Sony Xperia 5 Review

Sony Xperia 5 is a top quality device released back in the year 2019, having an extremely powerful 2.84 GHz Octa-Core processor, a large 6.1 inches display, and two cameras, a 12 MP back facing camera and an 8 mega-pixels front side camera.

This cellphone is extremely slim and good-looking, being just 0.32" thick. The Sony Xperia 5 is only 6.22" long, but it still manages to hold a 6.1" screen. Regarding its aspect, this phone is mainly made with Glass (Corning Gorilla Glass 6) and Aluminum . This cellphone feels much lighter than what you would expect from a device like this. Sony made this phone in many color variations, black, blue, grey and red.

Sony equipped this phone with a high-tech 2.84 GHz Octa-Core processing unit, bundled in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SM8150 system chip and a large 6 GB RAM memory. A great point of this cellphone is its huge 128 GB internal storage memory and an external SD slot, which allows the user to store lots of apps, games, songs, photos and videos without thinking about filling the cellphone.

This cellphone is equipped with two cameras, a 12 MP back side camera and an 8 MP front camera. Its back side camera lens has a maximum F1.6 aperture so it can take awesome photos even in dark environments. It can also film 3840x2160 4K videos at 30 fps, and slow motion videos in (HD) (1280x720) up to 120 fps. In addition, the camera includes time lapse video.

Sony equipped this phone with a beautiful 6.1-inches screen, and a 1080 x 2520 resolution, providing this device with a great image quality.

This device counts with a large 3140 mAh Li - Polymer non-replaceable battery that can keep it running for several hours without having to charge it at all. An issue to evaluate is that this cellphone's battery isn't replaceable so you can't buy a new battery when it begins to lose its charge, although with so much capacity you will probably buy a new device before it happens.

This cellphone offers wifi connection (and it can be shared with other devices acting as a wireless router), 4G LTE-A ultra fast internet connection and also HSPA+ internet connection (which is a slower 4G network) and the fastest 3G connection type, over HSDPA and HSUPA technologies. This phone works with a Nano SIM card for GSM carriers.

This phone also features lots of interesting features as Fingerprint Reader, NFC (Near Field Communication), Bluetooth (5.0 ) and GPS (Global Positioning System), and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

Sony sells this phone for 848 dollars, which is very expensive for a device this level. If you will use this cellphone for work, need a phone to play lots of games, are looking for a social cellphone or want this cellphone to take plenty of photographs, this device is definitely the right choice .