Sony Xperia 1 IV Long Term Review — does it live up to the hype?

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[danidarklord]

Sony is the only smartphone out there that comes really close to an actual camera quality. Good job Sony.

[thaticelandicguy]

As I said before, this is not a sponsored video I've just really enjoyed this phone :) If you could smack that like button for me then that would be super appreciated! Thank you! 😌

[Sabundy]

I love what Sony is doing with their Xperia phones. Imho they are doing some genuinely exciting, interesting, and innovative stuff in the smartphone space now.

[thusmarshal]

I have a 2 year old Sony Xperia 5 ii works wonders love it and the camera still looks killer if you know what you doing and it's still fast Sony makes the perfect phones for me

[YoungWise]

I just got mine in last night. The build quality, display, speakers, cameras, headphone jack, sd card, aspect ratio, sonys killing it. Coming from an s22 ultra to a z fold 4 which i still have was debating to see which one i wanted to keep. Hands down sony is just amazing. The music pro app is so dope. But now rumors of the 1V are coming so i might return in two weeks and wait for the V. Awesome review.

[matthewswanson]

It's very refreshing to find a Youtuber who real and lays out the facts. Almost everyone else just the company pays them to say.

[abdulrahmanazmi]

As Xperia 1 iv user, I agree with your opinion especially overheating issue. In my experience, my phone rarely get overheat after several firmware update except during phone charging.

[gamesnic]

I have the phone as well and I absolutely love it. The photo and video processing is super natural and so powerful (keeps noise to not wash away detail while still keeping noise low) and except from that it likes to heat it's great, including the stock android experience

[jesserosenbaum]

I've had mine for a week now and I am still getting used to it having come from Apple. So far it's worked well. Thank you for the long-term review.

[theskig]

Thanks for realistic review.
I'm using an Xperia Pro-I since three months but I'm planning to buy the new 1 V because I need a more friendly approach to pictures and videos than setting every shot to be perfect. No worries, I just bougth it for collecting reasons (I'm a huge Sony fan since many years).

[hodzicadnan]

For everyone concerning overheating issue.Mine rearly did get warm. Once it did when i was charging it with 30w charger + having instagram video call it did get warm up to point where it switched to 60 Hz.But everyday usage of camera and everything else i had no problems at all, just like any other phone.

[tronganh]

I agree with you. i am using xperia 1 iv chinese firmware 64.0.F.13.25. It's very cool, even when charging, just a little warm. I am completely satisfied with it 😂😂

[DamianNocun]

I have bought this phone and my first impression was - wow. Camera is taking great pictures, where AI is not involved that much as for competition. Photos were crisp but not over-sharpened, with natural colors and amazing PRO features. I also did not experience "famous" overheating issues. Unfortunately at the end, I had to return this phone because few aspects for me were difficult to accept in phone in this price category. 1-phone got frozen 4 times within 5 days and I had to perform reset. Mainly while opening camera app. 2-lack of video stabilization while recording 4k60fps. 3. Interface could be more user friendly, like Sony could place everything related to photo and video in to 1 app. So that was the 3 things why I decided to change it for something different, in particular I got scared of this issues with freezing of the system, I don't know maybe it was only my model and if I would change it, issues would not persist, but this feeling where flagship is behaving this way is not ok. But in general I think Sony is starting to getting close to flagship markets as a package overall.

[andreicopaci]

You live in ICELAND bro. Of course it will not overheat :).

[albatross]

I've got 1 for 2 weeks and had been shooting short 4K 120FPS slow mo clips under 30+ degrees Celsius. It does heat up and getting the warning icon from time to time. It also completely freezed a couple times requiring hard reboot. I got a small little clamp on fan for those mobile gamers to help cool off faster and it works. I showed my buttery smooth clips to iPhone friends and they were all amazed at the quality from the Xperia. I also got a metallic bumper case to avoid trapping the heat inside the case.

BTW nice review and your initial review was one of the reasons I've chosen this phone. I just waited for news on firmware update dealing with the throttling and the price to come down. I got it for about USD1, 000 and am loving it!

[petrospetridis]

Xperia's didn't come up with a phone 2018, they are doing phones for ever. 2018 was the first Xperia 1 mk1. I 've been using manualmode on Xperia's since my Xperia Z1, Z3+, XZ PREMIUM and now on my Xperia 1 mk3. It's an amazing phone. Thanks for thw honest review. Looking forward for Xperia 1 mk5 or PRO-I mk2 next year. 👏🏻👏🏻

[jardelortiz]

Several people say that mark 4 get very hot with simple tasks very fast and others say it's already fixed honestly I don't know who to believe.

[spyrogaira]

Respect brother on the review
"You don't review what you don't use"

Bad ass!!!

Thanks for the great review
Xperia are really one of the Best phones in the market

Cheers

[AA-dbcb]

I dropped my 5 II too and some of the paint came off. I'm feeling you.

[craigreed]

Why isn't the Xperia the number 1 selling phone in the world. It's the best phone, that's just a fact.