Sony Xperia smartphones look so good on paper. So why is it that we don’t recommend them? Here’s our answer to that and a brief 2023 review of the Sony Xperia 1 IV.
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Marketing and availablity. Unless you watch Phonereviews you probably have no idea these phones exist.
Stubborn ideologies, slow to changes, devices get abandoned after 2 years.
Used to be a big fan of Xperia phones up until the Xperia 5.
No entry level options, relatively lower specs for the price asked, mediocre software support. That being said, they are one of the few OEMs in their price segment to still offer headphone jacks.
2 Years of updates was my reason. Samsung is up to 7,Apple is about 5 or 6 and Google is 7 years.
Note this is based off of my memory so I could be wrong.
Fairphone is minimum 8 years.
Who the fuck keeps (and uses) a phone for 8 years?
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Me.
Honestly, who doesn’t? And, importantly, what does the demographic of one-year phone people tell us?
5 years and still going strong. Not planning to replace any time soon.
Have Samsung & Google actually delivered 7 years yet - or is that still just a promise on paper to continue supporting existing products?
Apple for all its faults has at least delivered on this premise.
Google and Samsung both have a track record of delivering updates even past the promised date so far.
iPhone 6s (2015) received a security update this month, they have delivered indeed
I was planning on getting an Xperia 1 VI.
Gonna flash LineageOS on it.
I have the 1 VI, it’s great. No lineage available yet, might take a while
Where’s the article?
There’s an embedded video above the headline. It’s easy to dismiss as an ad. I did, too.
It’s easy to dismiss as an ad. I did, too.
Well, Vivaldi’s built-in in adblock apparently agrees with this categorization. The video shows up if I disable it. Lol
It isn’t much better either. HTG went from a great site publishing tech articles to riddled with paywalls(you will encounter sign in screens if you read multiple articles quickly), Premium options, ad affiliated newsletter links and just constant churning of low quality filler mostly.
Posted from my Xperia 5.
