A mere three days after bringing the Sony Xperia X down to a then all-time low price of $400, Amazon has just further slashed the Snapdragon 650-powered 5-incher. Even better, today’s Gold Box deals also extend to the lower-end Xperia XA, as well as the high-performance Xperia X Performance.Starting from the bottom of the food chain, you can save around $80 on ...
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550 bucks for a Snapdragon 650-powered 5-inch Android smartphone with a relatively small battery on deck? No deal. $500? Still no chance a well-informed mobile consumer could bite. $450, 128GB microSD card included? Sony, or rather reseller BuyDig, was onto something at last about a month ago, though many cash-strapped buyers prefer ...
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Some third-party retailers on the old continent started stocking it a little while ago, when US pre-orders also kicked off through Amazon, but it’s only now that you can call the Sony Xperia X Compact properly, officially and widely released in Europe.From Germany to the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Sweden and Poland, the diminutive Android powerhouse is up for grabs on Sony’s e-store and shipping ...
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While several Android device manufacturers have named or at least strongly suggested names of phones and tablets due for official 7.0 UI makeovers… eventually, there’s no update deadline as far as a single non-Nexus product is concerned. And we’re not expecting any for a few more weeks. Possibly, even a month or ...
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Who doesn’t love unlocked Android smartphones, especially those sold through official, authorized and trustworthy channels with valid warranties and fast, free nationwide shipping?It pretty much goes without saying you’ll find plenty of compelling deals on such products from basically every OEM under the sun come Black Friday and Cyber Monday in a couple of months, but if you simply can’t wait that long, Amazon’s latest “48 hour Unlocked Event” has you covered.The fire sale’s protagonists are fairly popular even when they’re not massively marked down, as the 4GB RAM/64GB ...
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With so many solid upper mid-range or even full-blown high-end phones from increasingly reliable OEMs like ZTE, Huawei or OnePlus sold for $400 tops stateside, valid warranties, LTE connectivity and all, it’s pretty hard to keep a straight face while calling a $450 Sony Xperia X listing a bargain.Sure,
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Knowing Sony’s intentions to further “contract” an already frail US mobile business while “maximizing” European sales, it sure was surprising to see the Xperia XZ and Xperia X Compact dated for their American releases off the bat, but not on the old continent.In case you missed the timetable, the 720p ...
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Sony’s “new crown jewel” has arrived surprisingly soon after the ambitiously named but overpriced and underwhelming Xperia X Performance, barely increasing the screen size by 0.2 inches, and thus signaling it’s not meant to complement the 5-incher as the Galaxy Note 7 does for the S7.It wants to replace it, and ideally make you forget all about it, launching on October 23 stateside at an as-yet unannounced price point. The missing piece of the Xperia XZ puzzle is clearly the most important one, with ...
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While most Android OEMs have entirely given up on half-decent sub-5-inch (some, even sub-5.5-inch) smartphones, and Apple paused 4-inch iPhone evolution for a few years as it focused solely on iPhablets, Sony remains committed to its age-old strategy of releasing flagships in more sizes than anyone.Even as it undergoes a mobile business restructuring, looking to streamline the money-bleeding Xperia portfolio, this unrelenting Japanese tech giant has a pocket-friendly X Compact to hook you up with.And fret not, it’s nearly as powerful as its largely underwhelming
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Well, that escalated quickly. Just 24 hours ago, we had no idea Sony was even planning an Xperia Z5 Compact sequel of sorts. Branded differently, of course, as the Z line reached its “culmination” a few months back.Now, not only do we have official confirmation from one of the company’s European divisions the Xperia X Compact is real, but
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It’s never wise to assume a certain unreleased smartphone model will eventually see daylight just because it comes from a long line of beloved devices, especially when its makers are undergoing transitions, cutting expenses, and streamlining product portfolios.Still, even with the Xperia Z brand out the ...
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While Android enthusiasts understandably celebrated the highly anticipated public rollout of a final, fully polished 7.0 Nougat build a couple of days ago, it’s important to remember this also marks the beginning of another major struggle.OEMs will now start over-promising and under-delivering, missing their own self-imposed deadlines, snubbing popular, relatively new devices, or worse yet, they’ll stay completely mum ...
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It’s all about creating a lineup of devices. Sony retired the Xperia Z collection of devices, last year culminating in the ambitious Z Premium with a 4K display. Sony’s mission this year? Streamline. Focus on the features which “really” matter. No more fun experiments.However, this streamlining approach for the hardware hasn’t trimmed the price tags. Sony is still very much positioning the X line as premium offerings. Two letters lower in the alphabet, but that doesn’t mean the customer gets a price cut. We’ll be taking an in-depth look at both the X and X Performance in ...
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It might be costly for what it brings to the table, at $650 unlocked ($580, if you’re lucky), with just a 5-inch Full HD screen, 3GB RAM, 2,700 mAh battery and no fingerprint scanner stateside, but at least you now know the Sony Xperia X Performance will be among the world’s first smartphones to run Android 7.0.That’s if you hurry, have no problem tackling the typical bugs and general system instability of an OS ...
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If there’s one thing mobile consumers have always commended Sony for, in (financial) sickness and health, that’s surely the company’s stubbornness to offer solid compact Xperia models when practically everyone else in the business was adopting larger and larger footprints.But Ultra-branded phablets have enjoyed their time in the spotlight too, starting with the ridiculously jumbo-sized
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