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Looks like just another boring android phone to me. Isn’t everyone just sick to death of everything being android now?
Sony Xperia 1 II - A return to form for Sony?
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Deals are always about. I got the Xperia 1 on the "free" PS4 deal last year via Vodafone. 50GB data, usual unlimited text calls, PS4 included, £36 a month, no up front charge. Obviously wasn't an advertised deal, but if you're a long term customer you'd be surprised at some of the deals they'll offer if you're at the end of your contract.
What's the alternative that's not an Apple device?
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exactly, where are the alternatives and why aren’t there any? The market is severely lacking in competition.
Yep but their post processing has always been hit and miss.
I read something quite a while back that suggested that their divisions don’t seem to work together
It has some kind of blur reduction that is equivalent to 90hz. Apparently.
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Wait, so they're trying to charge this device as much as the S20 Ultra nearly? That's going to be a hard sell, even if they throw in a PS4 or whatnot else along with it.
What price have you heard? What I read in phonearena said the old model was $999 but they don't know the price of the Mk2
With phone pricing every would-be premium manufacturer is now obliged to charge a thousand quid or thereabouts.
It's like when they introduced the university fees, with every institution allowed to charge "up to" 9000 quid. Of course they all charged 9 grand because no university wanted to be seen as having cheaper, "inferior" courses compared to the others.
The same happens in the world of phones. Apple led the charge to £1000+ handsets and every other manufacturer followed suit.
to be fair I dont think anyone paid "list" for the Xperia 1. Sony would be mad not to offer massive discounts/incentives on this model as well, especially as the "last gen" was hardly a smashing success. Probably have to be better than a PS4 since thats basically an EOL product. Those wireless ear buds they released recently would be a good one.
(secretly I wouldn't mind some hilarious trade up program)
(secretly I wouldn't mind some hilarious trade up program)
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Delusional Sony tactics as usual. They always seem to shoot themselves in the foot.
Make the battery a little a bigger, use QHD+ 90hz. And ensure camera is up to par, keep the software upto date. The rest seems good.
The offers were vendor specific last time, some networks got a PS4, some networks got wireless headphones.
That's like saying "another laptop with Windows. Boring!". How exactly do you magic up a new operating system in an incredibly saturated and deep-rooted market with decades of development behind it? I would hazard to say that creating a brand new OS, and hoping it to gain any sort of significant traction in today's market is near impossible, outside of having some outlier factor like being a Chinese company and having access to billions of potential adopters, but even then, you face the challenge of getting the rest of the global market adopting it too.
And the most important factor to mobile OS growth is app development and support. What would entice an app developer to develop for new OS XYZ, when they could just develop for Android/iOS? This is exactly why Windows's mobile OS died.
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This is precisely why the market is broken. Too many things stacked against something new happening.
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Well, the head of Microsoft was dilly-dallying all over the mobile division too, so that didn't help either. Might not have been exactly as it is now if they actually bothered to back it properly, but they didn't.
I really like the Xperia 10 II! I love the design, looks very slick.
Seems like a very solid mid ranger.
Why do Sony announce phones with no release date? If its anything like usual its still at least 2-3 months away, which is pointless...They should have announced it close to the release dates.
Seems like a very solid mid ranger.
Why do Sony announce phones with no release date? If its anything like usual its still at least 2-3 months away, which is pointless...They should have announced it close to the release dates.
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