Sony Xperia 5 II

benparker · 1 Oct 2020 at 07:58

Man they need to drop the price by atleast £100. The Pixel 5 will overshadow this.

Squink · 1 Oct 2020 at 08:55

benparker said:
The Pixel 5 will overshadow this.

Uh? The Pixel is cheaper, but with midrange specs. Buy it if you want a midrange phone. The 5 ii is flagship specs and you buy it if you want a premium product. I'm not even sure the Pixel 5 is directly competing with the Sony.

benparker · 1 Oct 2020 at 20:47

Squink said:
Uh? The Pixel is cheaper, but with midrange specs. Buy it if you want a midrange phone. The 5 ii is flagship specs and you buy it if you want a premium product. I'm not even sure the Pixel 5 is directly competing with the Sony.

Of course but Xperia have poor marketing

Squink · 1 Oct 2020 at 20:48

benparker said:
Of course but Xperia have poor marketing

I take it you didn’t watch the Pixel 5 launch event

neoboy · 1 Oct 2020 at 20:55

At least they have marketing compared to Sony

benparker · 1 Oct 2020 at 21:32

Squink said:
I take it you didn’t watch the Pixel 5 launch event

Yea it was shown that much but a lot of hype was generated way before. You barely hear about Xperia phones.

Squink · 3 Oct 2020 at 21:41

Anyone familiar with the uninstallable bloatware levels on Sony phones? Most importantly does Facebook or its services come installed and can’t be removed?

benparker · 4 Oct 2020 at 14:32

Squink said:
Anyone familiar with the uninstallable bloatware levels on Sony phones? Most importantly does Facebook or its services come installed and can’t be removed?

Hard to tell if it can be uninstalled

Squink · 4 Oct 2020 at 14:56

Info is scant but my interweb searching has turned up information suggesting Facebook comes preinstalled and can only be disabled like the rest of the bloat.

benparker · 4 Oct 2020 at 21:19

This may help, no mention of fbook https://forum.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-5-ii/help/bloatware-t4171475

benparker · 6 Oct 2020 at 12:05

Disco_P · 6 Oct 2020 at 14:55

Cause they don't know about them, evidenced in that the featured 1 ii has been out for months and this is the first time Marques has made a video about it and in the video he calls the 5 ii the successor to the 1 ii.

Personally I don't really care how hyped or popular a phone is, it has no bearing on the quality of the product.

cheesyboy · 6 Oct 2020 at 14:57

It may have changed with newer handsets, but my Sony XZ1 came with Facebook installed (IIRC), and I've been able to uninstall it.

Martini1991 · 8 Oct 2020 at 07:47

Disco_P said:
Cause they don't know about them, evidenced in that the featured 1 ii has been out for months and this is the first time Marques has made a video about it and in the video he calls the 5 ii the successor to the 1 ii.

Personally I don't really care how hyped or popular a phone is, it has no bearing on the quality of the product.

Ha ha, I did wonder all this.

kmax86 · 8 Oct 2020 at 10:13

How is Sony with security updates and android major upgrades?

benparker · 8 Oct 2020 at 16:22

kmax86 said:
How is Sony with security updates and android major upgrades?

Apparently the software updates aren't good like Samsung's 3 years.

kmax86 · 8 Oct 2020 at 16:39

That's a shame. I tend to keep my phones for 4yrs and if the 5ii stops receiving security updates in like a year, I think this phone would be a not for me.

Disco_P · 8 Oct 2020 at 21:19

kmax86 said:
That's a shame. I tend to keep my phones for 4yrs and if the 5ii stops receiving security updates in like a year, I think this phone would be a not for me.

There was a rumour that the Xperia 5ii will get android 13 but take it with some salt.

All my sony phones have had at least 2 years of feature updates, I don't remember about security updates.

kmax86 · 9 Oct 2020 at 12:12

looks like this is available at CPW website store to purchase hopefully some local stores have it in stock to view

benparker · 9 Oct 2020 at 12:16

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2020/09/sony-three-years-android-updates-flagships.html

Not sure how true this is