Compact. Creative. Powerful. That is how Sony advertises the Xperia 5 V. And it most definitely looks like it will live up to those expectations. The new...
Yeah this is one of my two problems with Sonys best phones even though I am the exact type of enthusiast they are after; the other being the often slow and confused launch that results in crap and delayed availability. There is zero chance I will ever buy a premium phone (and a grand is premium for me) unless I can trust it has multiple years of updates. Samsung does stuff wrong all the time but at least I know they will support their premium phones for the advertised price.
Yea people should stop complaining about this. Cables that come with phones are always crappy anyway, and I prefer chargers that have multiple outputs.
It’s bizarre how reviewers very quickly gave up on complaining that (other) phones don’t have headphone jacks or expandable storage, but keep hanging on the no charger thing.
It’s like complaining the phone doesn’t come with a SIM or electricity. Some stuff you just provide yourself.
I think it’s just the culmination of removing things from phones and increasing prices. We keep paying exorbitant prices and they keep cheaping out. Smartphones used to be one device for everything and now they are glorified cameras with internet where you need a heat gun to replace a freaking camera.
So to me it feels insulting that they would remove a charger.
And all of that sucks, except not including a charger.
It’s complaining about the one thing that actually makes sense, and letting everything else slide.
Pack-in chargers and cables always suck. I don’t get how people use them, especially those cheap rubber 1m long cables. Utterly useless.
And chargers with one port? Who shells out 1 grand for a phone and has just one device? You can get an excellent charger with 4 ports and support for all the stupid proprietary protocols for like 30 bucks. Why would I use a pack-in one?
Complain about lack of replaceable batteries, headphone jacks, expandable storage, complain about Google’s monopoly and data harvesting in phones, not that they don’t give you some useless extra crap.
Well, agree to disagree I guess. I am never going to stop complaining that £850 phone can only work as a paperweight after 24 or so hours unless I already have some charger.
Pros
Cons
Add the update policy to the cons. 2 major versions and 3 years of security updates is just bad, especially for a device of this price range
Yeah this is one of my two problems with Sonys best phones even though I am the exact type of enthusiast they are after; the other being the often slow and confused launch that results in crap and delayed availability. There is zero chance I will ever buy a premium phone (and a grand is premium for me) unless I can trust it has multiple years of updates. Samsung does stuff wrong all the time but at least I know they will support their premium phones for the advertised price.
That’s a Pros in my point of view ! Because we already have a lot of charger/cable in are house usually.
Yea people should stop complaining about this. Cables that come with phones are always crappy anyway, and I prefer chargers that have multiple outputs.
It’s bizarre how reviewers very quickly gave up on complaining that (other) phones don’t have headphone jacks or expandable storage, but keep hanging on the no charger thing.
It’s like complaining the phone doesn’t come with a SIM or electricity. Some stuff you just provide yourself.
I think it’s just the culmination of removing things from phones and increasing prices. We keep paying exorbitant prices and they keep cheaping out. Smartphones used to be one device for everything and now they are glorified cameras with internet where you need a heat gun to replace a freaking camera. So to me it feels insulting that they would remove a charger.
And all of that sucks, except not including a charger.
It’s complaining about the one thing that actually makes sense, and letting everything else slide.
Pack-in chargers and cables always suck. I don’t get how people use them, especially those cheap rubber 1m long cables. Utterly useless.
And chargers with one port? Who shells out 1 grand for a phone and has just one device? You can get an excellent charger with 4 ports and support for all the stupid proprietary protocols for like 30 bucks. Why would I use a pack-in one?
Complain about lack of replaceable batteries, headphone jacks, expandable storage, complain about Google’s monopoly and data harvesting in phones, not that they don’t give you some useless extra crap.
We need to force them to improve on that front then not excuse them for cutting costs.
Well, agree to disagree I guess. I am never going to stop complaining that £850 phone can only work as a paperweight after 24 or so hours unless I already have some charger.
Why not just buy a bulletproof charger with multiple ports that will last a decade for all your devices, and good, 2m or longer, braided cables?
Or do you really only have one device and one charger for it, with no backups, nothing for travel?