Sony Xperia XA1 review: Square one

06 May 2017
The Sony Xperia XA was our unlikely favorite of the last season's Xperia X-series. A year later, some things have changed. The XA1 comes with upgraded internals and the once flagship-only 23MP camera...

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Anonymous, 07 May 2017Z5 uses big ugly bezel, dear fanboy. im talking about goo... moreHuh?
Kinda weird.
Some Chinese phones have small bezels yet I could hardly name any of them with better camera than Sony's flagships.
Let alone Huawei with even larger bezels than Sony

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    • Anonymous
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    • 07 May 2017

    AnonD-10768, 07 May 2017My only complaint about Sony's midrange is the lack of fing... moreall sony flagships are not exclusive anymore, compared to the other flagships. average design, average ui, average features (960 fps video is great, but nobody need it).

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      • Anonymous
      • 60E
      • 07 May 2017

      AnonD-664474, 07 May 2017LOL so is that why the Xperia Z5 was the highest DxOMark sc... moreZ5 uses big ugly bezel, dear fanboy.
      im talking about good camera + thin bezel.
      only china, lg, and samsung (s8) curreny can do that.

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        • Anonymous
        • 7uA
        • 07 May 2017

        AnonD-664474, 07 May 2017LOL so is that why the Xperia Z5 was the highest DxOMark sc... moreScore is just for reference, when it comes to blind test, it may be a different story. S7 edge and g5 are excellent.

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          • AnonD-664474
          • KgW
          • 07 May 2017

          Anonymous, 07 May 2017LOL. what do you thing about samsung and china brands? thos... moreLOL so is that why the Xperia Z5 was the highest DxOMark scorer in 2015 and even took 2017 flagships to outdo it by 1 and 2 points? LOL

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            • Anonymous
            • 60E
            • 07 May 2017

            Anonymous, 07 May 2017And where you think Sony will put the camera module? Outsi... moreLOL. what do you thing about samsung and china brands? those brands have bezelless body with good cameras. LOL. i know sony cannot do that.
            sony's engineers have to learn a lot from samsung's and china's engineers. those brands can put great camera inside bezel-less body. sony is still thousand miles behind them in terms of design.

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              • AnonD-368020
              • XQh
              • 07 May 2017

              It would have been a great phone if they would have reduced the top bottom bezels by few mm.

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                • AnonD-10768
                • 7X9
                • 07 May 2017

                My only complaint about Sony's midrange is the lack of fingerprint reader. It is not a high end exclusive anymore.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • tRf
                  • 07 May 2017

                  Hopefully the battery life really did improve as per what was shown here...
                  The XA which I had drained the battery like water leaking...

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                    • AnonD-666047
                    • SHP
                    • 07 May 2017

                    bezeeeeeeeels!

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                      • Anonymous
                      • X%e
                      • 07 May 2017

                      Zcompacter, 07 May 2017Great phone for single handed compare to those 5.5 junk. Go... moreGet a x compact. It would be much better

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                        • Anonymous
                        • Kg%
                        • 07 May 2017

                        AnonD-523334, 06 May 2017I'm OK with the "brick design. But what's the point of sell... moreNot every country is like India where the most bang-for-the-buck phones are readily available. Here, we don't have Oneplus, Xiaomi, or ZTE, or even Honor. The mid-range is something that should give you considerable performance without much futureproofing, example is the Xperia SP from 2013, it packed plenty of power, but it only has a dual-core processor and only updated till Android 4.3. If you want to compare phones, also think about it's availability globally. The XA1 packs decent horsepower, but is in no means a top contender. It's as if this phone was built to get things done, and it can do those things in fashion. If you want to play Crysis on your phone, then get the OP3T.

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                          • Zcompacter
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                          • 07 May 2017

                          Great phone for single handed compare to those 5.5 junk. Good battery life and full HD or HD doesn't make noticeable differences in a 5 inch frame. Good one from Sony and I'm getting one to replace my 3 years old z1 compact.

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 07 May 2017

                            VoloKin Project, 07 May 2017Sony will never learn. People are complaining about those b... moreSony can only hear those compaints if you join their forums or if a person emails them. They surely don't read the comments sections. It's as if Kaz Hirai was commenting in GSMArena, but no, they have much more important things to do and if those large bezels really were that important to us, a consumer would have emailed Sony already, but I think only a few had done that.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • tue
                              • 07 May 2017

                              boohoo, 07 May 2017we dont want bezel-less, dear baby. we want them to reduce... moreAnd where you think Sony will put the camera module?
                              Outside the phone? So it got less bezel

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                                • Anonymous
                                • Kg%
                                • 07 May 2017

                                Romie Lee, 07 May 2017Wtf! Those bezels are useful? lol They are horrible imoImagine fitting a 1/2.3 inch sensor in a phone that thin with reduced bezels.

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                                  • 07 May 2017

                                  AnonD-635604, 07 May 2017So I don't see gsmarena complains about that small battery ... moreYes, and it just proves how not only the battery capacity matters, but also how the phone manages the small juice

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                                    • AnonD-664474
                                    • UD%
                                    • 07 May 2017

                                    Anonymous, 07 May 2017There are some just fond of being sarcastic, but we just ca... moreYeah, I often just like wasting time to reply
                                    But I sometimes do ignore them

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                                      • AnonD-331984
                                      • GXp
                                      • 07 May 2017

                                      Anonymous, 07 May 2017Some complaints are meant to let this company being aware o... morePeople complaining are not the ones buying the phones... Why can't you guys just get it. It's all hate and nothing else. They are not the ones buying it.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • 7uA
                                        • 07 May 2017

                                        AnonD-664474, 07 May 2017Thing is, it's okay to complain - that's normal But the ha... moreThere are some just fond of being sarcastic, but we just can't stop them. But don't worry, their hatred may someday backfire and hurt themselves...