Sony Xperia 1 IV 512GB Factory Unlocked Smartphone [U.S. Official w/Warranty], Violet

I just bought it because I needed an upgrade that supported a higher android for network security for work, but I'm very pleased. It has almost the same profile as the Xperia 1-II, but a lot more muscle under the sleeves.

Sony is so overlooked. These phones have straight up, non bloated Android OS and the best camera and camera software available. More storage, ability to add an SD and a headphone jack!

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With an external SD card, a terabyte of storage. Hard to come by these days. Super fast and dependable.

Everything is on the phones I like and feels quality like. Except for one thing, you wish it were almost as good. The camera is this device's downfall....

I bought this phone for 2 main reasons: The 3.5 headphone jack and the Sony photo technology! If you want to get better sound quality, you need a third-party app for equalization, because the built-in one is very bad, but the integrated DAC works so well. Functions like Dual Messenger are not integrated as in Samsung. You will need a 3rd party app to not integrate functions. The photos are great because they do not over-process it. A good photo captures what you are actually seeing, not an interpretation of it.

Seen lots of reviews about over heating. This phone has not overheated on me from normal use, which includes browsing multiple apps, games, videos, and calls. Tried long lengths of time for all of those just to see. The hottest the phone gets is when using the camera/video for a long time. The phone then might get slower and unresponsive, but it has never crashed. The camera on this phone is great though, best phone camera I have ever used.With all that, I like this phone a lot. It's fast and responsive. Screen quality is amazing, better then Samsung's phones, not sure about iphones but who likes iphones. The fingerprint reader is a little too sensitive, so it sometimes reads when it's in your pocket and you'll have to unlock the phone with the normal passcode

The phone was restarting whenever it disconnected from a wifi network; this was "fixed" by deleting my home network. Which is obviously bad. The communication from Sony is also lacking as this is a well known problem and support acts oblivious about it. The updates to the phone also don't have a changelog or any information on what's inside which is just gross. How can I know if they've fixed anything or changed anything I should know about?