Last year I needed a new phone. The Xperia V (I think) just got released and seemed perfect... But in the end I decided against it because of their horrendous update roadmap and large phone sizes. I'm not going to buy a new phone every three years and I hate phones that can't be used with one hand - and despite doing a lot of things right, those two points are just not addressed by Sony. I want their compact range back and I want Fairphone levels of updates.
Yeah. That's the one I considered more deeply. Still too big. Still only 3 years of promised security updates and only two major revisions of android. Nah, hard pass.
/edit just saw that I mixed up the Roman and Latin numbers in my previous post. Yeah, the 5 is what I meant by 5.
I changed to the 5 after having the 1 and it fits my hand perfectly as a small phone but I can also appreciate that hand sizes are obviously very subjective
Except that they give only half or less of the software support of other manufacturers.. I have a Sony 5ii. 2 years after release on the dot, not a single security update after.
Sony is the only phone maker without those ugly notches and intruding punch holes. If only their phones were accessible. From where I am, you can't buy them.
They already fucked it up. They support their phones the least in the whole industry among major manufacturers. I think even shitty HMD Global supports their phones for longer now.
