hi i'm tom i'm the founder of BTEKT this video is all about the xperia 5
mark ii we've just watched the live event so
we have all the information and i want to know what you think of the
phone and just as importantly if not more
importantly let's compare it to the uh the specs as we think they're going to
be for the pixel 5 and the iphone 12 even 12 pro
because actually in terms of us pricing especially
they're not that far apart let's get into it right now
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right now and the notification bell because very very soon
we are flying from here in Panama City to
Miami, Florida and we're going to be getting the phone
in hand and we will be doing an amazing number of comparison videos
camera guides all the kind of stuff we do here that we've already done with the
Xperia 1 II, okay so do that and let's get into
the the 5 II right now cheers okay so first of all i want to give you
some good news and some bad news just so we know what
we're dealing with here the good news is that the battery has gone
up from 3140 milliamp hours up to
4 000 which for a phone that's even thinner than last year's model
and so small anyway i mean we know it's a tiny phone
um that is epic absolutely wonderful news really happy
that sony pulled that off the other great news is that the price
is lower than it was for the previous model 799 GBP
in the uk 949 in the usa
so far so good so what's the bad news well the bad news is
that wireless charging has gone it's not here at all and
the 4k screen that we had and absolutely loved on the xperia one mark
ii that's gone too here on the five mark ii it's just full
hd plus now that does not worry me at
all the loss of wireless charging that that's a little bit more of an
issue for me is it a deal breaker i'm not going to say it's a deal breaker
but i have a worry that it will be for a lot of people i'd
love to know what you think let me know in the comments i'll see you
there so the xperia 5 mark ii comes in two
colors black and blue although it's worth noting blue is only
available online that may change in the future and
there may be more colors in the future i hope so because
i have a feeling that for a lot of people colors are really important and
apple and i think to a lesser extent google as
well with their pixel lineup will have more colors to offer
by the way the five mark ii will be available for pre-order from
october the first and i believe you'll be able to buy it in store from the 12th
of october so that's pretty good news design wise
it's very very similar to last year's model
although and by the way all of the the the commenters we have here the
subscribers at btec noticed within about half a second
that this is a much more rounded off design
if you look at the corners here this is uh because sony wants
the device to be as comfortable as possible to hold
um interesting i mean i think that's it's a fair point
i can't wait to get the device in hand to let you know if it feels
better in hand all i would say though is that the xperia one mark ii
as far as i'm concerned feels just absolutely fine in hand i've got no
problem with the corners whatsoever so i'm a little bit surprised
that they they went down that route so the display
is 6.1 inches uh 21x9 of course that's the way sony
does things and i love it um it's not 4k as we said
but you know what i'm absolutely fine with that because
99 of the time i know possibly um what we're going to be watching is
going to be full hd plus anyway so i think that's great hdr um
is here as well of course create mode all the good stuff i mean this is gonna
be i'm absolutely sure a fantastic
looking display what i love about the display also is the 120 hertz
refresh rate i mean that is superb news really happy
about that and just before we move on to the uh the
audio chops of this device i just want to say that if you're a
gamer and i'm i'm the world's worst gamer just to be
upfront and honest with you about that um apparently this device can emulate
240 hertz refresh rates uh by introducing uh additional black
frames when required i mean i need to get my head
around just what that is like i mean i need to
experience it to tell you if that's any good in fact i need a proper gamer
to tell you what that's like and we can arrange that but either way that's
pretty amazing now let's get into the audio so dolby
atmos i mean if you've seen our speaker
comparison video you know that the the sony xperia is a fantastic sounding
device the xperia one mark ii we've also got a headphone jack 3.5 mil of course
high-res audio supported ldac support for
wireless earphones um if you've got
like pretty average sounding material being played on the device the
enhancement engine will make it sound better
360 degree reality audio and if you've never used tidal but you
want to give it a go actually for the uk anyway i don't know about the
us i hope so you get three months free tidal
subscription that's a really nice touch grateful for that so in terms of the
audio here um just like the xperia one mark ii
we've got a lot of really really good stuff here dolby
atmos the headphone jack is massive of course i mean how many phones
even have that headphone jack these days not many
especially at the high end like this um high-res audio ldac support for
wireless um the enhancement engine to make you
know not very good quality music sound better
360 reality audio uh three months tidal subscription
as well which i wasn't expecting i think that's a really nice touch thank you
sony now let's talk about the power and the
performance because look i'm gonna get on to the the pricing
and how this phone compares against the pixel 5 and the iphone 12
lineup but let's not forget this packs the 865 qualcomm snapdragon
i mean this is not the uh the most powerful phone in the world but my
goodness it is very very close and it's it's got
to be the most powerful compact phone in the world right i mean can you think of
anything this small that is this powerful i don't
think i can um 128 gig storage
straight out the box eight gigs of ram it's a 5g device
um and you've also got um the the way sony does things of course with
looking after the battery for the long term which is great i know a lot of
people here who've commented at btx in the comments section below
they keep their devices for up to five years so looking after the battery
that's a nice touch you will need to buy a fast
charger if you want to get the most out of fast charging um but again that's
that's fair i think that's fair so how powerful is this device well i
think it's just about the most powerful
compact device on the market in many ways i mean again
we're going to come on to the iphone 12 uh a bit later on but what have we got
here 865 qualcomm snapdragon i mean look that's
seriously quick there's no two ways about it eight gigs of ram
128 gig storage by the way that's the base i mean that's it
so that's great 5g modem support which is really important for a
lot of people certainly for future proofing that's great um if you
want to make the most of the fast charging you'll need to buy a separate
charger uh that's fine i'm not worried about
that again as i mentioned at the very
beginning of the video there's no wireless
charging that's going to upset some people there's even
sony is really good at making sure that you look after the battery for the long
term which i really like from a hardware perspective i know a lot
of people here in the comments are using their xperia devices for up to
five years so that's great there's even an option here to make sure
that the battery never charges over 90 and given that the battery you
know given it's a 4 000 milliamp hour battery that should
protect you for many many years i love that
so let's talk about the camera tech 12 megapixels across the board
just like the one mark ii um 16 millimeter ultra wide
24 millimeter primary 70 millimeter telephoto
that's all great i suspect like the one mark ii is going to take
beautiful natural looking pictures and video
i absolutely love well i tell you what the one mark ii is my phone of the year
so far so i mean i adore that phone i'm very
excited about the five mark ii the eight megapixel selfie camera on the
front i hope it's better than uh on the one
mark ii because i i thought that was rubbish
so what else is there to shout about here as far as
the camera tech is concerned well one thing i like is the fact that
the eye autofocus for animals as well as humans
is is still here and my goodness it works incredibly well we've
really enjoyed using that with a dog and a cat actually
as well as some humans 20 frames per second
burst mode is great real time auto focus and exposure
i mean there's so much good stuff here the low light
sensor is actually larger this time around
and the noise reduction tech is improved so low light photography you may have
seen our low light special with the xperia one mark ii uh low light
photography is going to be even better with this device that's
great news and maybe you saw our raw photography
video with the one mark ii but here's the thing i love here with
the five mark ii you're getting raw and jpeg by default
as soon as you go out and start taking pictures
i love that i mean this is a phone for those of us who are serious about
not just getting great photographs but getting very natural
photographs and video for that matter um that really looks
as true to reality as it's possible to get
i mean we compared the one mark ii with a mirrorless camera from sony the a7 iii
and the results were surprisingly similar this is an incredibly competent
phone so yes we know that the pro apps for
video and photography are really really good for those of us
who want to get into the the art and the process and enjoy the
process of getting the best possible images and videos and my goodness
they're a lot of fun they remain here of course with the five
mark ii what else have we got here ah 120 frames
per second slow motion mode that's cool isn't it
you can also record in 4k hdr all that goodness that's wonderful but
now let's get on to how this compares with the upcoming pixel 5
and iphone 12 series now of course i want to stress
that i'm recording this before those phones are released although it's just
around the corner and we will be in miami to get samples
of these phones and we'll be doing some cracking
comparison videos for you um yeah look the ex this is a bit of a
tricky one isn't it because the pixel 5 is rumored to be
699 and 629 euros depending on
you know how accurate these sources are um
that's going to be substantially cheaper than the xperia 5 mark ii which is going
to be 949 um is that an issue we know from our
tests with the pixel 4 versus the one mark
ii that the google approach is very very different the images are not
natural in the way that the the sony ones are
they are kind of uh almost supernatural they're
they are beautiful striking images especially at night time
but it's a very very different approach also the google approach is
obviously all about auto mode the phone does the work
not you it's completely different to the sony approach
but i do worry that pixel is going to do well here the pixel 5 with that lower
price point it's going to be we think a six inch
device only 90 hertz probably again full hd
oled just like the sony two lenses on the back obviously
not the triple camera setup that we get with the sony
5g as well i don't know how do you think the xperia 5 mark ii compares there with
the pixel 5 um and also let's move over now to the
iphone lineup for 2020 actually one thing i
should have mentioned there with the pixel 5
is that it's likely we're going to get a qualcomm
snapdragon 765 g processor there is no way in the world i cannot
imagine that would be anywhere close to as fast as the 865
that we're getting in the five mark ii so that's a massive thing to bear in
mind of course so the iphone 12 is going to be 5.4
inches and the max we think is going to be 6.1
um are we going to get the 120 hertz refresh rate that we get
on the xperia 5 mark ii i don't know we no one knows really i think it's
possible but i would be surprised a14 bionic chip
okay we know that's going to be absolutely rapid
probably the fastest um of any device in the world
this year um four gigs of ram i i don't even want to really compare that
because i mean apple it's all very different isn't it with optimization
there um but what is interesting though is
that we are looking at potentially a 699 dollar price tag
for the regular iphone 12 and going up to
799 potentially for the 12 max but that is
obviously a lot less than the the five mark ii what worries me is that
the regular uh if you like regular sized 12 pro
is likely to be one zero four nine us dollars 1049 us dollars now if that's
true it's only a hundred dollars more than
the five mark ii uh probably a 6.1 inch device although
we're not sure at this point of course so that gives you an idea as to how
these phones stack up what i want to know of course is um
which ones you would go for if they were all
spread out on a table in front of you and you had the money in your pocket
which one would you choose anyway enough of my voice let's go to my
outro so what have we learned from this video
well one thing we've learned is that both andres
and i are mental enough to get up in the middle of the night and do these videos
you know we don't need sleep and the second thing is that actually
it's a little bit tough isn't it with the xperia here
on pricing versus features against some of the upcoming competition
what i want to know is if it was your money on the line
which one of these phones would you buy would you go for the five mark
ii or do you think you're getting better value from either google or
apple or any other manufacturer for that matter you know do let me know in the
comments section below i will see you there as ever thank you
so much for watching i'll see you soon from here or Miami i
don't know but somewhere cheers