Olixar shows off Sony Xperia 1 III and 10 III case designs (and the phones themselves)

05 April 2021
They match up with the @OnLeaks renders, meaning 3.5 mm jacks for both models and a shortcut key for the Mark III flagship.

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Yeah..... Im not going back to One Plus ~

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    • pecel
    • KSB
    • 13 Apr 2021

    Willow, 12 Apr 2021It's astonishing how quickly the marketing industry ha... moreBezels are useless and waste of space. Non-issues such as accidental touches are solved by using a case with raised edges. Bezelless phones make using a case much more enjoyable than the legacy junk phones. Not using a case isn't really possible anyway since modern phones are fragile and slippery pieces of soap.

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      • Willow
      • mxB
      • 12 Apr 2021

      i0S.-.Never.-.Again, 09 Apr 2021Keep your outdated niche which involves bezel in 2021 and c... moreIt's astonishing how quickly the marketing industry has managed to reprogram people like yourself into caring about bezels so that they can sell you new phones.

      In truth there is nothing inherently ugly about them and they serve a very practical function which less easily swayed people appreciate.

        Anonymous, 09 Apr 2021Poco X3 has more cumulative bezel than X10II and since its ... moreI do have a desktop/laptop.
        Plenty of people who use smartphones (most of them which are big these days) have them.

        The Black Shark Pro from last year was a big phone.
        The Poco X3 is as big as a regular sized phones in 2021.... You just have small hands!!!

        You still haven't given me any good explanation as to why a user should pay 385 Euros for the Xperia 10 II??? Just because it has a compact factor??? I don't think so...

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          • Anonymous
          • Yet
          • 09 Apr 2021

          i0S.-.Never.-.Again, 09 Apr 2021Keep your outdated niche which involves bezel in 2021 and c... morePoco X3 has more cumulative bezel than X10II and since its bezels are three-dimensional if we count the actual area it takes from the phone it will be even worse.

          Anyway if you don't have a desktop or laptop or tabled I could understand using a bigger phone as your single computing device. Totally legit.

            kayman, 08 Apr 2021Poco is bigger (too big), have hole in the screen and no be... moreKeep your outdated niche which involves bezel in 2021 and complain about phone being too big.
            But how are you going to justify 385€ for small size and ugly bezel?

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              • kayman
              • nux
              • 08 Apr 2021

              i0S.-.Never.-.Again, 08 Apr 2021Nah you are the sole person living in a country without any... morePoco is bigger (too big), have hole in the screen and no bezel - xperias now has a minimum bezel for better holding the phones. Suprise for me is that X3 has fingerprint senzor on power button - the best place for it!

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                • AnonD-909757
                • pZV
                • 08 Apr 2021

                Anonymous, 06 Apr 2021This is why the world is f...d up! Because of people who &q... moreTrue, as someone who is genuinely different in many points, I don't do it for the sake of it and look edgy, I do it because I did choose it for what it brings me (and there are things I didn't choose who made me different too anyway).

                But the opposite is also a problem, fitting for the sake of not being different isn't great either, people need to be themselves, and it is the same for smartphones, Sony has its own identity, the stuff they do isn't for the sake of being different but rather because those are good decisions, alternatively some say LG died because it tried too much to make phones like the other brands but failed at it.
                And in a sense it is true, it failed at keeping its fanbase but didn't really get attention outside them.

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                  • AnonD-909757
                  • pZV
                  • 08 Apr 2021

                  Anonymous, 06 Apr 2021How haters do : 2016 : - Why using 13MP while other ha... moreI am part of the "12Mp is the best for Wide, and 12Mp or slightly more is perfect for Ultra-Wide and Telephoto but nothing should be lower, except Macro who shouldn't be under 8Mp, if the phone has already an Ultra-Wide the Portrait/Depth camera is useless as the UW can be used instead" club.

                  There are reasons why 12Mp has been the base resolutions for a considerable amount of time on DSLR and that only recently they got an increase in their resolution, it is a minimum, a standard, but also it isn't really necessary to go much further than that, binning can have its Pros, but for a while the best camera phones often had 12Mp sensors and not those crazy 48Mp+ ones.

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                    • AnonD-909757
                    • pZV
                    • 08 Apr 2021

                    DQ, 07 Apr 2021I agree with you that it is a subjective matter, and for on... moreI also fully agree with your answer!
                    I can see how based on the way you grab the phone that it is unnatural, for me, it would be with the side FPS, and though my index fall where the rear one is, I don't like the sensation of it.

                    Yes, indeed, most of the time it isn't an issue, BTW I often talk about the necessity to make a security chip that would work independently of the OS and would protect the boot menu, meaning that even stolen, the phone would be useless, reducing considerably the number of cases of this model would be stolen.

                    I, too, love their features, I would just love for them to make few variations of their models for such preferences to be covered.
                    If they ever make a Xperia 1 or 5 with underdisplay ultrasonic FPS and a pop up camera I would instantly buy it.
                    I am not talking about them changing the base model, but rather making some sub-variant of it.

                    And with my current OnePlus 6t which have buttons on both side, it happens from time to time that I press accidentally the power and volume down button at once which take a screenshot, my girlfriend sometime also do this by accident when she uses my phone, so I can clearly understand what you mean here!

                      Anonymous, 08 Apr 2021There is no such thing as $100 phone with 665 unless you bu... moreNah you are the sole person living in a country without any choice.. .the Poco X3 at 200$ is miles better than Xperia 10 II garbage in every department.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • Yet
                        • 08 Apr 2021

                        Android-Authority, 07 Apr 2021Doesn't matter what the dimensions are... 385€ for Sna... moreThere is no such thing as $100 phone with 665 unless you buy it from your aunt used but then she might as well give it to you as a present so you got your phone for free. That's a great deal. Also there is no $200 phone that takes better pictures unless you are buying some banged up flagship from 2018.

                        But here is what you can buy, you can buy Realme 5 with 665 for $220, I bet you are going to have so much more fun with that than with X10II or Xiaomi Mi A3 or Oppo A9 that are even more expensive than X10II but still have the same 665 chipset.

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                          • SonyReborn
                          • 7s3
                          • 08 Apr 2021

                          i0S.-.Never.-.Again, 06 Apr 2021They did launch crappy Xperia 10 II with Snapdragon 665 at ... moreI disagree. Sony looks way more premium than those cheap chinese phones.
                          Sony is the king of battery life, gaming performance, and build quality :)

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                            • DQ
                            • LCt
                            • 07 Apr 2021

                            AnonD-909757, 06 Apr 2021I just made a HUGE comment explaining exactly what you seem... moreI agree with you that it is a subjective matter, and for one, the side FPS is not a good option when the phone is in a holder (I have a desk holder next to my laptop and used to have one in the car), however when the device is on a table it is just as easy to place the finger on the display as it is to place a registered thumb on the side while you grab the phone. In both instances it will unlock the device without any issues.

                            As for the side FPS being thin and less secure I can see that as an issue, however I've never had a problem of having someone else unlocking my device. And if my device get stolen (a very frequent case in my city) it will be erased and sold instead of unlocked for whatever means. I don't fear a "less secured FPS"... if I was that paranoid I wouldn't use it in the first place. The convenience of it is king.

                            The issue for me with front and back FPS is that it is not the natural way for me to hold the device. The front FPS requires the user to intentionally move a thumb to the display while holding it, and the rear one requires me to move my index, which would normally be on the frame or more to a side on the back, and place it dead in the center which feels unnatural. I have tried it countless of times. My wife has a Pixel 4a, my mom has a Samsung a Nokia 6.1.

                            But yeah, if you are happy with front FPS then cheers, however I am so glad that Sony is doing its own thing here since basically every single feature has been the better way to do it in my opinion.
                            - Small bezels for true Front Facing Speakers
                            - Side FPS
                            - All buttons to the right (I hate opposite side buttons cause I press them unintentionally all the time)
                            - 2-Stages Camera key
                            - 21:9 Display!!!!!
                            - Headphone Jack
                            - MicroSD Slot

                            Almost every design decision in the X5II and X1II has been practically perfect for me.

                            PS: I fully agree on the post you linked.


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                              • shino03
                              • C9a
                              • 07 Apr 2021

                              TheGoldenMellifluous, 07 Apr 2021You wish... As Sony Mobile division has stopped losing mone... moreThey actually made a huge profit in 2020 for the Q1 to Q3 quarters. It's just that Q4 is still for announcement.

                                Anonymous, 07 Apr 2021Such as? Lots of "better" phones (whatever that m... moreNobody cares about slim phones except one percent of the population.
                                And making a slim phones isnt an excuse for selling it at such a high price.

                                  Anonymous, 07 Apr 2021Probably. But also make sure that phone like Poco X3 Pro wh... moreDoesn't matter what the dimensions are... 385€ for Snapdragon 665 based phone is not fair pricing irrespective of the brand, whether it is Samsung, Sony or Oppo.
                                  The Xperia 10 II didn't sell for this exact reason.

                                  And stop calling it a Mid-ranger... Snapdragon 665 is not mid range chipset, it is budget chip available in phones as low 100€. The cameras are below average. One can get better camera in 200€ devices. Everything is below average about that phone.
                                  No amount of optimizations will make the chip perform as good as mid range 7 series chips.
                                  Likewise, No amount of excuses from u will make the Xperia 10 II a good phone at that price.

                                    Anonymous, 06 Apr 2021Their market presence is seriously lacking in the past coup... moreNo one will miss them? You forgot that water resistance ingress protection certification, super slow-mo 960fps & DRAM stacked sensor, Eye AF, side-fingerprint sensor, LDAC, screen ratio above 19:9, high MP sensor (early version) that was either popularized or introduced by Sony made other OEMs implemented right now, even your faves...

                                      Anonymous, 06 Apr 2021This is why the world is f...d up! Because of people who &q... moreSo what? You want Sony Xperia to be and joined the mainstream market again by ditching all those signature features they retained during the more homogenous smartphone market and making it more like most other modern phones? Boy, hopefully, you remember when Sony angered their fans by following too many trends in the XZ2/3 era just to make them recognize again (removing the jack, the back design looks like "HTC", etc.) and it didn't help at all, and going niche since Xperia 1 and double-down it on 1 II.

                                        cyber, 06 Apr 2021i hope this is the last year of sony in smarphone business,... moreYou wish... As Sony Mobile division has stopped losing money and stabilize their shipment starting this year and if forecasting goes by and it's right, Sony Mobile division could go profit by the earliest this year, the first time since Q1 2017.

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