How you going to unlock it. Get a code from O2? Will they do that straight away?
Sony Xperia 1 II - A return to form for Sony?
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How you going to unlock it. Get a code from O2? Will they do that straight away?
O2 phones are now unlocked, so no problem there.
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Is that a guarantee?
Well a google search comes back saying all O2 pay monthly phones come unlocked since mid 2018.
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This is very tempting then.
Why spend £700+ on a Chinese phone when the same can be spent on Sony?
Just click it rodders, I did yesterday!!
You can do it.
I wouldn't, spending £700 on a flagship phone is nuts. It will be worth £100 in a couple of years! 
Also is it really called the "Xperia one, two"?
Is that next one going to be called the one, three? Or the two? Is the successor to the two going to be the two, two? Or the two, three?
Also is it really called the "Xperia one, two"?
Is that next one going to be called the one, three? Or the two? Is the successor to the two going to be the two, two? Or the two, three?
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To be fair to Chinese phones, you'd probably spend £400-£500 for something along these specs
I wouldn't, spending £700 on a flagship phone is nuts. It will be worth £100 in a couple of years!
Also is it really called the "Xperia one, two"?
Is that next one going to be called the one, three? Or the two? Is the successor to the two going to be the two, two? Or the two, three?
xperia 1 mark 2 is what its called. Same scheme Sony use on there high end cameras. And Nuts to buy as you will lose money? Nearly everything you buy will over time, welcome to the world as it seems you have just arrived.
To be fair to Chinese phones, you'd probably spend £400-£500 for something along these specs
Nah there is no cheapo version of this not with the camera tech Sony have leveraged from there Camera division check ot the eye AF system that can recalculate at 20 times a second for burst shooting. I have nothing against getting a cheap chinese phone as I had a Axion 7 for 2 years and that did have flag ship specs for 1/2 the price of the highend phones at the time.
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Not to my knowledge with 865 and zoom cam, never mind getting into IP rating, OIS, etc. The Vivo x50 line will be the closest with the x50 pro+ at $700.To be fair to Chinese phones, you'd probably spend £400-£500 for something along these specs
Edit: And ordered. Atleast can cancel or return if I change my mind
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Nothing depreciates like flagship phones do. Its one of the fastest ways to throw money away.
No buying a new car beats it by miles. I can afford a new phone and take the hit so no problem. The amount of money I have spent each year upgrading or building new computers for myself in the last 30 years since the Intel 286 days is a lot more than £805 over 2 years I will loose on this as I probably gift it on to a relative when I upgrade next.Computers have stalled in performace so yearly or 2 yearly upgrading is not really needed any more and I think smartphones are getting to the point we will not see big leaps in performance driving upgrades.
It's gets used and daily at that.
Yeah, you could be right, although tbf the 865 and zoom camera probably aren't the hardest bits to match at under £500. It's often things like IP rating that they don't want to spend the £££ on.
Aparently the reason this gen are so expensive is the cost of the 865 with 5g modem. Qualcom know they have the best by far chipset and they wanted tsmc capacity for the smaller nodes so the cost of the chips went up considerably from last gen.
Fair point. What benefit do you get from having a flagship phone though? What do you do with it that warrants the specs it has? (Genuine question)
I use my phone fairly heavily, for music, social media, sending emails, taking pictures, watching 1080P youtube videos, browsing the web, video calls, occasionally playing games, and it is a 2017 Nokia 8.
It does everything I ask of it, and it even still gets software updates. I bought it second hand off a friend after he upgraded.