Sony Xperia 1 VI review

15 May 2024


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  • 15 May 2024

Is it just me? The portrait bokeh mode shots look horrible

    That battery life and the telephoto macro are both extremely impressive. The phone is overall okay, I'd rate it a 4.1-4.3★ instead of 4.5★, but it's got some extremely good points as well as some pretty underwhelming ones. So, I'd probably give it 4.2★ or 4.3★ instead of 4.1★, but still potentially possible. The biggest problem personally for me is that the screen is now 19.5:9 and is now 1080p. Keep it as 21:9, reduce the bottom bezels a lot (while still keeping the bottom stereo speaker setup intact), and change the resolution to 1440p instead (since 1644p is too much for no benefit but 1080p is too low). Also, the brightness increase is not enough, it needs to have comparable brightness levels to the Google Pixel 8 Pro (benchmark for brightness this year since it was the earliest phone to have such a high peak brightness figure). I personally prefer 20:9 as an aspect ratio, but 21:9 is part of Sony's design identity (as is the lack of a punchole for the selfie camera; the 3.5mm headphone jack; the microSD card reader; the grippy back texture; and the dual stereo speakers setup) and it stings for them to lose that.

      Bravosixgoingdark, 15 May 2024Goes to read the comments under a sony or OnePlus, sees a b... moreWell, what are comment sections for then? 😂

        There is no information about the UFS storage type! I wouldn't be surprised at all if it is 3.1 or perhaps even less knowing how they work at Sony

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          • dcdev
          • MMx
          • 15 May 2024

          jerem06, 15 May 2024Too bad for the 12MP telephoto sensor only, a 32 or 50MP mo... moreIt sounds a bit useless. This sensor is small - 1/3.5".
          If it was 50Mp, you would have opportunity to take 12.5Mp x14 photo, but you would use 1/7" part of sensor.

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            • Anonymous
            • xjH
            • 15 May 2024

            Without a competitive price to undercut Samsung and Apple I don't see any hope for this phone. The change in screen helps it with battery life the cameras still aren't as good as top end flagships, yet it's more expensive... Just don't see this selling.

              Reading the review and looking at the photos, I have an impression that they are not from the review of the same phone. Details look very digital here and I would say are not that great. They are good, but the grass or small details look bad for me... :( The same with zoom photos, e.g. this one: https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/reviews/24/sony-xperia-1-vi/camera/gsmarena_132.jpg It looks just bad.

                Goes to read the comments under a sony or OnePlus, sees a bunch of ppl arguing BS without ever even touching one.....exactly how it should be

                  I'm not even lying but the low light video of this song Xperia is actually close in quality to the techno camon pro 5G.. I'm being dealt serious they are close in quality

                    How can you say the subject separation is great with Bokeh on when the first image demonstrating the bokeh can't get it correct, look to the right of the girl above her shoulder, the fourth image looks impressive. The last image with the dark haired lady, her hair is getting completely cut off.
                    The bokeh shots aren't "very nice".
                    For each section on the sample pictures there is more than 1 camera sample where the highlights are blown out, and bokeh on seems to exacerbate this also.
                    Did Stevie Wonder check these images?

                      Ellio74, 15 May 2024Past Xperia 1 were conservative when compared to this one. ... moreWhat changes? Almost everything is a downgrade compared to the 1 V

                        Since when is 4.5/5 not an "excellent" score?

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 2qM
                          • 15 May 2024

                          The performance test is a red flag and indicates that they haven't improved thermal management at all. Combined with the mediocre cameras, downgraded screen, and slow charging, this year's phone seems like Sony's primary mission was costcutting

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 15 May 2024

                            [deleted post]At least Europe does not need to pay 50% more than Japan, like xiaomi and vivo charge them compared to price in China.

                            And minions blame VAT ... 😂

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 15 May 2024

                              Anton .el PAPI., 15 May 2024They should have but they didn't, I was reading around... more1) sharp uses same imx989 as other
                              2) none of them have power to demand through contract that xperia does not use imx989, because it is between Sony Semicon and clients. Sony Semicon has no say in this. Any brand can purchase imx989/Lyt900. It is open shelf cmos
                              3) imx888 is very close to imx989, while using much less power and takes much less space.
                              4) LYT900 is old tech, no dual layer pixel transistor . Also too slow to give xperia what alpha team wants

                              If they wanted to use again type1.0, then they would use the one inside pro-i , that is same from rx100 mark 7.

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 15 May 2024

                                NeonHD, 15 May 2024You write that as if we don't share the same opinion. ... more5K is also a standard, 1.5K, 2K or 3K are not.

                                  Only UFS 3.1, should be 4.0
                                  Only 1.6m Antutu score, should be 1.9m
                                  Only 1080p display, should be 1440p
                                  No charger in box
                                  No cable in box
                                  Terrible sustained performance (yet again!)
                                  Priced even higher than iPhone 15 Pro Max
                                  Very slow charging

                                  But hey, at least it's got a headphone jack, and microSD support huh..? That magically makes up for everything else 😐😐

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • 0%R
                                    • 15 May 2024

                                    NeonHD, 15 May 2024>𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 - 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 4𝘒 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘍𝘏𝘋+.... moreFor what? On my S23 Ultra, 1440p is barely noticeable, and that phone is a good chunk bigger. On a phone of this size, anything above FHD makes pretty much no difference

                                      I hope this phone may become a success.

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                                        • King Tchalla
                                        • CbK
                                        • 15 May 2024

                                        Overall great device except poor thermal performance,average video recording,Telephoto less than optimum at higher zoom.
                                        3.5mm Jack,MicroSD,Huge battery life,Great multirdia experience are the biggest Pros of this device especially that Battery endurance.

                                        Meanwhile me being S22 user,wondering if such battery endurance figures are possible on phones?🤣 It's atleast 3X of my S22,but im not jealous as my precious S22 keeps my phone usage low because its battery would evaporate as soon as i start doing something even moderately on it🤣🤣🤣

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