I have a complicated history with Sony phones on paper they look great 4K
display amazing cameras with a dedicated shutter button headphone jack expandable
storage what else could you need well when I worked at Bell selling phones for
a few years every Sony phone we got would have trouble with overheating and
even last year when Brandon covered the one four when he went to take pictures
and videos it started overheating I'm hoping that Sony's new one five won't
have this issue because again it's looking pretty great on paper as we can
see here not much in the Box just a phone no manual no sim popper and it's
uh made out of paper I'm assuming because it feels like uh egg carton
maybe it's made of egg I don't know what egg carton's made of right off the bat
you get to see the 6.5 inch 21x9 4K
display I gotta say I actually really like this aspect ratio it feels really
solid in the hand you can still reach the other side I don't have giant hands and I can silver reach us pretty easily
obviously going to the top is a bit of a reach you have to be kind of dynamic
with how you're gripping it but I think it's a really nice aspect ratio again
for watching content I know there's a lot coming out that is in this new 21x9
aspect ratio including YouTubers or you know Netflix and stuff like that going
around the sides of the phone we got nothing on the left I really like the
feel of the side rails here uh it's like
textured and you see that nice looking antenna lines on there as well up to the
top we have a headphone jack great to see they're still keeping it bucking the
trend of phones are too small to have them we all know it's a lie and Sony's
proven it and then we have our mic hole here on the right side of the phone we
have a volume rocker and power button
fingerprint scanner combo as well as the two-stage dedicated shutter button so
you can hold it halfway to focus your photos and press all the way down to
take a photo on the bottom we have more antenna lines we have a USB-C 3.2 so
that'll be DisplayPort as well as you know fast data trans first which is
great for getting media off your phone and the easy access SIM tray and SD card
slot that is right SD card slot in 2020
current year amazing on the back we have our tasteful Sony logo and experience
you don't forget what phone you have as well as the NFC logo so that you remember your phone can tap other things
we also have our cameras on the back so it's a triple camera setup with our main
48 megapixel wide camera our Ultra wide
12 megapixel camera and this here is our telephoto camera which does optical zoom
which is pretty interesting so it's actually going to move the glass to get your Zoom from 3.5 to 5.2 which for
people who know camera lenses is about 85 millimeters to 125 millimeters and
what's great about optical zoom is that you're not going to lose quality with like digital Zoom which is where you're
just taking a photo and pretty much just zooming in and cropping it gonna keep
all those precious pixels that you've been you know yearning for in your
photos the back is also made with gorilla glass Invictus while the front
is made of victus 2. and I don't think I mentioned it but the sidebars are made
of aluminum so this is a pretty dense phone it doesn't feel heavy at only 187
grams so nothing super crazy and it doesn't feel too unbalanced especially
with how tall this phone is and finally inside this glass sandwich is a 5 000
milliamp hour battery again the standard from what we've been seeing over the last few flagships but with the new
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 that's powering this we'll hopefully see some longevity in
the battery that you know we weren't really able to get with some pass Sony
phones but we had Labs check all that out and we'll talk about that later I
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all right let's try the fingerprint scanner see if it's any good it is uh I've seen some bad ones in my day
let's write in takes a little bit to open up I think it's just kind of that
animation that's coming up that it wants to be fancy but I do like that you can
just put your finger on it and it wakes up uh it's again something pretty pretty
standard but it's nice to have so like I said earlier this is a 4K uh display and
it does HDR it's OLED it's 120 hertz I'm
actually going to turn on 120 hertz mode now as it's definitely not at that you
won't be able to tell but for me man 120 hertz it is a bit of a game changer
going back to low refresh rate screens is rough but you do save quite a bit of
battery keeping it at the 60 that phones normally are so depending on your usage
it might be smart to stay that way though this is 120 hertz screen one
thing that was a bit disappointing is that it is only a 240 hertz touch
sampling rate so what that means is that when actually touching the phone that's
how frequently it's updating to see where your finger is and that's actually
quite a bit below what other phones offer like the RG Phone 7 has a touch
sampling rate of 720 Hertz so again it's going to know where your finger is
pretty much at all times for the average person will you notice probably not but
if you're somebody who's using this for a lot of gaming it's like having a 240Hz
screen instead of 120 yeah probably doesn't make a difference but if you're
really really into it it does make that little bit of a difference I mentioned
earlier this has the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 but what I did mention is the storage
and RAM so for RAM we have 12 gigs and for storage it has 256 which is great to
have as a kind of base level again you can throw an SD card in there and get
another terabyte if you really want to but having 256 will probably be enough
for most users again I feel like the people who are getting this will be
people who are you know taking a lot of photo and video so maybe that's why they
started with kind of a higher base level but just make sure if you're going to be
taking one putting SD card in there don't just get the cheapest one get
something a bit better but otherwise what we really want to see is how good
this display is so let's throw on crab Rave check out the colors check out the
speakers and just I don't know hang out and have a good time I'm down
all right
it sounds pretty good uh it does distort a little bit at the loudest volume you
can start to hear the I think it's the earpiece speaker crisping up a little bit which sounds not fantastic but I
have to say the screen does look very
good like this 4K display is sharp I'll
turn down the brightness it's easier for you to see the trees especially like in
these shots looks really really really
good you might not especially notice because it's on a smaller screen but as
somebody who's been you know doing a lot of unboxings on these more budget phones
it is pretty clear that there is a difference with this 4K display if you
don't trust my opinion that the screen looks good I did actually send it over to our Display Tester over at Labs so I
had Labs test both the one five and last
year's one four to see what the differences were and both phones come
with a standard and Creator mode the standard mode uses the full gamut of the
display which makes colors very vibrant and pop but it comes at the risk of
color accuracy as most content on the web is made for srg B which doesn't use
a wide color gamut the Creator mode however properly clamps the color gamut
of the phone to the color space of the content so it only uses wide gimmick
colors if the content calls for it just to note that all of these were done in
SDR not hdrs we don't currently have a way of testing HDR content Sony is
actually claiming on their website that the phone has professional level color
reproduction and it seems like they're telling the truth so with respectable
grayscale tracking and a Delta e of 1.03
this can definitely be used for critical monitoring let's check out the camera
Zoes again this is what you're buying the phone for at least most likely you
might be using it as a outside display for your Sony camera because you can
actually Mount this on top and it becomes a little external monitor but more than likely you just like taking
pictures on your phone and it's really nice that you have this dedicated
shutter button because when you hold it down takes a run to the camera and that
doesn't happen if you just press it you have to hold it down so you're not going to get accidental camera launches or at
least you're less likely to taking a look at the UI here it is uh as
complicated as you want it to be so this is the basic mode what the app person
will probably use if you just liked this aspect ratio and the rest of the phone
but you can also go into auto mode which
gives you more options of what you want the camera to do program auto shutter
speed priority manual exposure and memory recall which gives you again all
of the menu options that you pretty much see in a Sony camera which is great to
see let's take some pictures all right for just testing out the the lenses
quickly here we can see the main camera and uh everything looks very sharp again
this is going to be bidding down that 48 megapixel photo to a 12 megapixel photo
which is more easily shareable and you know not as hard on the storage and
things look really good the dynamic range you don't lose the Blackness of
sven's shirt versus the darkness of that dark blue wall behind him or the black
garbage pail beside that even though the lights are quite bright as we go into
the 3.5 Zoom there is a little bit of
blur you can tell my hands must have been a little bit shaky but things still look quite good and then the 5.2 again a
little bit blurry because I have shaky Red Bull hands but not bad at all one
really nice thing is that the main camera and the zoom camera both have
Optical image stabilization though the ultra wide does not but all three
cameras do have face detection autofocus they're gonna get that quick zoom and in
these settings you can actually choose which can do face and eye tracking or you know just tap just use the face Auto
tracking look in my eyes all right let's take a look at some of the pictures I
took outside to test you know the contrastiness the exposure as Labs also
took a look and found that a lot of photos just on this default mode without changing any settings are a little bit
Overexposed and I gotta say the color looks really really good one thing that
I did notice when going to take a lot of these pictures is that the preview photo
it shows you not great A lot of the time I was like this photo is gonna look bad
it's gonna look blurry it's gonna look way blown out but when it actually takes
a photo and I don't know if it's just taking a real photo and showing it to you then or if it's using AI or machine
learning to change the photo to make it look better but it looks really good
even with challenging close-up photos you can kind of see the bit of fall off
you're getting from the focus to again some more challenging photos with
dynamic range we're getting a lot of dark darks and very very bright brights
I do think in this photo in particular the motorcycle does get a little bit lost in the darkness but it's something
too bad I also tried out all the different Zoom levels on Riley as he was
getting ready for techlinked and again the colors look pretty good and the zoom
this is actually at the maximum zoom using digital and it still looks really
good you can really see his excitement to see me I also tried turning on the
bokeh mode to see how it does with defining edges and creating a lifelike
portrait photo and I used our handsome model Dennis the Pig this is just the
standard bokeh mode and it looks pretty good I gotta say not too much depth of
field and still looks pretty realistic
from what I expect with a real lens but then I tried cranking up the Pokemon to
see what it looks like and again it looks very Punchy it's definitely more
contrasty and you'd probably want to brighten up the image but it looks good
you can definitely see where it struggled a bit to find the lines of
where to blur along his ear here but just for two little marks that effect
you're getting is is strong to give it a harder subject I also tried it with a
tree and I have to say it also looks okay definitely struggles to Define The
Edge on this you know kind of rugged plant where there's a lot of edges and
everything like that but it doesn't look awful when you actually zoom out to test out the mics I went and bothered Riley
again on the tackling set so let's see how it sounds I'm just testing on the Sony Xperia one
five oh is it a nice experience
uh that didn't really sound good Riley
and the other side of the camera sounded okay maybe a little bit sharp for some
reason but the front facing camera where I was sounds actively bad I have a bit
of a challenging voice to just how deep my voice is for these microphones to
pick up but that sounds really bad so your mileage may vary but uh if you're
going to be using this as a vlogging setup or something like that invest in
an external mic for selfies looks pretty good it's a 12 megapixel camera like the
Zoom and Ultra wide colors look good quality looks good turn off the skin
sharpening and everything looks pretty realistic there skin is Flawless and for
the bokeh mode again it did okay I feel like the strong effect here looks pretty
surreal it looks like I've gone in and edited this myself so I want to you know
turn it down a little bit but around the fingers everything looks pretty sharp
other than tiny little marks they won't see unless you punch in and again with
my hair there are tiny little misses but nothing crazy let's see if taking a
selfie video sounds better than taking a
front-facing video though so this is definitely electronic image
stabilization I could tell because once I went to take a video it punched in the
image very close so again if you don't have super long arms be aware you're
gonna need a selfie stick if people still use those but how do I sound how
does it look it's keeping me in focus and exposed that's cool so I could do up
to 4K 30 on that front cam my quality was okay definitely better than it
sounded when I was on the other side of that main microphone that I was trying to use but I would not say fantastic
there's been some pretty good microphones on some of these phones but
I wouldn't say this is one of the best maybe this can all be saved with gaming
by the way I thought it was really funny but on Sony's website for this phone
underperformance they have somebody gripping the phone like this to play I
don't know what it is but I'm clearly not enough of a gamer because this is
intense I couldn't imagine doing like other flagships running the Snapdragon
hn2 this is a great performer in Call of
Duty mobile and unhappy raccoon we see a solid 60fps and gentian packet gets
almost there with 59 to 47 FPS and
though it doesn't get a perfect 60fps at Dolphin Emulator or gentian impact it
does perform quite well and when compared to last year's model D14 it
does perform quite a bit better than gentian impact what is really great
about this is the battery life so it's another Snapchat hn2 that just sips on
battery in the battery longevity test where we give it the best possible
scenario of you know being on Wi-Fi streaming video with low brightness it
was able to achieve a battery life of 23 hours and that battery life is
especially great when compared to the pixel 7 Pro which only got about 14 and
a quarter hours that's an extra like eight hours that's like most of Lord of
the Rings crazy then of course we did the battery stress test which is giving it the worst
possible scenario full GPU full CPU usage Max brightness everything like
that and in the stress test it was able to get about 2.17 hours which is okay
last year's model was able to get 2.2 hours and the pixel 7 Pro is able to get
3.2 so if you're somebody does a lot of commuting and you know likes to play
unhappy raccoon with full Max brightness while blasting music it might not last
super long but I mean how often does that happen where you don't also have a
plug nearby and of course how I could figure out brightness we tested the maximum SDR brightness and we were able
to get 605 nits which is pretty darn good it's not especially higher than the
other flagships we have available to us but uh pretty darn good I gotta say
overall I'm pretty impressed I like the design with the ribbed edges and kind of
textured grippy dot back and it comes in a sweet khaki green as well which is
definitely one I would go for it's got ip65 as well as 68 so it's going to do
well in the rain but you're getting hit by jet streams or if you submerged in
water and I wasn't able to get it to overheat even when taking pictures and
videos outside so what's the price well
at 1400 US Dollars it's pretty darn
expensive I think that if you're somebody who uses Sony cameras already
and maybe would use this as an external display or you're somebody who really
wants to get the most versatility out of their phone camera this could be the
phone for you but if you are not somebody who's super into cameras or
taking pictures on their phone it's a bit of a tough sell because there's a
lot of competition at fourteen hundred dollars myself I would probably go for a
Samsung Google or Apple because I'm not a huge fan of the skin that Sony puts
over Android with its kind of bubble design but I don't think this is a bad
choice for people who want to take their photo game to the next level and upgrade
their phone what do you think this phone's releasing in Late July tell us
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