Sony XPERIA 1 III: FINALLY a phone for ME! By JuanBagnell

Yeah, the timing on this one got all out of whack. My first video on the Xperia one mark iii is going to be a little more personal. Sony was kind enough to send over a loner back in May. In the middle of moving to the new gadget lab, I had to return it during the embargo window, which is totally normal for a Sony launch. I'm always appreciative getting to spend some quality time with one of these phones, but because of global component forces influencing shipping dates in different regions. The embargo was pushed back quite a bit so that early, hands-on, video I shot back in May is kinda obsolete.

If you're interested in a opera, there have been plenty of videos published breaking down that spec sheet, giving you some first impressions. I still, I still have the footage, so I might make a rough cut of that video and then put it up on the Patreon. I don't know. Instead, with a little more time and a little distance from the phone, I want to switch gears just a bit of talk about the Xperia 1 mark iii. In the context of me, one of my favorite topics, I'm frustrated that we seem to be losing the battle against features and the most expensive phones on the market are increasingly incomplete.

Like the idea, is you just spent a thousand dollars on a phone? You must want to spend more to get the rest of the phone and, along the way, they'll also cut out a bunch of stuff. You can't replace, I truly believe in pocket computers delivering a feature-rich experience that can replace a fair amount of laptop or desktop use. Phones like the lg v series, and these operas reinforce that belief. Phones that stand in direct opposition to the lazy notion that, even when we're spending on premium devices that people only care about the absolute lowest common denominator use, some people do want to spend a lot of money just on a label. I don't want to put those people down, but I'm making videos for the folks that want to do things with their pocket computers.

I, like phones, that have a specific feel. Furthermore, I shot a video about that. Where I wish we could talk about phones more like we talk about cars or laptops instead of generic, poorly defined price, tiers, flagship or mid-ranger. I wish we would divide devices into categories based on functionality, because nothing feels like a Xperia in a sea of all-rounder phones and fighting to hit lower price points. Removing hardware from the phones and pulling accessories out of the box.

Sony is delivering one of the last phones which really feels like it's. For me, when I get a new phone, I really try to use every part of it and over time I've grown accustomed to certain features that are hard to give up. Of course, there's still a bit of picking and choosing pros and cons, but so far the one mark iii feels like the most complete premium solution. It shouldn't be this refreshing to pick up an expensive phone and be able to plug in some decent headphones or hook up a mic to leave the USB port free or easily swap out a memory card, because you shoot a ton of video, I'm tired of pretending that those aren't features worthy of being on a premium phone. We have this renewed interest in lossless and high-res audio, but we've been hell-bent on killing the most accessible ways to play that audio and, at the same time, while maintaining these legacy bits, Sony is pushing the envelope in different areas than the tech competition.

The new 4k display is a stunning achievement. There's basically no compromise anymore. We have a pixel density that pretty much exceeds the human eyes ability to discern individual pixels at a person's minimum, focusing distance. If that person has better than 20 20 vision, there's nowhere left to go for phone resolution. It really can't get better than what we've got now better.

Still we get all those tasty dots at a higher refresh rate to smooth out our UI, and it looks fantastic for the games that do truly support it and better than that this isn't just 120 hertz. The mark iii can also further reduce motion blur through black frame insertion, so the phone is alternating between image and black frame at 240 hertz and even better than that. Still Sony has managed to bump up the brightness for color reproduction HDR and better outdoor viewability. There really is not a phone that can produce as crisp and as fluid an image with as few compromises. This is bleeding edge, display tech just becoming more accessible for desktop and gaming monitors at this resolution on a phone screen.

I really feel this is not going to get enough praise there. There truly is nothing like it on the market today, switching gears to chat about the cameras. I wasn't able to shoot enough to do a camera, deep dive and honestly, given the pre-release software, I don't think that would have been fair to the phone anyway. There are already deeper dives on the camera tech from people who more recently had their hands on the phone, but I feel I can share some thoughts. Sony is definitely prioritizing focusing and user control over some of the more crowd-pleasing juicy bright, HDR options, an iPhone or a galaxy s21 can feel snappy while focusing they use a similar sensor.

But nothing feels like a opera. I joke about this a lot, but it's true. The mark iii locks almost spooky fast on the eye of your subject. It took me all of I don't know 20 minutes, part of an afternoon to get a feel for the camera, and then you just trust it. All three sensors are snappy with dual pixel autofocus and no other phone feels as sure-footed, especially when you're trying to capture action and that speed is a primary camera feature like the burst mode in the photo pro app or clearing data off the sensor fast enough to shoot 120 frames per second 4k slow motion, video, a welcome return from the Xperia 1 mark ii, the major hardware improvement.

This generation is a dual stage: telephoto camera. Now, from my time using it, I think this is one area which could use a little more. Polish still. Sony doesn't focus on a lot of tricks like upscaling resolution that isn't there or tricking users in low light by auto swapping to the main sensor at the native optical focal lengths image. Quality is very good, but if you're used to being able to digital crop zoom, even farther the mark iii isn't able to resolve as nice an image at its farthest reach compared against some other premium phones, and while it's a smaller sensor than on a one plus, the ultra-wide is still a pretty good photography option.

But, given the horsepower on tap, I wish Sony had been able to maintain 60 frames per second 4k video across all three rear camera. Sensors I'll, never understand why it isn't more common to match the video quality on all the phone sensors and a quick word on the camera app. I understand why Sony added the auto modes into a basic mode, you know, reduce the trio of camera apps down to a pair of camera apps, but this is an expensive phone. So, taking a little of time to familiarize yourself with the more camera-like layout means you'll get a lot more of your money's worth out of it even shooting in green box full auto mode instead of basic techies act like it's so hard to get a good photo out of a Xperia when that green box mode is just staring them in the face who has time to adjust settings, I need my camera to it. Just works.

What did I shoot? This whole review on I'm using an a7s3 seriously? It's a silly complaint. The Xperia is as close to a standalone camera vibe, as you could possibly get from a phone today. Now wrapping this up talking about performance. Sony is handling this generation of chipset. Well, but again, my time was limited, and the software was likely not what consumers will be experiencing.

The snapdragon 88 is a thirsty chip that runs hot Sony is one of the best companies around for delivering advanced power and charging modes. HS power control should be a standard option on all phones, but it helps to use it here. I hope the power profile can be refined, with a few updates playing 30 minutes of undead horde on the mark, 3 with HS power control. The phone still ran pretty warm, and the battery drained more than running a similar test on the mark ii, where HS power control was able to float that battery just a little better. Every manufacturer this year has tackled the performance and thermals of this chip in different ways: CPU throttling GPU limiting, but I do like Sony's overall approach for power management and battery health.

This doesn't seem to come at any serious cost for performance. The mark iii is mixing it up well for video, rendering its kind of mid-pack for others. Similarly, priced phones, and it's near the top of my charts for file compression and photo editing which that shouldn't be a surprise that a Sony would be perfect at not only taking photos but also editing photos. It's almost like, if you buy the right tool for a specific job, you get a better experience out of it and that's the gig some great tweaks and refinements over the mark ii that Sony style. I've really come to enjoy a phone that feels unique, and it's built, it's obviously built to be a premium workhorse.

It exists in its own pocket of premium gadget, and it seems that tactic is working well for Sony sales manufacturing, smaller batches of phones means each region is going to be affected by global component and assembly issues, but Sony is not about over producing and letting phones sit on shelves eating those costs. So I'm encouraged by the early sales success and interest in this phone watching. Some of these videos really blew up it kind of messed up. My video production timeline, but the reactions to this phone now stand, in contrast to the folks making the same tired, hack, jokes and criticisms of Sony products. You know if it's bucking it up about how Sony's names are weird.

I mean like how do you even like to say the name Sony superior one. I I I. What did I shoot this video on yeah, I'm using an a7s3 yeah, that's really easy. The first number is the name of the camera, and the second number is the generation of the camera. You'd need to be functionally incapable of not understanding how pants work to not get that or the folks sure to complain about the price when it's perfectly competitive against.

Similarly, priced phones regardless, I think we found the phone of 2021. I like features, I use those features, and I'm happy to pay for features I'll use vote with your wallet shouldn't just be lip service. We throw into our reviews. We can't only mean it when it's safe to say nice things about a phone, that's already going to be search engine popular the announcement to shipping window got real weird, but that doesn't change how good the phone is in a challenging year for manufacturing and just starting to recover from the last year and a half, I'm going to be looking forward to getting my hands on a mark iii again I'll, of course, leave some links down below this video, where you can find more info on a Sony Xperia one mark iii, maybe shop, one of these bad boys online, as always folks, thanks so much for watching for sharing these videos subscribing to the channel supporting your favorite content creators never been more critical than it is today. So I greatly appreciate those of you who are checking out the description below clicking on some of those links or shopping a little merch.

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