the sony xperia 1 mark iii is finally here and being that it has first released in china i have
managed to get my hands on it quite early that being said the prices in the top right corner of
the screen reflect the current chinese price which i have converted into other currencies
since global pricing has yet to be announced the xperia one mark iii is not only sony's finest
flagship smartphone to date but has arguably the best hardware seen in smartphone history
we're talking about the world's first smartphone to house a 120 hertz 4k hdr led display variable
telephoto lens dual phase detection sensor and 360 degree reality audio through its speakers
of course we get the phone in the box as well as a usb type-c type-c cable and we get the beefed-up
30-watt charging brick in the box and it can do 30 watts of course and qi wireless charging
we give or take i would say about 15 watts with a slight upgrade 4
500 milliamp hour battery putting that aside let's go ahead and unwrap the star of the show
i have the frosted gray color variant of the phone this color only comes in the 256gb variant if you
opt for the 512gb variant you are going to have to settle for either black or purple the frosted back
in the color means yes it is frosted which is pretty much an anti-glare matte back finish but
you can get a case which starts at about thirty one dollars well it is thirty one dollars it is
called the style cover with stand and it came free with my xperia one mark three it matches the exact
same color you can get the same matched color for the black and purple variants and it has a rubbery
finish on the inside nice soft and textured and of course we do have a kickstand at the back which
looks really really awesome and should function relatively well since i'm always looking for my
phone kicker here and there when trying to watch a video on youtube peeling that off of course
and getting to the phone itself getting back to that design i must say it looks very very similar
in terms of dimensions and design compared to its predecessor but that's not necessarily a bad thing
this time we have a snapdragon 888 chipset under the hood which is paired with 12 gigs of lp ddr5
ram and 256 or 512 gigs of ufs 3.1 storage of course we also have ps4 remote play as well as
dual shock 4 compatibility and we have a 5g wi-fi 6 bluetooth 5.2 and nfc we have a gorilla glass
front display and a gorilla glass 6 back which is anti-glare and sandwiched between the two is
an aluminum frame it is about 8.2 millimeters in thickness and around the weight of 187.1 grams
it is also worth mentioning that this is ip68 water and dust resistance for up to 1.5 meters
for 30 minutes the xperia 1 mark 3 might not only be all about cameras this time round but cameras
play a pretty big part in the device we get a 16 millimeter focal length ultrawide sensor which is
12 megapixels a 24 millimeter focal length main sensor which is also 12 megapixels then we have
the special sensor which is actually a periscope telephoto lens which can variate between 70 to
millimeters focal length fluctuating between an aperture of f 2.3 and f 2.8 and can go all the
way up to 2.9 or 4.4 optical zoom and then the fourth and final cam i guess you could pretty
much say just a sensor is a 3d itaf lens at just 0.3 megapixels starting from the least
to the most in terms of focal length which is the ultra wide indoors doesn't too bad the main one
looks pretty great the 2.9 times optical zoom looks fantastic 4.4 times just as good we can
go up to 12.5 times zoom which is the max digital zoom doesn't look the best but when we use the 3d
top sensor over here and the main sensor it looks absolutely fantastic in terms of depth effect
using the 12 megapixel ultrawide outdoors and shifting over to the main sensor there's a lot of
color and detail in all of them especially within the optical shots though the 2.9 times zoom looks
slightly better than the 4.4 and the 12.5 looks a bit washed out moving on to video we can record
1080p at 60fps using optical image stabilization it looks pretty fantastic we can also do 4k
30fps using the regular camera app over here you cannot use 60fps when in 4k but we can use hdr
which looks pretty much like reality but when we go into the cinema pro app we can get all the way
up to 4k 60 fps i just wish this was still in the regular app and it is cropped down well not really
cropped it's 21 by 9 aspect ratio via cinema 4k at 60 fps with optical image stabilization i must say
it looks pretty darn fantastic nothing to complain about the cameras so far we'll get more in depth
with the full review but what about around the phone well on the right side we have a volume
rocker a power button which is integrated into the fingerprint sensor a voice assistant button this
time around and the trusty old textured shutter button the phone can also support dual sims as
well as micro sd supports for up to one terabyte at the bottom we have a usb 3.1 type c port and
the first microphone the second microphone at the top and alongside that is the 3.5 millimeter high
res audio jack with aldac and talking about audio at the top and bottom front facing speakers we do
have 360 degree audio dolby atmos and dse which utilizes artificial intelligence getting past
all the outer bits of the xperia what about the internals well powering on the device for the
first time you can jump straight into english if you do decide to purchase this phone in china like
i have we get a nifty always on display which you can now keep always on the fingerprint sensor has
been improved a ton and this is near stock android pretty much as stock as it gets with a few little
tweaks and turns here to make it a little bit more sony like but you can get google assistant
straight into the phone as well as all google apps as soon as you install google play services
on the chinese variants of the device which is great making it pretty much a global version
now software is all well and great but what about the display well we are treated to a 6.5 inch 21x9
a cinema wide display it is 4k hdr oled with a ppi of 643 it has 1 billion colors a dci p3 rating of
100 hdr 10 and bt 2020 we have a thousand 300 nits of max brightness 120 hertz refresh rate 240hz
touch sampling rate and 240 hertz motion blur reduction i must say this is probably the highest
spec display i've ever seen in a smartphone to date the 4k mode is enabled with creator mode to
view your display the way that creator intended for it and of course you have 120hz refresh rate
though there is no automatic refresh rate option or adaptive refresh rate so if you choose 120 it's
gonna be at 120 all the time though it does make a huge difference when you're coming up from 60
fps or 60 hertz that is the display looks absolutely fantastic and it probably is the
star of the show but let's not forget about that incredible camera system which of course i will be
diving extremely deep into with my full review the phone itself looks absolutely spectacular at
the back i am a huge fan of the frosted gray finish make sure to like subscribe and smash
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