Owned an Xperia 5 III and liked it enough to replace it with a 5 IV. Miss having options for a compact flagship like the 5 IV or Zenfone 10. Headphone jack ftw.
Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet
Submitted 2 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/sony/sony-isnt-giving-up-on-xperia-smartphones-just-yet
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karpintero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Owned that phone as well but had to return it twice due to the pink stripe issue, otherwise I'd probably still use it to this day
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Taking the opportunity to shill for Sailfish OS, which supports various Xperias.
My daily driver since 2020.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
As an Xperia 5 III user I’m feeling very left out
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Any idea what their support lifecycle is? Wondering how long they usually support a device.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The one I started with 5 years ago, the already venerable XA2, is still fully supported - since 2018.
pika@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
As an Xperia 1 iii user I am feeling very left out.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All the good phones are dying. I still quite enjoy my 1 IV, and honestly the Xperia line would probably be my choice in a couple years when I am ready to upgrade if they are selling them in the US at that point.
I’m hoping Fairphone gets US support at some point because they seem like the best option.
It really feels like design peaked a decade ago. Headphone jacks, micro SD card slot, removable batteries, front-facing speakers. Everything good has been removed and the phones are 5x more expensive. The few phones left with some of those features are the cheap weak models for people who only use their phones to call and text.
LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
You’ll have to go through Murena for the Fairphone 4. More details on my comment here about US coverage.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My favourite phone was an xperia, they are poorly marketed, overpriced and thebmost recent iterations are sub par in terms of components. It is so disappointing.
Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Need more non-American companies making top of the line phones!
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Most phones are Japanese, Korean, or Chinese.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We already have a Korean mega-conglomerate.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
how work with tariffs?
Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What tariffs? Non American phones have no tariffs.
prudent_floret@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
I loved my old Xperia X when I bought it. The camera was amazing, the weird aspect ratio of the screen was comfortable to hold…
My current pixel is close but it’s still a big unit of a phone!
boobs_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If only there were still US models, I would absolutely buy the VII. I love my IV but dropped it a few too many times and have some cracks and occasional weird screen issues because of it. The price point is pretty bonkers but I make enough to afford it and haven’t regretted what I spent on it at all.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
They stopped selling them in NZ years ago, I have a grey market mk6 and it works fine here and in the US
boobs_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I heard the VI works fine in the US but I guess not the VII? The Xperia subreddit seems to constantly recommend against it
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just want an Xperia Play 2. Make it a foldable this time around—and as thin as a Samsung Fold 7 (with screens just as large)—and I’m completely sold.
The original was an excellent idea squandered. Had Sony continued to invest in the idea, I could see future Play phones not only being a proper followup to the Vita we never had, but also a major competitor to the Steam Deck.
Come on Sony, be innovative again like you used to. Give me what I want, no, what I need.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No way. Apparently heads will explode if phones aren’t thin enough to act as a knife and perfect boxes…
Seriously though, that would be sick.
I think my dream phone is an Xperia play style slide out keyboard, instead of gamepad, and a “bulge” design like HTC used to do.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I would instantly buy an Xperia Play 2 at any price.
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Oh don’t worry, with Sony’s history I’m sure it’ll be around $2500
Nestor_II@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The SP was my first Xperia over a decade ago, I had several other phones since then, but now back to Xperia with the 5V, love it. And I’m still good for some years I think. So it’s nice the Xperia line still has a future. I just hope the price is not too premium…
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but after the rootkit fiasco, would you really want to?
Its a real shame the handset market is completely fucked and void of creativity
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The scandal from 20 years ago, instigated if I recall correctly by a CD manufacturer ran by BMG (that Sony had a 50% stake in)? Sony-BMG hasn’t existed in almost 2 decades dude.
Additionally, Sony Mobile is pretty open source friendly. Despite them being a tiny player in the smartphone market, they’ve contributed more to AOSP than any corporation outside of Google. They allow bootloader unlocks, they do prompt releases of kernel source code, and they even release bootable AOSP ROMS for their devices.
I won’t certainly excuse the rootkit scandal that Sony was semi involved in, but it’s crazy that people still clutch pearls about it 20 years later, while simultaneously happily signing into Steam and downloading games with kernel-level anticheat.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I didn’t know about their AOSP contributions, cheers!
Agree on the kernel anti cheat, but those games always seemed unsatisfying, personally
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I agree with anti cheat in video games. 100% spyware designed as video games. I always install games like that on my PlayStation(lol)
However, the united states government did the Alabama Syphilis Experiment (that they like to refer to as the town it was in, Tuskegee so you think it was some far off place when you look at the name) and I straight up wouldn’t ever trust their ass again either. (Shit, MK Ultra, Agent Orange the verified list goes on and on)
Different situation for sure, but same energy. The lack of caring and lack of any repercussions cause these types of things to happen over and over again.
Sony definitely knew what was going on during that shit. They were pissed that you’d burn your friends CD and get to sell copies of it at school and shit.
And yes I do use a PlayStation only as a anti cheat gaming device and would never put any information into it I wouldn’t want 800+ companies to know about. They get hacked all the fucking time so I have a card that doesn’t even work as the payment method listed and just use gift cards.
Because I don’t trust them all the way. And that rootkit bullshit will always be why. You make it sound like they didn’t know. No sir, check out the wiki and all the bullshit covering up of it they tried to do.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Are you talking about the scandal from 20 years ago, or something new?
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh right, 20 years ago 👴
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The old one, for sure
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
A good chunk of the target market didn’t yet know what their own fingers were for 20 years ago, if they were alive at all. I don’t think that scandal has anything to do with their current market position.
decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Meh. I have a 10 VI. The phone is good, compact and great battery which is all I want. Except the software is bad. And it’s a software issues the hardware isn’t slow enough to explain why it takes a couple second everytime I unlock the phone before I can actually interact with the screen. Or lock the phone again.
Makes something like replying a simple “ok” to a message a chore. L
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Their midrange phones were never good
HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org 2 weeks ago
OUCH. I had Z1 and what I liked about that phone was how buttery smooth it was
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Sony has generally made awesome stuff. The number of groundbreaking concepts or tech is incredible, although they have been outputting less “wow stuff” lately. I get the impression that their marketing sucks balls lately.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lately? Everything from rollout, branding, naming suuucks with Sony. Consistently. Their most recent phone is Sony Xperia Z VI. Their most recent headphones are WH-1000XM6. Wtf fuck. Their competition is Pixel 9, iphone 16, air pods pro, etc. …doing things differently could be done better.
They are a poorly run great company. They make genuinely gpod tech but every business decision is poor.
As an exampl, Sony own a lot of music, like a huge amount of through their labels. The could have made Walkman a streaming service to rival spotify and Apple and stuck it on every Xperia phone for a year for free and got market share. They just suck at getting it out there. They could have been the company to fill the luxury android spot to rival iphone.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sony got big enough to see themselves become the villain. They’re no longer the plucky company pushing technology forward by releasing off the wall or risky products that become groundbreaking. Rather, now they’re the highly conservative greedy assholes who are always last to market with anything, are obsessed with trying to make their version of everything proprietary (cables, memory cards, batteries, software…), try to install rootkits on your computer if you want to listen to music, and sue people for watching a Youtube video.
Sony deserves to crash and burn, so any talented employees they may have left can be released from the shackles of lifetime employment at massive Japanese conglomerate and freed to work somewhere where they might be able to make some positive contribution to society again.
Fuck Sony. Never give Sony a single red cent.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Headphones have always had stupid names because no one ever knows what they’re called anyway. Meanwhile Xperia Z VI, well overly obese is exactly in line with all other phones.
iPhone 16 Pro.
Galaxy 18 Pro
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I’m done buying them tho
witty_username@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
More compact phones please!