Sony Xperia 1 review the best phone
and svelte but the design may come off as being a little conservative you can say that it looks like a business phone and in comparison to offerings from Samsung
in hawawa the Xperia one simply doesn't look as flashy that's not too much of a loss however because I really recommend you get a case or a skin for
it the edges of the phone are super slippery and although it's a comfortable hold I kept getting the feeling that it might slip from my grasp at any moment
we got to play with Sony's style covered touch case and it works nicely even without opening it image quality and the touch screen sensitivity do take a hit but
the phone feels much more secure well I certainly don't feel confident drop testing it the phone does feel quite sturdy with Gorilla Glass 6 on the front and back
in ip68 rating that means the exterior is well protected thanks to how slim it is it's actually not that difficult to use one-handed and the buttons are all in
comfy positions you can pull down the notification shade from the middle of the screen and there's even a one-handed mode in setting so you don't need to awkwardly stretch
your thumbs up curiously the power button and the fingerprint reader are separate did a legal reason that don't allow Sony to sell the phone in the States but the
two combined in one the fingerprint reader isn't our favorite ever because the animation isn't that fast and the sensor tends to miss read your thumb pretty often if you
clean it from smudges it's a little faster and more reliable but even then it still needs more pressure from your thumb whereas other readers work with a slight touch
there's also a face and lock option but it's not the most reliable so I'd actually stick with the fingerprint reader on the back of the phone you'll find a
triple camera setup and the cameras stick out a little bit so the phone does wobble when you use it on a desk on the top there's a card slot
for expandable storage so you can shoot as much footage as you want you can open it up without a sim tool but the phone er starts everytime the novel
21 by 9 aspect ratio certainly has its ups and downs there's a lot of video content out there that's shot in this wider aspect Netflix claims more than two-thirds
of its videos are 21 by 9 however once you load a regular is sixteen by nine video like the majority of YouTube videos you'll end up with thick black
bars on the side and a functionally smaller image a benefit of the new aspect ratio is that you get more screen space for vertically scrolling apps such as Facebook
or Instagram as well as more room for multi window functionality however the downside is some apps are incompatible with the form factor and show a huge blank space at
the bottom of the screen still if these won't bother you this is one of the best screens in the industry if not the best this is the first 4k
OLED display on a smart phone with a crazy pixel density of 643 PPI they also have a new system-wide color setting called creator mode which allegedly provides professional-grade color
accuracy in the BT 2020 color space which is the one used by HDR video we couldn't test the color accuracy in this color mode but the standard color mode
seems to be quite accurate in the DCI p3 color space which is nice to have as well in standard mode the Xperia can go up to 390 nights of
brightness while the auto brightness can go as high as 665 minutes as long as your browsing photos or videos having 4k on a screen so small seems like a
bit of an overkill but hey it guarantees and bragging rights and it makes for an excellent display of course keep in mind that 4k will only work with apps
that support it like Netflix Amazon video and native video apps so battery life is conserved surprisingly this phone doesn't have a
headphone jack I know we've stopped expecting them on flagships but it actually comes with regular headphones in the box I mean there's a dongle but still the output we
measured had average loudness and good but not great accuracy with headphones the stereo speaker setup has very good loudness and more importantly excellent balance between the two speakers which
isn't always the case the audio experience is made a little better with a dynamic vibration which makes the phone buzz whenever something more bassy happens on screen be it
explosion or elephant stomp however the feature is a bit gimmicky and its implementation Bears improvement with a 3300 milliamp hour battery endurance was a dependable 79 hours but we've
seen better screen on performance from other phones in this class at least there's an 18 watt power delivery charger which can get you from 0 to 50% in half
an hour and up to a full charge in an hour and 45 minutes the Xperia has everything you might need for a good gaming experience Snapdragon a 55 chipset
a superlight UI and the excellent screen however we found that quite a few game titles had black bars on the side that make it difficult to play which was
a shame the Xperia one has a very vanilla version of Android Pi it even includes the pill navigation instead of proprietary gestures but you can always revert to the
classic three button layout it does have a few Sony extras like the one handed mode and a cite sense there are some useful apps like album for pictures a
video app and a music app that links to google music that allows you to enhance the music using dolby atmos the side sends to our interface also allows for
all sorts of shortcuts however is unreliable and if you're lucky it works about a third of the time the time you waste furiously is happening at the edge of
the screen you can save and just access the same apps with regular swiping one of the highlights of the Xperia 1 is the triple camera setup on the back
there's a main 12 megapixel camera with dual pixel autofocus a 12 megapixel ultra wide camera and a 12 megapixel telephoto snapper with 2 times zoom the camera is fast
to use and the camera app is well known from previous phones unfortunately the app isn't perfect and there were a few usability issues for one the phone took longer
to switch between the three cameras and were used to and other high-end devices for another impro mode there's no toggle to switch between cameras so the only way to
switch to the telecom is by pinch zooming and there's no switching to the ultra wide camera from here HDR doesn't
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