for a company that has innovated so much in mobile phones
sony really doesn't get a lot of appreciation they were the first with a
waterproof phone they were the first with a phone with a 4k display
and now they seem to be basically the only premium phone maker left that is
still delivering features that i mean used to be ubiquitous on Android
phones things like expandable storage headphone jacks and
of course the latest and greatest processors so this is the xperia one three and it's a
phone that i'm really really excited to show you guys first the obligatory unboxing though
we've got our hopefully it's a 30 watt adapter because
it does support 30 watt charging it is a 30 watt fast
charging adapter very nice it includes a usbc cable
okay and wow that's
that's it ladies and gentlemen not much of an unboxing but that's okay
today is all about the phone it's got a six and a half inch display but
remember when sony made those mini phones that had flagship class specs but
were still very one-hand handleable even with my small
hands because it's so skinny it's actually got a 21x9
aspect ratio it is pretty easy to reach across we'll
take a look at the outside first though so it's got a quad camera system
three of them are megapixels so that's the wide the ultrawide and the telephoto
and then it has a 0.3 megapixel time of flight sensor in here as well
it's got nfc obviously you got the logo on the back it has wireless charging
fast wireless charging as well as reverse wireless charging so if you have
some sony earphones like those ones we unboxed recently you can
charge them up with your phone and then this is
really important check this out
right there totally tool-less either dual sim
or microsd tray that's right you've got
a 4 500 milliamp hour battery built in so it turns out you can still put a big
battery in a slim phone design and have expandable storage and yes
headphone jack it's gone back to the traditional top mounted location instead
of the bottom that became more popular towards the end of the headphone jack
era but hey i'll take it right over on the other
side we've got far more hardware buttons than i'm used to seeing on modern
devices we've got our volume rocker as well as our lock button which doubles as
a fingerprint sensor nice as well as a dedicated button for
pulling up google assistant there you go and a dedicated button
that's right for pulling up your camera it's almost like sony has
a rich heritage as a as an imaging
company they're actually using zeiss optics for the cameras and apparently they worked
with the same team that worked on the alpha 9 to develop the camera for this so i'm i
mean that's not to say that you know every phone that was built in collaboration with a cinema camera team
was a success excuse me sorry
i had something terrible caught in my throat but
i've actually i cheated a little bit on this ShortCircuit i've actually been
playing with this thing a fair bit over the last couple of weeks and it's pretty it's
pretty good one of the things that really stands out about what sony's done here is
the depth of their camera app obviously you can get third-party camera apps if
you don't like just you know the one-click operation of
your stock camera app but this man with this i don't see why almost
anyone would want that everything is right at your thumb tip so
you can adjust which camera you want to use adjust your zoom levels
all that good stuff they've got so there's there's so much depth to it so
you can change the ultra wide to prioritize either correcting for the distortion or
overall image quality what's up brandon how's it going but then
if you don't want that you just flip over to oh boy
here we go manual exposure shutter speed
priority now we are talking is that a camera app
or what brandon it's freaking awesome so you can play
around with whether you want autofocus on or off you can change your shooting
format so raw raw and jpeg jpeg for video they
actually worked with the venice team to create a more uh
flat cinematic shooting profile you can shoot in 24 FPS
they have put a ton of attention into this and the work really shows
and just because it's a 12 megapixel main shooter
don't underestimate it there's a lot more to life than megapixels
and shockingly it doesn't even have a super thick camera bump i just love that
there's a dedicated shutter button and a dedicated button for launching the camera because
honestly not a photographer that's not my jam
for me it's more about capturing the moment so if this thing's in my pocket
i'm going on my way out of my pocket hold the button boom my camera app is launched i
am ready to go love that super responsive
i am extremely extremely happy with it you're not gonna have the same kind of
crazy zoom that you find on some other cameras okay yep that's fair enough but this is
more than enough for what most people would need i realized we made it this
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it's got a snapdragon 888 soc 12 gigs of RAM and then 256 or 512 gigs of storage
and i want to talk a little bit more about the display it's an OLED display
and the horizontal resolution here is actually 3840 so it's a
4k class display but obviously given
that it's only 1600 megapixels wide the the overall
pixel count is quite a bit lower it's OLED so you're
going to get nice fast response times perfect blacks all that good stuff
that's great for just uh gaming and well pretty much
everything and it can do up to 120 hertz obviously if
we're going to talk about the display we need to fire up some movies how to train your dragon hidden world looks
absolutely freaking awesome right out of the box but
one of the things i like most about this phone actually
is how incredibly configurable it is
they've got what is basically the equivalent of filmmaker mode
built into the phone i love it everyone should just do this
so stuff looks like it's supposed to it looks so good
oh yeah did i mention there's no notch right
well they just put a little bezel on it who cares and it's not like they aren't
making good use of it because
it has an amplified earpiece for stereo audio
not bad this is the kind of device that just makes me feel
happy you know which isn't to say that it's absolutely perfect i did find that
the very narrow screen i mean it's hard to come up with
something where it you know made something way worse but there were just little things
like for example in the multi-window switching thing i can't even tell what this is like i don't even
i don't even know what these Windows next to me are it would be nice if i could
kind of see a little bit more oh this is something that's just a totally personal
pet peeve but for whatever reason sony doesn't allow you to switch the location of the back
and multitask view button i like my back button here where it's easier to reach
because i use it a lot more they just don't have that option in spite of how
configurable it is in other ways like they do have battery management features
built in that allow you to take care of your battery so you can set custom times for when you leave it to
charge you can tell it to have a charging limit so that you're not fully
charging it all the time which is really stressful on the battery like it's freaking awesome and this is really cool
sony provides a lot of documentation that is built right into
the phone as you are using it that is not something that you can take for
granted they actually explain what all of this does explain battery
charging curves and stuff like that they're not treating you like a child
they're just trying to educate you as an adult that just might not know these
things but sony expects their customers to care about them in return because
this phone is going to run you a whopping 1299 us dollars
i mean there's even more cool stuff like they have an equivalent of shadow play
for gamers so you can actually go back and play back the last uh few seconds of play i
think it's 30 seconds beside the 30 or 60 seconds i didn't use it much i'm not
a mobile gamer but like it kind of never ends uh victus glass on
the front gorilla glass 6 on the back i could talk about a fair few more things
uh there's this cool side sense thing so you can quick launch apps you can open
up multi window because the display is so tall you can actually do two apps top and
bottom so if you like to you know watch youtube videos while you're browsing reddit or
whatever that's something you could do it's actually a
pretty good use case for the tall screen but that's about it for the scope of
ShortCircuit unboxing so thank you guys very much for watching and subscribe and
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