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today is going to be a really fun phone video for me because

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I'm considering switching to this phone

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but we have to find out how good it is in front of me today I have the Xperia 5

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4 the naming convention is confusing at

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best we have the Xperia Pro I which we've done a video on the most recent

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Xperia one four which is coming out soon actually shipping along around the same

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time as this phone in September and then now the Xperia 5 4. Sony please change

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this naming scheme it's not great but the phone is potentially great uh in the

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box we have just the phone and some very

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eco-friendly packaging this is paper there is no charger or cable so they're

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taking the Apple route now here's the phone you might think this looks pretty

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similar to the one four and it does that

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is a very good thing there are a couple key differences so on the back here we

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have this like soft touch Metal finish which I actually love on Sony phones it

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doesn't really attract fingerprints that much it will if your note if you've got

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like super sweaty hands or whatever and you're holding your phone but like it

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really is one of the best finishes on a phone in my opinion because I hate you

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know like I have a OnePlus 8 which is pretty old at this point but look at

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this thing it is a mirror on the rest of the back are three

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cameras are 16 mil 24 mil and 60 mil now

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if you watch the 1-4 video or you know anything about that other predecessor

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phone we're actually missing the telephoto 85 to 120 mil lens that they

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had was actually an optical zoom really cool technology there's also no time of

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flight sensor but again this is the more affordable version of a similar phone on

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the writeathon we have a power button shutter button which actually this time

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around isn't knurled or marked or

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textured in any way it's still there which is nice so when you turn the phone

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on yeah you long press for your camera app

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and it's just open and then you have a shutter button in relatively the same

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position as a camera when you hold it like this I think the fingerprint sensor

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is built into the power button and then we have a volume rocker on the right and

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then on the left of the phone we have nothing which is not a bad thing I

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actually don't mind everything being on one side this phone and this is probably one of

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my favorite things of Xperia phones has

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a headphone jack 2022 most smartphones don't have

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headphone Jacks you might not care on top of using headphones you can actually

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use a mic you have a mic input and that is very

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important because high quality audio especially if you're shooting on just

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your phone very necessary on the front we have a 25 20 by 1080p full HD display

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it is OLED which is very nice and 120

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hertz the 120 hertz is actually off by

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default which I assume is just a battery saving

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measure but I'm going to turn it on so that we get the full experience

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speakers are front firing and they've actually apparently changed the housing

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on the speaker so that there's less vibration in the phone which in theory

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should make them sound better on top of that we have a new 12 megapixel selfie

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camera on this phone over its predecessor the 5.3 this is also one of

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the first phones along with the one for they tease this in the one for but this

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is the first time I'll try this in person they have this music Pro app

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which is just supposed to be able to allow you to do voice recording it's an

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app that you can literally record an instrument on if you really wanted to

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and then actually you can send it off to Sony to their servers and it will remove

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background noise for you you can also edit it on the phone which is kind of

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cool okay this phone is also ip68 65 so

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you can drop it in a puddle and not cry and on the bottom of the phone we have

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your typical type c and a tool-less Sim

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and micro SD expansion thank you Sony for still doing this because again a lot

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of phones you get these days do do not have Micro SD expansion obviously it's

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going to be slower than the memory built

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into the phone which is I think this model is 128 gigs final couple specs on

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this phone it has the Snapdragon 8 gen 1 and it also has 8 gigs of RAM built in

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the other new feature on this phone is actually has Wireless and reverse

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wireless charging which I'd love to see because I haven't personally used a

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wireless charging phone and on top of wireless charging this phone just like

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the one four has 5000 milliamp hour battery which is pretty respectable

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okay cameras so I have heard that this thing

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will overheat at certain resolutions for long periods

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of time and as this warning is telling me

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the videography Pro app is just kind of a slightly nicer UI to toggle things

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like your Zoom you've got your manual autofocus it's laid out very similarly

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to an alpha camera ISO is right here like I really like

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this UI Photo Pro similar you got a couple modes the basic

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is pretty much like your standard smartphone camera app the 16 millimeter

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and the 24 millimeter cameras on this phone are the same as the one four the

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main difference is the 60 ml because this is a fixed 60 mil versus the 85 to

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120 mil you got your Venice color different Luts warm cold strong all that

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kind of stuff that's awesome similar layout to the video Pro up but with a

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couple extra things like the codec is here in display you have audio levels

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it's a little bit more professional it's got shutter angle that kind of thing frame rate is here oh also each camera

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on this phone just like the one for has

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120 FPS 4K shooting which is very nice

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this is what the selfie camera looks like this is also what the mic sounds

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like so uh I'm gonna just keep talking

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and what you guys can tell me in the comments what you think of the mic I'll

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listen to this later on the laptop but selfie camera in HDR and this is what

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the mic sounds like let's test how this looks so it's assuming I'm in a backlit

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portrait this is kind of optimal lighting but

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honestly my impression of this on the phone display anyway is it looks a

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little bit on the bright side the way that the camera thought to meter the

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shot also let me just check if there's any skin softening on oh

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please Sony I understand but please

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don't have the soft skin effect on by

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default let's do that again without the

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skin softening feature well you can see texture in my skin

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versus less if you looked at the other photo

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there is I auto focus on every single

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one of these cameras which is again an

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excellent thing looking at it I really like the display it feels Snappy as I

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would expect a 120hz display and I actually agree with this resolution more

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than the 4K OLED that was in the 1-4 because the pixel density you're not

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really going to notice 4K versus 1080p on a display this well and if you are

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the one person who does well good for you why don't we actually try listening

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to the speakers questions

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oh that's so weird so there's this feature when I press the volume rocker

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of dynamic YouTube vibration and so it's

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like vibrating the phone along with the song I mean on its own without comparing

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it side by side to another device this sounds pretty good to me

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most phones these days have much tinier mids and aren't really great on the low

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end I mean again this is just a phone speaker that is front firing which is

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nice the last thing I want to test is going over some of the photos we

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actually shot on the weekend because I have been using this phone for about three days and we're gonna do some tests

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live so we're gonna go outside with Adam and take a couple photos and video first

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thing I want to test is the 60mm lens on this phone because it is different than

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the other two cameras which are the same as the one on the one four this will

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also test the image stabilization and how good it is as we walk backwards so

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Adam's here we're gonna just walk around

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here in a circle and then we're going to come back and I'm gonna follow him the

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entire or he's going to follow me I miss those instructions

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thanks a lot and one

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two so the main thing I want to test here is mainly the 60 mil just because

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we've seen the performance of the 16 and the 24 mil

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both of them are good but I'll I will do a couple shots with both as well

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nice the last test I want to do is how

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the selfie camera handles a backlit situation so one thing I don't like

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about the video Pro app in this instance I'm using the selfie camera but the UI

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is still in the horizontal setting so

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this is what the selfie camera looks like in 4k

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backlit situation it's also shooting in HDR

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so it does seem like I can't do any manual control in the selfie camera at

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least not in the video Pro app which is a bit unfortunate because I really like

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a lot of things about this app I should just be able to go into this and change

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the settings the last thing I want to test we have some background noise right

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now there's a train that way there's some people doing Garden work that way I'm going to record a voiceover on this

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phone and then we'll send it off to Sony and see how this process is okay we're

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back inside um I actually took this phone on a

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weekend trip to Seattle so we're going to take a look at some of the photos

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from that trip also we're going to look at some of the photos we just took of

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Adam outside as well as the video now one interesting thing I'll note before I

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even get through any of this really is the dngs on this phone don't actually

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perform amazingly so this is one of the jpegs on

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the 60 mil that I got camera performance pretty good sharpness is decent in

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comparison to the raw dng of the same photo yeah so you'll see in the dng

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quite a bit noisier you can obviously edit this so I can take down the

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exposure I can take down the highlights

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um I don't believe it's clipping as badly the auto focus on this phone is

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excellent this photo of these birds I was just walking down the sidewalk not

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really slowing down to take this photo I snapped it really quick because these

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birds flew by and Bam there's this there was this giant Norwegian

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cruise ship I was really pushing the ultrawide to see if I could fit the

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entire thing in this ship is massive like if you can see this tiny little

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boat here and then you look at this thing it's like the size of a building I

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believe this is on the telephoto and you can actually like see individual

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people obviously we can't see their faces but you can make out people and

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that's pretty awesome here's another wide shot from a different perspective

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again a little bit earlier in the day so you can see the sun's kind of on the

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right shining this way dynamic range held everything really well we even have

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the shadows in this tree on the left perfectly balanced I just I like using

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this phone as a camera I think I was never really unhappy with the

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performance of this one especially in a daylight setting when you're outside if

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you're using it in that situation a lot of the time then it does pretty well

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here's a couple photos of my son on the

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inside of our hotel room now the struggle here was I believe he was

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moving a lot and even the autofocus

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could not always keep up with him at a close distance though I did nail a

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couple like here's one that was in focus and perfectly fine still a one over one

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hundred here's the selfie that I took just earlier it actually doesn't look

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Overexposed at all on the computer it's on the higher end here's the photo of

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Belle and Mark and it's a little bit on the noisy side because it's ISO 800 but

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if you actually punch in Bella is perfectly in focus and he was a tiny

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head in this photo but the focus nailed him even though he's in the darker part

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of the image the HDR video

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of the selfie camera again also it didn't turn out as dark as it looked on

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the phone because obviously the full sun was on that display so it was kind of

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hard to tell there is a little bit of what feels like Shadow clipping

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um because it's really trying to balance both the sky and me but it is

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completely usable so this new selfie camera is solid so here's the telephoto

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video the stabilization guys excellent

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and it managed to keep Adam like it looks like I'm not just walking like it

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looks like it's almost on a gimbal or something Auto

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exposure is doing a pretty good job here it's not the highest quality video

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not the sharpest I've seen I feel like the telephoto in the 1-4 was quite a bit

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better but obviously that's what you're paying for Also let's have a listen to

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the music PRO voice over both the

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unedited process voiceover and here is the Sony edited process voiceover okay

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so this is a test of the Sony Xperia 5

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4's mic using the music Pro app to

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record a voiceover I've got some background noise from a person doing

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some yard work behind Mark and then behind me

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there's going to be a train and I think I actually hear a plane so there's a lot

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of background noise here to deal with all right it's been a couple of days

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because I actually had a couple issues setting up the account for the music Pro app but you guys just heard both the

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original and the processed vo and I just

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listened to them myself I mean I didn't know what I was expecting but I think

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Sony did what they set out to where they made the voice in the voice over sound a

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little bit more separated from the background noise the yard worker you

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could hear a little bit less but things like wind noise and you can kind of hear

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a little bit of compression throughout the recording so obviously still not an

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ideal place or setting to record a voiceover and that's to be expected if

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you start with a bad recording no level of post processing is really going to

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fix those problems especially not one that's AI based to be fair to Sony

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though I do want to actually do one more recording right here right now to see

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what it sounds like kind of in a studio environment more like maybe this is

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similar to a hotel room if you were to record your voiceover which is probably

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more likely what people will do if they're even going to use this feature

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so this is a test of the Xperia 54's mic

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indoors select the settings that you want I'm

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going to just denoise let's see what D Reverb does

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do some mic simulation and Studio simulation let's do all of them so

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here's the original so this is the test of the Xperia 54's

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mic indoors in a studio setting so this

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is the test of the Xperia 54's mic indoors in a studio setting second time

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around I'm actually pretty impressed I think Sony did exactly what they set out

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to with this AI based program the tuned version of this vo does sound a decent

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amount better and it kind of eliminates that echoiness of this being such a

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large room it's not perfect but I'd say

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to my ears it's pretty good this phone checks so many boxes especially in terms

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of the specs expandable storage all that kind of stuff headphone jack it is

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definitely squarely aimed at creators so I am probably fitting within the niche

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of a phone like this but I really like what Sony's been doing with their Xperia

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line and I do really hope that they're successful because there are very few

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other smartphone makers really kind of packing all of these features into one

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device so yes 9.99 us is expensive and

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this is not a review it is only a first impressions but

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this phone is awesome could it be better yes but

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think they're going in the right direction so I hope for Sony's success

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on this one anyways thank you guys for watching if you want to see more on the

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Xperia lineup maybe you can watch the 1-4 video If you haven't it's a slightly

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bulkier better version of this phone but also more expensive and I hope you have

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a great day take care I'm looking at Andy He is wanting me to wrap this up