Sony Xperia 1 review

08 June 2019
Sony has completely revamped its Xperia series yet again, and this year the common denominator is the cinematic screen. Every new Xperia smartphone gets a 21:9 panel for the most immersive viewing experience, but the Xperia 1 is special. It is the Xperia Premium reborn, with a large 6.5" OLED 4K HDR display and today we'll get to know it better.

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  • 10 Jun 2019

dirknelson, 10 Jun 2019He is spreading a fake news then. Fake news! The guy has the phone since day one and the camera still crap so.

    Tann Hauser, 10 Jun 2019I dont care about the review, but trustworthiness and reali... moreSo he corrected the total score as soon as he realised that he made an error while calculating it. What's the big deal about it, it's actually a commendable thing to do. Or, are you telling him that he should have kept the incorrect score so that some readers here would've stayed happy about it? You wouldn't have said such a thing if this was a review on a phone from a non-Sony manufacturer.

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      • Anonymous
      • ss1
      • 10 Jun 2019

      [deleted post]Compare S10e to Xperia 1 what a joke lol.

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        • Anonymous
        • LQv
        • 10 Jun 2019

        Kaloyan, 10 Jun 2019Our scoring system is internal, you see only the final numb... moreI have a doubt.

        You say this is nest xperia, but score is lower than XZ3

          Tann Hauser, 10 Jun 2019I dont care about the review, but trustworthiness and reali... more"I don't care about the review". Okay then, you don't care about the tireless 12 days work of a couple of people, but about some number spitted from some excel file. Enough said.
          Signing off.

            Kaloyan, 10 Jun 2019Our scoring system is internal, you see only the final numb... moreI dont care about the review, but trustworthiness and realibilty of this site.
            And common Joe now sees 4 stars, as some other remained at 5 stars.
            It is a preety awful thing you did here.

            It seems to me its more about none Sony flag device is allowed a bigger score by arena than any Sa... ng flag device... and you "elegantly" put it just below those.



              [deleted post]Our scoring system is internal, you see only the final number. I tried to explain why a mistake was possible. That's it. You can't see the subscores, they have never been public, and whether you decide to believe the reviewer or not - it's up to you. The same thing happened once before - with the iPhone X review.

              And people did notice the higher than expected score - both readers and fellow colleagues, and so we sat down and went through the calculation once more and found what's wrong.

              Finally! It's just a number. It doesn't change none of the review findings. The review is still the same, and still describes the best Sony phone we've seen so far, and without a doubt - worth having right now.

                Kaloyan, 10 Jun 2019Hey, just a quick clarification. Our internal score system ... morePlease provide a link to arenas subcores, so us readers can check them out just as those other readers that noticed the flaw.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • LQv
                  • 10 Jun 2019

                  Kaloyan, 10 Jun 2019Hey, just a quick clarification. Our internal score system ... moreKaloyan, gsma forgot the screen sunlight ratio results.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • LQv
                    • 10 Jun 2019

                    Matthew Allard from Newsshooter

                    " Sony has given a sneak peek of their upcoming Xperia 1 smartphone being used as a 6.5″ 4K OLED S-Log/S-Gamut wireless monitor for the Sony VENICE. Sony was showing the Xperia 1 wirelessly monitoring live signals coming from the Sony VENICE. "

                    "Not only could you wirelessly monitor images with very low latency from the Sony VENICE, but you could also do camera control and bring up the overlay screens from the camera. You could also enable different monitoring tools such as peaking, focus zoom etc."

                    " The images looked extremely impressive on the Xperia 1 and the latency was also very good. Whatever Sony have been doing the color accuracy of the images being displayed on the Xperia 1 looked almost identical to those being output from the VENICE to an expensive reference monitor."

                      Hey, just a quick clarification. Our internal score system spits a score based on 9 different categories, and each category has 4 or 5 subcategories. The main categories are design/build, display, battery, audio, photo, video, software, performance, pricing/competition. And the final score score is the average of all these 9 subscores (remember, they also have sub-sub scores). So, this isn't just smoke and mirrors, it's a really complicated calculation and unfortunately we've made a mistake. Really sorry about that!

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                        • Anonymous
                        • vjw
                        • 10 Jun 2019

                        everett2000, 10 Jun 2019What utter nonsense - there's plenty of reason and you give... moreThe castle shot clearly shows that Sony's image is less sharp than Samsung's. Details are similar. Try again.

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                          • Shui8
                          • KZ8
                          • 10 Jun 2019

                          [deleted post]Looks like they realize the balance of calculation between Pros & Cons section, and at the last 4 & 6 page, some users reporting about it.

                          Its their scoring system anyway, we cant do nothing about.

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                            • Uzayr
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                            • 10 Jun 2019

                            Don't care about scores or reviews, as most reviewers just says what most want to listen like, Apple and Samsung is best, to me Huawei and Sony are always best, and they introduced some of those things which apple and Samsung copies, Xperia 1 is still better than s10+, iphones.

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                              • Shui8
                              • KZ8
                              • 10 Jun 2019

                              Nick Tagataka, 10 Jun 2019"Update: We found an error in the review score calculation.... moreTheres too many Sony Extremist here lol, made assumption without thinking.

                              Be cool, u can be a fan guys, just dont be a blind one. Sony cant save your life.

                                [deleted post]"Update: We found an error in the review score calculation. One of the sub-scores was doubled by mistake and some of our readers were quick to spot that something was wrong. Thank you, guys, and sorry about that!" - from the first page of this review

                                Now you can stop with your conspiracy theory.

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                                  • Shui8
                                  • KZ8
                                  • 10 Jun 2019

                                  [deleted post]Your wrong. They miscalculate one of the sub score as mentioned, it was meant to be 4.2 on the first place.

                                  Read the review back on the 1st page.

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                                    • 10 Jun 2019

                                    Doum, 10 Jun 2019Yes fhd+ for 1080 not fhd. It's a 4k not 4k+If we want to quibble, the true resolution of the x1 is 3, 8k but as it does not exist it names ca 4k. k is the prefix of kilo and it calculates on the width (landscape). For example: (2048x1080: "16: 9", 2048x858: "2.39: 1 (cinemascope)", 1998 x 1080: "1.85: 1 (panorama)") all three are 2k resolutions. hd, fhd, ultrawide4K (xperia 1) are standards or labels.

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                                      • t{t
                                      • 10 Jun 2019

                                      what??? rating?? other people opinion? we sony user love da brand cause we like to be different and dont like to be same like the other how to put dis simply because we can afford it.

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                                        • FarFan
                                        • iB9
                                        • 10 Jun 2019

                                        You don't need headphone jack!
                                        Oh wait, we don't even have headphones you can use without dongle!

                                        Our ultra wide screen is the best!
                                        Oh sorry, you will watch 16:9 YouTube videos on actually 4.2inch screen with interpolated image.

                                        I'm laughing so loud!!! Jediphone, ahaha)))