Latest rumors claimed the cellphone will convey a visible change many would admire – a wider show with “regular” proportions, or “side ratio” as we (the professionals) name it.
Frankly, after I first heard of this chance, I didn’t make a lot of it. Nonetheless, having seen the leaked, official-looking renders of the Xperia VI, I need to admit… The cliche could be true. Maybe somewhat change actually does go a good distance!
Sony’s new Xperia 1 VI premium flagship cellphone made me nostalgic about the best way smartphones used to look: Ought to bezels come again?
See, not like garments the place totally different types go out and in of trend as soon as each few years, smartphone design appears to have a really linear trajectory. Significantly on the subject of the entrance of the cellphone, the purpose has all the time been clear – trim down the bezels till we get to the purpose the place we’re holding what’s primarily an oblong piece of glass – an uninterrupted, nook to nook show.
However there’s one caveat to this superb purpose, and we’ve been witnessing it for years now. For the reason that expertise isn’t fairly there and under-display cameras and different sensors can’t be tucked beneath the display screen (but), phone-makers should (actually) reduce round them, giving us telephones with numerous holes in numerous locations.
And there comes the brand new Sony Xperia 1 VI with its old-school prime and backside show borders and 0 cutouts, and I need to say… This cellphone managed to make me nostalgic concerning the instances when telephones had “love handles”…
How Sony made an Xperia flagship cellphone that appears fashionable and distinctive on the similar time
There’s the brand new, wider side ratio, and other than making the show extra sensible to make use of, it appears to make a a lot greater visible distinction than I anticipated. The added horizontal space makes the highest/backside bezels look fairly a bit much less noticeable than on the 2023 Xperia V. Is it an optical phantasm? Not fairly. It’s fairly easy – the bigger the show, the smaller the bezels will look.
On prime of that, relying in your OCD ranges, you’ll admire that that is really essentially the most symmetrical-looking smartphone yow will discover in the marketplace at present. Bizarre flex… however it’s there for those who care about it. I occur to understand this little element.
Thick bezels? Don’t be foolish! Hundreds of thousands would purchase the Sony Xperia VI if it had an Apple brand on the again
I wouldn’t thoughts having a cellphone that appears just like the Xperia 1 VI in 2024. Is it nostalgia? Perhaps! However I do miss uninterrupted shows on telephones, even when they’ve prime and backside borders, and I’d take them over my iPhone 13 mini’s notch. Nonetheless, the thinner – the higher.
In the end, I believe the iterative design upgrades (and particularly that new, wider show) lastly helped me admire Sony’s “stubbornness”, which I now see as consistency that I like.
You may argue Sony’s new flagship cellphone doesn’t look as fashionable because the iPhone 15 Professional, or the Galaxy S24 Extremely, however you should admit Sony makes essentially the most distinct flagship telephones on the market, and the best to acknowledge too – not less than if you recognize/keep in mind they’re nonetheless round. Even the Pixel with its horizontal digicam bump doesn’t look as distinctive as a Sony cellphone.
Once more, is that this old-school design going to be everyone’s cup of tea? No… However simply think about if Apple had chosen to stay with the same design on the trendy model of the iPhone. No notch on iPhone X – simply thinner (than the iPhone 8’s) prime and backside show borders, which get thinner yearly, to the purpose the place the iPhone 15 Professional appears just like the Xperia 1 VI.
After all, in that case, we’d’ve all the time puzzled what it’d be if the iPhone seemed prefer it really appears at present. Alternatively, I actually do consider Cupertino would’ve obtained a superb quantity of reward for refusing to comply with the show cutout development.
In an alternate universe, folks would care concerning the new Sony Xperia 1 VI
Alternatively, the upcoming mid-range Sony Xperia 10 VI doesn’t look practically nearly as good as Sony’s flagship. I suppose bezel measurement issues in spite of everything.
In actuality, Sony isn’t Apple, and the Xperia isn’t the iPhone. And this brings me to the half the place I’m obligated to say that it doesn’t matter what the brand new Sony cellphone appears like, it’ll all the time be a Sony cellphone.
In different phrases, no person appears to offer a flying shrimp about Sony telephones, and with pricing for the Xperia 1 VI anticipated to begin at €1,500, no flying shrimp shall be given. Not with Sony’s present competitors.
However my level stands! It would look “old-school”, however I actually just like the design of the Xperia 1 VI. The cellphone is rumored to convey one other distinctive function – the primary variable zoom digicam on a cellphone that may go from 3.5x to 7x optical zoom. Simply one other signal Sony refuses to play by the e book and use digital sensor-cropping for zooming like each different flagship cellphone in 2024.
We love you, Sony! All six of us.
