The Sony Xperia 5 II may be the smallest 5G phone yet

10 April 2020
The rumors are a bit shaky, but they describe a phone with a sub-6" screen (the 2019 Xperia 5 model has a 6.1" screen). 

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Senseurheart Kimochi, 12 Apr 2020I list the High resolution audio because I remember when XZ... moreDsee is a big fake.
And you are just listening mp3s... That's is even funnier. LMAO.

    Anonymous, 12 Apr 2020Most of the mobile OLEDs on market are utter crap, just lik... moreWow you're the biggest halfwit I've seen on this website. Or maybe on par with that other halfwit I once argued with that said Nokia LCDs are better than OLEDs. Lol. Your terrible finite contrast ratio LCDs can't hold a candle to the vastly superior OLEDs. Your delusions are sad, very sad. Even your precious little Sony has switched to OLEDs yet you still deny they're better. Not a single display test will tell you there's a single LCD that's better than the OLEDs on phones like the soon to be released OnePlus 8 Pro, or the S20 Ultra, or even some older phone's OLEDs. And if you're just looking at contrast, well well well, even the original Galaxy Note was better in terms of contrast than any LCD on the market. Lol. Just accept the facts m8.

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      joe nodden, 12 Apr 2020Bruh this halfwit is literally calling an LCD better than a... moreMost of the mobile OLEDs on market are utter crap, just like it was with LCD back in the day. I was talking about state of the art mobile LCD which runs circles around your run of the mill AMOLED offered on 90% of the phones today. Mobile OLEDs are far, far away from TV OLED panels it's not the same thing.

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        Mamami, 12 Apr 2020Xperia 1 display is literally made by Samsung. Even the bes... moreAll mobile panels either LCD or OLED are made only by few manufacturers but controllers and drivers are not. Most of the time these are made in house and they are the ones that make the panel good or bad. So if your OLED panel is constantly shifting frequency or suffers from pulsing in low brightness it's not the panel it's controller. Yes mobile LCD can be better than OLED because pentile OLED has less amount of subpixels than LCD in the first place. So FHD LCD has more density than FHD OLED on mobile screens. Viewing angle is better on LCD than on OLED, there is no question about that. LCD doesn't exhibit color temperature shift depending on the viewing angle and much like how mobile LCD can't produce pure black mobile OLED can't produce pure white unless it has that white pixel which it doesn't.

        Like I said you have to see XZ2 display to truly appreciate how deep blacks can go on LCD and how it can also achieve that saturated OLED pop through some trickery that Sony does. I can type all day long how great of a display it is but if you like good mobile screens I suggest you go on ebay and spend $240 on used XZ2 to experience proper LCD display yourself. It puts to a shame 95% of mobile OLED displays on the market right now. Unfortunately XZ2 Premium is even more expensive than Xperia 1 so I don't recommend it unless you really want true and proper 4K mobile screen and/or shoot very low light video.

        Manufacturers have shifted to OLED due to smaller packaging compared to LCD and potentially save battery (which every users nulls when they run their OLED on high brightness while web browsing and chit chatting in apps that generates enormous amounts of heat and requires more power compared to LCD on high brightness, in other words most users don't know how to use their OLED screens and dark mode isn't helping much)

        And when it comes to Gorilla Glass you can coat as much as you want or need any surface pretty much. Just knock with your nail to hear the sound it makes, on Samsung and Huawei it makes shallow sound which means there's not a lot of it. Then tick with your nail on XZ2 to hear that thick thud.

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          Anonymous, 12 Apr 2020Aslong as they keep 3.5mm jack + reasonably priced I'm sold!!!YES!

            Fearghast, 12 Apr 2020Nice PR talk, but it does not work that way .... If you re... moreI list the High resolution audio because I remember when XZ Premium thread, some trolls coming and trolling it can't play high resolution audio. Those trolls have to blamed. Are you interested with Xperias, if no what negative comments will you leave here?

              Senseurheart Kimochi, 12 Apr 2020Audio quality LG is still far behind Sony because Xperia 1 ... moreNice PR talk, but it does not work that way ....
              If you really believe that, you are really a lost cause fanboy.
              You clearly do not even have a clue what "High-Resolution Audio" means, otherwise you would not even listed it.

                Mamami, 12 Apr 2020Xperia 1 display is literally made by Samsung. Even the bes... moreAudio quality LG is still far behind Sony because Xperia 1 ii upscale everything you listening close to high-resolution with Dsee Ultimate and ... have 3.5mm, LDAC, Bluetooth 5.0, High-Resolution Audio, Dolby Atmos, 360 Reality Audio, dual front speakers. Tell me how LG upscale MP3 audio? No, LG can't. Tell me how LG firing audio output front it dual front speakers? No, LG doesn't have dual front speakers.
                Camera quality LG still capture yellowish portrait on it LG V60, it is not realistic and stacking image with less texture, that's the weakness.
                Source: https://youtu.be/IAkpV8_P3b0

                IMO camera for last year Xperia 1 already had great improvements this year Xperia 1 ii must be greater.

                  The existing 5 is too tall and heavy for comfortable one handed use

                    joe nodden, 12 Apr 2020Bruh this halfwit is literally calling an LCD better than a... moreNot saying they're right, but each display type has their own pros and cons.

                    If they're using their phone with a repeated image then a LCD would be better due to burn in.

                    LCD in general are brighter but Samsung has done so much innovation on their OLEDs that it's basically the same now.

                    Everyone wants OLEDs on their phone... I just want mini or micro LED LCD screen lol.

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                      Aslong as they keep 3.5mm jack + reasonably priced I'm sold!!!

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                        Anonymous, 11 Apr 2020They are not overpriced, you are just not familiar with the... moreXperia 1 display is literally made by Samsung. Even the best LCD cannot compete with OLED and AMOLED Panels. The Gorilla Glass level of protection doesn't affect the feeling of the product, as you said. Even if it affected how the product feels in the hand, every single Sony smartphone you cited actually had the same level of GG as their competitors, just take a quick look here in GSMArena. And, yes, they are almost all overpriced, because they cannot offer the same level of quality in cameras, displays (even the 4K gimmick LOL), even in audio (LG is laughing rn), but ask for the same amount of money. And, yes, you're the classic Sony fanboy.

                          Better buy oppo vivo xiaomi or realme than this garbage.

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                            Anonymous, 11 Apr 2020If you want your display to die real fast :) Fast charging ... moreplenty of small phones fast charge

                              Anonymous, 11 Apr 2020They are not overpriced, you are just not familiar with the... moreBruh this halfwit is literally calling an LCD better than an OLED. What a joke.

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                                Anonymous, 11 Apr 2020They are not overpriced, you are just not familiar with the... morei don't believe that for a second

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                                  volverine, 12 Apr 2020i have Redmi 4x it is 139x70x8mm and it has 4100 battery an... moreYou have to remember that flagship phone have more components than entry level smartphones. Bigger processors, external 5G modem (S865), 3-4 big cameras, periscope camera, laser autofocus, depth camera, dual front facing cameras, under display fingerprint sensor, waterproof design, dedicated AI or camera chipsets, wireless charging, stereo speakers...
                                  And unlike your Redmi, phones have panoramic displays nowadays so that takes up space too.
                                  Entry level smartphones lack many of these features so the extra internal space is used to bump the battery to 4000-5000 mAh. To counter this, flagship phones have become huge nowadays at around 6.7", to be able fit all of that.

                                    Dometalican, 11 Apr 2020As another guy said, you can't fit that much battery into a... morei have Redmi 4x it is 139x70x8mm and it has 4100 battery and because of that i think think that 145-150x70 (almost every phone is 70) phone can have 4500-5000 mAh battery.

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                                      Anonymous, 11 Apr 2020because they're overpriced. Always. Doesn't matter how ... moreThey are not overpriced, you are just not familiar with them. Take 2018 XZ2 in you hand and then take S9 or P20 from the same year, you can tell right of the bat that Sony has a whole grade better build quality than the other two. First thing you will notice is glass cause on XZ2 glass feels like glass while on Samsung and Chinese glass feels like plastic cause they use thinner GG coat. Same is true for XZ3, Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 compared to their rivals. Then there is the screen, XZ2 LCD runs circles around S9 AMOLED or P20 LCD. XZ3 OLED runs circles over S10 AMOLED as well, Xperia 1 screen completely owns Note 10 while Huawei Mate 30 Pro comes real close. But unless you've seen XZ2 Premium 4K LCD screen you've never experienced a good phone screen. Too bad you won't find XZ2 Premium anywhere for under 800 unless it's super banged up

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                                        Arjun , 11 Apr 2020Fast charge in 15 min.If you want your display to die real fast :) Fast charging generates heat and in such small device there is no way to spread the heat so the first component to suffer is the screen.