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, 06 May 2017Nah nothing to be impressed about. A3 2017 achieves 93 hour... moreA3 has very poor , ugly specification n its coslty than XA1...

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    Anonymous, 07 May 2017Some complaints are meant to let this company being aware o... moreThing is, it's okay to complain - that's normal
    But the haters have taken it too much that they've made hate instead of helping them instead.

    This applies to every single manufacturer in the world. The reason that they won't even improve is because of customers that will continuously hate over and over despite them doing their best thing to improve and fix every flaws their products have

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      boohoo, 07 May 2017we dont want bezel-less, dear baby. we want them to reduce... moreYou know what, you just made my statement even more reasonable

      Lessening the bezel size means lessening the chance of your screen surviving a drop since there is little to no barrier that will absorb the shockwave to prevent from reaching the main screen panel. Plastic is a far better resistance to that, hence why sides are polycarbonate

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        • 07 May 2017

        So I don't see gsmarena complains about that small battery because the phone get good battery life.Sony want to prove that those crappy mediatek is on the same level with snapdragon 625.

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          Anonymous, 06 May 2017You could buy Xperia X for the same price as of galaxy A5, ... moreMy first choice was Xperia X..but it is more expensive than Galaxy A5 ..

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            AnonD-243573, 06 May 2017Sorry, you think wrong. A5 scored 95 h having 30% bigger ba... moreIt had 30% Better battery rating with 30% more battery. Duh learn maths please

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              [deleted post]we dont want bezel-less, dear baby.
              we want them to reduce the bezel size, not remove it.
              this phones looks good with 50% top and bottom bezels.

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                Anonymous, 07 May 2017Cause that is what trolls do.Some complaints are meant to let this company being aware of their market situation, making them want to listen to customers needs and improve their products. If they insist in doing their own way, no one could help them...

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                  VoloKin Project, 07 May 2017Sony will never learn. People are complaining about those b... moreCause that is what trolls do.

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                    VoloKin Project, 07 May 2017Sony will never learn. People are complaining about those b... morePeople complain more about battery life than bezels
                    Small bezel is a shitty trend that started these useless aspect ratio - nothing's made in an 18:9 or an even worse 18.5:9 ratio content.

                    If you don't like bezels, simply buy a display panel and enjoy

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                      Anonymous, 07 May 2017The bezels are unnecessarily big. It's like 2012 all over a... moreThey are just average in size, whar are you talking about?
                      iPhone got the largest ones yet no one makes mention of that

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                        VoloKin Project, 07 May 2017Sony will never learn. People are complaining about those b... moreMost people that complain about bezels are people that definitely wouldn't buy it anyway , and bezels aren't that big either ,yes they are little bit bigger(like 1-2%) because SONY puts big camera sensors and stereo speakers there but they look really big because of SONYs unique design that features symmetric sharp corners and no physical home button on front to fill up the space on bottom bezel . check the screenshots below and you will see what I'm talking about .

                        http://prnt.sc/f4ysnn , http://prnt.sc/f4yxru , http://prnt.sc/f4yvfa ,http://prnt.sc/f4z20p

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                          Anonymous, 06 May 2017Sorry but 72h is bad for a low power SOC. I think the sna... more16nm vs 14nm
                          SD821 phones like the G6 and SD820 XZ scored the same there - those phones are good in battery life

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                            Anonymous, 06 May 2017Nah nothing to be impressed about. A3 2017 achieves 93 hour... moreWith a 14nm processor and AMOLED screen
                            Would be funny to see it only get 80h. Lol

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                              AnonD-481725, 06 May 2017Where did you read 72h endurance rate?? Not available in th... moreAh, now I spot someone who doesn't read the review test

                                shino03, 06 May 2017Gsmarena really hates those bezels. I wonder why? I find th... moreWtf! Those bezels are useful? lol They are horrible imo

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                                  XA1 in first looks not bad! But, internally is intolerable because MediaTek

                                  And something's else! When it has not stereo speakers I have except! My except is reduction bezels

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                                    VoloKin Project, 07 May 2017Sony will never learn. People are complaining about those b... moreIf they want to increase the market share, they better listen to the complaints...

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                                      • 07 May 2017

                                      GSM Arena is just being honest with the phone reviews, so that's why Sony's get a bit negative reviews. :) But they will say all the good things about every phones, if there are any, like this one has a pretty good battery life (surprised me) and the camera seems to be okay.

                                        Sony will never learn. People are complaining about those bezels and the bad speaker but Sony doesn't seem to care.