Smartphone market shift: Sony Xperia's decline opens space for new players
The discussion around Sony Xperia's potential exit from the mobile market signals a shift in the smartphone landscape. This creates an opportunity for competitor brands to attract former Sony users, especially those seeking specific features or user experiences that Sony offered. Accessory manufacturers can also target these users by promoting compatibility or superior alternatives for their new device choices. It's a moment to capitalize on brand loyalty shifts and fill a perceived void.
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The Final Recall: Sony Xperia Smartphone Last Gasp Before Mobile Death
Posted by u/ControlCAD•07/20/2025
Top Comments
u/mvw2
They're one of the only phones I generally want to buy...except the stupid price tags that keep making them a no-go versus the competition. They have always just priced themselves out of the
u/DSLAM
Even more expensive? No wonder they're a small player even in their home market.
u/Play_outStation_5
I feel like Sony phones have been like that for well over a decade. I had a Sony Erickson phone when I was a kid and even back then I felt it was marketed in a strange way and was kind of a l
u/ElfegoBaca
I had one of those as well. Awful battery life and ran hot.
u/HuanXiaoyi
i think sony honestly just needs to target a lower price point. sony phones go used/refurb/new old stock for much more reasonable prices, and easily become some of the best hardware options i
u/iqbalsn
I bought the original Xperia X1 when it launched. Beautiful phone, then the keyboard died like within a year or so lol. Then i went with some HTC phone and continue with Xperia Z Ultra which
u/salartarium
SD cards are proprietary as well. SD cards are just more popular though a few other companies use memory sticks.
u/Qorhat
I had a red W910i back in the day and loved it. The slide mechanism was so smooth and satisfying.
u/OddMindPuppy
Who here knows what HTC was? 🤣
u/mvw2
They're one of the only phones I generally want to buy...except the stupid price tags that keep making them a no-go versus the competition. They have always just priced themselves out of the
u/f1223214
I bought one because it was one of the smallest phone ever with a good cpu. It pisses me off nowadays they’re not doing them anymore.
u/KamikazeFF
Don't forget the headphone jack
u/DocFreudstein
Don’t forget their Memorystick line. I got so pissed when I went to upgrade my Vita’s storage and OOF.
u/Lazerpop
The movie studio and record label are prob doing ok also
u/CheezTips
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u/moeka_8962
the big price tag and recent blunder blows hard to sony mobile these days.
u/seecer
I got the X10 and it was amazing. The tile app that united social media was amazing. I had that thing for years.
I also tried their later model later down the road, I think the X1, but it l
u/janoDX
Yeah, but Nintendo makes key stuff non-proprietary like SD cards.
u/happyscrappy
Nobody uses memory stick anymore.
But yes, SD is proprietary. Just more widely adopted.
u/UnchartedExplorer97
I remember getting the Xperia Play (a phone-PlayStation portable hybrid) as a teenager…..and I was not a fan in the slightest 😂. Had to switch it out for the HTC one m8.
u/seecer
I got the X10 and it was amazing. The tile app that united social media was amazing. I had that thing for years.
I also tried their later model later down the road, I think the X1, but it l
u/Aeidios
Also great cameras and a fairly clean UI
u/Good_Air_7192
I was literally in the market to buy the Xperia 1 VII this year. I had grown a bit tired of Samsung and was watching for the announcement of the VII and I was going to pull the trigger if it
u/iqbalsn
I bought the original Xperia X1 when it launched. Beautiful phone, then the keyboard died like within a year or so lol. Then i went with some HTC phone and continue with Xperia Z Ultra which
u/kangaroolander_oz
HTC It was Taiwanese ? The Country 'was' top of mobile phone market, then huge mistakes plagued the company / Country about 10 in a row and it all imploded . ( shocker)
Had the HTC that was
u/Pr0Sid
Nintendo and Apple does proprietary accessories all the time but they get away with it. Sony needs to learn but they don’t. Even as easy as naming their products.
u/NEWaytheWIND
I remember swearing by my Xperias in 2010-2012. I even remember getting stoked for the multi-touch software update LOL
Samsung really swooped in for the kill tho
u/Zalophusdvm
Except they didn’t really. They had all the pieces but they never put any serious effort into putting them all together.
u/asscrackbanditz
Xperia Arc was the shit.
u/Punkpunker
They actually did with the Xperia 10 but the combination of weak marketing and rather shoddy distribution network, this line was recently axed.
u/WALL-G
On paper the Sony phone is always the one I want. They literally own all the incredients.
But Sony are Sony and they'll price themselves out of the market, mismanage the product and general
u/HuanXiaoyi
yeah that sounds about right. that was kinda LG's problem as well, their last few devices were priced great for what they were but they did like no marketing and in most of the markets it was
u/DSLAM
Even more expensive? No wonder they're a small player even in their home market.
u/OddMindPuppy
My first “smartphone” was T-Mobile HPC mytouch 4g. I still remember how amazed I was watching YouTube on that 4” screen.
u/mailslot
One could argue that it happened with Blu-ray, a Sony format, on the PS3. UMD, Minidisc, DAT & DDS, Blu-ray, and even CD & DVD, are all “Sony” formats.
u/antisp1n
I miss the Xperia range. IMO, the entire brand is in slow decline: audio, TV, physical media — all used to be Sony. Now they are AWOL/outclassed. If it wasn’t for MS fumbling the Xbox so badl
u/happyscrappy
Nobody uses memory stick anymore.
But yes, SD is proprietary. Just more widely adopted.
u/UnchartedExplorer97
I remember getting the Xperia Play (a phone-PlayStation portable hybrid) as a teenager…..and I was not a fan in the slightest 😂. Had to switch it out for the HTC one m8.
u/Spiral1407
And they've got no-one to blame but themselves
u/iqbalsn
I bought the original Xperia X1 when it launched. Beautiful phone, then the keyboard died like within a year or so lol. Then i went with some HTC phone and continue with Xperia Z Ultra which
u/CheezTips
404 - Page not found
Whoops! Sorry, but this page doesn't exist.
u/Pr0Sid
Nintendo and Apple does proprietary accessories all the time but they get away with it. Sony needs to learn but they don’t. Even as easy as naming their products.
u/juliotendo
Sony missed an opportunity to use their own chips and use their own software, like Apple.
They have great hardware that deserves better than just Android with a skin on top.
u/asscrackbanditz
Xperia Arc was the shit.
u/juliotendo
Sony missed an opportunity to use their own chips and use their own software, like Apple.
They have great hardware that deserves better than just Android with a skin on top.
u/SprayArtist
The price was always their Achilles heel.
u/TheRetenor
Naming scheme is ok imo. The 1 is the top of the line Phone, the first in performance and capacity. The 5 is a middle ground of upper class and somewhat budget, the 10 is the low to mid end.
u/Valen_Celcia
Xperia 1 V user here:
All I can surmise is that they have completely scaled back their dev team and expected them to do the same amount of work as the competition. It sucks because from wha
u/kangaroolander_oz
HTC It was Taiwanese ? The Country 'was' top of mobile phone market, then huge mistakes plagued the company / Country about 10 in a row and it all imploded . ( shocker)
Had the HTC that was
u/Haxz0rz1337
Even PlayStation is doing bad, they stagnated and release almost no games. The only reason for why they are successful is because Xbox fumbled it at E3 2013 and their and infamous „TV, TV, TV
u/UnchartedExplorer97
I remember getting the Xperia Play (a phone-PlayStation portable hybrid) as a teenager…..and I was not a fan in the slightest 😂. Had to switch it out for the HTC one m8.
u/HuanXiaoyi
i think sony honestly just needs to target a lower price point. sony phones go used/refurb/new old stock for much more reasonable prices, and easily become some of the best hardware options i
u/OddMindPuppy
My first “smartphone” was T-Mobile HPC mytouch 4g. I still remember how amazed I was watching YouTube on that 4” screen.
u/ststaro
Used to have one when they were one of the only dual sim phones in the game. It was far too delicate.
u/128G
I still know quite a few people who still have Xperias. I don’t even think they are officially sold here.
u/2drops3Rises
Their lowest storage capacity model is more expensive than the middle storage iphone 16 pro max. Let thst sink in.
u/Toroid_Taurus
I saw this opportunity for Sony to be another apple if they made their own arm chips and own OS. Could have been ps5 matching. Linked with their laptops and TVs. All the tools were there. But
u/MarkEsmiths
What draws you to them?
u/MC_chrome
Wtf is Sony smoking? What geniuses at Sony HQ greenlit that idea?
u/SentientDust
Not that I'm looking to upgrade any time soon, but things are looking bleak out there. I'm not interested in Apple or Chinese-made phones, so the only two options for high-ish end phones seem
u/Fabulous_Comb1830
I think they're too small a company to try that.
u/OddMindPuppy
My first “smartphone” was T-Mobile HPC mytouch 4g. I still remember how amazed I was watching YouTube on that 4” screen.
u/ststaro
Used to have one when they were one of the only dual sim phones in the game. It was far too delicate.
u/Thund3rF000t
look at what they did with the PSP and Vita they squandered that like none other with killing support for it and using stupid proprietary storage solutions. even their TV's lately are getting
u/Pr0Sid
Nintendo and Apple does proprietary accessories all the time but they get away with it. Sony needs to learn but they don’t. Even as easy as naming their products.
u/samwise141
I had an Xperia phone that I loved maybe 5 years ago. Then my carrier stop offering Sony products. They also have the most bizarre marketing and naming scheme for their phones.
u/Main-Algae-1064
This is a feature to them.
u/Thund3rF000t
movie studio is suffering this year and last year, and artists are gaining more and more control over the rights and what they make from records especially big names and popular artists so re
u/NEWaytheWIND
I remember swearing by my Xperias in 2010-2012. I even remember getting stoked for the multi-touch software update LOL
Samsung really swooped in for the kill tho
u/ElfegoBaca
I had one of those as well. Awful battery life and ran hot.
u/OutrageousHunter4138
We’re an increasingly small group, but I love to see a Windows Phone diehard in the wild. I’ll never get over how much more fluid and intuitive Microsoft’s UI was compared to everything else
u/juliotendo
Sony missed an opportunity to use their own chips and use their own software, like Apple.
They have great hardware that deserves better than just Android with a skin on top.
u/louisa1925
My fave phone of it's era was an orange/black Sony experia W. In 2007. It wasn't a touch phone, but to me, it was the bees knees.
u/gobgobgobgob
lol butthurt.
u/2drops3Rises
Their lowest storage capacity model is more expensive than the middle storage iphone 16 pro max. Let thst sink in.
u/Pr0Sid
Nintendo and Apple does proprietary accessories all the time but they get away with it. Sony needs to learn but they don’t. Even as easy as naming their products.
u/Haxz0rz1337
Even PlayStation is doing bad, they stagnated and release almost no games. The only reason for why they are successful is because Xbox fumbled it at E3 2013 and their and infamous „TV, TV, TV
u/Fabulous_Comb1830
I think they're too small a company to try that.
u/janoDX
Yeah, but Nintendo makes key stuff non-proprietary like SD cards.
u/Qorhat
I had a red W910i back in the day and loved it. The slide mechanism was so smooth and satisfying.
u/Valen_Celcia
Xperia 1 V user here:
All I can surmise is that they have completely scaled back their dev team and expected them to do the same amount of work as the competition. It sucks because from wha
u/aergern
So, FreeBSD w/ a pretty skin? ;)
u/m7_E5-s--5U
A Micro SD slot in an (almost) Flagship level phone
"Almost" when compared to High-end end phone specs like Asus and Red Magic
u/janoDX
Yeah, but Nintendo makes key stuff non-proprietary like SD cards.
u/CapsicumIsWoeful
The weird part is, Microsoft could have leveraged their enterprise infrastructure to really go after corporate customers hard (Office 365, Azure etc. obviously these didn’t exist back then, b
u/2drops3Rises
Because it's ducking made in Japan and Japanese people eat it up like some candy.
u/LeekTerrible
Sad part is they’re cool looking phones.
u/ChillAMinute
Agreed. The Lumia 850 was a beautiful handset and the rumors were Microsoft was messing with ARM chips for a next gen device, which I think eventually became the Duo. Their issue was making
u/2drops3Rises
Their lowest storage capacity model is more expensive than the middle storage iphone 16 pro max. Let thst sink in.
u/salartarium
SD cards are proprietary as well. SD cards are just more popular though a few other companies use memory sticks.
u/Spiral1407
And they've got no-one to blame but themselves
u/gobgobgobgob
Nobody wanted to develop apps for the third store! What do you mean Microsoft didn’t put the pieces together?? They tried for years, partnerships with Nokia for hardware; etc.
u/MarkEsmiths
What draws you to them?
u/267aa37673a9fa659490
Found a mirror here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-final-recall-sony-xperia-smartphone-last-gasp-before-mobile-death/ar-AA1IS8Ds
u/SentientDust
Not that I'm looking to upgrade any time soon, but things are looking bleak out there. I'm not interested in Apple or Chinese-made phones, so the only two options for high-ish end phones seem
u/latunza
The crazy part of my windows phones, especially the Nokia Lumia 1020, the images I took in 2013 still look better then any photo I’ve taken with my iPhone’s, from 6s to Xs to 14 Pro.
u/SprayArtist
The price was always their Achilles heel.
u/Play_outStation_5
I feel like Sony phones have been like that for well over a decade. I had a Sony Erickson phone when I was a kid and even back then I felt it was marketed in a strange way and was kind of a l
u/WALL-G
On paper the Sony phone is always the one I want. They literally own all the incredients.
But Sony are Sony and they'll price themselves out of the market, mismanage the product and general
u/gobgobgobgob
Nobody wanted to develop apps for the third store! What do you mean Microsoft didn’t put the pieces together?? They tried for years, partnerships with Nokia for hardware; etc.
u/[deleted]
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u/LeekTerrible
Sad part is they’re cool looking phones.
u/latunza
The crazy part of my windows phones, especially the Nokia Lumia 1020, the images I took in 2013 still look better then any photo I’ve taken with my iPhone’s, from 6s to Xs to 14 Pro.
u/WALL-G
On paper the Sony phone is always the one I want. They literally own all the incredients.
But Sony are Sony and they'll price themselves out of the market, mismanage the product and general
u/Valen_Celcia
Xperia 1 V user here:
All I can surmise is that they have completely scaled back their dev team and expected them to do the same amount of work as the competition. It sucks because from wha
u/CapsicumIsWoeful
The weird part is, Microsoft could have leveraged their enterprise infrastructure to really go after corporate customers hard (Office 365, Azure etc. obviously these didn’t exist back then, b
u/fatbongo
Sony has always been so invested in their proprietary products
For all the crap Apple gets about their Apple tax and walled gardens they don’t have anything on Sony and their next big thing
u/fatbongo
Sony has always been so invested in their proprietary products
For all the crap Apple gets about their Apple tax and walled gardens they don’t have anything on Sony and their next big thing
u/SaturnSleet
Their audio department is still great
u/Thund3rF000t
look at what they did with the PSP and Vita they squandered that like none other with killing support for it and using stupid proprietary storage solutions. even their TV's lately are getting
u/Zalophusdvm
As someone who bet HARD on Microsoft successfully creating a unified landscape (bought and used multiple windows phones for until well after they ended support while also rocking a surface pr
u/gobgobgobgob
Nobody wanted to develop apps for the third store! What do you mean Microsoft didn’t put the pieces together?? They tried for years, partnerships with Nokia for hardware; etc.
u/gobgobgobgob
Microsoft tried that and failed. No room for a third App Store.
u/OddMindPuppy
Who here knows what HTC was? 🤣
u/seecer
I got the X10 and it was amazing. The tile app that united social media was amazing. I had that thing for years.
I also tried their later model later down the road, I think the X1, but it l
u/Zalophusdvm
Except they didn’t really. They had all the pieces but they never put any serious effort into putting them all together.
u/Spiral1407
And they've got no-one to blame but themselves
u/OutrageousHunter4138
We’re an increasingly small group, but I love to see a Windows Phone diehard in the wild. I’ll never get over how much more fluid and intuitive Microsoft’s UI was compared to everything else
u/Main-Algae-1064
This is a feature to them.
u/gobgobgobgob
Microsoft tried that and failed. No room for a third App Store.
u/Punkpunker
They actually did with the Xperia 10 but the combination of weak marketing and rather shoddy distribution network, this line was recently axed.
u/Raychao
I've tried to support the Xperia phones. I've had a Xperia Z, Z3, Z5 and 10ii 4G.
They abandoned the Australian market completely and the final nail in the coffin was when Michelle Rowland k
u/NEWaytheWIND
I remember swearing by my Xperias in 2010-2012. I even remember getting stoked for the multi-touch software update LOL
Samsung really swooped in for the kill tho
u/AfterOil7630
I had a HTC Thunderbolt as a kid, loved my two hours of battery life LMAO. Front-facing speakers and the stand were cool tho
u/Thund3rF000t
movie studio is suffering this year and last year, and artists are gaining more and more control over the rights and what they make from records especially big names and popular artists so re
u/m7_E5-s--5U
A Micro SD slot in an (almost) Flagship level phone
"Almost" when compared to High-end end phone specs like Asus and Red Magic
u/moeka_8962
the big price tag and recent blunder blows hard to sony mobile these days.
u/happyscrappy
Nobody uses memory stick anymore.
But yes, SD is proprietary. Just more widely adopted.
u/Play_outStation_5
I feel like Sony phones have been like that for well over a decade. I had a Sony Erickson phone when I was a kid and even back then I felt it was marketed in a strange way and was kind of a l
u/ChillAMinute
Agreed. The Lumia 850 was a beautiful handset and the rumors were Microsoft was messing with ARM chips for a next gen device, which I think eventually became the Duo. Their issue was making
u/salartarium
SD cards are proprietary as well. SD cards are just more popular though a few other companies use memory sticks.
u/Lazerpop
The movie studio and record label are prob doing ok also
u/f1223214
I bought one because it was one of the smallest phone ever with a good cpu. It pisses me off nowadays they’re not doing them anymore.
u/[deleted]
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u/m7_E5-s--5U
You're right, and I did
u/MarkEsmiths
It's wild there isn't enough capital for something that would be so beneficial.
u/ChillAMinute
Agreed. The Lumia 850 was a beautiful handset and the rumors were Microsoft was messing with ARM chips for a next gen device, which I think eventually became the Duo. Their issue was making
u/AfterOil7630
I had a HTC Thunderbolt as a kid, loved my two hours of battery life LMAO. Front-facing speakers and the stand were cool tho
u/MarkEsmiths
It's wild there isn't enough capital for something that would be so beneficial.
u/gobgobgobgob
Microsoft tried that and failed. No room for a third App Store.
u/LeekTerrible
Sad part is they’re cool looking phones.
u/Good_Air_7192
I was literally in the market to buy the Xperia 1 VII this year. I had grown a bit tired of Samsung and was watching for the announcement of the VII and I was going to pull the trigger if it
u/m7_E5-s--5U
A Micro SD slot in an (almost) Flagship level phone
"Almost" when compared to High-end end phone specs like Asus and Red Magic
u/Zalophusdvm
Except they didn’t really. They had all the pieces but they never put any serious effort into putting them all together.
u/2drops3Rises
Because it's ducking made in Japan and Japanese people eat it up like some candy.
u/128G
I still know quite a few people who still have Xperias. I don’t even think they are officially sold here.
u/SaturnSleet
Their audio department is still great
u/ElfegoBaca
I had one of those as well. Awful battery life and ran hot.
u/HuanXiaoyi
i think sony honestly just needs to target a lower price point. sony phones go used/refurb/new old stock for much more reasonable prices, and easily become some of the best hardware options i
u/TheRetenor
Naming scheme is ok imo. The 1 is the top of the line Phone, the first in performance and capacity. The 5 is a middle ground of upper class and somewhat budget, the 10 is the low to mid end.
u/MC_chrome
Wtf is Sony smoking? What geniuses at Sony HQ greenlit that idea?
u/2drops3Rises
You should check how crazy their price is in Japan.
u/mailslot
One could argue that it happened with Blu-ray, a Sony format, on the PS3. UMD, Minidisc, DAT & DDS, Blu-ray, and even CD & DVD, are all “Sony” formats.
u/2drops3Rises
You should check how crazy their price is in Japan.
u/moeka_8962
the big price tag and recent blunder blows hard to sony mobile these days.
u/f1223214
I bought one because it was one of the smallest phone ever with a good cpu. It pisses me off nowadays they’re not doing them anymore.
u/[deleted]
Boy, thank god you were here to witness and put me right. Thank you. 🙏
u/salartarium
SD cards are proprietary as well. SD cards are just more popular though a few other companies use memory sticks.
u/NEWaytheWIND
I remember swearing by my Xperias in 2010-2012. I even remember getting stoked for the multi-touch software update LOL
Samsung really swooped in for the kill tho
u/MC_chrome
Wtf is Sony smoking? What geniuses at Sony HQ greenlit that idea?
u/CapsicumIsWoeful
The weird part is, Microsoft could have leveraged their enterprise infrastructure to really go after corporate customers hard (Office 365, Azure etc. obviously these didn’t exist back then, b
u/LeekTerrible
Sad part is they’re cool looking phones.
u/Raychao
I've tried to support the Xperia phones. I've had a Xperia Z, Z3, Z5 and 10ii 4G.
They abandoned the Australian market completely and the final nail in the coffin was when Michelle Rowland k
u/[deleted]
I saw this opportunity for Sony to be another apple if they made their own arm chips and own OS. Could have been ps5 matching. Linked with their laptops and TVs. All the tools were there. But
u/KamikazeFF
Don't forget the headphone jack
u/Spiral1407
And they've got no-one to blame but themselves
u/TheRetenor
Naming scheme is ok imo. The 1 is the top of the line Phone, the first in performance and capacity. The 5 is a middle ground of upper class and somewhat budget, the 10 is the low to mid end.
u/AfterOil7630
I had a HTC Thunderbolt as a kid, loved my two hours of battery life LMAO. Front-facing speakers and the stand were cool tho
u/Raychao
I've tried to support the Xperia phones. I've had a Xperia Z, Z3, Z5 and 10ii 4G.
They abandoned the Australian market completely and the final nail in the coffin was when Michelle Rowland k
u/mvw2
They're one of the only phones I generally want to buy...except the stupid price tags that keep making them a no-go versus the competition. They have always just priced themselves out of the
u/aergern
So, FreeBSD w/ a pretty skin? ;)
u/Thund3rF000t
look at what they did with the PSP and Vita they squandered that like none other with killing support for it and using stupid proprietary storage solutions. even their TV's lately are getting
u/2drops3Rises
You should check how crazy their price is in Japan.
u/267aa37673a9fa659490
Found a mirror here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-final-recall-sony-xperia-smartphone-last-gasp-before-mobile-death/ar-AA1IS8Ds
u/MarkEsmiths
What draws you to them?
u/MarkEsmiths
It's wild there isn't enough capital for something that would be so beneficial.
u/Fabulous_Comb1830
I think they're too small a company to try that.
u/2drops3Rises
Because it's ducking made in Japan and Japanese people eat it up like some candy.
u/kangaroolander_oz
HTC It was Taiwanese ? The Country 'was' top of mobile phone market, then huge mistakes plagued the company / Country about 10 in a row and it all imploded . ( shocker)
Had the HTC that was
u/DSLAM
Even more expensive? No wonder they're a small player even in their home market.
u/m7_E5-s--5U
You're right, and I did
u/Qorhat
I had a red W910i back in the day and loved it. The slide mechanism was so smooth and satisfying.
u/ElfegoBaca
I had one of those as well. Awful battery life and ran hot.
u/SprayArtist
The price was always their Achilles heel.
u/louisa1925
My fave phone of it's era was an orange/black Sony experia W. In 2007. It wasn't a touch phone, but to me, it was the bees knees.
u/Zalophusdvm
As someone who bet HARD on Microsoft successfully creating a unified landscape (bought and used multiple windows phones for until well after they ended support while also rocking a surface pr
u/Punkpunker
They actually did with the Xperia 10 but the combination of weak marketing and rather shoddy distribution network, this line was recently axed.
u/SaturnSleet
Their audio department is still great
u/UnchartedExplorer97
I remember getting the Xperia Play (a phone-PlayStation portable hybrid) as a teenager…..and I was not a fan in the slightest 😂. Had to switch it out for the HTC one m8.
u/Thund3rF000t
look at what they did with the PSP and Vita they squandered that like none other with killing support for it and using stupid proprietary storage solutions. even their TV's lately are getting
u/antisp1n
I miss the Xperia range. IMO, the entire brand is in slow decline: audio, TV, physical media — all used to be Sony. Now they are AWOL/outclassed. If it wasn’t for MS fumbling the Xbox so badl
u/aergern
So, FreeBSD w/ a pretty skin? ;)
u/OutrageousHunter4138
We’re an increasingly small group, but I love to see a Windows Phone diehard in the wild. I’ll never get over how much more fluid and intuitive Microsoft’s UI was compared to everything else
u/CheezTips
404 - Page not found
Whoops! Sorry, but this page doesn't exist.
u/Aeidios
Also great cameras and a fairly clean UI
u/louisa1925
My fave phone of it's era was an orange/black Sony experia W. In 2007. It wasn't a touch phone, but to me, it was the bees knees.
u/KamikazeFF
Don't forget the headphone jack
u/Haxz0rz1337
Even PlayStation is doing bad, they stagnated and release almost no games. The only reason for why they are successful is because Xbox fumbled it at E3 2013 and their and infamous „TV, TV, TV
u/Aeidios
Also great cameras and a fairly clean UI
u/antisp1n
I miss the Xperia range. IMO, the entire brand is in slow decline: audio, TV, physical media — all used to be Sony. Now they are AWOL/outclassed. If it wasn’t for MS fumbling the Xbox so badl
u/Toroid_Taurus
I saw this opportunity for Sony to be another apple if they made their own arm chips and own OS. Could have been ps5 matching. Linked with their laptops and TVs. All the tools were there. But
u/Main-Algae-1064
This is a feature to them.
u/HuanXiaoyi
yeah that sounds about right. that was kinda LG's problem as well, their last few devices were priced great for what they were but they did like no marketing and in most of the markets it was
u/kangaroolander_oz
HTC It was Taiwanese ? The Country 'was' top of mobile phone market, then huge mistakes plagued the company / Country about 10 in a row and it all imploded . ( shocker)
Had the HTC that was
u/OddMindPuppy
My first “smartphone” was T-Mobile HPC mytouch 4g. I still remember how amazed I was watching YouTube on that 4” screen.
u/Zalophusdvm
As someone who bet HARD on Microsoft successfully creating a unified landscape (bought and used multiple windows phones for until well after they ended support while also rocking a surface pr
u/Lazerpop
The movie studio and record label are prob doing ok also
u/asscrackbanditz
Xperia Arc was the shit.
u/SentientDust
Not that I'm looking to upgrade any time soon, but things are looking bleak out there. I'm not interested in Apple or Chinese-made phones, so the only two options for high-ish end phones seem
u/AfterOil7630
I had a HTC Thunderbolt as a kid, loved my two hours of battery life LMAO. Front-facing speakers and the stand were cool tho
u/Good_Air_7192
I was literally in the market to buy the Xperia 1 VII this year. I had grown a bit tired of Samsung and was watching for the announcement of the VII and I was going to pull the trigger if it
u/Thund3rF000t
movie studio is suffering this year and last year, and artists are gaining more and more control over the rights and what they make from records especially big names and popular artists so re
u/2drops3Rises
You should check how crazy their price is in Japan.
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u/OddMindPuppy
Who here knows what HTC was? 🤣
u/fatbongo
Sony has always been so invested in their proprietary products
For all the crap Apple gets about their Apple tax and walled gardens they don’t have anything on Sony and their next big thing
u/267aa37673a9fa659490
Found a mirror here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-final-recall-sony-xperia-smartphone-last-gasp-before-mobile-death/ar-AA1IS8Ds
u/SaturnSleet
Their audio department is still great
u/ststaro
Used to have one when they were one of the only dual sim phones in the game. It was far too delicate.
u/moeka_8962
the big price tag and recent blunder blows hard to sony mobile these days.
u/128G
I still know quite a few people who still have Xperias. I don’t even think they are officially sold here.
u/latunza
The crazy part of my windows phones, especially the Nokia Lumia 1020, the images I took in 2013 still look better then any photo I’ve taken with my iPhone’s, from 6s to Xs to 14 Pro.
u/OddMindPuppy
Who here knows what HTC was? 🤣
u/mvw2
They're one of the only phones I generally want to buy...except the stupid price tags that keep making them a no-go versus the competition. They have always just priced themselves out of the