competitions first before we talk about the five things that sony
didn't tell us during the launch event for the new experience which i find pretty weird by the way
competitions so two things right first thing
whoever can guess the date of when the actual one mark iii will go on sale in let's say the uk
the person who gets closest in terms of the date will win one of these things look i mean a t-shirt
that's what we call these in the trade t-shirt this is an xperia experience shoot raw t-shirt
you can win one of these now in case more than one of you guesses the correct date i'm gonna then say
whoever guesses the usa release date will uh you know something like that i'll put the details in
the description below oh and the other competition thing is you might remember we've given away
sony's before we i think the last one was the xz3 all i'm saying is make sure you're subbed
because there could be another one of those types of competitions on the way you know what i mean
so the first thing that was missing and i'm kind of i can't believe i'm having to say this again
but sony didn't give us the release dates and they didn't give us the price now sure they did
say early summer now i've heard some people online saying that they meant early japanese summer which
i'm told is kind of late july uh sorry late june early july that sort of time well i mean i don't
know if that's true or not but what i do know is that and we've said this before i know we
have all of us here in the comments it seems you know if they want to do this successfully it's
so much better to say boom here's the pre-order links you know let's here's the price let's do
this let's get go let's let's use this momentum to our advantage but of course yes again we could be
looking at a two or three month delay and then a gradual roll out to the markets where they do sell
these phones which isn't of course enough a big shout out to our friends watching in india turkey
pakistan latin america all the countries around the world where you can't buy these phones easily
before the launch event i actually did send a few questions over once i received the kind
of information as a whole just to clear a few things up one of them was the 4k 120hz display
can you actually do both simultaneously because there was a lot of evidence out there beforehand
saying that that wasn't actually possible if you want to run 4k you've got to drop the refresh
rate down potentially to 60 hertz you've got to choose which way you want to go rather like the
samsung approach which is kind of what i thought was going to happen but that wasn't explained
in the launch event do you have an opinion on that and if so would it put you off if you can't
get the two things simultaneously is that the impression you you got from the launch event
i'd love to know let me know in the comments below the next thing i asked about this as
well i didn't get an answer i still haven't had an answer it seems a little bit odd to
not have answers before the launch event have the launch event and then still not have answers after
the launch event but you know i love a challenge so i asked about microsd card slot are they
all having them and it turns out they are but because of the absence of information on the uh
expandable storage there all kinds of misleading information has been flying around i've seen like
relatively credible news sources saying that the five mark iii wasn't gonna have one or didn't have
one it does we can relax i think because i've seen it on sony's website and i'm sure that's accurate
but i mean my goodness we could have just dealt with that and had that information be out there in
the first place now the next thing is probably what i'm most worried about in terms of this
phone getting naf reviews it's the front-facing camera and it looks in terms of the specs here
like it's identical to last year now one of our top commenters in the comment section below and
you know top people here do you know what we're not the biggest youtube channel in the world by a
long stretch but we do have some quality people here really quality people quality comments
make sure you're subbed and part of the sony 365 community so christopher cressy here mentioned
that this was actually a samsung front-facing wall sensor and that's unfortunate because it would
have been nice to see something sony up there you know for obvious reasons and if it isn't sony for
whatever reason at least be good and it isn't good well it wasn't last time around with the one mark
ii that was my biggest bug bear i suppose because it was such a massive own goal it didn't need to
be that bad the other thing that was completely missing from all of the information here was the
google assistant button is that what it is i mean obviously we think it is because that's what we
got last time around with the five mark ii can it be remapped it's really important to know this and
i just wish it was possible to have an answer now i feel like it would be fair for us to know if it
can't be remap and it is a google assistant button i want to know let me know in the comments section
below would that wind you up or are you a-okay with that i know we have uh one person here from
sweden who's a big fan of it because apparently using the wake words uh it can be tricky if you
speak a foreign language uh i say foreign i mean non-english sorry could be difficult if you speak
a non-english type of language to why you know what i mean and i've just realized i've gone over
my five things so technically this is six but this is a bonus one okay wireless charging and battery
sharing feature are not possible on the five mark iii it wasn't sort of clear i wasn't sure
i gotta tell you i was really really surprised that the five mark iii wasn't introduced with
wireless charging because that was by far the biggest sticking point with all the tech reviews
and with all the comments i saw below the biggest sort of number one deal breaker with the five
series there was the lack of wireless charging i am surprised that isn't a thing with the 5 mark
iii it's a bit of a pity although i have noticed in the comments section below i think around about
40 percent or more worry about it the rest just don't care and that's fair enough and if you do
care that much there's always the one mark three of course but yeah that was a bit of a
strange one i thought so yeah these are the five or more things that sony didn't tell us i really
want to know why we cannot get to a point with these xperia launches where we don't just have
the event open pre-orders immediately and just get these phones on sale and in more countries
is it just me i mean it's got to be possible right anyway let me know what you think about these
missing pieces of information and let me know if any of them affect your buying decisions i'm just
really into interested to know what you guys think i mean you know what i think and um bob
and i will say goodbye and we'll see you next time as long as bob's live which is 50 50. you