**** The Official Sony Xperia 1 Thread ****

I'm with O2 and still struggling with Netflix. At the moment Netflix doesn't show in my app draw. I can find it under storage in the settings where it shows as using around 50mb of space when I open that It just says 'computing' for all the app space usage and everything is greyed out.

I'm a bit stumped on how to resolve it without having to factory reset which would be a pain after spending majority of the day sorting banking apps and authentication apps etc :(
 
neoboy said:
I can only offer some boring back garden shots, Sony Xperia 1

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Samsung S7 Edge

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Samsung S7 Edge with gcam

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Sony has good exposure on the sky, but added a lot of blue into what is a grey sky. Things in general seem on a colder side but then again Samsung is on a warmer side. You can adjust the colour temperature easily in the app though when taking a photo.

Also anyone else noticing a solid second or two delay on processing a photo?
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Thank you so much. The top photo with its cold colour temperature looks the most natural to me. The Samsung photo looks similar to what Huawei P20 Pro is producing and in my eyes and to my understanding is too much, artificially warm.
My VKworld S8 also produces cold colour temperature photos.

I hope that if any software issues are found, they can be fixed soon with updates.
 
4K8KW10 said:
Thank you so much. The top photo with its cold colour temperature looks the most natural to me. The Samsung photo looks similar to what Huawei P20 Pro is producing and in my eyes and to my understanding is too much, artificially warm.
My VKworld S8 also produces cold colour temperature photos.

I hope that if any software issues are found, they can be fixed soon with updates.
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I'll do another shot when it gets dark to see what it's like at night as well. I took another photo on the Sony and it got the sky colour right that time, but either way I should be able to get some proper photos tomorrow.

Still having the weird glitch where dark mode isn't coming on and basically giving up on fingerprint sensor until I can borrow someone else to try it.

The screen is SHARP though when looking at 4k content, videos on YouTube look stunning. I preferred the screen on my S7 Edge to the Huawei P30 Pro that I ended up returning but firing up something like this, with the extra resolution and HDR, there's quite a big difference.

 
Just hit 15% (62% out the box) so give it a charge and see what the drain is like overnight and how long it lasts me into tomorrow.

Really looking forward to putting the camera through its paces, here's a comparison against Pixel 3 from Trusted Reviews.

EDIT: My headphones offer process was smooth as butter and O2 sim was activated straight away too.
 
neoboy said:
Just hit 15% (62% out the box) so give it a charge and see what the drain is like overnight and how long it lasts me into tomorrow.

Really looking forward to putting the camera through its paces, here's a comparison against Pixel 3 from Trusted Reviews.
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Well, your photos will help this thread more. The photos by TR make little sense, maybe a double confirmation we need:

Sony Xperia 1 Day: the photo is with wrong colours, no?


GP3 Day:


Sony Xperia 1 Night: too much light from the interior and not visible details inside the hotel reception:


GP3 Night:
 
4K8KW10 said:
Well, your photos will help this thread more. The photos by TR make little sense, maybe a double confirmation we need:
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Well to disappoint, the night shots on this are absolutely nowhere near the witchcraft P30 Pro levels. I'm still getting to grips with the camera software here but you basically need to rely on the phone to decide when to use the night mode, I can't seem to find an option to select it.

Come to think of it I can't even find the HDR option, just need to hope the phone does it for you. Can tell when it's being applied as I'm getting a solid one second delay from taking a photo to being able to see it in the gallery.

Wide angle lens also seems to be missing the exposure slider completely and I don't think it has an HDR mode. All photos I've taken with strong light sources like a sun behind the clouds, lamps, etc tend to be quite blown out compared to regular and telephoto lenses.

Quick videos I've taken so far have been good but looks like stabilisation turns off when you select HDR. It is on by default in that fancy video app they include so generally not finding video from that very smooth. Probably one for the gimbal people.

Here's a photo out the window around 10:30pm, probably just a notch lighter than what the eye could see

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Here's the same with the exposure slider whacked all the way up

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Now that's it's getting very dark though, basically just getting very dark photos. Can't pull off that Huawei P30 Pro magic but hard to expect it to as that has a fancy sensor.

EDIT: Only just realised the camera button has two stages to it like one on a DSLR, half press to focus and full press to take a photo. Also small bug where the software camera button just doesn't do anything sometimes (only happens twice in about 60 photos) so need to use the hardware one or relaunch the app.
 
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Oh that's actually there, neighbour that's out of picture loves having parties in his backyard and has all kinds of lights going on in his garden.
 
neoboy said:
Now that's it's getting very dark though, basically just getting very dark photos. Can't pull off that Huawei P30 Pro magic but hard to expect it to as that has a fancy sensor.
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I wouldn't be happy with the phone when I know there is something better out there for less money.
Currently, the Huawei P30 Pro is the best phone in the world and what makes it so perfect is that its vision is much better than our retina.
All phones must have night session modes which can enable them to see in the dark. There is no point to replicate our poor eyes sight.
 
4K8KW10 said:
I wouldn't be happy with the phone when I know there is something better out there for less money.
Currently, the Huawei P30 Pro is the best phone in the world and what makes it so perfect is that its vision is much better than our retina.
All phones must have night session modes which can enable them to see in the dark. There is no point to replicate our poor eyes sight.
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Funnily enough though, I ended up returning that phone because it was lacking in other areas of its camera experience.

Also I wouldn't give this phone a second look if it was anywhere near S10+/OP7P money but I'll be flogging the headphones so with the O2 offer it should hopefully come to around £450.

I am finding find the camera software on this a little lacking, I would definitely like more control. HDR toggle is only available in manual mode and there is some kind of AI/scene optimiser as well that you can't turn on or off. Also no option to shoot RAW even though phone apparently supports it.

There's isn't portrait mode per se, but a bokeh slider which only works with the x2 magnification. Haven't had much real life experience with the camera yet, rather busy at the moment so probably won't get a chance to properly test this thing out until end of next week.
 
Today is the first day I've had it 100% battery so far it's

11hrs in, 4hrs 25mins sot and 18% battery left. this has included watching the full 90 mins champions League final at 1440p with speakers on loud and around 30mins sat nav.

I've actually found it better than my OnePlus 6 battery wise
 
I'm absolutely loving the phone
I was trying out some steam streaming and that was excellent.

I've tried getting used to the touch controls but they're really not good enough.

Not sure what to do.
I'd love something to just mount the phone to my steam controller but that seems impossible
 
So heads up, put my old SIM in to activate Whatsapp and it completely reset my home screen settings to default with all icons I've organised gone as well.

Little miffed, definitely not one for frequent SIM changers.

EDIT: Anyone else have had problems with the camera app? Yesterday when the phone dropped under 15% whenever I would take any photo, little spinny thing would just keep going saying it's processing the photo and then app would crash. Photo wouldn't be saved so it basically didn't work and today the camera app just plain wouldn't open, simply crash and only worked when I restarted the phone.
 
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Other than the Netflix not installing issue my phone has been fine although I've not really used the camera.

My concerns for battery have completely gone second day at 100% 14hrs in 5hr 45min sot and 6% battery left.
 
Battery been decent here as well, 6 hours and 7 minutes before I hit 5% today and around 6 hours yesterday. Drain overnight was around 5%.

Had a go at doing a few videos today, stabilisation is crazy good at 1080p. Just a shame that recording in HDR turns off stabilisation and that's in Cinema Pro app HDR is locked so footage isn't as smooth as I would like coming out of that.

Still not a huge fan of the camera software, finding myself in manual mode a lot. Also camera tends to overexpose on auto so hope Sony put some effort into that.

To nitpick the haptic feedback doesn't feel as nice as other phones I've tried. Also I'm guessing we're all on 1st April security patch still, how are Sony generally with updates?
 
i've just got one, switched from iphone 6 and damn the difference is like day/night between android and ios let alone the insane performance increase i'm loving.

ios is so poor, especially siri compared to google assistant.
 
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