Sony Xperia 1 VI / Xiaomi 14T Pro - Only One Winner!

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i compare the mark VI against a phone half the price!

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[RedstoneinventeArmoredGuy]

Using an Xperia is something else. No other smartphones gave me the joy of using a phone specially for camera, compared to other brands. Ive used Apple, Pixel but none came close to the joy of a Sony

[joelconolly]

As an Xperia 1 VI user I can confirm that it's better to buy at a grand than at full price. But I enjoyed my time with the phone. Took more photos than I ever did before. The jack saves me on multiple occasions and the card and SIM slot is easy and tooless. So I could transfer photos to my PC without needing to find a sim ejector. This is also the first phone I'd hadn't installed GCAM on, cause I never felt like I needed too. But cause I use 1 colour profile from standard. Battery life is excellent but cause of FHD+ screen. There's of course a lot of flaws but compared to the time I use it less as an smartphone and more of a tool on multiple occasions, safe to say this is my most versatile smartphone to date.

Maybe next year they'll slap a bigger sensor on the zoom but that's cause I'm a heavy telephoto user 😂.

[lltechview]

You like the more punchy colours. Switch the Xperia 1 VI to VV which is vivid colours instead of having the default natural colours.
Sony had a real pro app camera suite. 1 VI went away from it but the Pro Photo mode is still available and good. The video pro mode should land with Android 15.
Sony is a true flagship it is beating Xiaomi with software updates. You get a monthly update which is not true for Xiaomi.

Yeah the new red version of the Xperia and pricing is ridiculous. Still the phone is pretty solid.
Only thing I can criticize is the tele zoom camera. Sensor is too small and noisy in not bright enough conditions.
UWide has more than 16mm if you shoot RAW which gives you 14mm. Yeah not ideal but hey its a Pro phone and if you need a wider field shoot Pro and JPEG+RAW.

[pixelgaming]

5:53 The 1 VI can zoom optically between 3.5x and 7.1x (85mm and 170mm), so it's not a fixed focal length.

[lykandubby]

The world is leaving Sony behind in the mobile phone industry.

[dueltheman]

Much better battery life, MicroSD, headphone jack... Only these kill the Xiaomi

[GroundedTech]

The Xperia looked better for me in photography. Some people just prefer punchy photos and that's fine.

[MrArt]

Watching this on the Xperia with 10h sot and still have battery and with a 1tb sd card... Probably will have 10h sot in 2 year after xiaomi has charged 3 more times then this.

[reetsa]

Got the Sony 1 VI for 1000€ from wonda (before your store launched) and I definitely wouldn't go for a Xiaomi. Their cameras might be good on paper, but their software ruin it by overprocessing, oversharpening, overexposing, oversaturating (thank you apple for setting "the standard") (yes I chose A)

Price in the video is not really comparable either, I have the 512gb version +512gb sd card (expandable to 2tb) for that price, 14t pro 512gb is ~900€, while 1tb is over a thousand €.

Fast charging/wireless charging? 1vi has 30w but I still use 10w 99% of the time, it's terrible for battery health to fast/wireless charge it especially while using it.
That's why on Sony you can even use the cable to power the components but not use battery while gaming

Now about the very popular 4k "downgrade" from 1V. I can't stress enough how useless 4k displays are on phones unless you have bionic eyes or something, because of the pixel density the difference is barely noticeable even side by side, it's not a TV after all. now, battery life? amazing, because this ltpo panel is veeery efficient it lasts me 2 days and I'm the definition of a power user.
also 4000 nits brightness? where did that number come from, on gsmarena 14t pro is measured at max 1228nits.

Now, something Sony has that 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗴𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 has? (hell, most phones nowadays either way) sd card + headphone jack.
It's very important for some people that want to shoot pro mode pics and vids to have an sd card or high speed external ssd (which it supports since it has usb 3.2 while 14t pro has only 2.0)

also, I love that it has a side mounted fingerprint sensor on the power button. I don't even have to press it, just unlocks while I pick up my phone. Way better than one under display, or FaceID

[dreamweaverhk]

I have been a big Sony fan since 40+ years ago. I stuck with more than a dozen Sony smartphones until the unreasonably expensive Pro I. Most of them pissed me one way or the other. The fingerprint sensor finally made me switch to Samsung, then Chinese phones. It worked fine for a while. Then it worked sometimes and did not work sometimes. Imagine my frustration while doing online banking which required fingerprint sensor authorization. I am still a big fan of Sony. If one day they make a really good phone, I'll go back to Sony. But I think it is much more likely Sony will stop making phones.

[henfreetravel]

Using an Xperia 1V (Not VI) and a Magic V3 Global as my daily driver. (Also an iPhone 15Pro as my car GPS). Overall, photos as great on the Xperia, but otherwise everything on the V3 blows the Xperia away. Phone get hot pretty easily, and there are many occasions where I cannot turn on the camera. There are easily more customizations on the V3, plus I had the Xperia gone to repair twice due to water damage.

The zoom camera on the Xperia is just plain awful. I think SD card is the saving grace for Xperia.

[WaffleusRex]

I'm still taking the Sony. I like having my headphone jack and expandable storage.

[RoyFJ]

Long time SONY user just for the colors but for this test I will go with true LEICA colors in Xiaomi 14T Pro as well as night performance. I purchased the phone for these very reasons.

[Technocrat.]

I thought Sony looked better, as details in the background were crisper and clearer.

[jonathanng]

The Sony Xperia community is full of toxic bias, I've been a big fan of the Xperias since 2012 despite them usually not being able to compete with the competition, its annoying how Sony fans don't acknowledge any cons of the phone leading Sony to never innovate

[joshuabergeman]

I don't really care about charging speed since I mostly charge overnight anyway. And I'm sure the display is fine. What's not fine and not okay for a $1, 000+ phone is 3 years of software support.

[musiclover]

I had an Xperia Z2 many years ago and another mid-tier lime green Sony phone (I can't remember the model). I experienced camera overheating and power button jamming issues after two years with both of these Sony phones. And for some reason, i cant get myself to like their UI. It just feels off.

[thelongway]

How does the Xiaomi 14T pro hold up against the Xiaomi 14 Ultra ? In terms of camera

[danidarklord]

I think Sony just needs to give more love to their smartphone devision, it's like they don't care about it and only doing it because they have some spare time to kill

[Rippin]

Xiaomi, 4 years of guaranteed Android updates (plus one for security), up to Android 18; Sony, two android updates. I don't understand how this happens on a phone as premium as Sony.