Sony Xperia 10 III full review By GSMArena Official

Hey, what's up guys will here for GSM arena? This is Sony's new Xperia x3, oh, I mean mark 3. And it looks pretty much exactly the same as last year's Xperia 10 mark ii, there's more going on here. Besides the looks, though so, let's dive in and see what's new in our full review. If it ain't broke, don't fix, it said Sony. Probably the new Xperia 10 brings the same squared off glossy look as last year's model with gorilla, glass, 6 protection and a polycarbonate frame. Although the mark 3 is a little heavier, it still brings a pretty lightweight form factor they're, so similar I'll admit.

I had to double-check a few times to keep track, of which phone was which you even get the same premium ip68 rated water resistance, even though the Xperia 10s are mid-rangers, not flagships on the front is a 6-inch OLED screen with a tall 21 by 9 aspect ratio, a 1080p resolution and gorilla glass, 6 protection. The bezels are a little thinner this year, but the difference isn't night and day despite the popular trends, Sony hasn't bumped up the refresh rate. This time around. You get the standard 60 hertz. This display is decent.

Of course the sharpness is good, and you get the deep blacks typical of OLED technology as well as HDR support, but sunlight legibility leaves more to be desired as max brightness is on the lower side for this type of panel 350 nits, with a manual slider and 560 nits in auto mode, when in bright conditions, colors can be tweaked to be fairly accurate. There is a quirky interaction with the colors, which is worth mentioning. If you have the video image optimization setting turned on the screen will visibly switch color schemes when you open or close a video playing app, such as YouTube or Netflix. It can be pretty distracting for audio the Xperia 10. Mark iii has a single front-facing speaker down at the bottom, which just begs to be paired with the second one for a stereo setup.

Oh well, just like the one on the previous Xperia 10, this speaker scored just an average rating on our loudness charts. The audio quality is decent, but not great, with some noticeable low end but mid and highs, which lack presence. You do get a headphone jack too, for plugging in your traditional headphones or, if you want to connect wireless headphones to support for DAC Sony's high-res wireless audio, waking up and unlocking the Xperia 10 mark iii is done with a side mounted fingerprint scanner power button, it definitely isn't the fastest or most responsive we've used lately. The interface of the Xperia 10 mark iii is a very stock. Looking android 11, which brings a few extra functions from Sony on top the home screen, app drawer notification, shade and task switcher.

All look quite vanilla. One feature: that's a bit out of the ordinary is a multi-window switch. It basically gives you two task switches stacked on top of each other, one for each side of the split screen and besides those apps already open. There are also paired app shortcuts here too, for easy access. Speaking of shortcuts side sense is a menu accessible at the edge of the screen.

This gives you a customizable space to place shortcuts for apps and functions, and you even get a widget here to control Sony headphones with, and, finally, you get Sony's proprietary music app on board. Other media will be handled by Google's apps by default. Overall, you have 128 gigs of storage onboard the Xperia 10 mark iii, which is expandable via micros at the heart of the phone is a Qualcomm snapdragon 690 chipsets built on an 8 nanometer process. It's a significant step up from last year's chipset, both in performance and in the fact that it provides 5g connectivity. But with that said, while performance is solid here, it still falls behind the majority of mid-range competitors.

At this price, which run on snapdragon 700 series chips, it can stand its ground in CPU benchmarks, with scores that fall just a bit behind the competition, but in graphics tests there's a much wider gap. This is still enough power to run your everyday tasks in less demanding games without a hitch, and we didn't notice any excessive heating or thermal throttling here. One of the major upgrades the mark iii brings over last year is a larger William hour battery, and it does a great job. Battery life is excellent, with a score of 137 hours in our proprietary tests. However, we have to talk about the charging speed.

Our unit came with just a 7.5 watt charger in the box. I suppose these days we should be thankful. We even got a charger, but really with it. We were able to charge the phone from zero to just 20 percent. In half an hour, we tried using a fast 65 watt power delivery, charger too and got 37 in the same amount of time still not very speedy.

The Xperia 10 mark iii has three cameras on the back: a 12 megapixel main cam, an 8 megapixel ultra-wide and an 8 megapixel two times, telephoto cam, it's all pretty similar to what we saw on last year's model, but even so, this is quite a versatile setup for this price, where telephoto cameras are hard to find during the day.12 megapixel photos from the main cam are adequate for the class. There's a good level of detail, well-controlled noise and likable colors. The shots tend to come out underexposed, though, and if HDR doesn't kick in you'll end up with some harsh highlights, portrait shots are taken with the main cam, and these have nice looking skin tones and competent subject separation. But since the phone prioritizes the exposure for the subject, you can end up with a blown out background in some scenes, shots from the ultra-wide cam hold up well against the competition they have good sharpness and detail is excellent for the 8 megapixel resolution. Dynamic range is wide for this class, and we like the exposure here better than on the main camera two times.

Zoomed photos from the telephoto camera have respectable sharpness and detail and wide enough dynamic range. The color rendition doesn't match the other cameras, though, for example, the skies are shifted towards purple. The Xperia 10 mark iii tends to struggle a bit after the sun goes down, while shots from the main cam have good color saturation in areas with more light. Overall, the photos are underexposed and soft, with limited dynamic range. Turning on night mode helps a lot salvaging blown highlights and opening up the shadows.

These are a little softer, though. All the points we mentioned the main camera are also true of the ultra-wide, only even more so. These are quite underexposed, with narrow, dynamic range and an overall softness similarly. Night mode improves things dramatically and gets you better development in the highlights and shadows sharpness seems unaffected here at the two-time zoom setting in most cases at night, you'll be getting a crop from the main cam when it does manage to acquire focus, it captures passable images but with very narrow, dynamic range again. We'd prefer the night mode output for two times zoomed in shots because of its better dynamic range, even if it does tend to smooth out textures and detail a little now onto selfies, taken with the 8 megapixel front, facing cam we'd describe these as unremarkable.

Colors are overall muted and there isn't a ton of fine detail. Dynamic range is ok, though, and you get good exposure on your face, even in relatively challenging light. The Sony, Xperia 10 mark iii records video in up to 4k at 30 fps with its main camera. This footage is okay for the class, with good detail levels and excellent colors, but dynamic range is average, and these are a little on the soft side to get video from the telephoto you'll need to be in 1080p resolution. It has plenty of sharpness and detail, but the colors are a bit off just like with the still photos.

The ultrawide is also capped at 1080p, there's, good detail, saturated colors and the exposure is brighter than on the main. Cams dynamic range is decent, but not spectacular. Video stabilization is available in all modes. We did notice some annoying focus hunting in 4k, but other than that as does a decent job of compensating for camera shake. So that's the Xperia 10 mark iii.

You get a compact and lightweight design wit hip rated water resistance. The cameras are quite versatile for the class and compared to last year's model. You get a larger battery with great battery life and a more powerful chipset with 5g support. However, there are a few things to be critical of here. The charger we got with the phone is kind of a joke and even with a larger one, charging speed is still slow.

The display is just 60 hertz and not the brightest, and you'll find competitors at this price, with faster chipsets, stereo speakers and better low-light photos and selfies. If those features are important to you, it might be worth it to shop around thanks for watching guys, stay safe and see you on the next one. You.

Source : GSMArena Official