Sony Xperia 1 VII review

13 May 2025


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  • 14 May 2025

John, 14 May 2025If the make a 5 -series version of this and brought to the ... moreIt will not work in the USA. Different bands

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    • 14 May 2025

    If the make a 5 -series version of this and brought to the USA I'd buy it. I use a 5 ii and I love the phone as its still going strong. I can only upgrade to a 5 iv when I jump to a new Sony device.

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      • 14 May 2025

      Anonymous, 14 May 2025x200 Pro/Ultra are easily 16mm thick devices with compromis... moreVivo will put this japanese crap to shame. Thank god the japan adventure is coming to the end. Guys dont buy crapyota, buy byd

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        • 14 May 2025

        Lol, sounds like a phone from 2009. Wait. My nokia had more class back then

          Seems like a decent phone, I only wish it was around half the price. I'd even agree to a number of downgrades as long as I get to keep headphone jack and decent main camera with OIS. Sadly, Sony is hell bent on setting a very high price.

            jiyen235, 14 May 2025>xperia >for gaming lmfaoeven midrange phones can game... dont act like mobile gaming is reserved for redmagics or ROG's

              Let me sum up 221 comments for you:
              --If you're a regular here you'll see the users on GSM who will call you a Sinophobe hate Sony
              --for some reason, some people are really trashing the notion of using an SD card with bizarre 'logic'
              --many still don't understand that lots of companies compensate not being able to optimize software with bigger batteries. ItS sTiLl BetTeR!!!1 lOoK aT bIg NuMbEr!
              --this phone is too expensive given it hardly improved or changed, but fills a specific need for a few people. Like, 15 or so and I think they are all in the comments defending it 😆

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                • Anonymous
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                • 14 May 2025

                Does it have an HDR mode for the camera like Samsung and other brands?

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                  • Anonymous
                  • nDy
                  • 14 May 2025

                  ""Yeah, because nothing is more convenient than having to take out a card"
                  Oh, the laziness of people nowadays." I bet your car has automatically A/C so dont be hypocrite

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                    • 14 May 2025

                    If this phone has Bluetooth 6.0, why other with same 8 Elite use the version 5.4?

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                      • 14 May 2025

                      Anonymous, 13 May 2025Yeah, because nothing is more convenient than having to tak... more"Yeah, because nothing is more convenient than having to take out a card"
                      Oh, the laziness of people nowadays. Do you also eat your chocolate together with the foil because it's too much work to unwrap it? Eat your eggs with eggshells? Wash your head with closed shampoo lid because it's so much work to pop it open and squeeze some on your hand? SMH

                      "that has a HIGH LIKELYHOOD of corrupting"
                      I dunno, maybe if your hands are made of scissors. I took out memory card out of my digital camera hundreds of times and it still hasn't corrupted. This argument is so stupid it only gets beaten by the next one.

                      "while also losing your network from removing the SIM card"
                      ... which, considering you're changing phones, you would do anyway while swapping SIM card as well?
                      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                      "while also potentially damaging the thin contacts that connect the phone"
                      Considering you would have to do it twice - when setting up a phone at the beginning, and then when transferring at the end of its life - you are very unlikely to damage the pins that are flush anyway. Unless you're one of those special people that can set water on fire or suck out life out of a rock.

                      "in the hopes that the other device you're backing up into actually accepts the microSD and doesn't want to format."
                      Maybe you're not doing it right. Try taking the phone on a date first, then ask it to marry you - maybe then it'll accept your SD card. Doing it on a first date may seem quite quick to some phones.

                      "God, forbid you need to use the internet which is automatically included with most contracts and rarely nowadays loses signal, and is practically able to be used by any device."
                      God forbid you need to insert small plastic piece of technology once in a phone's lifetime and get INSTANT access to all your photos like a caveman, as opposed to downloading THE SAME picture EVERY TIME you want to see it from corporate data center, like a smart person does. Surely it doesn't create redundant, unnecessary traffic, multiplied by billions of people doing exactly the same stupid thing every time they want to show a picture. So smart!

                      "Hell, even my GoogleTV can connect to my cloud and play videos whenever I want."
                      Fappening likes your post! There are zero risks associated with storing your pics on the Internet infrastructure, surely.

                      I had my fair share of ridicule, now onto a serious response: why can't you just shut up and accept that other people have other preferences than you do, and your way of doing things is not the only one out there? Did that ever cross your mind? Did it ever occur to you that your subjective needs are not the objective yard stick that you HAVE TO apply to other peoples' subjective needs? I know it didn't, it's a rhetorical question aimed at opening your eyes, if they're connected to the brain behind them that is capable or rational analysis, which your post puts under a high dose of doubt.

                        Anonymous, 14 May 2025In exact same way you can switch from Auto mode to P mode w... more"I can also fiddle with Xperia pro mode which substantially has less "image improvement" processing even in program auto mode."

                        P(Program Auto)/S/M modes are part of the Pro mode, and Sony doesn't provide any settings to reduce sharpening on JPEG regardless of which mode you shoot in. You're given an option to use either DRO or HDR in pro mode, but DRO is a single-frame capture and comes with an image quality penalty. Pro mode disables automatic night shooting mode as well.

                        In the end, in Sony's camera app, there's nothing you can do about its detail processing if you're just trying to shoot in auto, and there are a lot of complications you would need to deal with if you're using the Pro mode as an auto mode replacement. You get Vivo's "effect adjustment" works in auto mode, so if you prefer less sharpening applied to your image, you can set sharpness to -100 and forget about it forever.

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                          • 14 May 2025

                          No 8K@60Hz recording -> deal breaker.

                            Anonymous, 14 May 2025In exact same way you can switch from Auto mode to P mode w... moreYou dont know what you're talking about lmfao what a goofster

                              Anonymous, 14 May 2025x200 Pro/Ultra are easily 16mm thick devices with compromis... moreand? if you want a thin device go get the S25 Edge. You'd be happy with even the base S25 I think lmao

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 14 May 2025

                                Another day of GSMA comment section fanboying chinese phones that they don't actually own (lmao), forcing their own preferences of phones that weights like a brick with massive lump on the back.

                                And another day of GSMA failing to make a proper phone review, clearly using pre-release software to rush out tests yet never once did they mention it. All-in this review will be irrelevant in one month time.

                                As a user who actually owns a 1 IV, i can confirm that all the propagandas on this site is purely halucinated. The "bad camera" narrative is from people who wants fake pictures with fake colors. Battery life is more than enough for a full day of gaming and web surfing, and throttling happens only if you don't know Game Enhancer exist. Same thing happened with my old 5 II when my experiences never align with what reviewers and the "experts" from the comment section said. Strange, isn't it?

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                                  xPandamon, 14 May 2025I wish the Sony phones were better or at the very least muc... moreThere was zero thermal issues on Xperia VI

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                                    • 14 May 2025

                                    Leanzazzy, 13 May 2025I want to love Sony; I really do. They are the only modern ... moreWhat are some common, realistic use case scenarios in which "horrible sustained performance" would become a serious problem?

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                                      • 14 May 2025

                                      jiyen235, 14 May 2025The person you're replying to is clearly only justifyi... morex200 Pro/Ultra are easily 16mm thick devices with compromised ergonomics and weight of 230g

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                                        Nick Tegrataker, 14 May 2025X200 series has Zeiss Natural mode for more neutral colour ... moreIn exact same way you can switch from Auto mode to P mode where HDR effect is very subtle and sharpening is not as prominent. If I am gonna fiddle with Zeiss automatic presets and sharpens slider I can also fiddle with Xperia pro mode which substantially has less "image improvement" processing even in program auto mode.


                                        Zeiss Natural is very close to P/S/M as it doesn't try to contain the highlights at all the cost

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