Sony Xperia 1 III: The Ultimate Enthusiast Phone!

Sony's finally done it this mountain they've been climbing for all these years they've finally reached the top and they've created the most enthusiast.

In the world more than any gaming phone i recently made a video on why people don't really buy that many sony phones they've doubled down on all of that.

Things have become sort of a work of art so I've been using this phone for a long time and I'll be turning it off for about a month now and that's all you can think of it will make.

They've done it sony's done it in this phone everything from the specs to the features to the details it's all here i mean you can start all the way from the top with the name it's the xperia one.

Good luck explaining that to your normal friends and it was unveiled literally months ago in april so you'd only know about it now that it's quietly actually gone on sale because you follow enough.

Tech blogs or youtube channels because you certainly won't see any ads for it or find it in any carrier stores here but then just look at this design i mean.

You can probably already see some of the enthusiast features starting to stick it's kind of hard to know where to start actually so first of all it has a super nice frosted matte black finish and it's actually even kind of like a little bit of a soft touch that i really like even.

The sides are matte black and the whole thing is built around this 21x9 aspect ratio which an enthusiast would love because now you can watch your 21x9 videos on a proper cinema display with no black bars but then let's just go.

Dual sim card tray at the top removable without a tool and the second sim card tray actually doubles as expandable storage for those micro sd cards up to a terabyte your welcome enthusiasts.

There's stereo front-facing speakers flanking the edges of the phone and they're nice and loud louder than the previous generation and far enough apart to create a nice real stereo image and yeah that's an led notification light.

The feature you really don't see in many features nowadays but that enthusiasts and as i say that you're probably already thinking about a headphone jack.

so yeah the headphone jack is up here too up top feels like the phone is barely thick enough for it and this one actually also has some extra buttons so there's a volume rocker up top then the.

Super reliable fingerprint reader power button combo underneath that then a custom button that's mapped to trigger then underneath that a dedicated shutter.

Button for the camera system and it's got the half press for focusing and the full press for actually taking the shot and everything all of that wrapped in a body that's ip68 water resistant and maybe a little bit of a boring design to i like it i really like it it's the.

Finish it's the overall like pretty square aesthetic that i've liked in the past but it's just it's nice the fingerprint reader on the power button.

Is very fast and very reliable so i'm a fan of that and just the whole phone is of course very easy and comfortable to hold because it's so narrow because.

Let's talk about the screen this phone 120 hertz display right off the bat ooh in in the settings you can switch between the super smooth 120 hertz or just normal 60 hertz but you actually.

Cannot adjust the screen resolution at all it is always locked at 4k which is a little bit crazy i mean i get that it's enthusiast would want to toggle their phone to 4k sometimes to you know watch a 4k youtube video or a movie or

This is just 4k all the time this is full-on maximum enthusiast if you literally can't turn it off no 1080 no 1440 it's locked i'm actually kind of surprised they do let you turn off 120 hertz i don't know maybe they'll remove the display itself though it looks.

Pretty great as you might expect sony has this 10-bit creator mode it's had it before and it's also a highly adjustable white balance to tune this oled display to look exactly how you'd want i'd.

Expect nothing less here but of course the downside to having a 21x9 display is there are still some apps that aren't perfectly optimized for it and honestly probably never will be that includes instagram stories and tick tock you know the normie apps most everyday people use.

They have black bars at the top and the bottom because most phones aren't this crazy tall aspect ratio but that's fine this is an enthusiast phone and so people who are willing to make that.

Sacrifice to have a nice narrow taller better looking display with cinema they'll be fine with that couple apps not working no big deal this is gonna be great with 21 by nine stuff the one thing you can't get around though is having a display at 4k 120 hertz all the.

Yeah it eats into battery life pretty hard so this phone has a 4500 milliamp hour battery which is solid but that's not gigantic but the rate that you can chew through battery at high brightness 4k 120 he rtz is pretty high so i'd recommend you have one of those enthusiast battery banks somewhere near.

You if you plan on getting a whole day past about four hours a heavy screen on time away from your charger the brick included does get you 30 watt fast charging and it does have qi wireless charging as well but yeah if there is a weak point of this hyper-enthusiast.

Phone it's definitely that so you've got your crazy enthusiast hardware with the headphone jack and the notification led you've got your crazy enthusiast screen uh you've got your enthusiast specs of course you got snapdragon 8 12 gigs of ram and the works are all here but.

What's it like to actually use this you guessed it it's riddled with quirks and features i'd feel like doug demiro trying to point all of these out there's a lot going on now sony software.

Actually think overall is pretty nice mostly because let's be real they don't try to do too much aesthetically it's like if you took near stock android 11 and then just plugged a bunch of features into it that work with sony's.

Enthusiast like me wants so you've got your near stock looking quick settings and the google discover feed next to your home screens even the default.

Google search box at the very bottom of your home screen for reachability but then in the settings like i've said you have a ton of display customization you, have always on display controls reverse

Wireless charging toggle lots of battery care features to help you reduce the amount of time your battery spends at full 100 charge to prolong the life of your phone and then one of my favorite.

Sony editions is called side sense so sony fans taught me if you've heard this before but it puts this little bar over here to the side of your screen you can double tap that bar anytime you want to bring up a quick app launcher which you can customize with whatever eight apps you want or just bring up the whole list and then you can slide up on that bar.

Anytime you want to open multitasking which is pretty sweet on that extra tall 21 by 9 display i assume if you're a true enthusiast you're doing this all the time and you've got your favorite app pairs queued up so you can launch.

Them both at the same time with a single and you can also launch one-handed mode from here which makes sense if you can't quite reach the top of this phone honestly it's so tall that the top corners can be a little annoying to reach even with big hands so you can customize the position of this bar the size the transparency level the.

Sensitivity every little thing dial it to your heart's content and it's all over here in this little sidebar that's super reachable wherever you want to put it well done sony this one has really good strong haptics which is good to see.

Always and there's also dualshock 4 support so you can connect a sony ps4 controller to this phone to play certain games if you're into that i imagine a dual sense 5 support it doesn't work with the ps5 controller yet but that would be cool but you want to know you want to know the worst part of the this phone has the slowest auto rotate Every single time i don't know why i.

I guess it is a bug and they can fix it but yeah that's that was extremely annoying now an enthusiast phone wouldn't be complete without some enthusiast cameras and boy does sony literally there is no basic android camera app as soon as you squeeze that shutter or double tap the power button or just hit the camera icon whatever you like you're thrown immediately into.

Sony's advanced camera app now they do give you a basic mode in that camera app which is funny and that lets you switch to video mode and toggle between the different telephoto focal lengths but then of course you can just go straight. from basic mode into basically a full on sony alpha camera with programmable auto modes and manual modes and 20 fps burst shutter and slider sphere shutter speed and iso and focus and all that it's.

Great but did you catch one little thing i just said there two telephoto focal telephoto camera on the back of the phone so how are there two telephoto focal lengths well it turns out quietly for their hyper-enthusiast phone sony's.

On a single telephoto camera so this horizontally oriented telephoto camera has glass inside that moves to change the focal length optically instead of digitally so in the software you can snap these between 70 millimeters and 105 millimeters these focal lengths are both shot by that same sensor it's pretty intense now sony won't tell me.

Exactly how they're doing this i guess it's a secret but i imagine there are probably some sort of magnets involved moving the glass around the best i can show is this animation on sony's youtube.