- What's up guys,
Saf here on SuperSaf TV
and we've finally got Sony Xperia 1 ii,
Xperia one mark two.
Just last year,
I was praising Sony for going
for a more simpler naming convention
with the Xperia 1
and they've just gone ahead
and made everything confusing again
it looks like they're adopting
their camera naming convention
and having a mark two upgrade,
but anyway, Xperia 1 ii.
So many requests to cover
this on the channel.
Let's go ahead, check it out
see what it's got to offer
and give it the proper
SuperSaf style treatment.
The usual branding here
at the front at the back,
we have some of the key features.
Now Sony is going against the convention,
so they're not doing what
everybody else is doing
and they've kind of gone for a bit more
of a unique approach,
and we'll have to see if that's paid off.
So inside the box,
as well as the device,
you get some people work,
you get a USB type C to USB type C cable.
There's an 18 Watt fast
charger which is fast,
but nowhere near as fast
as a lot of the competition
where we've seen 25 Watts, 40 Watts,
even up to 65 Watts,
but something that we don't
see on the competition
is a 3.5 millimeter headphone Jack
and you'll see here that we've got
some 3.5 millimeter earphones included
and that is because the Xperia 1 ii
does have a 3.5 millimeter Jack
making it very, very unique.
Even the Xperia 1 last year
did not have a 3.5 millimeter Jack
so Sony have kind of gone back to this
and that is very interesting.
Now the Xperia 1 ii also
has wireless charging.
Again, it's not crazy fast,
like a lot of the competition
and here's the device
let's get rid of stickers
and also the screen protector.
So we've got a metal
frame with glass panels
on the front and back as expected.
This is the black version
there is also a white as well as a purple
and it's just a plain black color.
Sony haven't gone for
any gradient finishes
or anything like that,
that we're seeing on many
of the devices right now,
but the main thing on the Xperia 1 ii
is this display,
which is quite different
to the punch outs, high
refresh rate displays
that we're seeing right now.
This is a 21 by nine cinema wide,
4K HDR OLED display
and it's 6.5 inches.
We've got a 60 Hertz refresh rates,
not 120 Hertz or 90
Hertz like we're seeing
from the competitors.
But Sony do have some motion
blur reduction technology,
which should make things seem smoother.
Sony is saying almost
like a 90 Hertz display
but this is with software, not hardware.
And we do have some top
on bottom bezels
so we've not got a notch
or a punch out or anything like that.
Now in terms of my first impressions
of the display, it's very, very sharp
thanks for that 4K resolution sharper,
then pretty much anything else out there.
What's most interesting
about this display is
that 21 by nine aspect ratio.
This is something that we saw
on the Xperia 1 last year.
What that means is this
is very much catered
towards watching that 21 by nine content.
So if you're watching a lot of movies,
most movies do have an aspect ratio
of 21 by nine
so that is very, very wide
and that wide you're
not going to be getting
any black bars on the top
and the bottom,
but that does mean
when you're watching 16 by nine content,
even 18 by nine content,
then you will be seeing
black bars on the left
and the right.
And one other advantage that you get
with a 21 by nine screen is
that it's not very wide
and it's actually quite
comfortable to hold in
one hand compared to other devices
so let's bring in a few of the devices
to do a bit of a size comparison.
So the first device we've got here
is the Samsung galaxy S20 ultra
and you can straight away see
that it's quite a bit wider,
but you can also see that the bezels
are quite a bit smaller.
Now, the iPhone 11 pro max, once again,
quite a bit wider,
but it's also quite a
bit shorter because of
that taller aspect ratio that
we've got on the Xperia 1 ii
and finally looking at the
Xperia 1 from last year,
very, very similar in size
because this also does have
that 21 by nine aspect ratio, right.
So that's the display and the size
let's not talk about the cameras
so upfront we do have an eight
megapixel front facing camera
is got an F2.2 aperture,
but we've got some interesting
cameras at the back.
So there are four cameras in total
with three different focal lens,
all of the three different
focal lens are at 12 megapixels.
So I do like that Sony have just gone
with 12 megapixels across the board,
rather than going for a
crazy high pixel number
when realistically speaking,
you're still going to
be shooting at 12 megapixels
anyway, this is something
that we see from many
of the other competitors.
The primary camera has an F1.7 aperture
it's got around a 24
millimeter angle of view,
which is pretty wide and it
has a 1/1.7 inch sensor size,
which is pretty large,
but definitely not as large as some
of the others like the P40 pro
and the S20 Ultra.
We then got a telephoto camera,
which has an F2.4 aperture
and that's got around about a
70 millimeter angle of view.
Now, a lot of other telephoto cameras,
which are around at two times have
about a 50 millimeter angle of view
this is a little bit more than that
so it's almost three times optical zoom,
I would say around 2.8 to three times,
we then have the ultra-wide
camera with an F2.2 aperture
and around a 16 millimeter angle of view
so in terms of the field of view,
that's around 124 degrees.
And finally we have a 3D
time of flight sensor,
which is going to help
with depth information.
You can see the Zeiss logo here
because Sony do work with
Zeiss for their optics
and Sony have really been talking
about the auto focus
capabilities of this smartphone.
We do have real time EYE-AF,
which is something that we see on a lot of
these pro Sony cameras,
eye tracking, real time.
This is opposed to work with
humans as well as animals.
In addition to that,
we do have 20 frame's a
second burst shooting.
So this is I think,
the fastest on any smartphone
it's really going to be
able to capture a lot
of moving action just by pressing
and holding again,
something that we see
on a lot of pro cameras
that Sony is bringing onto here.
Now, in order to be able
to take advantage fully
of a lot of
these camera features,
we do have a few pro apps.
So for photos,
we do have photo pro,
which will give you full manual controls
over things like your shutter speed,
your white balance,
even your focus and for video,
we do have cinema pro,
which once again gives you lots
of manual controls,
ISO, shutter speed
you've got lots of different looks,
as well as the frames per second
so you can choose the
correct frames per second
for film making, which
is 24 frames a second,
despite what Marques might tell you
but if you want,
you can choose 25, 30
or even 60 frames a second.
There are also some audio levels here,
so you can monitor your
audio and things like that
and this does look like a
very fully fledged cinema app
and if you are somebody who's
into pro video and pro photography,
then this is something that
you're going to really appreciate.
Now, having said that I'm
particularly interest sit in how
this will compare to some
of the other competition.
Having those promotes is amazing,
but for the general user,
you want to go out there
and take some photos
and you want the smartphone to do all of
that processing for you.
We've seen the likes of Google
who use very simple hardware,
but do lots of software
processing capture multiple images
and combine them to give
you some great dynamic range
and things like that.
And this is something that,
I did criticize Sony for last year.
Although the pro app was
great when it did come
to the regular app,
it just didn't really hold
up against the competition.
So let's see this year,
whether the Xperia 1 ii is once again
going to be a very niche smartphone
for pro photographers and videographers
or if it's going to be something
that's still going to be,
very usable for the rest of the public.
Definitely let me know
in the comments below
which SuperSaf style camera
comparison you'd like
to see of the Xperia 1
ii versus I'll also try
to leave a poll up there
so you can vote which one you'd like
to see most.
Now, moving on
if we take a look around
the device at the bottom,
there is a USB type C input
on the right hand side,
we've got a volume rocker.
We've got a dedicated shutter button,
which is quite nice
it allow you to use the
smartphone in landscape mode
and take pictures easily.
There's also a power which doubles up
as a fingerprint scanner,
and it seems to work fine,
but it's definitely not as fast
as others I've tested, there is a bit
of an animation, which,
seems to slow things down.
On the top is that 3.5 millimeter Jack,
which makes this very, very unique.
We've got support for
high resolution audio,
or even high resolution
audio wireless with LDAC
and we've also got 360 reality audio.
So Sony, really putting an emphasis
on the audio capabilities
of this smartphone,
Sony very experienced in the audio sector.
On the left hand side,
we've got a tray
which you can actually
just pull out like this.
And this has space for a SIM card,
as well as a micro SD
card, something else,
which we don't really
see much of these days
so you can expand the storage
on the Xperia 1 ii, it does already come
with 256 gigabytes.
So that is already quite a bit of storage,
but if you are going to be taking lots
of pro video on here, of course,
you're going to be needing that storage
and having a micro SD card means
you can just pop it out on,
then pop it in to a laptop
or something like that.
Now this is powered by
the latest and greatest.
We do have the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 865 chipsets along
with the X55 modem.
So 5G is enabled
and we've got eight gigabytes of RAM
so performance I'm sure it's
going to be absolutely fine.
Sony also putting an emphasis on gaming.
We've got some gaming features on here.
And this is also compatible
with Sony's dual shock
four wireless controller.
So you're going to be able to mount this
on the controller and play your games
on the smartphone via a controller,
which may give you quite a bit
of a competitive edge for the software.
We do have Android 10
with Sony's skin,
but honestly speaking
I don't mind Sony skin
it's very minimal
it's almost stock Android.
We do have some additional features
so we've got the 21 by
nine multi window feature.
And this is going to allow
you to take advantage
of that very large display.
And there's also side sense,
which is okay you can tap
twice here on the side
and it's going to bring up some shortcuts
to your apps,
which for me has always
been a bit hit and miss.
So it's a, yeah, here you go.
You kind of have to really hit it
on the right mark,
which I'm not a huge fan of
and I don't find myself using too much,
but hey, there is a feature that's there.
For the battery
we do have a 4,000mAh battery,
which is quite a bit larger compared
to what we had last year
I believe it was around 3,300.
So I'll see what the battery life is like
in day to day usage of course we do have
that 4K display
so we'll see how well
things are optimized.
For pricing this is going to be retailing
for 1100 pounds or $1,200,
which is definitely up there with all
of the other flagships.
And it's going to be really interesting
to see if this is going
to be a niche product just
for a few people
or it's really going to be
something a bit more mainstream.
What do you guys think
of the Sony Xperia 1 ii.
What other coverage would
you like me to do with it?
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