New xperia XZ2/c

finally sony's phones will look like something out of 2016, that's just two years ago from now! you're doing great sony

Fucking monstrous, there is literally nothing wrong with the Z5c.

Glad I didn't wait and got the XZ1c, that thing looks really disappointing. Like every other chink phone. Why would they move the fingerprint sensor from the side to the back? I fucking loved that sensor placement. Also, logo on the bottom looks ass.

Active ruining the best parts of their phones.

>xz2c
>18:9 display
no
>no headphone jack
no
>no stereo speakers
no
>that design
no

come on sony, you were the last bastion of common sense

I'll judge them when the next Premium model comes out, but man they really dropped the ball here.

Sony phones run great but are constructed from the most brittle material possible. I'm never buying a Sony ever again.

>no headphone jack
wew lad I hope you are memeing otherwise it's going to be doa

>fingerprint reader on the back

dropped

LIterally every phone reviewer kept memeing them to get with the times/ditch their old designs and now look what we get.

fuck all of them

The XA2 (not ultra) is good for the dollars it costs and isn't ugly like moto phones.

>tfw no water resistance
>tfw no dual-cameras
>tfw battery lasts 2 days w/ heavy use
>tfw porn looks crisp and clear

We wanted something more along the lines of Essential Phone/ Samsung Galaxy S8, but in a device packaged from Sony. Sony being Sony, of course, fucked this up.

What the fuck are they doing

Sony is one of those companies that have amazing engineers, but nonexistent product people.

>amazing engineers
Engineer some fucking hardware DRM to lock the phone down?

XD

>18:9 display
*puts black bars (bezels) on ur videos*

>tfw the headphone jack is slowly dying and you get to see all the saltyboys mad about it

:9 display
just say 2:1

That's harder to visualize relative to 16:9 off the cuff, though.

Sony is overpriced shit.
They have one good feature at best (camera in XZ, display in XZ Premium though it's nigh useless) but other than that they're trash.
Also, despite making camera modules they can't make a good cameraphone at all.
Bunch of inept retards.

>Entire industry finally embraces 16:9
>FUCK IT LETS START USING 18:9 NOW

Fuck every OEM, smart phones are so depressing now. I just buy whatever is the cheapest

Damn they really fucked the design of that phone up

>tfw smartphones are becoming dumbphones by stripping so many features while also getting so expensive its more economical and enjoyable to DiY a phablet with all the I/O you want running on a raspberry pi with a fat LiPo glued to it inside an artisan tier wood case
feels strange going back to a feature phone and getting a week of usage before needing to recharge

pic related me using my headphones that never die before the device they are connected to does

18:9 is pretty compfy for 4chin browsing tho

DAT BEZEL

Looks like a fucking Samsung, I hate it
I'll cop an XZ1C while I can and use that until I die.

>Looks like a fucking Samsung
Are you blind?

This phone is sound, but it'll probably be 100 dollars more than the comparable options in my country, that's why I'll never have a Sony phone

>be sony
>make mid range 1/2.55" imx 362 sensor
>make high end 1/2.3" imx 400 sensor with a 20% larger effective area
>sell imx 362 to jewgle and put the imx 400 in your own phone
>pixel 2/xl shits all over your phone in camera performance
How do you fuck up this badly? And also you can't even shoot .RAW with the fucking things.

>"compact"
>5 inch screen

This is actually true, I'm just waiting for someone to make a nice kickstarter DIY smartphone kit.

Wow that looks terrible

5 inch & 4.5 are best for ergonomic, senpai.

fuck, that's ugly

Atrocity.

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it :^)

>iso 600
>iso 800
Isn't it about right that the sony is noisier?
Why didn't they compare them at the same settings?

sony needs higher iso and is STILL darker

Lowlight test uses auto.

Oh yeah, didn't even notice lol I was just looking at the noise.
Can you change the aperture on phone now? Or is that only on the samsung s9?

:9 display
why call it 18:9, when it can be simplified to 2:1?

Holy shit, I didn't even see this one. Honestly what the fuck are they doing? If they just put an f/1.7 lens on it like everybody else, and just used google's camera algos and snapdragon's isp, sony phones would have no competition besides maybe samsung in camera performance.
Instead the photos look like they were taken by a phone from 2015
I'm pretty sure they use auto mode (like every other "reviewer" who are either too inept or too afraid of fucking up to ever use manual settings). Still, the photos were taken at the same shutter speed, with the sony going 200 iso higher, and the image is still darker than the pixel's, despite having a superior sensor. This is either because of a shit lens, or very poor processing, or both.

Same reason 21:9 isn't called 7:3 I guess

>Or is that only on the samsung s9?
And Samsung W2018.
Interestingly enough the tech is old, Nokia N86 had variable aperture 9 years ago.

Okay now wtf sony, they're the ones making the fucking sensors and pushing sensor tech forward. Why are their phone cameras shit?
It should be the opposite crap.
I know that the camera/imaging division is basically a different company to the phone section, even if they ultimately fall under the sony umbrella, but this is shamefur dishpray level shit here.
Somebodies in the sony phone division needs to commit sudoku and quick.

>Samsung W2018.
fucking want

>why call it 18:9, when it can be simplified to 2:1?
Why they don't simplify 16:9 to 4:3?

...

>I'm pretty sure they use auto mode
>The first two camera samples are taken at the lowest ISO for the cameraphone and we hand-pick the best image from many samples. Respectively, they show the maximum resolving power of the camera and how it handles real-world textures.
>The third sample is shot on Auto mode in a room lit at 28 lux. We've added the ISO and shutter speed readings from the photo's EXIF as an additional reading of how well the camera performs.

Oh well, should have read before I started talking shit. Putting it on auto is not going to be a good representation of real life performance though because the phone is on a tripod, so shutter speed becomes less important.

>Putting it on auto is not going to be a good representation of real life performance
It's a nice representation of peak performance and in Sony's case it's pretty fucking terrbile.

>in Sony's case it's pretty fucking terrbile.
True. It really boggles my mind how they are the ones supplying pretty much everyone else with sensors, make the best ones exclusive for their own phones, and their camera performance is at $300 chinkphone levels.

Because the Japanese are pity little faggots who have to much honor to outsource their software even if they're completely incapable of creating decent drivers for their own hardware.

>4.5
Yes
>5
Fuck no

It's hard to kek, but I've tried

I still have a Z3C
The design is great, I'm not sure there's any reason to upgrade. I'm pretty gutted Sony have gone this route, they've kind of lost what made them Sony Mobile and now just look like they're aping the other top brands,

I'll never understand phone reviewers and/or the general public's taste and sensibilities, it's completely baffling what they go for and what they don't. Sometimes I think they're just pretending to have opinions because they don;t know what it's actually like to want to shape the world around them into something better

I've seen some soyboy complain that the rectangular body was hurting his hand because the edge was "digging into the skin".

yuck

It's because their image processing is fucking garbage.
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with them not wanting to affect their camera sales or something, it sounds dumb enough that I believe Sony would do it.

This new phone just looks like shit.
>No headphone jack
>Weird plasticky rounded design that looks like it belongs on a phone from years ago
>Ditching the good looking power button/fingerprint reader in favour of yet another small black button
>Fingerprint reader on the back so you can't unlock it when it's lying on the desk
>Still have huge bezels top and bottom and it looks like the sides have bezels too

What are they thinking. That they can compete with Samsung and Google by making their phone just a worse version of those? Please Sony get your head out of y our ass.

Yeah this always bugged me about Sony reviews. You'd have to be a manchild to complain about that.

At this point I see no reason to buy a Sony phone anymore, they don't have any benefits over their competitors. I own a Z5 but I suppose my next phone will just be a Pixel at this rate.

This is probably accurate. It would be so easy to just use google's api, but they're too dense to admit they can't into software.
Also who the fuck are they trying to appeal to with this new lineup? The majority of people with sony phones bought them for niche features like the design, power button on the side or the walkman shit. No one bought an xperia because they thought the screen or the camera or even the software would be better than on a samsung or pixel or even an lg phone. So why try to copy them and compete with them directly instead of occupying your little niche?