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• Teknikal@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah their phones do generally still do things like microsds etc which is very nice I also like the psp but I’ve bought so many Sony products that develop weird faults straight after the warranty and the fact they alway push propriety cards etc.

  Its a weird company where divisions seem to actively sabotage each other I just don’t trust them at all.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also like the psp

    I like it too. I’ve even made a few calls with the Skype version for it.

    Lots of Star Wars and Forgotten Realms and Russian fantasy books and lots of porn stories have been read in its web browser.

    The music player felt nice.

    In general, I feel like that’s how “smartphones” should be.

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    • Teknikal@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      PSP us probably the best thing Sony ever made even considering the Walkman when they were a a+ Company. Psp has some super gems the sad fact is the Vita could have easy been even bigger if Sony themselves didn’t jump through hoops sabotaging the thing.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Vita

        PSP-2008 (slim) is the best IMHO, fewer things to break mechanically, immortal buttons, big enough for my clumsy hands.

        and they gave all the big title game releases to absolute garbage company’s like Nihilistic who have now renamed themselves several times because they make pure trash so they have to .

        We-ell, I played a few Star Wars games on it, and some more. Would like plain Battlefront II there, though. And playing KotOR II: TSL on PSP lying in grass in summer in sunny windy weather would be glorious.

        Sony kill switch

        That’s the company that would distribute trojans on official CDs.

        One of the reasons I was sympathetic to Apple at some point was that I liked PSP and Sony was just as bad. Then I realized that Apple simply doesn’t offer anything interesting though. Eh, neither did Sony after PSP.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sony phones are pretty great for stuff like this tbh

  • MicroSD

  • dual SIM

  • headphone jacks (this is despite Sony being one of the biggest names in Bluetooth audio and therefore more likely to benefit from getting rid of 3.5mm)

  • they stuck to notification LEDs longer than anybody (sadly stopped on their newest gen IIRC?

  • dedicated 2-stage camera shutter buttons

  • no notch, no hole punch

  • stereo, front-facing speakers

  • first to embrace water resistance on smartphones

  • an OS that doesn’t treat you like a complete baby. It shows some relatively advanced options in the settings app and actually explains what they mean and why you’d want to use them. I appreciate that.

  • shockingly FOSS friendly, even going as far as providing bootable AOSP builds on their GitHub, as well as contributing more to AOSP code than anybody other than Google themselves, despite being a niche OEM

  There’s a few things that suck. They need to extend their software support, their naming is dreadful (yes I know it follows the camera division naming, it’s still dumb), and they try to charge Apple/Samsung prices despite not being in the same dominant market position. But overall their Xperia division actually puts out some good stuff IMO.

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you recommend any specific model of Sony phone? I’m thinking it’ll be my next one. I have an older Sony Vaio that I loved, and it ran Linux like a charm. Need a new phone and will only buy one with a microSD slot so…

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends how high end you want to go tbh. Of their current lineup I only have experience with the Xperia 5 series, and it was great. I believe the current gen is the Xperia 5 V (still the dumbest naming scheme I’ve ever heard…)

      I’m not really treating it as a proper recommendation, though, because I’ve not seen any reviews or anything. This is based on a slightly older model I had as a work phone.

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      • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sounds like you liked it! I currently have a Samsung Note 8 and it’s getting long in the tooth. I’ll take a look :)

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (this is despite Sony being one of the biggest names in Bluetooth audio and therefore more likely to benefit from getting rid of 3.5mm)

    What’s fun about that is the bluetooth sucks in many experia phones. So if someone wanted to use a bluetooth device they’d be better off just getting a new phone. My friend has fun with his Tesla where his wife has to turn bluetooth off on her phone before they get in otherwise the car will only connect to her phone and not load his profile/get angry if she gets out.

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    • ag10n@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like a Tesla issue

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bluetooth sucks with everything else, and is unusable according to him. It’s definitely the phone’s fault not the car.

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      • camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah I’ve had the same exact issue with my Xperia 5 iv and my Sony(!) car stereo. If there are other options to connect it will disconnect from my phone and connect to the other one

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