Sony Xperia X Launch Preview - Hands On!

Well, yours truly was invited to the Sony Xperia X launch party in London last night. It was a trendy affair with hipsters all over the place, a trendy DJ who I have no idea who they were, trendy cocktails to match the colours of the new Xperia X, trendy bartenders doing the cocktail "lookout me throw the bottle around and take hold of it" affair and various other setup scenarios to show off what Sony is clearly trying to make the X's party trick: The Photographic camera.

The launch political party was in a bar in London's Westward Stop then was fairly poorly lit equally one would expect of a bar in the evening. A few areas were setup with a guy doing football tricks (soccer for the Americans!), a couple of "mixologists" making cocktails and of grade the DJ.

"Mixologists", patently they're a matter!

At various places effectually the bar were small stands with Xperia X'southward on them for people to pick up and play effectually with.

The Camera

So I played around with the Xperia X for a reasonable amount of time. I recorded some of information technology with the video you can see below, but the camera as mentioned to a higher place, is clearly what Sony is positioning to be the X's party trick, this was pretty clear past the number of staff giving demos of the camera's depression light performance and it's tracking features etc.

I watched the demo a couple of times at different locations. The premise was that, given the poor lighting in the bar, every bit well every bit the fast movements of the "mixologists", football game fob guy and DJ, the camera was so awesome that it could still get decent shots without a flash (let's face it, phone camera flashes aren't exactly the most powerful things in the world anyway). Indeed, watching the demo, the performance did seem pretty practiced, focus tracking on a moving person/object was reasonably accurate and the pictures (from what I could see on the phone screen) looked practiced.

I volition caveat this though. Proficient on a phone screen doesn't necessarily mean good. Especially for a 23mp shooter. I've taken pictures on my phone before and thought they looked fine merely then gotten them on a PC and find that the main object wasn't in focus but something about them was etc. The people doing the demo were always quick to blast through the pictures, never resting on 1 in a static position for more than than a couple of seconds. Very apace double tap zooming in and out.

"What'southward your X?" is the launch tagline...

A couple of times, this meant that the phone actually started lagging a flake which was unfortunate. It wasn't a huge lag, only noticeable. I'thou not sure if he was trying to exist quick to get through his demo and get to the queue behind me waiting to see or if there were genuinely less than platonic pictures there. I did enquire almost how Sony was able to achieve the low calorie-free performance and got a lot of non-technical "well, you know Sony brand digital cameras right? This is the same technology that is in the alpha 6300, that's how", before moving on to give the next demo.

Right yes well, cheers for that. That told me a k total of nada. Playing effectually with the photographic camera myself, a few things to note:

1. There seems to be no 4K video capture mode.
2. Fifty-fifty in some of the AR video modes, the back of the telephone was getting quite warm to the touch on.
3. Tracking adequacy was expert, but not exceptional.

Points 1 and 2 are probably related. Every bit those familiar with the Xperia Z3/Z3+ will know, they have a tendency to overheat due to the wonderful Snapdragon 810 within them. I can use 4k capture on my Z3+ for a few minutes at a fourth dimension depending in reasonable ambient temperatures, but leave it running for too long and the photographic camera app will shut down (gives you a warning first but yet, it'southward not ideal). Information technology seems like Sony are trying to circumvent this by merely disabling the mode entirely. Even the Xperia X Functioning (the flagship using a Snapdragon 820) doesn't advertise a 4K video capture mode.

Sony claim an ISO of 12,800 on the principal camera and half-dozen,400 on the front photographic camera. Zooming in on photos I took, they looked good in the low light, but at the same time, there could have been a decent amount of racket/graining there, it's difficult to tell on a phone screen.

Other Points/Wrapping Upward

I promised a short video of the X in mitt. Keep in mind it was in a relatively loud and dark bar, only you can make out what I'm talking near and vaguely come across the phone!

Other general usage and navigation in and around the phone itself seemed good. Android 6 with it'south (now no longer new) custom permissions is the order of the 24-hour interval equally y'all'd look. The screens are nice and brilliant and the standard Sony software was of course all preinstalled so you'll accept PlayStation app forth with Music, Album etc. I plugged in my earphones (Sennheiser IE 80) to effort to go a listen to the audio quality which also seemed reasonable simply the bar was loud and fifty-fifty with good isolation that I get from my buds, it was difficult to tell too much. Sony is plainly known for its audio and I'd be surprised if they permit the side down also much, simply yet another aspect that nosotros'll need to reserve sentence on for now.

The construction of the phone feels solid as you'd wait. Sony has fabricated a bit of a splash with rebranding the Xperia line-upward from Z to X but it's largely the same layout and experience as the phones you may already be familiar with as part of their Omni-Balance design theme. The dorsum of the phone isn't drinking glass like it was on the Z'due south but it also doesn't experience similar the cheap plastic of some by Samsung flagships which is a proficient thing.

Overall, the Xperia X seems a solid upper mid range telephone with Sony'due south good build quality and decent experience in camera'southward serving them well. Information technology's unclear whether the phone will live up to that when using in ameliorate conditions and able to properly compare photos, audio etc, but for at present information technology looked adept. Sony threw a good party of course which helps and some decent cocktails (4 on offer, one to lucifer each colour Xperia X you tin buy) were keen! Ultimately though, this older not-hipster volition await for the tech to present itself and reserve proper judgement.

Source: https://wccftech.com/sony-xperia-x-launch-preview/

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