hi guys its Toddy here again from tech advisor and I have in front of me the
Sony Xperia 5 the main smartphone that Sony unveiled at IFA 2019 and we now
have it in this video to unbox for your viewing pleasure so I'm gonna bust out
the scissors very safe kids always have an adult around for supervision if
you're gonna use sharp implements like I just did
hopefully that was enough to break the seal yep so this in essence is as Sony
used to do with previous devices this is effectively the compact version of
their current flagship the Xperia 1 they're calling it the Xperia 5, why I'm not
entirely sure but nonetheless that's what it's called so the phone is
obviously shimmied around in transit but here's the device itself it looks like
we have the blue version I'm gonna slide out this packaging which does also
actually show where exactly to put the microSD card and SIM this is a hybrid
dual SIM version I believe as well so you can't get it in dual your sim if you
want I'm gonna peel off this screen protector do a bit of Lewis lovely one
side and on the back just a little sticker which again kinda to show you
some basic I don't know address information not that important and that's all there
is the actual protection on the phone no additional screen protectors sony used
to like to fit an actual screen protected to its devices which would
start to flake away over time something that Huawei's also done in the past too
but it looks like this time they've just used straight-up pillowed glass which
looks a lot cleaner a lot nicer and a lot more premium I'm just going to tap
this power button now I should also highlight that the power button here is
separate from the side mounted fingerprint sensor which you can also
use to wake the device it's a bit confusing I don't know why they've
switched to this separate interaction design they used to use a fingerprint
sensor power button combo in one on the for instance the Z5 series and I
thought that was a really nice combination of features but now they
have it separate so it's a bit odd but whilst I'm here some buttons that are
also nice are there's a volume rocker but there is also a dual detent Hardware
shutter key which loads phones used to have and have now nixed really
good if you want to have more control over how you're shooting or exactly when
you're taking the photo that you want to snap and Sony's put a big emphasis on
its photography skills whilst that's booting up we go back to
the box and we have a Quick Start Guide here or startup guide I should say which
this one folds out rather nicely to show you what the sim and the micro SD card
in where the power button is which is not the finger print sensor as I said and a
few other things also it does highlight the fact this is type C but there is
more including a little QR code so if you want to know all of the ins and outs
of getting up and running should be pretty self-explanatory but there's that too
now amazingly we have a UK model usually when we get these samples from
Sony we get the European versions with the two prongs but this is a compact
three-pin plug so you can take it with you good travel plug and this is also an
18 watt USB PD charger so like the Xperia 1 this phone does support fast
charging I believe it's USB PD 2.0 it's the same standard used by the likes of the
Google pixel range and Apple's iPhone range albeit with lightning instead of
USBC for the iPhones that also should mean and if I dive in here we have a USB
C to USBC cable so you can't plug this directly into most computers with a
standard USB a unless you have a more recent machine but it does allow for
that faster USB PD charging it's the same tech as well actually I should
mention that the likes of the Moto G 7 plus uses - which actually gets faster 30
watt charging so that sub £330 phone actually has faster fast charging than
this Xperia 5 which is interesting nonetheless
18 watts still pretty good and with the battery capacity that this phone brings
to the table they will also have headphones which is nice and they are
using a standard 3.5 millimeter jack it's a three ring connection as well you
have a bunch of different and odd sizes so you can change to suit the size of
your ears which is nice and a three-button remote I assume with a
microphone... is that a one button remote? it's a one button remote interesting so
volume control maybe is not part of the equation here just pause play and accept
and end calls perhaps but very nice to have those included I'm sure they offer
some level of decent passive noise cancellation or isolation and it's good
to have this in the box the fact that using a 3.5 mm jack is particularly
interesting as again like the Xperia 1 this phone doesn't have a headphone jack
it only has that USB-C on the bottom edge so instead they have included a USB
C to 3.5 mm adapter which is another thing that is dying out while we wait
for example I just did a comparison between the mate 20 Pro and the Mate 30 Pro
and Huawei included one of these on last year's mate but they've nixed it from
the box on this year's mate so that is something to bear in mind if you do have
nicer buds that you want to use that aren't USBC and kind of old-school
3.5 mm jack you will have to buy separate adapter on most other phones
the fact Sony includes one is really good so that's everything in the box not
a lot to it really I think I'm going to jump through the setup process and then
we'll look at this in a bit greater detail so I've just jumped through the
setup process hadn't really added anything major just did register a
thumbprint on the right hand side which as a right-handed user that's quite easy
for me obviously you can also use your index finger if you're a lefty but
beyond that it was a pretty standard Android setup process I should mention
the user experience here is Android 9 out of the box which at the tail end of
2019 is a little bit long in the tooth we're starting to see phones now
launching with Android 10 such as the new Huawei mate 30 and OnePlus 7T and
presumably the 7T pro when that launches in a few weeks with that in mind sony
hopefully will be bringing android 10 to this device fairly soon and the
Xperia 1 for that matter but in the meantime it's an android 9 base user
experience but it does have the Play Store and all of that good stuff as
you'd expect with a kind of dressing of Sony touches on top for the most part
that company's really worked hard to slim down some of the kind of heavier
touches that you used to have on its skin so it's feels fairly stock the main
difference being that this whole experience is being enjoyed on a 21 by 9
what sony is called a cinema wide display it's the same thing we saw
with the Xperia 1 and the Xperia 10 and 10 Plus that all launched together
earlier in the year the aspect ratio means you have quite a tall slim form
factor it looks quite nice to be fair it looks quite sleek there's no notch here
either Sony instead retains a bezel and a forehead and chin that's a little bit
more pronounced than some other devices and I'm okay with that I quite like the
clean no notch kind of situation here even if it does mean I have slightly bigger
bezels also there's a 8 Meg camera up in the top that you can see in the corner
there beyond that before I get deeper into the software as I said hardware
controls on the side that dual detent shutter key which I'm sure if I press it
can actually quick launch into the camera which is a nice kind of physical
way to jump straight into the camera experience here and let's talk about
those cameras so on the back like the Xperia 1 which you have three sensors we
have three 12 Mp sensors as well I really like that Sony's used the same
resolution sensor across all three of its main cameras as a main 12 Mp sensor
with an F 1.6 aperture and OIS it has a telephoto sensor again 12 Mp with OIS
which has a 52 millimeter focal length I believe and then it has an ultra-wide
which doesn't have OIS but it does have I think it's a 16 millimeter ultra
wide-angle lens so you have a lot of versatility there one of the things that
the Xperia 1's camera taught us is that despite Sony being amazing at
creating camera sensors that loads of other companies including the likes of
Apple and Samsung do like to use itself isn't always great at nailing the camera
experience on its own phones which is really disappointing to be fair
considering how good the hardware clearly is that said the Xperia 1 did
go some way to alleviating this issue the low-light performance was pretty
good some of the regular shooting was fine the main thing was that you needed
to do a lot of or a bit of post editing to get shots really looking how you
probably want them to look for social media where you're gonna share them the
other big focus with both the exterior one and this phone is video the company
has included its cinema pro app which is influenced by the companies I think the
Venice cameras that Hollywood uses that Sony makes
there's all sorts of different things that you can
apply different color grading as you're recording or you can shoot a really flat
looking you can shoot really flat looking footage if you want to edit it
after the fact so this has got some unique talents that kind of help it
stand out from the crowd but they are quite specific in what they offer the UI
itself just crashed actually but the UI itself usually it also is designed to
resemble those fancy cinema cameras beyond that the user experience is like
I said earlier very much like Android they still included the 3D creator
tool if you wanna customize and sorry scan and customize 3d models that you can scan
directly from the phone actually made a Christmas bauble once using this app
it's quite impressive stuff and beyond that yeah there's a few other tweaks
like the game enhancer Sony's idea is that you can play games and then put in
videos for like certain sectors where you get stuck on in games which is again
a unique take on a gaming overlay on a phone from what I've seen beyond that
it's pretty run-of-the-mill stuff the hardware is also quite nice to be fair
considering the standard Xperia 1 is £849 this phone costs £699 on pre
order so it's still quite expensive it's around iPhone 11 pricing so
that's something to bear in mind if you're torn between what to get I'm also
probably around the expected OnePlus 7T pricing as well but for your money you
don't get the full HD display but you do get you don't get a 4k display excuse me
but you do get a full HD display this time is of course extended because it's
21 by 9 is HDR it is OLED which is really nice there's also the creator
mode which is one of the viewing modes that this phone offers which is again
tying into that professional cinema experience that Sony's trying to kind of
imbibe within this device and you can look at content as the creator's
intended is that kind of famous phrase something beats also used in the past with
their audio experiences and on the inside as well it's powered by a
Snapdragon 855 not an 855 plus but still an extremely good flagship class chipset
from Qualcomm which is really nice to see six gigs of RAM just like the Xperia
1 and 128 GB of storage with as I showed you earlier microsd expandability
I believe it's up to a terabyte if you don't use that dual SIM
functionality so you have a lot to work with that
and one of the other things to mention is that despite the glass back
it's actually gorilla glass on the front and back there's no wireless charging which is a
bit of a bummer considering I really like that feature in most phones now
especially since Apple introduced it into its devices and kind of really
popularizing the technology what we do get though is a 3140mAh battery
with that 18 watt fast charging that I mentioned earlier a little bit smaller
than the experia one but that's only because this is a slightly smaller 6.1
inch device and beyond that that's about it you have a loudspeaker at the bottom
the user experience is pretty clean and clear you have slide sense as well the
fringe is reminding me you can double tap on the edge of the screen to bring
up a menu but as ever slide sense is a little bit hit-and-miss and beyond that
yeah the phone should be launching on October 4th of it and when you're
watching this video but we're shooting on October 1st if you preorder this
phone at least in the UK I know right now you'll be able to pick up this phone
with some free noise cancelling headphones I believe it's the WF1000XM3
really catchy name there Sony but they're pretty decent noise-cancelling
headphones that we've already reviewed you can check that out on the
site but they come with this phone if not the phone is £699 and not bad out
the gate we should be giving a full review to this phone very soon so keep
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