The Xperia 10 is the first in a new wave of Sony smartphones, with a screen format that is best suited to CinemaScope, the most widely used cinema format, as the most important differentiator. No, these are not the original 2,35:1 and not 2,39:1, but a slightly more familiar 21:9 format (that is, 2,33:1), which Philips tried to introduce into consumer electronics at one time, creating TVs with in a similar format. They have been on the market for three years. This format lasted much longer - and still does - in the world of monitors, but Sony is not interested in widescreen per se, but in cinematic potential. And the experience of the failure of Philips (which never waited for the mass distribution of content in the original format) was ignored by the Japanese.
A screen with an aspect ratio of 21:9 received, among others, the mid-range smartphone Sony Xperia 10, which came to us for testing, and the flagship Xperia 1, which will reach the market only in the summer. Such a display allows not only to declare the unique possibilities for watching a movie in the format in which it (for the most part) was filmed, but also to make a narrow body that is most comfortable to grip.
The Sony Xperia 10 is interesting not only for its screen format, but also for its return to its roots: here is the traditional design of the front panel without a cutout or a hole for the front camera, and a “brick-like” body with a fingerprint scanner on the side panel. Hello to the golden times of the Xperia Z is obvious. It is on non-standard and out-of-date that Sony relies, since the Xperia 10 does not stand out at all in terms of characteristics: Qualcomm Snapdragon 630, dual camera (13 + 5 MP) without zoom, six-inch LCD display, not very capacious battery (2870 mAh) … Maybe Sony's newest hope for success in the mid-range has some unusual tricks up its sleeve?
Technical specifications
| Sony Xperia 10 | |||||
| Display | 6 inch IPS 2520 × 1080 dots, 457 ppi, capacitive multi-touch |
6,21 inches, AMOLED, 2246 × 1080 pixels, 402 ppi, capacitive multi-touch | 6,3" IPS 2340 × 1080 dots, 409 ppi, capacitive multi-touch |
6,2 inches, IPS, 2246 × 1080 pixels, 402 ppi, capacitive multi-touch | 6 inch IPS 2160 × 1080 dots, 401 ppi, capacitive multi-touch |
| Protective glass | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 | No information | Corning Gorilla Glass (version unknown) | Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
| Processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 630: eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores up to 2,2 GHz | Qualcomm Snapdragon 845: Quad-core Kryo 385 Gold @ 2,8GHz + Quad-core Kryo 385 Silver @ 1,7GHz | HiSilicon Kirin 970: four ARM Cortex A73 cores, 2,4GHz + four ARM Cortex A53 cores, 1,8GHz; HiAI architecture | Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 (Eight Kryo 260 Cores, 1,8GHz) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 660: eight Kryo 260 cores, 2,2 GHz |
| Graphics controller | Adreno 509, 650 Мц | Adreno 630, 710 Мц | ARM Mali-G72 MP12, 850 MHz | Adreno 509, 720 Мц | Adreno 512, 850 Мц |
| RAM | 3 GB | 6 GB | 4 GB | 6 GB | 4 GB |
| Flash memory | 64 GB | 64/128/256 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB |
| Memory card support | There is | No | There is | Yes | There is |
| Разъемы | USB Type-C, mini-jack 3,5 mm | USB Type-C | USB Type-C, mini jack 3,5 mm | USB Type-C, mini jack 3,5 mm | USB Type-C, mini jack 3,5 mm |
| SIM cards | Two nano-SIMs | Two nano-SIMs | Two nano-SIMs | Two nano-SIMs | Two nano-SIMs |
| Cellular 2G | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz |
| Cellular 3G | HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100 | UMTS 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 | HSDPA 850/900/2100 MHz | HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100 | HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100 |
| Cellular 4G | LTE Cat. 12 (up to 600 Mbps): bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20, 28, 32, 38 | LTE Cat. 16 (up to 1024 Mbps): bands 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 20, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41 | LTE Cat. 13 (up to 400 Mbps), bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20 | LTE Cat. 12 (up to 600 Mbps): ranges not specified | LTE Cat. 6 (300/50 Mbps): bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20, 28, 38, 40, 41 |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11a / b / g / n / ac | 802.11a / b / g / n / ac | 802.11a / b / g / n / ac | 802.11a / b / g / n / ac | 802.11a / b / g / n / ac |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.2 (aptX HD) | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| NFC | There is | There is | There is | There is | There is |
| Navigation | GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS | GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou | GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS | GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou | GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou |
| SENSORS | Light, proximity, accelerometer/gyroscope, magnetometer (digital compass), strong motion sensor | Illumination, proximity, accelerometer/gyroscope, magnetometer (digital compass) | Illumination, proximity, accelerometer/gyroscope, magnetometer (digital compass) | Illumination, proximity, accelerometer/gyroscope, magnetometer (digital compass) | Illumination, proximity, accelerometer/gyroscope, magnetometer (digital compass) |
| The fingerprint scanner | There is | There is | There is | There is | There is |
| Main camera | Dual module, 13 MP, ƒ/2,0 + 5 MP, ƒ/2,4, hybrid autofocus, LED flash | Dual module: 12 MP, ƒ / 1,8 + 12 MP, ƒ / 2,4, phase detection autofocus, optical stabilization (with main camera), dual LED flash | Dual module, 24 + 16 MP, ƒ / 1,8, phase detection autofocus, LED flash | Dual module, 12 MP, ƒ/1,8 + 8 MP, ƒ/2,0, phase detection autofocus, LED flash | Dual module, 12 MP, ƒ/1,75 + 13 MP, ƒ/2,6, phase detection autofocus, dual LED flash |
| Front-camera | 8 MP, ƒ/2,0, fixed focus | 20 MP, ƒ/2,0, fixed focus | 24+2 MP, ƒ/2,0, fixed focus, no flash | 8 MP, ƒ/2,0, fixed focus | 16 MP, ƒ/2,0, fixed focus |
| Food | 10,9 Wh (2870 mAh, 3,8 V) non-removable battery | Non-removable battery: 12,92 Wh (3400 mAh, 3,8 V) | Non-removable battery: 14,25 Wh (3750 mAh, 3,8 V) | 12,54 Wh (3300 mAh, 3,8 V) non-removable battery | 14,44 Wh (3800 mAh, 3,8 V) non-removable battery |
| Size | 156 × 68 × 8,4 mm | 154,9 × 74,8 × 7,6 mm | 157 × 73,7 × 7,3 mm | 153 × 75,65 × 7,7 mm | 158,4 × 75,6 × 9,55 mm |
| Weight | 162 grams | 175 grams | 166 grams | 155 grams | 183 grams |
| Housing protection | No | No | No | no | No |
| Operating system | Android 9.0 Pie, native shell | Android 8.1.0 Oreo, MIUI shell | Android 8.1 Oreo, EMUI shell | Android 8.0 Oreo, ZenUI shell | Android 8.1 Oreo (Android One) |
| Actual price | , , |
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Design, ergonomics and software
Retro turn - this is how you can characterize the look of the Sony Xperia 10. For the past couple of years, the Japanese have carefully erased the familiar image of neat bricks with their puffy edges and flat panels both in front and behind - and suddenly everything is back to 2016. The same form, the same fingerprint scanner on the side panel. No "bangs" (admittedly, Sony did not succumb to this dislocation of fashion in any way), minimal bends in the edges of the back panel - it does not try to hide the real thickness of the device, the mini-jack is in place. The only thing that gives out a modern smartphone in Xperia 10 is a dual camera module. In this regard, Sony also adhered to conservative positions for a long time, but finally gave up last year.
The Sony Xperia 10 looks at least unusual in the end. The word "fresh" in relation to the design code returned from the past does not seem to fit very well, but against the general background it turns out so. You can't confuse Sony smartphones with any others, and the "ten" quietly continues this tradition. Moreover, this “you can’t confuse” does not carry any negative connotations. Yes, someone may not like the Sony approach, but in general, the Japanese cannot be denied a sense of style.
Nevertheless, the combination of the almost complete absence of a “chin” and side edges around the screen with a very impressive space above it raises certain aesthetic questions - the manufacturer claims that the engineers were forced to leave such a large gap because there was nowhere else to place various PCB connections, cables And so on. It is logical, but, for example, there are no such gaps in the Xperia 1 announced simultaneously with the “ten”, and there are hardly fewer cables and printed circuit boards, so this explanation does not remove the questions.
The Sony Xperia 10 is available in navy blue (as we tested), black, silver and pink. Design materials - metal for the back panel and side faces, tempered glass (Gorilla Glass 5) for the front. The coating, admittedly, is non-marking, you don’t need to constantly dance around the smartphone with a cloth or immediately enclose it in the arms of a cover. Only the front panel is covered with prints and stains - the oleophobic coating on the Xperia 10, alas, is far from ideal. Of the unequivocal pluses, I will note how comfortable the smartphone is to hold - elongated and thin, it fits very well in the palm of your hand, and there is every reason to assume that in any.
Sony wouldn't be itself if it didn't do something special in terms of controls. True, we didn’t wait for the proprietary camera shutter button here, but instead of it, an additional place on the right side was occupied by a fingerprint scanner. The peculiarity of this solution is that it is just a scanner, it is not combined with the power key, as before. The power and volume keys (its lower part is also responsible for releasing the same shutter) are above and below it, respectively - and are shifted down relative to their standard position on most smartphones from other brands. As a result, the face looks more symmetrical, but it becomes inconvenient to use the volume control: you have to move your finger unusually low.
On the top we see a mini-jack, on the bottom we see a USB Type-C port and a lone mono speaker hidden under the right grille. The slot for SIM-cards and memory cards traditionally opens without the help of a pin lock - and again, traditionally sends the device into a reboot, as soon as you remove the slot from the case. And regardless of whether there is a SIM card in it or not.
The fingerprint scanner, admittedly, works very well. Despite the small area, for a week and a half of testing it was not necessary to rewrite the print even once - the capacitive sensor responded to it stably. The only point is that you need to carefully monitor the cleanliness of both the scanner and the finger: the sensor is very sensitive to any contamination.
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The Sony Xperia 10 runs on the Android 9.0 Pie operating system with a proprietary shell that is well known, for example, from , only without a number of chips associated with the OLED display used there: the Xperia 10 has neither Always-On Display nor the ability to activate the display just by looking at it. But there is a basic set of Sony applications, high-quality design, competent mutual integration of branded and "android" functions - this is one of the most accurate and pleasantly organized smartphone shells today, which at the same time has its own face and does not greatly overlap Google's OS.
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Of the features that nevertheless unexpectedly moved from the XZ3, I note Side Sense - a side panel added there in connection with the use of a curved display. Here the display is completely flat, but there is a sidebar that gives you quick access to the apps, settings and contacts of your choice. Moreover, it is implemented much better than in the flagship - it is difficult to call it by accident, since the sensitivity of the area in which Side Sense is activated is fine-tuned. From a redundant function that many Xperia XZ3 users turned off immediately after they met, Side Sense here has turned into an optional, but in principle useful vignette, which at least does not interfere.
There is also a unique feature added in the new generation of widescreen Xperia - the screen can be divided into two parts. Multi-screen in itself is no longer a novelty for Android smartphones, but it is implemented in the new format really well: it is convenient to adjust the size of windows, due to the aspect ratio they should be placed on the screen with maximum comfort. They should - because at the time of testing, the function simply did not work.
Source: 3dnews.ru