smartphones hit the 1 000 mark what on earth could this thing possibly do that would justify 1800 well as it turns out i'm kind of surprised by how much and just to give you an idea every single shot in this post that's not from this main camera will be taken on this phone specifically there are five things that this pro eye does that put it in a different category even arguably above the ultra phones of this world number five is actually the design and i'll admit i started off with rather mixed opinions about the rather obtuse looking camera system the slight rattle when you tap the bottom and the sheer lack of color on this thing but the more i've used it the more impressed i become how it's also distinctly function over form you've got a matte finish on the back low maintenance and these ridged rails going all the way around the sides i wouldn't say they're particularly pretty but they do make the phone tremendously grippable and probably as an unintentional consequence they also allow it to stand up on three of its four sides this might look like a similar shape to the latest iphones which i mean i straight up said had a poor in hand feel but in reality the combination of this being a much narrower phone with the slight tapering in of the flat sides makes it feel actually quite burdenless for a phone that's apparently packing in market leading hardware but then it goes much further it's got a dedicated shutter button that you can press to access the camera and then within it half press to focus and full press to snap just like on an actual sony alpha camera a side mounted fingerprint scanner which is to be honest pretty average in terms of speed but the positioning has meant that I literally haven't thought about needing to unlock this phone it's very convenient a completely separate programmable shortcut key to open whatever app your heart desires a micro sd card slot they get this you can take out with just your fingers for sd card swapping on the go and this is definitely one of the first phones i've used with a built-in hole to attach a lanyard oh yeah and to top the whole thing off it also has not just an ip68 rating but also an ip65 rating which means certified water and dust resistance yes but also resistance against low pressure jets of water you see what i'm saying right crazy expensive phone yes but also for an actual pro this is shockingly well tailored to their needs so number four then on what makes the pro pro is how it handles media consumption see here's the thing with sony this company is doing really well in the audio market they're doing really well in the tv market they're doing really well in the camera market uh fun fact every camera that i normally use is a sony but their phones which for the most part have been built by a separate division called sony mobile they just haven't stuck they've lacked differentiating features they've had confusing names they were never bad but it's just that for most of their history they've been missing an identity some curved inwards others curved outwards some weren't curved at all it didn't feel like there was a broader strategy however they've now changed tact pretty recently sony has brought their mobile division in they've integrated it into the wider sony corporation with the goal of implementing their strengths in these other markets audio tv cameras into their entire lineup of smartphones and so even though this phone is literally nicknamed the camera the focus is actually broader than that so for example the audio is tuned by sony pictures entertainment with dynamic vibrations that automatically add physical impact to anything you watch or listen to we have a headphone jack that supports not just headphones but also external microphones any video you watch will be run through sony's x1 engine which is used to upscale content on their bravia tvs oh yeah and the actual screen itself is kind of nuts a 4k hdr oled 120hz display just to make that very clear 4k which means that while phones like the latest iphone have about 450 pixels per inch this has 643 it's pin sharp to a bulletproof extent it doesn't matter how close you're holding this thing you won't see pixels plus it's implemented in a way that's not irritating at the risk of sounding like a luddite i'm still at the opinion that 4k is in most cases too many pixels for a 6.5 inch screen but thankfully it looks likesony isn't blind to that so you have both a normal viewing experience and creator mode which whacks up that resolution and uses professional colors and it can be made so that this only turns on in the apps for which you can actually tell the only thing which is still a little controversial is this super tall cinematic aspect ratio it's made like this so movies which are traditionally shot really wide will fill the screen but while it does leave more room to be blown away it also leaves more room to be irritated when you find a movie that fills it and you've got all these technologies working in the background to fuel this authentic immersive experience there's nothing else like it and to be fair in almost all of the scrolling apps that we use it's not wasting space but equally because these are such extreme proportions for the more amateur content which is not made with that in mind there is no happy middle ground also all these sony interbrand tie-ins they don't necessarily make it the best like even though we have dual front-facing speakers with dolby atmos and sony tuning the iphone speakers just sound fuller but for the most part yeah i mean this is a strong unique media experience quite nicely uplifted by the support of up to a terabyte of external storage on top of the 512 gigs you already have baked by default and if you are enjoying this post flabbergasting no but seriously hitting 10 million subscribers was like the 2021 goal and we're like we're so close we're literally on the cusp of it so i mean if you do watch my videos regularly i would really really appreciate it okay number three is the pro eyes approach to photography on first glance the camera specs don't look too enchanting sony's gone down the apple root of sticking with a set of three 12 megapixel cameras however it's not the resolution that makes this special it's that this phone camera is using a one inch sensor you won't find a bigger one on the entire planet they prefer to call it a 1.0 type sensor because it's not using the entirety of that one-inch surface area but that's pretty standard and for perspective the iphone 13 pro max uses a 0.6 inch one and one inch is actually the same size as the sensor found on sony's rather high-end rx100 v7 camera from a couple years ago but in theory this should be even better because of all the image computation that smartphones do on top of that also remember that sony hasn'tjust put a sensor in this phonethey're the ones who make these sensorsit's safe to say.
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