Sony Xperia 1 II

PRICE £916(£1,099incVAT) from sony.co.uk

Over the years, Sony has struggled to keep pace with the smart phone juggernauts Apple and Samsung. It wants to turn those fortunes around with the Xper 1II, a flagship release that it hopes will thrust its smartphones back into the lime light and, ultimately, back into your pocket.

Before we go any further, though, we need to address the odd name. Sony has boxed itself into a corner by releasing two mid-range phones called the Xperia 10 and Xperia 5 in the past year, leaving it limited room for manoeuvre for the successor to its top of the range Xperia I (see issue 304, P84). For the record, this one is officially called “Xperia 1, mark 2”.

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