Android Help The Xperia Pro-I is the most perfect Android phone I've ever owned

The Xperia Pro-I is the most perfect Android phone I've ever owned

Posted: 25 Jan 2022 10:13 AM PST

Just thought I'd give some real world feedback from a long term Android user after using the Xperia Pro-I as my daily driver for a week.

Style/Size/Design: Even though it has the now ubiquitus slick front and rear, because the sides are a ridged/rippled metal, I've not felt any fear of dropping it or having it slip out of my sweaty paws (it did still go into a case straight after playing with it "unsheathed" for a few hours however). The overall form factor works well for me, although it did take a teeny bit of adjustment getting used to the slightly longer than average dimensions.

UI: The first thing I fell in love with. It's almost a perfect stock UI experience! No more installing a third party launcher and battling to wrestle the bloated and annoying custom device manufacturer BS. This UI I'm more than happy to just leave as is, out of the box.

Screen: It's notchless! It's large, it's bright, it's colourful. That's about all I can say about it really. It's not amazingly "vivid" as such, but as a phone screen it's more than capable when I'm editing photos and looking through film footage. Which brings me on to...

Photo & Video: OMF'ing G! I begrudgingly handed my old Huawei P30 Pro to my partner when I did my last phone upgrade and have ever since been lamenting the loss of camera quality and functionality, but this phone blows that old potato out of the water. The video footage in particular is exceptional, especially being able to perform pull focus shots with preset focal points. This truly does feel like a camera with a phone built in, and not the other way around. I cannot express how amazing the quality of this camera is. Also, testing all 4 (technically 3) of the prime lenses built in, they all produce phenomenal quality results.

Audio: It has a headphone jack! But the audio is probably its weakest point, the speakerphone isn't that much louder than just having the phone on regular at full volume.

Battery: So far with extensive use it's not failed to give me way more than an average days worth of use. Off charge at 7am and not charged again until rolling back from a bar at gone 3am, lots of photo's, reddit browsing and the usual day to day stuff, and it was still around 32% on the regular power settings. It does charge exceptionally fast with the supplied charger too.

Cost: Serious ouch, it's not cheap, and if I hadn't had been out of contract I would have struggled to justify the expense to myself.

Other: The fingerprint sensor isn't in the most natural of positions, but it does seem to work well and accurately. The phone can get pretty warm when under extensive use (Waze + Spotify + Dash Cam App made it get quite toasty).

That's all I can think of right now, but any questions then hit me up and I'll do my best to answer.

Edit:
¹The phone also has a lanyard attachment point, which is ideal if you're using it as a camera when out and about and don't want a case getting in the way.
²This signal strength has been excellent. My last two phones have required me to go and stand near a window on the upstairs in order to have a decent conversation due to the weak signal from my old provider, but I realised earlier today that since I've had this phone that's no longer been an issue (and I've still been using it with the same provider).

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