hi i'm tom you're watching sony 365 and in this video i'm going to be comparing the xperia one
mark ii with the xperia one mark iii and actually this is going to be one of the trickiest videos i
think i'll ever have made this is gonna be tough but let's get into it right now
oh before i get into it any further if you're not already subs make sure you do sub because
we've got the one mark three full review coming up and some other fun stuff and then we finally move
into all of sony's other really exciting products the speakers the tvs all that good stuff and smash
the notification bell if you feel like doing that too right these phones so what i want to find out
is if you have a one mark ii is it worth upgrading to a one mark three if you have an older phone is
it worth upgrading to a one mark iii or perhaps getting a super duper deal on a one mark ii that's
the kind of the purpose of this video and also i want to talk about the differences between
them and and how i feel because i've been living um with the xperia one mark ii for i don't know
almost a year now um and i absolutely love it as you probably know if you've been watching um sony
365. so design wise absolutely hands down the one mark iii is a win it's the better phone in terms
of how it looks in my opinion it probably doesn't matter too much though because you're going to
want to put a case on these i would have thought you certainly should do i haven't which is naughty
cases aren't all that easy to get hold of but i've asked for a few to be shipped down to me so i can
give you a review on the different cases available in terms of at the bottom here usb type c on both
3.1 of course volume rocker all that makes sense they have the headphone jack both of them which
we love in terms of on this side the addition here is the google assistant button on the one mark iii
and i suspect it certainly seems to be the case at about 99.9 percent of you either don't care
about it or don't want it but jerry in sweden you love it jerry this is for you it seems that sony
have done this enjoy it use it a lot please can it be remapped uh not without using third party apps
i didn't want to do that so i haven't done it the good thing about it i'm not a fan of it by the way
is you just you can just ignore it it's a little bit recessed so you won't hit it accidentally
i'd rather it wasn't there personally but i don't care if it can be remapped easily by
you know sony software i'd be even happier then of course we've got the displays the big difference
here of course is on the one mark iii we have got that 4k but with 120 hertz refresh rate actually
it feels even better than that with the 240 hertz motion blur it's that is a wonderful thing
so when we get down to here now because this is a world first i want to get the wording right
when the rumors for this phone first came out i thought there was a chance that sony was going to
try and out samsung samsung they haven't they've done it a different way we don't have crazy crazy
what do they call it space zoom but there's some very nice smooth transitions there we can get and
i understand sony's point they didn't want to go so far that the end result is not an attractive
image which you know makes sense so that's the way they've done it they're the two world first
that i can remember oh and then there's the 360 reality and the spatial audio stuff which
in terms of the speakers on the phone which i'll come to in a second
that wasn't really doing it for me as an effect once or twice great but that's it so that's the
kind of the design it's a win for the one mark iii so the thing is let's talk about the displays
we'll come on to the camera tech and other stuff later and of course i'm going to give you my
verdict at the end of this video on what i would do the display on the one mark ii was already
fantastic but is it worth having and is it great having the extra 120 hertz refresh rate absolutely
i like that very much um but the thing is this display on the one mark ii was already enough
to embarrass basically every other phone going so you know we're very very close to something
amazing with this this is just a bit more amazing but the reality is this phone is at the very very
bottom end of what's acceptable if you want to watch back content or see what you're doing see
your phone when you're under in really bright sunshine this is better but it's still not even
close to where the samsung galaxy s21 ultra is and i'm going to show you that in a in another video
um so yes if you're in a very bright country that is a factor i would definitely consider having
said all of that yeah if it's important to have a really bright screen neither of these are going
to be your guy now let's talk about the speakers they are more than a little bit better i would say
because there's a little bit more information overall but the volume is genuinely much much more
convincing which i find really useful actually just for things like zoom meetings and all that
kind of stuff that we have to do nowadays that's a that's a more useful everyday feature for me
now let's talk about the camera tech because what was the worst thing about the one mark
ii a lot of us would say me included it was a front-facing camera which wasn't very good at all
i've worked out what the problem was it was the fact that i was taking selfies of me
when it should have been leah taking photo uh selfies uh of herself uh which she has
done for us very kindly now so check these out this is the difference between the two
it's actually it's interesting well let me know what you think i'm not just going to tell you
what i think of all these pictures i want to know what you think but i would say it's better
than before but at the same time it's still the same samsung lens sony doesn't like us to talk
about the fact that it's a samsung lens or they don't talk about that fact and there are plans
at sony to de-samsung their lens setup which is a good idea if you ask me funny that that hasn't
happened a long time ago why happened in the first place taking the samsung lenses there but
it looks a bit better it's a bit more usable i like it it works well enough i never take selfies
if you do it's worth just considering that so we flip the phones around now on the other side here
yes we do have that extra kind of telephoto kind of room to operate as i said before it isn't crazy
zoom sony didn't want to go down that route i don't blame them it's a nice little extra
it isn't as big a deal as i thought it would be all that really cool stuff that we had on
the one mark ii that auto focus there for animals and humans that is still there and i don't know i
just i absolutely love that i think it's great fun especially with dog pets i mean i like the
dogs there but yes that is really good it's not as big a deal as i thought it was going to be
so i just wanted to really get that out there it's technically extremely clever and i think
where sony goes with it next and in the future is going to be really interesting but right now
yeah i like it it's good to have it but that's it i hope i've done that just i think that's
fair yes i'm trying to make sure everything i say here is incredibly fair and no one's going
to get bent out of shape doesn't always work out but yeah i'm happy with that that's fair
okay so when it comes to taking pictures of course both of these phones have the dedicated shutter
button it's a bit more fancy and textured of course on the one mark 3 which is actually
you know i like that very much it's easier to just get a grip of it and feel confident that
you've got the phone and you're going to get the image you want um the apps of course are
more streamlined you've got the basic mode within the pro app as it were that makes it easier to
navigate and get around that's definitely a step in the right direction i really appreciate that in
terms of the overall performance they're both so quick you have to really really really work hard
to push them and make a difference uh you know you get a 30 watt fast charger in the box with the one
mark iii that's really nice but the thing that i absolutely love is that you've got reverse wire we
remember we had this debate on the channel a long time ago i didn't think um that sony would give us
the powershare option they have i know a lot of you aren't into it or some of you aren't into it
but i love the fact that it's there because there are moments where i just need that little bit of
extra juice there in the wf-1000 xm4s and of course they don't need to charge for long
before you've got enough of your workout i really like that it's just a nice thing to have but
generally speaking the 4 500 milliamp hour battery here which is obviously bigger than the 4001 here
doesn't make any difference really because i suppose that the screen is needing more of that
battery power so you're not losing any battery power but you're not gaining any either over the
one mark two so it's definitely worth flagging that generally speaking ui wise of course you
know there's a little bit more going on with the one mark iii but it's so minimal it's basically
for the most part exactly the same experience and that leads me on now into the verdict you see
this is okay i don't want anyone to get bent out of shape but i'm just going to say
how i think it is if you're currently rocking an xperia 1 it does make sense to jump up to
the one mark three if you're rocking a one mark ii like i am i feel really kind of like i'd love
a one mark iii and don't get me wrong you know if i was super flush and throwing money around
yes i would go for the one mark three but the differences are significant but not enough for
me to have to deal with the hassle of selling the one mark two to then go out and buy a one mark iii
having said that if we got to you know black friday and there was a really cracking deal
and i'd had one mark two just that little bit longer i might be tempted but right now as
things stand i'm gonna say the one mark iii is clearly better and if you're coming from a one
uh or older phone this is just sensational if you wanna save some money and get the one mark ii
instead even if you're coming from an older phone there is nothing wrong with that the only thing
you've got to be aware of of course is you'll be joining the party a little bit late so you're not
going to get three years of updates uh from the point where you buy it it's gonna be more like two
if you pick that up now um but you're getting that saving and you're getting a very very similar
overall experience and a very sony experience here whichever one of these phones you choose you know
how i feel about the one mark ii and the one mark iii they are easy phones to live with i love the
21x9 form factor they're both light they're just wonderful phones so you can't go wrong whichever
one you choose i hope all that information helps you arrive at a conclusion if you're gonna think
about making this decision anyway i'm tom thank you so much to watch for watching do follow us on
social media i've gone from panama city in panama to miami what's it called ocean drive and then to
a kitchen in wales where i filmed myself and now i'm in a friend's studio in cardiff soon i'll be
back in london and after that who knows thank you so much for watching i'll see you next time