Sony Xperia 1 II vs iPhone 11 Pro - I've Made My Decision! Do You Agree? By sony365

So this one is going to be a little on the informal side of things up here on the rooftop here in panama, city, panama. What I'm going to do is, I have my notes, and I'm going to walk through what it's like owning both of these two incredible phones. Luckily, um we've had the 11 pro since day, one and the Xperia one mark ii, since you know more or less day, one as well, and I've been jumping back and forth between the two. So these are my opinions on what it's like owning these two as daily drivers, and also we're going to look at which one you should choose, if you're, truly open-minded and would consider going to either ecosystem here to either operating system, which one should you consider getting, especially now that we're on the verge of having the uh 11 at the 12 pro come in. So let's look at this now so in terms of the design, specifically, let's concentrate on the design now and look at some the differences here now. For me, the obvious starting point here with the design is that the iPhone is going for a more I've got to be careful.

What I say here, because I'm genuinely not trying to upset anyone uh, it is going for a slightly more prestige. Look a more clingy kind of look slightly more kind of jewelry-esque in the way that it's presented, and it's heavier as well. Now, 99.9 of all tech journalists will tell you, that's perfect, it's heavy and that's therefore premium. I think that it is not an argument that I buy into at all. If much prefer the Sony approach when it comes to that it's much lighter, and I like the way that the design sort of gets out of the way of the content.

So when you watch content back on the Sony, Xperia 1 mark ii, there's no punch hole, there's no notch, it's all about full respect for the content, the design itself, it kind of gets itself out of the way. I really like that approach. It's not a clingy design at all. It's very understated, they're, two entirely different approaches on that one. I have to say I prefer the Xperia approach beyond that.

Of course, we have the USB type-c on the Xperia 1 mark ii. It's the lightning port, of course, the proprietary approach on the iPhone I mean, we've all got our own opinions on that, if you're already fully into the Apple ecosystem, that's not going to worry you at all. I do prefer the versatility of having the USB type-c headphone jack. That's another big difference here on the design of these two phones, given the choice of having one or not having one, of course like, I think, most people, I could be wrong, but I think most people I prefer having the headphone jack there now johnny I've, who some people think I sound like, was a big fan. I think of those um curved edges that you get on the iPhone.

I never liked them. Furthermore, I find the phone iPhone more difficult to hold. Furthermore, I prefer the flatter edges, which is another reason why I'm excited about the 12 pro apparently we're going back to the kind of iPhone 5 5s design with the flat edges, which I love. Furthermore, I'm excited about that notification. Light on the Xperia 1 mark 2.

I really, really like having a notification light. I wish the iPhone had one, but one thing I do like I mean I'm not a fan of the notch, but what I do like about what is inside the notch is face. Unlock. Is the fingerprint scanner perfect on the Xperia one mark ii? It is, but I do enjoy face unlock on the iPhone when it works, which I have to say for me, is about 98 of the time. It's just brilliant.

The last thing I want to say about the design here with these two phones is the size. Overall. I love the fact that the Sony gives you, as I've said before. In my other videos, a big screen. You know big phone experience, but without the drawbacks of a big phone.

It's light that aspect ratio 21x9 really works. For me. The problem I had with the iPhone is, I find the max is just too big. It's I love it. I love the impact of watching content on there, but it's too big as a daily driver for me, whereas I found that the standard pro model uh was too small.

You know what I mean it's, I think the Xperia one mark ii has the sweet spot there in terms of screen and day-to-day use, not being too cumbersome. Okay, so I'm here in my Panamanian football shirt the day after the video um was filmed that you're watching now, because I forgot to say it's the dog, I forgot to say two important things: one is that the front facing camera on the iPhone 11 Pro is just better. It's just way better and in, in my view, that's too important, not to say, which is why I'm saying it now I forgot yesterday. Sorry. The other thing is that the global warranty you get when you buy direct from Apple is just insanely good.

I love the fact that I can be in any country and I can get pretty much top-notch service and support wherever I am. I just love that that's not something we will get here, or we do get with the Xperia one mark ii. That's all I wanted to say carry on with the video. I hope you enjoy it bye. So we have run a test comparing the displays of the Sony, Xperia 1.2 and the iPhone 11 Pro, and we felt that overall, the Sony wins. The Sony wins because of the clarity we did the test using creator mode.

In fact, we tried a whole ton of different settings, but overall yeah the Sony wins, and it's a convincing win by the way, the speakers again, we did an audio test, and we felt that the iPhone presented, the treble the kind of higher frequencies there a little better but overall, in terms of the general sound quality. We much preferred the Xperia one mark ii in terms of battery life, which is the next segment here I wanted to just steam through both phones will easily get you through a day, and they're very, very similar on battery life, and the only thing I would say is that Sony does have that approach to preserving the battery for the long term, which I really like we're going to talk about longevity later in the video, because that's a really important factor here, if you're thinking of buying one of these two phones or the new 12 pro, perhaps so, just quickly here on the build quality, I think both of these devices are just incredibly well-built. They are both for me as good as it gets on that side of things not remotely worried about that. So I think we can just chalk that one up as a draw and happy days. We could do a totally separate video on the camera technology here.

The differences between the two phones, the different results, and it would have to be an entirely separate video because it's such a in-depth topic, but what I will say, while I put these photographs up on the screen now for you to see that we've taken with both phones, is that we are talking about two different approaches. Generally speaking, as we've said before in our Xperia one mark ii, videos, the approach from Sony here is about encouraging us as users to get into pro mode and really enjoy that process auto mode. On the Sony, I would like to see it improved. I think it can be improved. I think that's a reasonable request in terms of you know, point and shoot for me.

The iPhone edges it, but in terms of wanting to get into pro mode, obviously the Sony wins. However, let's not forget that film pro I mean other apps do exist. If you want to take that approach with the iPhone for me, I'm not even going to say there's a winner or loser here. I think that would be a bit silly. I think it's okay to just say you pick the colors, the approach, the warmth that you prefer, and you go with that I mean.

Is that fair to say? Let me know in the comments below next now it gets a little tasty because now we're going to talk about things like privacy and security and what I hope is that we can have this discussion in the comments like always without anyone getting too bent out of shape, but respectfully I am going to challenge some of apple's positions here when it comes to privacy and security. By the way, I hope you like it, because what we're doing is we're moving around the rooftop here, trying to show you as much of the city as we can, we're still under, like really strict lockdown conditions here. So, as you may have noticed, if you follow us, if you're not followed us, please do we want to get out and show you the city. We will be able to soon we're just waiting for the restrictions to be eased anyway. So while I'm talking enjoy the scenery behind me, um apple privacy they've been really pushing that hard lately, haven't they um.

I have a few friends in the USA um, and they are big, big, iPhone, uh fanatics, and they tell me the reason is because of privacy. Now I would argue that if you have an iPhone or any phone for that matter, and you put a load of Facebook stuff on there, you're probably sucked- and I think the same is true. If you load a load of Amazon stuff on there you're equally sucked, I would, you know, put it to you. If you're really serious about um privacy, you probably don't want to go too far with either of those two companies again, I don't want to go crazy here. I don't upset anyone, but I'm just putting this forward as a suggestion.

The other thing, of course, is that you know iPhone users say to me: you know google's awful, it's really evil and all that kind of stuff. I take that with a pinch of salt, because if you do buy an iPhone, and you load up safari, and you get going there what's the search engine that comes pre-loaded. Well, it's google isn't it. I mean if apple. I put this to you as a question.

If Apple is truly serious about privacy, and it's not just marketing, would they not load up? Go as the know, the search engine of choice, as you know, default just a thought. The other thing, of course, is that my American friends adore Apple Maps, and it is wonderful in America, especially in the cities, and it's I believe, pretty good in London now in the UK, where I'm from, but out here, trying to use Apple Maps. It's like you're. Looking at the moon like there's, nothing there, there's no public transport, you can't use it from get to a to b. It just tells you that it's just not possible um.

So I have to use Google Maps and some people say well. You know I use Waze. Well, that's great, but let's not forget, google owns Waze, so this whole thing about privacy. It's a tough one, isn't it because it's easy to kind of get lost in all the information? That's out there. All I'm saying is it's not clear-cut, so if privacy is a major thing for you, iPhone could be the way to go, but just be careful about what you put on there because for me, it's a minefield trying to work out which approach is better.

Does that help? Probably not? But anyway there we go. Let's move on and just lastly, on security, I do feel. Having said all of that, that when it comes to security, I just feel I've got no nothing to back this up, but slightly safer with apple stuff. Generally speaking, I'm curious to know if you feel the same way or not but anyway now what have we got here? Next longevity? This is one area where apple still reigns in my opinion, because when you buy a new iPhone, you can pretty much bet your bottom dollar that you're going to get perfect support for five years to come. Yes, they got into a bit of trouble there with the battery.

You know slowing everything down um. Generally speaking, though, you're going to get five years of support, it's very difficult to find that with android devices. However, what I will say is that it's improving on the android side generally, we've had some good news from Samsung recently regarding three operating system updates on the flagships, and I read literally just a few days ago that some leaked documents from Sony show that they too are going down the same route you're going to get three OS updates um on the new flagships. So I'm going to put a link in the description below to that news story, because that's really significant here in terms of hardware they're, both equally well-built. It's just that software support, I think, it's fair to say, apple still, edges it now a massive factor when it comes to choosing which one of these phones, which one of these manufacturers might be the right route for you, it's going to be the ecosystem and there's not a huge amount.

I can add to that other than it's. I mean again, it's a whole separate video. Isn't it um once you're into an ecosystem? It's a little! Tough! Isn't it to shift? Is it still worth shifting well for what it's worth the more of an open mind? I think we, as consumers can keep the better it's going to be for us when it comes to choosing between android and iOS. I think it's fair to say, certainly from my experience there used to be a big difference. Now there really isn't iOS still isn't quite as customizable as I would like, but generally speaking, it's such a similar experience in so many ways, I'm just going to leave that one open.

So there are some huge corporations in the like tech publications in the UK, and they tend to score everything four out of five, both of these phones. I've seen four out of five. I mean that's great, but I think we can do better, because what does that mean if everything's four out of five, so we have a new scoring system here at tech, it's from zero to 50 or is it 500 million? Furthermore, I can't remember it's. We have a bit more room to play with is what I'm saying. I hope you like it, and here is our final score for these two phones.

As you can probably see, there is a storm fast approaching just over my shoulder here, so we're going to wrap this up. Thank you to everyone who has liked and subscribed here at BTX. I love reading your comments, so does Andres the whole team here. Thank you and I'll see you next time. You.

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