Sony Xperia Pro-C tipped to come with compact body and faster charging

21 May 2024
This is going to be an interesting one.

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  • Anonymous
  • EUk
  • 23 May 2024

This is far from compact. I am still running the Xperia XZ1 Compact, which is less than 5" and never got the XZ2 Compact because it was too big at 5.2", And I am still waiting for a real compact phone (going on 7 years now).
Sony needs a big phone and a compact phone. No one wants three options that are all the same size.
For a camera phone, Sony would do well to have a larger screen, but it doesn't have to be huge; the screen on the back of an A7RV is adequate for framing, but if touch screen controls are required, bigger is better. What a camera phone really needs is optical zoom, a physical shutter, and physical zoom, iso, and aperture controls. The volume rocker can double as iso, and aperture and zoom can be controlled by a physical ring around the lens.
And enough of the paper-thin phones. Making a device small and thick instead of long and thin means you can pack far more battery capacity and computing hardware inside. I deal for me would be about 4" diagonal and a centimeter or slightly thicker.
Also, Sony, why did you drop the 920 fps super slow-mo? That was one of the best selling points. The only better one is the waterproof combined with the physical shutter for underwater photography (which I use a lot, but even if I didn't, who wants to have a device that expensive that is disable if not destroyed by a little rain?).
All in all, Sony, assuming you keep the dual slot / dual sims, the 3.5mm headphone jack, and the lanyard loop, I may buy this camera just to have a nice small camera, but not use it as a phone. If, however, you make this a true compact, or a true compact version of any of your phones again (sub 5", preferably 4" or less), I will buy it as my new phone. If you make the phone actually have an optical zoom that replaces the need for a zoom lens, I will buy it (as will my friends). And, if you do make a device this size that can take interchangeable lenses, I will buy it and an adapter to for all my e-mount glass (as will my friends).
Think of yourselves like a car company. There are compacts, full size sedans, vans, sports cars, and SUV's. No (succesful) car company makes 3 different huge SUV's and no compacts or sedans. No (sucessful) car company makes just 3 vans and ignores the rest of the market needing something other than a van. Keep all your phones the same internally, but make them in three different sizes: 4" 5.25", and 6.5". Make them thick enough to have a big battery and better camera (sure the nay sayers will still claim their thin phone is better, but then they will have to charge it three times a day and still bend it when they sit on it, and maybe then some of them will see the light).
Thank you!
p.s. I would still love to see the return of sliders like the LG Xenon, or the Sidekick, physical keyboards (only way to really do small). There is a market for small and neat, and not just among people old enough to remember the golden age of cellphone design; now we need cool phones for our kids that also keep them of addictive apps and pornographic websites and chat rooms, so cheap, small, durable, phones, not portable TV's, would actually be great! Make physical keyboards and physical answer/end call buttons cool again!

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    • Anonymous
    • StQ
    • 23 May 2024

    TJ, 22 May 2024Not everyone wants a large screen. I am okay with reading o... moreAnd 6 inches is not a small screen, 6 inches is well in to phablet territory.
    If one needs a tablet sized screen, one should buy a tablet, not a phone.

    Phone screens should be sizeable enough to be able to use apps, but they should also be small enough to be usable with the thumb on one hand.

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      • Xperia boy
      • U$P
      • 23 May 2024

      Is it legit?
      like last year when Xperia V release, rumored Xperia Pro 2 then nothing show up.
      This time xperia vi release then Xperia C rumour.. so is it legit??

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        • UsYk
        • 0FD
        • 23 May 2024

        6" perfect phone for me .
        Fit in my pocet, good battery ,great camera exactly what I need .
        Maybe I came back to xperia after years 🤔

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          • Anonymous
          • k@B
          • 23 May 2024

          Sony addict, 22 May 2024I totally agree, I waited until I knew what the 1 vi specs ... morewhen do you ever use 4k though, hardly any content is 4k, whether on youtube or anywhere and it's too much on the interent, so yeah smart move not focusing on that anymore if u ask me, even 1440p, just such a miniscule difference on such a small screen size, heck a lot of times i even select 720p with how little to no difference there is btw 1080p

            Some Anonymous Prson, 22 May 2024I have a 5iii. It is too small and too narrow but it is ve... moreWell for me its too small.

              joe nodden, 21 May 2024Watch as they charge $1500It will be more than that.

                Anonymous, 22 May 2024All 3 great moves.I want a phone,not a high res remote cont... moreI have the 5iii. It is indeed too narrow.

                  Cpt.Power, 22 May 2024Well it could be very interesting phone and it surely will ... moreI have a 5iii. It is too small and too narrow but it is very nice in pockets and serves its purpose if you want to use your phone as a small mobile device and not as laptop. I use older unreliable phones as wifi mini tablets. It would be nice to have just one device but foldables are still very expensive and are not without their own flaws.

                    It will probably cost around two thousand dollars and only be available in three countries. It frustrating because it does look like a great device.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 70d
                      • 22 May 2024

                      Marco M, 22 May 2024Synthetic benchmarks blah. LucasN82 was referring to real w... moreWhat he said was true, though. The performance of the Xperia 1 VI is clearly worse than the competition.

                        Anonymous, 22 May 2024"Unfortunately, the Xperia 1 VI seems to be struggling... moreSynthetic benchmarks blah. LucasN82 was referring to real world use. Even in some of these synthetic benchmark test, it was only 5.8% benhind the Oppo in performance mode. This is negligible, and ultimately also results in it creaming the others in battery life. Oppo Find X7 can game for less than 7 hours, whilst the Sony nearly reaches 11 hours. Same goes for surfing and video playback. The Sony walks easily over the Oppo, Google Pixel 8 Pro, SGS 24 Ultra and iphone 15 pro max etc.

                        I wouldn't want a Sony smartphone these days, after they killed their Z Ultra, but their focus on balanced performance, stability and optimization isn't wrong.

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                          • Urs
                          • 33I
                          • 22 May 2024

                          Finally a flagship small android smartphone!

                            I totally agree, I waited until I knew what the 1 vi specs were and then ordered the 1v if they go back to the 4k and 21.9 on the next phone I will buy that if not I will look somewhere else.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 70d
                              • 22 May 2024

                              LucasN82, 22 May 2024I recorded 4K120fps with HDR HLG (!) with Xperia 1V on ultr... more"Unfortunately, the Xperia 1 VI seems to be struggling to keep up with the competition even in short-burst benchmarks. The device isn't able to fully utilize the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and posts underwhelming results in all of the benchmark tests we ran."
                              https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_1_vi-review-2699p4.php

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 70d
                                • 22 May 2024

                                Anonymous, 22 May 2024You really don't understand how this works, when the d... moreFHD or Full HD is 1920 x 1080. Look it up. It's common knowledge.

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                                  • LucasN82
                                  • pm5
                                  • 22 May 2024

                                  Anonymous, 22 May 2024The performance of the snapdragon 8 gen3 is one of the wors... moreI recorded 4K120fps with HDR HLG (!) with Xperia 1V on ultra sunny day - it was 30C degree for about 1.5h (with stops) and smarpthone works very well. Please stop write about devices that you never test in normal usage.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • atq
                                    • 22 May 2024

                                    The performance of the snapdragon 8 gen3 is one of the worst in Sonys regular size phone.. So what's it gonna be like in a smaller body? Probably equally dreadful if not worse. Buying a Sony is a huge risk many are not willing to take.

                                      Finally an interesting phone

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                                        • TJ
                                        • J8y
                                        • 22 May 2024

                                        Cpt.Power, 22 May 2024Well it could be very interesting phone and it surely will ... moreNot everyone wants a large screen. I am okay with reading on a small screen.

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