Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet
Technology
37
Beiträge
32
Kommentatoren
0
Aufrufe
-
Yeah, but after the rootkit fiasco, would you really want to?
Its a real shame the handset market is completely fucked and void of creativity
Are you talking about the scandal from 20 years ago, or something new?
-
Are you talking about the scandal from 20 years ago, or something new?
The old one, for sure
-
how work with tariffs?
What tariffs? Non American phones have no tariffs.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet
Sony's CFO says smartphones are still a key part of the company's long-term strategy.
Android Central (www.androidcentral.com)
Sony has generally made awesome stuff. The number of groundbreaking concepts or tech is incredible, although they have been outputting less "wow stuff" lately. I get the impression that their marketing sucks balls lately.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet
Sony's CFO says smartphones are still a key part of the company's long-term strategy.
Android Central (www.androidcentral.com)
I just want an Xperia Play 2. Make it a foldable this time around—and as thin as a Samsung Fold 7 (with screens just as large)—and I'm completely sold.
The original was an excellent idea squandered. Had Sony continued to invest in the idea, I could see future Play phones not only being a proper followup to the Vita we never had, but also a major competitor to the Steam Deck.
Come on Sony, be innovative again like you used to. Give me what I want, no, what I need.
-
Are you talking about the scandal from 20 years ago, or something new?
Oh right, 20 years ago
-
Sony has generally made awesome stuff. The number of groundbreaking concepts or tech is incredible, although they have been outputting less "wow stuff" lately. I get the impression that their marketing sucks balls lately.
Lately? Everything from rollout, branding, naming suuucks with Sony. Consistently. Their most recent phone is Sony Xperia Z VI. Their most recent headphones are WH-1000XM6. Wtf fuck. Their competition is Pixel 9, iphone 16, air pods pro, etc. ...doing things differently could be done better.
They are a poorly run great company. They make genuinely gpod tech but every business decision is poor.
As an exampl, Sony own a lot of music, like a huge amount of through their labels. The could have made Walkman a streaming service to rival spotify and Apple and stuck it on every Xperia phone for a year for free and got market share. They just suck at getting it out there. They could have been the company to fill the luxury android spot to rival iphone.
-
All the good phones are dying. I still quite enjoy my 1 IV, and honestly the Xperia line would probably be my choice in a couple years when I am ready to upgrade if they are selling them in the US at that point.
I'm hoping Fairphone gets US support at some point because they seem like the best option.
It really feels like design peaked a decade ago. Headphone jacks, micro SD card slot, removable batteries, front-facing speakers. Everything good has been removed and the phones are 5x more expensive. The few phones left with some of those features are the cheap weak models for people who only use their phones to call and text.
My favourite phone was an xperia, they are poorly marketed, overpriced and thebmost recent iterations are sub par in terms of components. It is so disappointing.
-
Yeah, but after the rootkit fiasco, would you really want to?
Its a real shame the handset market is completely fucked and void of creativity
The scandal from 20 years ago, instigated if I recall correctly by a CD manufacturer ran by BMG (that Sony had a 50% stake in)? Sony-BMG hasn't existed in almost 2 decades dude.
Additionally, Sony Mobile is pretty open source friendly. Despite them being a tiny player in the smartphone market, they've contributed more to AOSP than any corporation outside of Google. They allow bootloader unlocks, they do prompt releases of kernel source code, and they even release bootable AOSP ROMS for their devices.
I won't certainly excuse the rootkit scandal that Sony was semi involved in, but it's crazy that people still clutch pearls about it 20 years later, while simultaneously happily signing into Steam and downloading games with kernel-level anticheat.
-
Lately? Everything from rollout, branding, naming suuucks with Sony. Consistently. Their most recent phone is Sony Xperia Z VI. Their most recent headphones are WH-1000XM6. Wtf fuck. Their competition is Pixel 9, iphone 16, air pods pro, etc. ...doing things differently could be done better.
They are a poorly run great company. They make genuinely gpod tech but every business decision is poor.
As an exampl, Sony own a lot of music, like a huge amount of through their labels. The could have made Walkman a streaming service to rival spotify and Apple and stuck it on every Xperia phone for a year for free and got market share. They just suck at getting it out there. They could have been the company to fill the luxury android spot to rival iphone.
Sony got big enough to see themselves become the villain. They're no longer the plucky company pushing technology forward by releasing off the wall or risky products that become groundbreaking. Rather, now they're the highly conservative greedy assholes who are always last to market with anything, are obsessed with trying to make their version of everything proprietary (cables, memory cards, batteries, software...), try to install rootkits on your computer if you want to listen to music, and sue people for watching a Youtube video.
Sony deserves to crash and burn, so any talented employees they may have left can be released from the shackles of lifetime employment at a massive Japanese conglomerate and freed to work somewhere where they might be able to make some positive contribution to society again.
Fuck Sony. Never give Sony a single red cent.
