Sony Xperia 1 VI BAD NEWS! I Didn't See This Coming!

There is bad news for the Sony Xperia 1 VI. In an unexpected turn of events, the Xperia 1 VI will not be coming to the United States.

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[JDM]

I'll be keeping my Xperia V for a time.

[DamonMichener]

Juan Bagnell (SomeGadgetGuy) saw this coming. He has a somewhat tight relationship with Sony's American PR team, and wrote a blog post a couple weeks ago saying that he had heard absolutely nothing from them, which never had happened before this close to launch -- except, tellingly, for the Xperia 5 V last year.

[iamakkkshay]

If this continues then in the coming years sony will launch Xperia phones for limited cities of Japan only, forget the international markets.

[dazewithadrian]

It’s around $1, 800 to import from the UK to the US on Amazon 😖 Sony really f**ked over the people who were waiting for this one. Welp, time to move on :( thanks Sony.

[terrym]

It will be available in the UK.

Sony UK has a prelaunch promotion of a free pair of Sony WH-1000XM5 with the phone.
The price is £1299, and it ships from 6 June.

Is it a coincidence that the date is the 80th Anniversary of D-Day?

[intelligentinvestor]

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[superiortoall]

Sony will be the next LG, I won’t be surprised to see them announce their mobile phones division closing within the next decade.

[SonNguyen]

I have the 1 mark 3 and i sometimes to never use 4k content 🤔 for me the 4k is nice to have but i dont need it...
For me Battery life over 4k Display

[AbbasAther]

I think most customers get phones through carriers in the U.S. You mainly see Apple, Samsung, Google, Motorola, and OnePlus at carrier stores.

[muhammadfahmi]

In Singapore, they already started the preorder and it cost $1989 SGD.

[davidenwiya]

Haven't been this disappointed since the failure of the BlackBerry 5G...

[oluolatunde]

I want to believe that this phone will still come to the US markets. It's too early to conclude on it, going by the initial reactions to this new phone... This is likely to boost their sales with those changes that have been made to resonate with most users! I'm getting one in the UK...coming with a free Sony WH-1000XM5.

[amskon]

That sucks, I was looking into getting my first sony phone

[derekliou]

Fun fact: Xperia Mobile also announced they are gonna abandon the China market as well. Think it's just because the sales number isn't up to their expectations.

[SenseofAwareness]

Darn Sony! Why ruin what seems to be a masterpiece of a phone with a 1080p display? My ancient Samsung Galaxy S9 plus had a WQHD+ display! I'm really curious why they made that decision. Does this represent supply chain problems? What a shame! 😢

[lucretius]

I think they had enough of US reviewer bias against their phones.

[whyismyusernametaken...]

I was literally going to place a pre-order as soon as possible for this phone... I can't believe they've turned on the US like this.

[Awhispersecho]

As someone who has been a Sony only guy for most all my electronics. (headphones, TV's, phones, Blu Ray players, and cameras) this is the type of move that may make me stop buy all Sony products. I spend a lot of money every year on electronics and if a company is going to crap on me, I'm not going to support them.

[censored-admin]

Have been reading a lot of posts on reddit and XDA, which showed that people were able to import the 1V International and EU version to the states and get it working by replacing some modem files. If the modem is the same, the same 1V files may work on the 1VI. The interesting thing I saw on an older XDAforums post was that people in the states got band n71 which was not listed on any compatability website. Someone said on reddit that that may be because it's cheaper to manufacture just one part, but because of tax/tariffs software lock the bands to the various regions. I hope that is the case with this phone and that the 1V files work, because I really want to replace my 5 year old phone with the 1VI.

[Ratatrail]

They ditched Canada years ago, I would buy one right away 😡