Sony Xperia 10 VI review

16 May 2024


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MindTheGap, 18 May 2024Even when it's available there, bet it won't sold... moreYeah so sad about Sony phone. 12 years ago my phone was Sony Xperia, it is so sad they lose to China competitor

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    You have to change on chapter 6. Final words, our verdict, pros and cons: "The higher-tier Redmi Note 12 Pro+ ...", it should be 13 Pro+.

      MindTheGap, 18 May 2024Even when it's available there, bet it won't sold... moreIn the U.S. it is almost exclusively Apple, Samsung and Google.

        MindTheGap, 18 May 2024Not trying to hate, but you probably should check your eyes... moreI set the G8 at a lower resolution to conserve the battery. It is nice to be able to have the option to increase it. I set the refresh rate on the 5iii lower to conserve the battery. I can notice a difference. I do see opthalmologists.

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          • 18 May 2024

          Anonymous, 17 May 2024Sony does not even have deal with mediatek to have chips. ... moreSony have used MTK chipsets in the past. The latest was they used Helio P35 in the Ace 2

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            • 18 May 2024

            Anonymous, 18 May 202460 Hz is enough.Its enough when your favorite brand use 60Hz, but never enough when other brands use it, am I right?

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              • 18 May 2024

              Anonymous, 18 May 2024Real oddball design. 6.1 inch tall display is incredibly na... moreI mean it's mainly the display/narrow design that is the selling point of this handset, otherwise they don't offer anything better than other manufacturers. It's actually pretty nice in actual usage though since it's much more comfortable to hold than most smartphones, still not a particularly small display

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                DBS, 18 May 2024"you get a compact device with a quirky aspect ratio t... moreIt's compact in width, making it easier to hold than most smartphones, one handed mode also works fine for one handed usage

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                  • 18 May 2024

                  Real oddball design. 6.1 inch tall display is incredibly narrow and probably best suits a child..but then the phone would be too tall for child's pockets. So they produced a phone that only awkward people will buy just to be different. So they change the tall display on the device that nobodies gonna buy and leave the cheaper device in the garbage that more people can afford. MD needs a slap to bring them back to reality. Xperia needs a rebrand.. It's never done particularly well even when the phones were worth buying just after the Sony Ericsson partnership split.

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                    • 18 May 2024

                    60 Hz is enough.

                      Strawhat, 18 May 2024Yeah in Indonesia sony not available Even when it's available there, bet it won't sold well. People here are literally between these 3:
                      1. Price-to-performance centric. With the same pricing you can get a phone with better performance.
                      2. Don't understand anything about phone. They will literally buy something between Oppo and Samsung anyways.
                      3. Samsung & Apple centric. They literally have a mindset "with this pricing Samsung and Apple are the only phone that worth to buy".

                        Anonymous, 18 May 2024I switched off the high refreshrate on my phone! I really t... moreNot trying to hate, but you probably should check your eyes to doctor man...
                        It's not everyday I've seen many people in Apple community that "forced" to buy the Pro version of iPhone and iPad instead of the normal iPhone or iPad Air just because they can't stand with 60Hz. Normally, you wouldn't notice the difference when you switch from 60Hz to 120Hz. But when you switch back from 120Hz to 60Hz, NORMALLY you would notice the differences.

                          AnonD-1154464, 18 May 2024Why can you not be unbiased in your reviews? Calling this a... moreTrue. Those symmetrical bezel and headphone jack are not actually "retro", it's just another big companies that wants us to think that way, so we buy their inferior wireless buds and their ugly punch hole phone.

                            CompactPhones5ever, 17 May 20243.7?! Welcome to another episode of "what the f*** do ... moreWhen it comes to Android vendor, everyone complains when there's that one vendor that still gives 60Hz screen on their phone.
                            But when it comes to iPhone, no one complains. Double standard lmao.

                              Smallworld , 17 May 2024So they're better just because they got a 90hz display... moreBeing late in getting updates is not the end of everything, even for a phone at that price.

                                DBS, 18 May 2024"you get a compact device with a quirky aspect ratio t... moreJoke of the week 🤣

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                                  YUKI93, 18 May 2024Personally speaking, I think the Xperia 10 should be the on... moreoh, yes! i agree with you here!
                                  imagine, recording a video in 21:9 (either 2k or 4k) and yet, you get black bars when viewing it...
                                  maybe, the aspect ratio is also the reason why video pro is not yet on the merged camera app - video pro is perfect for 21:9 as the controls can be viewed comfortably beside the viewfinder...

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                                    Daamn it Sony. I was willing to compromise on performance slightly to get this. For the sd card slot and headphone jack and decent cameras for the price + the size it self ... but then you ruin it with 60hz display and even casual gaming needs that. I've been using Galaxy A52s for few years and I was looking for a phone with same features, but with software support

                                      Personally speaking, I think the Xperia 10 should be the one that gets the 19.5:9 screen panel change, not the Xperia 1. The Xperia 1 has always been the choice for professional-grade mobile videography, whereas the Xperia 10 is just a typical average consumer smartphone. It's not hard to find cinematic videos recorded from an Xperia 1/5, but you'd struggle to find one recorded from an Xperia 10.

                                      Performance-wise, the new Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 SoC shows massive improvement over last year's Mk5 with Snapdragon 695. However, the battery endurance rating shows the problem with Samsung's fabrication process. How a newer 4nm SoC scored worse battery performance than an older 6nm SoC? It should be the other way around.

                                        LoneOwl, 17 May 2024Another Xperia 10 device that is terrible to no one surpris... moreI will attempt to explain the observed differentials in battery life (gaming and other aspects).

                                        To start off, the 4LPE process used to manufacture SD 6 Gen 1 is inherently slightly less efficient than N6 used to manufacture (around 5% or so). This can be seen in the slightly lower talk time and video playback time. But that doesn't explain the differential in gaming test.

                                        Now, battery capacity for both phones is around 20WH (4V * 5000 mAH). Therefore while gaming the SD 695 seems to be using around ~ 2W (20/10.2) while SD 6 Gen 1 seems to be using ~3W (20/6.8).

                                        SD 695 has a very weak GPU, and it is very likely that whatever gaming test gsmarena is running, it is running much below the maximum fps (which is usually 60fps in most games). Let's say it is running at 30fps. Let's also assume that the display (and other parts) are consuming 0.5W while the chipset is consuming 1.5W.

                                        SD Gen 1 has a significantly better GPU, and yields around 40-60% more fps in games. Let's assume that it is running at 45 fps. At this point, display etc is consuming 0.5W and the GPU is consuming 2.5W.

                                        So the additional power consumption is a result of additional performance. It is just a price you pay for better gaming experience. If there was a way to limit the SD 6 Gen 1 gaming performance at the level of SD 695, you will even see better efficiency and battery life (since SD 6 Gen 1 has more compute units, therefore it can achieve the same performance at lower frequencies and thereby better efficiencies). Given our assumptions, SD Gen 1 should achieve the level of 30 fps at consumption of around ~1.1-1.2 watt.

                                        The higher efficiency due to more cores can be seen in the web browsing endurance, where on many occasion, more than 2 performance cores can be employed. In such scenarios, the processor with more wider architecture or higher number of performance cores, i.e. SD 6 Gen 1, becomes more efficient than SD 695.

                                        On a side note, in gaming endurance tests, when comparing two powerful processors (such as 8+ Gen 1 vs 8 Gen 2) you might see the more powerful processors giving even better battery life. In such cases, both the processors would be running the game at maximum fps, and since the actual workload is the same, the processor with more compute units will consume less power (as explained above).

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