XPERIA 5 ii vs XPERIA 1 ii: Sony Showdown! By JuanBagnell

I think it's time for a quick showdown. Sony sells two phones with a ton of tech overlap. The differences are fine, they're subtle, but nuanced enough to make slightly different purchasing recommendations. Here's where we land between the Sony, Xperia 1 mark ii versus the Xperia 5 mark ii, let's start with the biggie, the main difference screen technologies. Now both of these are juicy and vibrant sleds, but the most noticeable differentiator, the one mark ii is rocking. The most pixel dense display found on any phone on the market.

The five mark ii sports, a solid HD resolution. The one mark ii tries to approximate a faster refresh with some interesting black frame insertion tricks, and it looks pretty sharp, but the 5 sports, a true 120hz display and side by side with the bigger opera. The 5 is definitely a smoother phone for folk shopping Sony. Do you want a higher resolution? Graphics display or a faster refresh gaming monitor now far more subtle. Looking at the design and the frame, the Xperia 1 mark ii changed up a little more than the Xperia 5.

, and I love how flat the edges are on the one mark ii and how Sony got rid of the separate power button from the one mark. One. The five mark ii keeps the more rounded sides from the five mark one, but adds a separate assistant button. Now the button is close enough to being flush with the frame that I can still use a few of my mounts, but I think this makes the five a little busier and the rounded edges make it a little harder to hold when you're using it like a camera. What's impressive, though, the 5 mark ii gets an almost 30 jumps in battery capacity over last year's 5 mark 1 and now has the same size battery as the larger opera.

You would think that would give the 5 a battery life win, but it seems to me in my admittedly limited testing that refresh rate eats more battery than resolution for the vast majority of services that phones might use dropping the refresh rate noticeably improves battery life, so it would seem both phones benefit from scaling of some kind to improve run time out in the field and both include HS power control, which is an awesome feature. All phones should have you can power the phone over an USB cable, and it bypasses charging the battery to keep the phone running cooler, but one perk for the Xperia 1 a little more room inside for wireless charging coils. So if you like QI charging that's missing on the 5 mark ii, the camera hardware is very similar between the two, which is refreshing. I hate it when a smaller phone gets fewer features than a larger device. The omission on this smaller phone, the five mark ii, doesn't have the depth sensor, which the one has and that's been mostly fine.

I'd, be hard-pressed to point out situations where I felt like. I was really missing. Something by not having the depth sensor early days still, I might need to test that claim, we'll see if that changes my mind over time, but like last year, the five mark ii is being used to launch a new feature, 4k 120 frames per second slow motion, video, which is crazy to see from a phone we're hoping the one mark ii might get that feature too, but at the time of launch the five had it first and those are the major differences as I see them, and I never believe a showdown ever truly concludes as easily as winner loser. Even with this much feature overlap and sharing so much of the same company DNA. I think there are slightly different audiences for each phone by design.

We're talking about premium phones, so those nuances matter. These are not the phones. We recommend for folks casually using a little social media and you have to keep up with their email. I think the one mark ii leans more towards content and video consumption. It's an expensive OLED to manufacture, but for someone watching more video you're not likely to benefit much from a higher refresh display and the slightly larger display might help a little for content creation.

The five mark ii leans a little more towards gaming, thanks to the faster display and the overall smaller footprint makes it a slightly better communicator device when you're out and about, so I can't say one is outright a better buy than the other or one justifies a higher price tag because of specs on the side of the box. Instead, I think Sony is using the difference in form factor to help shift the use case, while maintaining an overall brand aesthetic if you're getting hyped for a Xperia which phone are you leaning towards considering my audience, my hypothesis is more folks would probably be interested in the 5 mark ii. Am I right? Am I off? Do I have a fan base for the one mark ii drop me some comments down below, as always thanks, so much for watching for sharing these videos subscribing to the channel supporting your favorite content? Creator has never been more critical than it is today, so I hope you'll check out the links in the merch store down below which helped me not pack every video with baked in ads and sponsorships, except for these ads that I put at the ends of my videos, there's the support page on some gadgetguy. com for a full list of all of my affiliates and partnerships, or you might consider joining the list of names scrolling by from my patreon. comgadgetguy.

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