Maybe stop charging twelve hundred dollars for a fucking phone.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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It'd be nice if they'd stop being terminally boring too.
I'm glad they aren't just copying the mainstream garbage. Change for the sake of change is a blight on the market.
YES!!!! I miss my Motorola Hint and my HTC Surround! The Xperia play, the Lumia 1020 even. All phones look the same now and they all do the same things. All you really pay for these days is a little more speed and a few more pixels but they're 4 times the cost.
Because now a phone is just a touchscreen with a processor behind it. It's up to the software developers to bring the value, and they don't dare change that because any deviation will prevent the next flappy bird from running on their hardware.
Very true, plus I very much miss seeing manufacturers put their foot out there with hardware configurations. Naturally there were plenty of flop products like the LG Wing with it's marginally useful T shape, but examples like the HTC Surround with extensible surround sound speakers was really cool. Today's phone companies won't even consider those kind of attempts at producing something different than a rectangular glass slab.
They have a $700 and a $400 model too.
Who is "they"?
Sony. They have 3 models in their line-up, the 1, the 5 and the 10. The 1 is the flagship but they also make a mid-level and an entry level model.
Sure, if you like tech standards from 2015.
Implying there's a 7yr tech gap between their models? Here's a comparison between the IV models, they're not that far apart. I mean sure there's a difference in specs but it's all current technology.
The Xperia 5 V can't come fast enough. My current phone is falling apart and I want to support Sony.
I desperately want a Sony but there are so few carriers that offer them that I have to finance them the old fashioned way, or buy them used, which is hard since there are so few of them available that one may pop up every few months. Ever since LG dropped their phone division, there are zero options for phones at any carrier in my area besides the big 3. LG was the only company fighting the software "cloud" subscription phones, with real hardware that people like me want and need, that was available to finance with a contract (which in my area is a big deal. The service area here is still horrible no matter who you choose, of which we have maybe 4 SP's)
Either way, Sony needs to simplify their naming scheme. It doesn't matter much for people like me that will always research phone purchases, but even then, it's confusing. Looking up Xperias that are solely pro models that don't relate to their 1 and 5 models only to see they are for some reason cheaper will confuse a majority of buyers, especially when they seem at a glance to be nearly identical and both being sold on their company site. The lineage of their offerings is just convoluted and they could do away with all of the nonsense if they used letters for the naming of their devices and left the numbers for their iterations rather than the opposite, and then left their pro series phones to be just that. Looking up Sonys phones nearly requires a history lesson.
I agree their naming is too confusing, it's like they're intentionally trying to limit themselves. When I started searching for phones I was definitely confused and I only understood their naming on day 2.
Really good that the sales number is low. Replacing a phone every 2 years, with every next being less and less user friends is not a good sign.
hah, quite optimistic