resolution is 1080p and the only way to see it's native resolution is through the gallery by loading a 4k video, also it overheats very fast because of the Snapdragon 810 which isn't a good cpu for this resolution :/
I remember my first phone. It was a Sony Ericson Xperia Arc. It feels so nostalgic now to see Sony come back. Awesome work Lew. Really enjoy your work.
My older brother's Xperia Arc was the first android phone I ever saw and it was so damn impressive at that time♥️.And my first android phone ever was Sony Walkman W8.Feels nostalgic.
My girlfriend who is currently living in London just switch from iPhone after 8 years to the Xperia.. she loved it and now she's on pixel 2 and loves it more. Android is a major player these days. iPhone really needs to innovate imo
@@pranav3848 because Sony is what got her away from Apple (after 8 years)... That's important to anyone who realizes that apple is shit these days. Thanks for saying my story is cool tho man
I have one, too. Camera is not that good, imo, but the screen is awesome! I am having issues with wifi, it disconnects after some time and doesn't come back until I restart the phone. Did it happen to you as well?
@@diego750il Yes this happens to me, its like it disconnects then when i search for it, there is no wifi around i just switch off and on repeatedly and it comes back
