Xperia 10 V - Android Smartphone, 6.1 Inch 21:9 OLED - Triple Lens - 3.5mm Audio Jack - Android 13-6GB RAM - 128GB Storage - IP65/6 Rating - Black

I've been using this phone for just under a month now so I thought I would write a review to let others know who can't decide. I've had a Samsung Galaxy phone since the S2. They did everything I wanted them to but my S9+ was nearly 5 years old and on its last legs and I refuse to pay £1000 for a phone that I can't plug my headphones into or get expandable storage which limits you to Xperia and the odd Chinese made phone. I have been pleasantly surprised at how capable this phone is. What I like: The headphone jack - messed with a few settings and was happy with the sound output in the end Expandable storage - which seems to work well with the Google files app The battery can easily last 2 days in this - sometimes I have gone for 3 days without a charge. Although I must say its not exactly the fastest charging phone I have ever had but I wonder if it might not have better battery longevity as a result. This phone is very light in comparison to my last 2 Galaxy phones - I quite like the extra thickness. Makes it more pleasant to hold. I like that the screen is flat and not curved at the edges - I can get full coverage from the screen protector What I am satisfied with: The screen is quite satisfactory even if it isn't AMOLED quality. The 21:9 screen ratio does have its appeals - most video is in 16:9 but for scrolling through messages or reading the taller screen does have advantages. I could see this phone being really comfortable for people with smaller hands or less strength in their wrists as some of the phones these days have gotten so big. The stock android is quite responsive - I have yet to catch the phone really lagging The connectivity - wifi, 4G/5G, hotspot, bluetooth and GPS have all worked very well - I speedtested the 5G one morning and was able to pull over 100Mb/s down! This phone gets a similar signal to any other phone I have owned. The dual speaker sound output is quite satisfactory - the volume key has to much range. You have to press the button a lot of times to make large changes. The main camera performs reasonably well - I would say its almost comparable with the one on my S9+ The telephoto and the ultrawide are satisfactory but remind me more of the Galaxy S4 camera in terms of image quality. I did some low light shooting and had mixed results. Had to take a few to get a good photo. I have found the fingerprint sensor to work better than I was expecting. In the last month of using it maybe a dozen times it has hesitated to unlock although I think in most cases some grease or dirt might have been on it. Only 1 night did it really refuse to unlock with the sensor. Not sure why. What I don't like: So far the one thing that grinds my gears - I don't like the stock music app. I know Sony prefer to keep to a stock version of android but Sony also used to be in the Walkman buisness. Could you please make a music app comparable with what the Samsung one can do? Setting up a playlist is very cumbersome on this - every time you add a track it has to ask you to allow the playlist to be modified. The other thing that caught me out was there is no support for .wma files and I found out I have a few in my music collection from a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. I also wish this phone had a gallery app that worked as well as the Samsung one but I suppose that's a minor annoyance. Another minor annoyance but I think the headphone jack is better served being on the bottom of the phone by the charging port than on the top. The only phone I remember with this set up was my S5. Its taken a bit of getting used to. Overall I would recommend this phone. I will be happy with this for the foreseeable future for what I do with it. Mostly its for messaging, YouTube, a bit of light web browsing, music, audiobooks and taking pictures. I use it for hotspot/tethering 4 days a week as well. I haven't tried to do anything really heavy duty like gaming though.

You'll get excellent battery life. It's physically slimmer than any other phone so suits alot of people. It's water proof. It's very stylish with the official case as well. Not another Samsung knock off. Choose this over the Samsung A54 as the Xperia 10V suited my wife better as a gift. Performance is good for the price. For the purpose I bought it for, there was no other phone at this price point that fit the bill.

Despite it's buggy fingerprint sensor and "android with an attitude" I absolutely love this phone. 1TB of storage. Just let that sink in. Awesome camera, screen tougher than a guerilla fighter and 1TB of storage. Great for the price 👍 loses a star because it is buggy sometimes but for a music listener it's just perfect.

Bought this to replace my Sony Xperia 10 II, size seems exactly the same but old case fits the phone but button placement is slightly different by mm . the screen quality it better, the camera is a lot better and the torch is brighter and the improved battery life is also soo good in comparison to my previous model. So far really happy, only downfall is the device vibrates now when watching videos or listening to music, that might be due to the new speaker placement, makes it feel weird, but the sound quality is good, doesn't seem to have regressed. Overall very happy and would recommend

Poor phone with an enormous battery. I routinely only drained around 40% of the battery a day whilst using it fairly frequently. I would watch YouTube, play games, browse the web and only need to charge every other day. The screen is decent, though the frame rate was noticeably low. You may notice this is all past tense. Unfortunately I decided to bin this phone within 6 months. There was a plethora of software issues including: - When unlocked, it takes from one, up to ten seconds before you can interact with anything. Embarrassing when you want to show a friend something or search for something. There is no consistency behind it. If the phone hasn't been used for a day or was locked less than a second ago, you still get this random delay. - The camera's quality is pretty poor. Anything moving will be blurred heavily, without fail. The pictures of us meeting our first puppy are blurred and of shockingly poor quality due to the slightly dreary light and small motions kf the pup. The ones taken on the Mrs' 5 year old Samsung were so, so much better. - If you take a photo when the phone is locked (by double tapping the power button), it sometimes won't save the photos taken. There is no consistency behind it. Some pictures are fine, others randomly in a batch of photos taken at the same time are lost. - When unlocked, it would occassionally think the lock screen was still active, so I would have to put my passcode in when the rest of the phone is active behind it. Putting my password in would freeze the screen, requiring a full reset. - Wifi reception was poor. I had three phones next to one another at the end of the house playing a YouTube video on high quality. This phone, the 5 year old Samsung and a 10 year old Huawei. The last two worked no issue, but this one kept dropping out of Wifi and could only just play at the worst quality. Effect remained when other two were turned onto airplane mode so it was not a swamping of the wifi issue. I wanted to like this phone and forced myself to for a few months, but reality set in and I couldn't grin a bear it any longer.

Looking at other reviews, I can only assume that there was something fundamentally wring with the handset I received. At the lower end of the price bracket for a new/modern phone, I don't expect to be blown away. However, this handset was unusable and is currently being returned. The fingerprint reader is terrible. It takes multiple attempts to unlock. the passcode option is unresponsive and sometimes does not register presses. There is then often a slight delay when the phone is unlocked, followed sometimes by the screen turning off again. For some reason the delay an unresponsiveness seems to lead to various button presses backing up and then being carried out in succession. The home/back/tabs bar at the bottom sometimes does not appear, so off goes the screen to be unlocked again, if it works. The phone freezes about 50% of the time when unlocked with YouTube of full screen. The phone completely crashed once when I tried to turn the wifi off. This took about 10 minutes to reboot. This was on about day three. I seem to be in the minority so maybe I got a bad one. However, I am not willing to take the risk and will buy refurb of a better phone elsewhere.

I bought this phone as I liked the claimed battery life length. I have to say, they weren't lying, the battery is great. With small top-up charges in the car on the way to work, I may not need to do a full charge for over a week. Also, it was very easy to set up, super intuitive. However, there are some major down sides. The camera, for both pics and vids, is distinctly average, with audio recording easily distorted at high volumes (IE concerts). Several game apps run quite slowly as do apps using biometrics. There is a weird 10 second delay when you wake up the phone using the fingerprint sensor where you can't use the navigation controls at the bottom, the pull down menu from the top or turn the phone off again until the navigation icons reappear. For its battery life and ease if use the phone is great but is let down by laggy performance and poor camera. Update: After having the phone nearly a year I can confidently say this phone is not very good. It is so laggy, data Rx is not reliable and the camera is nearly unusable at night. Even the battery life, which was the big selling point, has decreased to any other phone. Will be looking back at getting a Samsung next time

This phone is a good useable size. It didn't come with a charger or even a cable, which was ok for me but could be worth knowing. The interface is good and has some nice Sony apps for audio-visual purposes as you might expect. The case colour is slightly paler than I expected but I really like it. The fingerprint scanner is quick too.