Why People Aren’t Buying Sony Xperia Phones
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Sony Xperia smartphones look so good on paper. So why is it that we don't recommend them? Here's our answer to that and a brief 2023 review of the Sony Xperia 1 IV.

Sony Xperia smartphones look so good on paper. So why is it that we don’t recommend them? Here’s our answer to that and a brief 2023 review of the Sony Xperia 1 IV.

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2 Years of updates was my reason. Samsung is up to 7,Apple is about 5 or 6 and Google is 7 years.

Note this is based off of my memory so I could be wrong.

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Apple supports phones 7+ years and basically has always had the longest support of all the OEMs

IPhone 6s received updates in the past year and it’s from 2015

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Have Samsung & Google actually delivered 7 years yet - or is that still just a promise on paper to continue supporting existing products?

Apple for all its faults has at least delivered on this premise.

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Google and Samsung both have a track record of delivering updates even past the promised date so far.

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Samsung made that promise last year and limited to the higher-end lineups, I believe.

Google still update their pixel 6 phones from years ago (not sure about the pixel 5 or below).

Apple is a complete different story since they owned the entire ecosystems and keeps making money from the devices being in use.

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Pixel 6 came only came out near the end of 2021, I would hope all companies support phones for more than 3 years, but maybe I’m too optimistic.

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A15 is probably the last major update for P6P.

Not sure about security patches though, which are arguably more important.

Also there’s always custom roms for Pixel phones.

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iPhone 6s (2015) received a security update this month, they have delivered indeed

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If you swap it out for Lineage problem solved. I agree & strongly recommend against using a stock Sony ROM. It kind of defeats the point of buying one.

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