Our editors hand-pick these products using a variety of criteria: they might be direct competitors targeting the same market segment, or they could be devices that are similar in size, performance, or feature sets.
With its excellent screen, superb performance, long battery life and great camera, the Z5 Compact is the complete package if you want top performance in a small package. Especially as fewer manufacturers are making well-specified smaller handsets.When...
The Z5 Compact isn't a perfect phone, but it's definitely a good one. And the space that it fills certainly gives it more weight. All the top-end flagships have moved on from this screen size bracket, so even the fact that the Z5 Compact can be in the...
We honestly cannot fathom why Sony is considered to be an "also-ran" in the world of smartphones, especially when it is able to produce a handset as likeable as this one. The Japanese tech giant should be applauded not only for creating a small-screen...
If you're an Android user and want a high-performance camera on your phone without the bulk of a larger phone body, then the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact is ideal for you. Manufacturers like Samsung have now stopped making the 'Mini' versions of their...
The Sony Xperia Z5 Compact offers what few other phones do: flagship performance in a petite piece of hardware. The Z5 Compact is refined, small, and manufactured with the best materials. The glass-and-metal combo offers a premium experience, and its...
The Xperia Z5 Compact packs a lot of good things into its small size: powerful performance, excellent endurance and a bright, colorful display. However, the boxy phone is stuffed to the brim with unnecessary apps and marred by awkwardly placed buttons...
Many years ago, when I announced my plans to buy a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, my friends were astonished that I'd go for anything quite so big. I'd look ridiculous, they claimed, holding that to my face. Well if I did – and there's no guarantee the phone...
Sony Xperia Z5 CompactWhen all advantages of the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact are summed up, its practical nature is what stands out the most. For those who do not like the trend of big smartphones, the Compact offers a powerful flagship in a smaller body....
Smartphones are the hotel lobbies of design: tediously de rigeur, richly lacquered but ultimately cold and uncomfortable. Phone making has become the pursuit of unremittingly dull rectangles, and terms such as 'bezel' 'thinnest' and 'unibody' are now...
What I love about this device in this time of phablets and big screens is its perfect 4.6in display, which is compact and handy. It is also pretty light at 138 grams.What won it for me, in fairness, was its really discreet fingerprint sensor, which...