Sony Xperia 1 II Review By PhoneArena

This is the Sony superior one mark to Sony's best phone for the year? It has sleek lines, slim and elegant profile, and it's narrow, so you can easily grip it with just one hand, but make no mistake. It's all about that camera Sony brings technology from its professional cameras and photos from the Sony Xperia one mark to look amazing. So should you switch to a Sony phone in 2020, hello internet? My name is Vic with phone marina and after using the Xperia 1 mark 2, as my daily driver I have grown to appreciate that camera. Yet at the same time, I think Sony missed a great opportunity to make this something even better. Here's what I love about it. First, it's impossible not to notice how narrow and tall this phone is.

It really stands out in a crowd, and you wouldn't believe that such a narrow phone is a 6.5 inch display, and that, of course, is because of the 21 by 9 aspect ratio for the screen holding. It feels like you're holding a TV remote, not a phone by the way, consider subscribing to our channel fold Arena to be the first one to get new videos as hugely appreciated, so be extra tall. Furthermore, it sticks out of pockets, but this is common trouble for folks who want the phone with an Excel in its name. What's not so common is just how lightweight it is. The phone is nearly 20% lighter than an iPhone Pro max or a galaxy ultra, and that's a welcome improvement.

It uses aluminum for the frame and glass on both sides, so it looks stylish and build quality. Well, but quality is not quite perfect, knock it and the font is hollow on the inside. Now, if you break her with something you notice what else It's ip68 rated, meaning it's well protected from water, which is nice, oh, and you have an LED notification light. How cool is that buttons are, on the right hand, side, the fingerprint scanner is actually built in the recessed power key and the volume keys are just above it, and you have a dedicated camera shutter button, a signature Sony touch such a position makes it harder to press and just find by touch, but that's a necessary compromise because of that fingerprint reader. The other buttons also don't feel quite as click and responsive as on rival phones.

So what about that fingerprint scanner? Honestly I, don't like the position, it's a personal opinion, but here are my reasons. First, that's where my thumb is. When I put the phone back in my pocket. This means that every time I put it back, I'm not quite sure if I hadn't accidentally unlock the phone while putting it back in the few times, I didn't lock it just by accident and stayed unlocked in my pocket. Second is combined with the power key, so he cannot just press it once to see your lock screen.

You risk unlocking the phone directly now you'll learn to live with that, though, and the sensor works accurately most of the time, but it's not quite perfect. I also miss not having any form of face recognition. Most of all these days do, and it's a strange omission. Ok, let's jump to the screen, because that one is special rush, AMOLED colors 4k resolution, the highest of any smartphone, and you might be wondering whether 4k even makes sense on such a tiny screen, and the difference is indeed very subtle. But if, like me, you read a lot in bed with the phone just inches away from your face.

You will appreciate it. Sony also says this screen has been calibrated to deliver amazing colors and that might be true for movies and for Netflix, but out of the box colors and the YouTube app did not look good at all. They appear too dark and lifeless lacking saturation and I had to manually, go and disable the creator mode and tweak the display to get better colors, which is not something you're supposed to do with a phone I. Do, however, like the 21 by 9 aspect ratio, it's completely uninterrupted by punch, hole or notches, and it's just a nice cinematic experience for video. One thing about this screen, however, is that it just doesn't get bright enough outdoors, that's quite annoying.

It makes taking falls outdoors or reading something so hard. We measured the maximum brightness of all phones that we test and the Sony scored maximum brightness level of 539 nits, while the iPhone 11 Pro mass, for example, scored 802 minutes, there's nearly 50% higher brightness. You can tell both the brightness on the Sony also doesn't work and on Galaxy phones or iPhones. The default is slow to respond to changing light and oh yeah, no fast refresh rate here either I would have loved to have at least a 90 Hertz option, but alas, Sony didn't include that one more thing that's been driving me crazy with the Xperia is the haptic feedback. The vibration motor here is just too weak.

Nothing like the amazing vibration you get on Google pixels or the tactic engine on iPhones. This doesn't sound like a big deal, but if your phone buzzes all day with notifications, you quickly notice it okay, but what about the performance? The phone comes with the powerful Snapdragon 8:6 5 chip, 8 gigabytes of RAM and a whopping 256 gigabytes of on-board storage, which is double down on most phones. It's just really impressive, and you also have removable storage via micros cards. The phone runs well, it's fast. It runs without much of a hiccup I played Call of Duty mobile, which comes pre-installed on the phone, and it all runs well, but I did notice that the phone runs quite hot and sometimes even with casual use.

The phone got too hot. I was also surprised to see a warning that the phone may overheat with 4k video recording. It hasn't shut down on me, but it definitely gets a bit hotter than other phones. So what about the user experience? Sony is known to leave Android pretty much as it is clean. Software and death be good as there is no bloatware, no duplicate apps, but some important features are missing and bugs haven't been ironed out completely.

For example, while scrolling through my Facebook, newsfeed music from Spotify, would constantly be buggy and interrupt, there is no way to set dark mode, for example, to turn on automatically at night as it should. There is no native screen recording feature and the gesture navigation was buggy, especially in landscape view and I had to switch back to using the button navigation. Now, the major added feature by Sony here is called site sense, which is supposed to work with a double tap: a double tap, a double tap on the side of the screen or a swipe up and down along the side, but it simply refuses to work most of the time as you just saw or works when you don't expect it. Of course, none of these things is a deal-breaker. You can easily disable site sense and just use the phone as regular, but you don't see this kind of issues on other phones, and we can and should expect better out of a phone that cost as much as this here Opera.

Next up, let's talk about the camera. This one is interesting. I already told you that I love the images that you can capture here, they're, truly something special. Oh, the camera, app. The different modes are positioned in weird bubbles.

There is no automatic night mode and just try zooming with the camera app. You can only zoom three times. Well, that's strange. Most phones can go to at least ten times room. Here's the trick to zoom further.

You have to first tap on the telephoto camera button, and only then you can pinch to zoom further, but then you cannot pinch to zoom out to the main camera or to the ultra-wide. This app is really frustrating. It needs a fix. You also have the pro apps here, one for photos where you can manually tweak Aida, so shut your, speed and other manual controls, and one for videos where you can apply custom looks again have full manual control. Those are good to have if you're a pro, but let's be real most of the time you don't want to deal with those complex controls.

You just want to take a picture anyway. What's cool with this camera is that it has excellent all the focus just like Sony dedicated cameras. It locks onto your eyes, if you're a closer or onto your face, if you're a bit further away and stays in focus, it's honestly kind of magical and quite useful, especially if you're shooting sports or action shots, but the images other Falls definitely should take notes. Colors here are beautiful, not overly saturated, as on many other smartphones. DJO is plentiful without any sign of artificial over sharpening photos.

Just look great, and you have that dedicated camera shutter button, if you prefer using that and that selfie camera that is often overlooked is absolutely brilliant here as well. Incredibly crisp detail, sharp images with impressive colors love, love, all of that, so in low-light the quality does drop a little and Sony doesn't have automatic night mold. So you have to manually turn it on for shots which quickly gets annoying. Quality at night is not quite as good as with most rivals doll and for videos you get 4k video recording, which has the same beautiful colors as the photos fast autofocus works. Well.

Finally, let's talk battery the Xperia Wan mark 2 features a four thousand William hour battery smaller than other big phones. The galaxy s 20 plus has a 40 500 William hour battery and the ultra has a five thousand William hour battery cell, but the Sony still lasts a full day quite easily in real life. I averaged around 6 hours of screen time and on our detailed battery test. The phone lasted 9 hours for YouTube video streaming on fire with the iPhone 11, Pro Max, and just slightly behind OnePlus phones. Yes, Samsung phones last a bit longer, but Sony beats the Google Pixel for Excel and the regular iPhone 11 this test.

Interestingly, on our web browsing test, the phone scored way below the average. So if you browse and read a lot online expect your battery to die faster, then there is fast charging. You have an 18 watt power, adapter included in the box, and it takes around 2 hours to fully charge the phone. That's just okay. As these days, many phones can get a full charge and half that time or even much faster.

The Xperia does support wireless charging as well, which is quite convenient, so we like that at the end of the day, the Sony Xperia 1 mark 2 excels at being a Sony stylish, often with a surprisingly great camera. Yet at the same time it never quite reaches out to be something better than a good camera in a sleek design. Sony doesn't bring any of the exciting new features in the Android world like fast refresh rates, fast charging or long-range zoom cameras. Us shoppers would also be disappointed to find support for 5g bands missing, and the phone cost a whopping $1,200 for that price. You do get a set of truly wireless here, but with early pre-orders bundled for free, but even this way the price seems way overboard, especially considering that you can get the OnePlus 8 with the same processor for just $700.

So there you have it. The Sony Xperia 1 mark 2 a phone with a great camera that could have been something much, much better. Would you buy a phone just for its camera? Let me know in the comments: do you like this new experiencing Sony has a chance in 2020 and that will do it for this video thumbs up. If you like and subscribe for more, my name is Vic. This is fallen.

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