The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is the anti-flagship flagship: headphone jack, microSD, and thick bezels in 2026

[Crysis0ne]

Sony Sony Sony...DO YOU NOT understand how the (so called) free market works?
All everyone sees (America) when they walk into a carrier store, big box store etc
is APPLE, SAMSUNG, GOOGLE maybe a few Motorola & OnePlus etc.
It's not the 80's when the Sony Walkman was king and everyone had one. It's not
the 90's when the Sony VCR's, TV's, then the CD, blueray's were king.
Yeah, people know Sony, but ask the kids/young adults what they are buying and it
will mostly be Apple, Samsung, Google.
If Sony REALLY wanted to climb out of the cellar, they should price the phone as a loss
looser or break even.
Remember when NO ONE had heard about (outside the USA) of Oppo? Then they came
up with the OnePlus phone, had a crazy marketing scheme, sold the phone CHEAPER
that most flagships and they gained market share and now a lot of people (in the west)
know who Oppo/OnePlus is.
Sony Sony Sony...not a bad phone. I LOVE the idea of removable SD card and headphone
jack, but that price isn't going to get a lot of people to buy it.

and it costs more than Samsung's best phone

Never read a comment that literally every sentence was 100% this wrong

 

[manderson84]

You say they left the global smartphone market... They left the US market.

 

[Midnight 101]

But I can't do Android (at least until Apple ruins their OS a bit more).

Why do you dislike android?

I'm always curious about people's reasons for choosing one phone OS over another

 

[salkin316]

Again x2, guess what's missing on their phones that everyone else is doing? Yep. Not hardware, but "good" postprocessing for phones.

That's a good thing, not a bad thing. Not everyone wants to see gross, over saturated HDR mess of a picture that Samsung and iPhones produce. Sony's manual mode produces a "get what you see" more natural photograph which is what some are looking for.

 

[salkin316]

Why do you dislike android?

I'm always curious about people's reasons for choosing one phone OS over another

"Sheeple"

 

[guillejp]

That's a good thing, not a bad thing. Not everyone wants to see gross, over saturated HDR mess of a picture that Samsung and iPhones produce. Sony's manual mode produces a "get what you see" more natural photograph which is what some are looking for.

Way to fanboy and miss the point.
It's good for you and the other 7 people that will buy it.
It's catastrophic for Sony phone sales and for the phone division survival.