Sony xperia phones latest model. Sony Xperia X and others

Sony / Sony is the largest Japanese smartphone manufacturer. The company produces its smartphones under the Xperia brand. Sony Xperia sells about 25 million devices a year. Most smartphones in the Sony Xperia line belong to price category above average, but the price is compensated by traditional Japanese quality, which is recognized not only by users of Sony smartphones, but also by other manufacturers: Sony is one of the largest suppliers of photomodules for smartphones on the world market, their products are also used by the world leader in smartphone production .

For those who want to choose the best Sony smartphone available for sale, this rating, which presents the best smartphones from the Japanese manufacturer in terms of technical characteristics, price-quality ratio and reviews in Yandex Market (the rating includes models that scored at least 40% of fives) as of December 2017.

Sony Xperia L1

The average price is 10,140 rubles. The Sony model, released in March 2017, received 54% of five reviews in Yandex Market and 67% of recommendations for purchase. Technical characteristics: 5.5-inch screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, Android 7.0 operating system, 16 GB of storage and 2 GB RAM, support external card memory up to 256 GB. 4G LTE support. One SIM card. Battery capacity - 2620 mAh. 4- nuclear processor MediaTek MT6737T.

Main camera 13 MP, front camera 5 MP.

5th place.

Sony Xperia X Performance Dual

Average price in Russia - 22,240 rubles. The flagship of the X family scored 41% of fives in reviews in Yandex Market and 67% of recommendations for purchase. Technical characteristics: 5-inch display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, Android 6.0 operating system (after purchase, the OS will be updated to Android 7.0), 64 GB of permanent and 3 GB of RAM, support for two SIM cards and an external memory card up to 200 GB. Battery capacity - 2700 mAh. CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996. There is a fingerprint scanner.

Main camera 23 MP, front camera 13 MP. Xperia X Performance features Predictive Hybrid Autofocus, powered by Sony's digital imaging technology, which helps your smartphone capture even moving subjects with clarity. As soon as you focus on a subject, the camera automatically tracks its movement, so the image is always clear and detailed. According to a study by Strategy Analytics, Xperia X Performance beats all the world's leading competitors in autofocus accuracy. DxOMark resource gave the Xperia X Performance camera 88 points.

Among other advantages of this model, it is worth noting its water resistance.

4th place.

Sony Xperia XA1 Plus Dual 32GB - the most popular smartphone Sony

The average price in Russia is 18,500 rubles. The smartphone, which went on sale in the fall of 2017, received 60% of five reviews in Yandex Market and 75% of recommendations for purchase. According to Yandex Market, this is the most popular model Sony for today.Technical characteristics: 5.5-inch screen with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, Android 8.0 operating system, 32 GB of storage and 4 GB of RAM, support for an external memory card up to 256 GB. Two SIM cards. Battery capacity - 3430 mAh. MediaTek Helio P20 8-core processor. There is a fingerprint scanner.

Main camera 23 MP, front camera 8 MP.

Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra 32GB Dual - Sony smartphone with the largest screen

The average price is 22,000 rubles. The February 2017 model scored 67% of fives according to reviews in Yandex Market and 78% of recommendations for purchase. Technical characteristics: 6-inch frameless display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, Android 7.0 operating system, 32 GB of storage and 4 GB of RAM, support for an external memory card up to 256 GB. 4G LTE support. Two SIM cards. Battery capacity - 2700 mAh. MediaTek Helio P20 8-core processor.

Xperia XA1 Ultra has a mini display feature that allows you to easily operate your smartphone with one hand.

The smartphone is equipped with a professional 23 IP main camera with hybrid autofocus, an Exmor RS matrix for shooting in dim light and a function quick launch, as well as a 16 MP wide-angle front camera.

Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact

The average price in Russia is 35,100 rubles. A smaller version of last year's autumn flagship from Sony scored 77% of fives in reviews in Yandex Market and 83% of recommendations for purchase. This model is one of the three most popular Sony smartphones today.

Technical characteristics: 4.6-inch screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, Android 8.0 operating system, 32 GB of storage and 4 GB of RAM, support for an external memory card up to 256 GB. One SIM card. Battery capacity - 2700 mAh. 8-core Qualcomm processor Snapdragon 835. There is a fingerprint scanner.

Main camera 19 MP, front camera 8 MP.

Sony Xperia XZ Premium

Average price - 35,000 rubles. Sony's flagship, which appeared in February 2017, scored 62% of fives in reviews in Yandex Market and 79% of recommendations for purchase. Technical characteristics: 5.5-inch screen with a resolution of 3840x2160 pixels, Android 7.0 operating system, 64 GB of storage and 4 GB of RAM, support for an external memory card up to 256 GB. 4G LTE support. Two SIM cards. Battery capacity - 3230 mAh. 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor. There is a fingerprint scanner. Waterproof housing.

The Xperia XZ Premium is the first smartphone to feature a 4K HDR display, based on the same technology as Sony's Bravia TVs. On this smartphone, 4K HDR content will be incredibly bright, clear and contrasty.

Xperia XZs features the latest 19MP Motion Eye camera, which captures movements in super slow motion (up to 960 fps) that are normally invisible to the human eye. The Motion Eye camera uses revolutionary intelligent capture technology. It detects movement in the frame and begins buffering the image while you get ready to take a photo. If you release the shutter too late, you just need to rewind time a little and select one of the four frames that were taken before pressing the button. Xperia XZs has larger pixel sizes than previous models, allowing it to capture more light and capture more detailed photos. Intelligent exposure adjustment adapts exposure to ambient light levels, so even photos taken at night look sharp and high quality. SteadyShot technology with 5-axis image stabilization allows you to shoot video without shaking.

The 13 MP front camera has a 22 mm wide-angle lens.

Russian premiere of new mobile products of the new season

On the first day of summer, Sony presented its mobile news in Russia, choosing the Black Sea coast for this. In the city of Sochi, more than fifty journalists witnessed what several months earlier some had already had the opportunity to see at the MWC 2016 exhibition: the line of Xperia smartphones, having changed the letter Z in its name to X, was replenished with four new models at once. Moreover, this time prices for official Russian retail have already been announced for three of them, so there is something to talk about today.

Coming out very soon full review the main model of the Xperia X series, but for now let’s dwell on the general points and differences inherent in the entire updated line. So, in order. Firstly, Sony is releasing not three, but four new smartphones in the new season, they are called Xperia X, Xperia X Performance, Xperia XA, as well as Xperia XA Ultra, about which the least is known so far. It is curious that he was the only one in the new line that differs in screen size. The other three devices received five-inch displays of exactly the same size, but the XA Ultra is a “shovel”. True, 6 inches is no longer a shovel by modern standards, but in the camp of new Sony Mobile products there is nothing larger than at the moment No.

Since we’re talking about the Xperia XA Ultra, we’ll immediately tell you more about it. It is known that this smartphone is equipped with a 6-inch display with Full HD resolution, runs on an eight-core 64-bit SoC MediaTek Helio P10 with 3 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory, and also has two cameras with a resolution of 21.5 and 16 megapixels, slot microSD and a 2700 mAh battery.

The most interesting thing about this smartphone is the front camera: it’s difficult to understand what this is connected with, but the largest device to hold in your hand has an advanced selfie camera with its own flash and even autofocus.

The smartphone is indeed very voluminous, it is much larger than the iPhone 6 Plus. In terms of design, the largest of the new products is no different from the rest: all devices have almost the same appearance and color set (graphite black, white or gold lime). The future price of the new product remains a mystery.

The fate of the other three models is less mysterious; much more is known about them. The basis of the flagship line is the balanced Xperia X and its more advanced and expensive modification Xperia X Performance, and for fans budget solutions A surprise has been prepared in the form of an affordable and at the same time interesting Xperia XA.

The Xperia XA not only has a design similar to older models, but unlike them, it can also boast a so-called “frameless” display, in which the width of the side margins is minimized. It looks really impressive, and most importantly, unlike most contenders for the notorious “frameless” design, it is not just used visual effect with painting, but in fact very thin sidewalls. Practice has shown that this does not in any way affect the ease of handling such a display; there are practically no more erroneous clicks.

The five-inch Sony Xperia XA, like the XA Ultra, runs on the modern Taiwanese flagship MediaTek Helio P10 chipset with eight working cores, has 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of ROM and a microSD slot, it has a 13 MP main camera with hybrid focus and 8 MP camera for selfies. The battery is not the most capacious - only 2300 mAh.

But it’s also worth noting that here, unlike the Xperia X, the back wall is not metal, but plastic (with metal imitation), and of course, the display resolution is half that (720p versus 1080p).

It seems that the weakest point of the model is the display resolution - only 1280x720, which is quite “budgetary”, but the affordability of the smartphone is its main trump card. It is already known that the model will be sold in Russia at a price of 22 thousand rubles, and this, in principle, is quite unusual for a company like Sony, whose products have always been distinguished by the highest prices. Here we are, of course, talking about a mid-level device, not a top-end one, but still, journalists were enthusiastic about this price.

Xperia X and Xperia X Performance will naturally be more expensive, and significantly more so. There were no special surprises here: the cheaper Xperia X costs 40 thousand, and at the same time its platform is not a flagship at all. The S0C uses a six-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650, and it's not even the eight-core version of the Snapdragon 652 used in the stripped-down LG G5 se.

Other specifications of the smartphone include: a five-inch screen with Full HD resolution, 3 GB of RAM, 32 or 64 GB of main storage, a 23 MP main camera with predictive hybrid autofocus, a 13 MP front camera, which also boasts an automatic focus function, and a built-in battery capacity 2620 mAh.

The smartphone supports LTE Cat.6 with maximum speed for downloading up to 300 Mbps, has a fingerprint scanner and a metal body with 2.5D convex glass which, unlike the cheaper XA line, does not have a “frameless” effect. But the most surprising thing is that the device has lost the usual protection from water and dust, which was inherent in the past to most devices of the Japanese manufacturer of mid-level and above.

Xperia X Performance received protection (IP65/68), and this time it is the only protected device in the new line. A smartphone that costs 10 thousand more than its brother has a completely different hardware platform. It already uses the top-end solution Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, supports LTE Advanced with a maximum speed of up to 350 Mbit/s for downloading, and even the case itself is distinguished by a special brushed aluminum metal processing technology. True, it turned out that not all color options of the Xperia X Performance have this very “sanded” surface of the back wall. Even in the photograph you can see that the textures are observed only in the black and gray versions, and in the pink and lime cases the back wall is exactly the same as the regular Xperia X.

In general, all smartphones of the new X and XA lines are very similar to each other; outwardly they can be distinguished only by a few details. For example, the Xperia X Performance is slightly thicker than the Xperia X, but this can only be noticed when the smartphones are placed next to each other. The XA series is distinguished not only by its frameless front panel, but also by the location of the speaker grilles - here they are raised as close as possible to the ends. Well, the Xperia XA Ultra's six-inch display size speaks for itself.

It makes no sense to dwell in more detail on the characteristics of each model here; all this will be described in detail in separate reviews a little later. Now I would like to dwell on a few more general points outlined during the Russian presentation.

Firstly, Sony is concerned about preserving the working condition for a longer period of time batteries, which have now begun to fail more and more quickly with the constant use of “fast chargers” with increased current. Sony has always supported Qualcomm QuickCharge technology in its Xperia smartphones, but now it has added Qnovo adaptive charging technology, which the company recently acquired for its own needs. This smart technology monitors and analyzes charging cycles and their schedule, independently adjusting the charging current. When the program understands that the smartphone is usually set to charge on long term(for example, all night), it will also reduce the current, allowing the battery to be charged in a more gentle mode.

The second general point, which may seem more negative to many, is associated with the so-called “hybrid” card slot. The fact is that until recently, Sony Xperia smartphones remained almost the only ones in which it was possible to simultaneously install two SIM cards and a memory card. This was the case in all dual-SIM models of the Xperia Z generation. Now Sony has given up: the user will be able to use either two SIM cards, or will have to remove one of them in order to install a memory card in its place. However, in Sony problems they don’t see this, believing that 64 GB of built-in memory is quite enough, and there is, of course, some truth in this.

You can also note the fact that Sony was the first to use, according to modern fashion trends, 2.5D glass on the front panels of its new devices. This glass has slightly sloping edges, it is easy to handle and looks impressive. True, gluing protective glass or film here becomes problematic, but manufacturers no longer care about such trifles.

It is worth paying attention to the clearly defined design style of the buildings in the new season. Color options are now available for most models: graphite black, white, gold lime, and rose gold. Finally, Sony has brought the design of its devices into full compliance, for the first time allowing itself to paint the front panels of the devices in the same colors as the body itself. Previously, regardless of color, the front panels under the glass of Japanese smartphones always remained black or white, but not in color. By the way, not only the panels, but even the design themes on the screen are now painted in a common tone, which allows you to perceive the design of Sony smartphones more holistically.

For smartphones Xperia series X several models will be available at once original covers: from pleasant to the touch transparent silicone cases that allow you to enjoy any of the new colors of the smartphone line, to more advanced, technological options with a transparent window through which you can control the functions of the smartphone without opening the cover. A new feature will help you quickly charge any Xperia X smartphone charger UCH12, which supports technologies fast charging from Qualcomm and MediaTek.

And finally, once again about prices. The Xperia XA smartphone will go on sale in mid-June at a price of 22 thousand rubles, and the top model of the X line will cost Xperia smartphone X Performance - in early July at a price of 50 thousand rubles. Also on sale at a price of 40 thousand rubles is the Xperia X model, pre-order for which was announced earlier. All new products will be available in the Sony Store Online branded online store, in the Sony Center network of branded stores and from key partners.

The first Sony Xperia XA owners who purchased a smartphone before the end of June 2016 will receive a three-month subscription to Google Play Music, and buyers of Sony Xperia X and Sony Xperia X Performance will receive additional privileges: a six-month free subscription on Google Play Music, a voucher for 12 top movies from the Privilege Plus service and an additional extended warranty for the display, which makes it possible to replace it if damaged within one year from the date of purchase of the device.

Mobile phones, smartphones from the Japanese company Sony Mobile Communications Inc. are widely represented in online stores in Moscow. Their production began in 2008, when the company was called Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. But after breaking away, Sony was able to start producing flagship premium phones that were in demand.

Functional Features

Since 2012, after buying out Ericsson's share of shares, Sony phones began to be called Sony Xperia and are designated by letters indicating the direction of functionality. Now in production budget models J, versions for various operators D, F, T, V, image solutions S, clamshell models Z and many others.

All Sony smartphones run Android OS, although the first models experimented with Windows. New items from the Sony brand:

• Xperia XZ Premium with water-resistant Gorilla Glass 5 coating. Equipped with a Motion Eye camera that captures movements at 910 frames per second. 4K HDR display, Exmor™ RS camera. Self-learning Sony phone with Xperia Actions, with Smart Stamina energy saving optimization
• Xperia XZs with Super slow motion mode, with three sensors for shooting in any difficult conditions. Waterproof case with a transparent cover that does not need to be opened.
• Xperia XA1 Ultra with 6-inch display, 21.5 megapixel camera, hybrid autofocus, optical stabilization, intellectual flash.
• Xperia XA1 features a 23-megapixel Exmor RS sensor, wide-angle lens, Smart function Cleaner that automatically disables unused applications and clears the cache to free up memory.
• Sony Xperia L1. 5.5-inch display, 4-core processor and 2GB of RAM.

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Under the Sony Xperia brand for lately a lot were released interesting devices in all price segments. Let's look at the best Sony smartphones of recent years with their pros and cons.

So, the models included in the TOP

• Enough RAM – 1.5 GB.
• Enough internal memory- 16 GB.
• High-quality 5-inch screen with a resolution of 720x1280.
• Large battery capacity – 2700 mAh.
• Work in 4G LTE networks.
• The main high-resolution camera is 13 megapixels.

• Few body color options.
• A little expensive for a state employee - 10 thousand rubles.

• Quite a powerful Mediatek Helio P10 (MT6755) processor.
• A good quality five-inch screen with a resolution of 720x1280.
• Support for LTE networks.

• Insufficient autonomy - 2300 mAh is not enough for a battery of a device of this class.
• Low sound volume.
• There is no hot swapping of SIM cards.
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• High performance of Mediatek Helio P20 MT6757 processor.
• Modern version of Android OS 7.0 Nougat.
• Lots of RAM – 3 GB.
• Large volume – 32 GB.
• Oleophobic display coating.
• Powerful main camera with 23 megapixel resolution.
• Support for LTE networks.

• The small battery capacity (2300 mAh) does not provide good autonomy.
• High price for a 5-inch smartphone: 25 thousand rubles.

• High-performance Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 8956 processor.
• Large amount of RAM – 3 GB.
• A lot of internal memory - 64 GB, expandable using microSD cards up to 100 GB.
• Support for 4G LTE networks provides high speed on the Internet.
• High resolution 5-inch screen - 1080x1920.
• High resolution cameras: main - 23 megapixels with predictive, front - 13 megapixels.
• Practical metal housing.

• Lack of 2.5 D glass.
• Insufficient battery capacity – 2620 mAh.

• Powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 8996 processor.
• Large amount of internal memory – 64 GB.
• Protective glass with Gorilla Glass technology.
• with support for resource-increasing Battery Carev and Qnovo technologies, as well as fast charging function.
• 23-megapixel camera with predictive autofocus.

• Uninteresting smartphone design.
• For a premium class, the image quality is not the best.
• The volume buttons are uncomfortable.

• High-performance Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 8996 processor operating at 2.2 GHz.
• Modern version operating system Android 7.1 Nougat.
• There is a lot of RAM - 4 GB.
• The internal memory is very large – 64 GB.
• Screen with protective glass Gorilla Glass.
• 19-megapixel camera with fast motion, slow motion and 4K functions.
• Support for LTE networks.
• Housing protection class IP68.

• The camera lens protrudes slightly.

The period of time under consideration pleased us with both new products in the upper economy class (and in the lower and middle parts budget segment Sony doesn’t work) and among flagships model line.

It cannot be said that Sony smartphones are capable of serious competition, but these are quite good gadgets without excessive ambitions, worth their money.

It is also worth noting the models that have entered the market with high class protection against water and dust IP68, analogues of which appeared around the same time among the devices of other major participants in the IT market. However, this security still has a number of significant limitations.