Sony confirms the Xperia 5 V is not coming to the US
Don’t be bummed about the Xperia 5 V not coming to the US, there are many other great alternatives
Sony could do wonders with these phones, if only they would market them properly. And yet...
You mean, price them properly. What Sony wants for the 5 V is Galaxy S23 Ultra territory.
Edit: Just checked the prices in my territory, I can get the S23 Ultra with change to spare, like, I can get a cheap tablet with the leftover.
Premium pricing proved to be profitable for Sony's mobile division especially with the fierce competition in the market. I hope they would at least extend software support to support the inflated price as other companies are offering 4-5 years of updates at this point.
They aren't really very special phones. Pretty average tbh with a below average flash light (it's basically useless) and terrible fingerprint reader. I only got an xperia because it doesn't have a punch-hole or notch.
I use my smartphone only as a flashlight, so that's good information to have.
As a massively disappointed xperia 1 iii owner I can say good ridance. Great hardware with dogshit software that literally kills said hardware. Backlight inconsistencies, fp scanner inconsistencies, dead fp scanner, random warnings about water in charging port when phone is sitting on a table, massive delays waking up if screen was locked with maps, camera or some other heavy app running, clueless support, shit battery reporting, no way to take quality video quickly, no way to take any video quickly, 60MB updates taking half an hour to install, phone being useless for 2-3 minutes after a reboot, phone being useless for ~5 minutes after an update an reboot, etc.
TL;DR: never buying a sony phone ever again. A grand for this piece of shit! Ridiculous.
Interesting. I've got a 1 III that I pre-ordered from the first batch. The only issue I've had is that the fingerprint scanner totally stopped working at this point, but I haven't found any indication it's software over the thing physically failing. Was damn near perfect before that, in my experience anyway.
My 1V is a solid improvement over the 1III, a lot of small issues have been fixed (although I'm still missing a lot of customization options from Samsung phones)
I'm just not willing to be an alpha tester for them for that money.
The hardware is great, though. Have you tried installing LineageOS on your phone? I'm guessing a lot of your issues would disappear
I haven't as, for the first time in my life, I have an actual use for a camera. I don't want to lose it.
MKBHD's yearly video lamenting Xperia Phones are my only reminder that Sony still makes phones.
My first smartphone was an Xperia, so I still have a soft spot for them. But it's unlikely for them thrive in this market with cutthroat margins.
Xperia 5 5?
Yes arabic for model line roman for generation of the model
Sony's naming conventions are insane.
Overheating garbage anyway
