I've got this for taking great pics. I've seen the new (Nov/Dec) Pixie 7- cuts out background, and Samsung S21 - great night shoots but I love Sony's strong history of making all cell phones cameras. As normal it takes a little time to learn fast setups. But did get a one shot perfect pic.

Coming from a LG G8, i was impressed by the following. Good Screen response and colors were vibrant. I enjoyed having a led for notifications like my old S8. Battery life was great. Bad Phone was more narrow, harder to type and video viewing was lack luster. Weird double notification bars when notifications would arrive. Camera shots in auto mode was worse than the LG G8, manual mode was decent but even then shots had a hard time being clear, in zoom the most. Video modes were decent. Call reception was worse than my LG. And audio through speakers and aux lesser quality. I was excited for the Sony, but in hand I was not happy.

Great phone and am very happy with it. Love the SD card slot, the display, headphone jack and camera. Video and photos out of the phone are impressive. The phone does get hot, but it hasn't gotten in the way of using the phone. I don't play mobile games on the phone though.

Typical Sony. Phone is too hot to use normally. I might be in Central Florida, but I shouldn't be throttled to a 60hz screen because the phone is too hot to use in the shade... On a cloudy day outside, in November! I've bought every compact model and some bigger models dating back to the z5 compact. There were times I dunked my phone in ice water just to use the camera outside. Too often I'm holding it in front of the ac vents in the car. I have to download a temperature app to monitor the cpu and battery temperature. I kept buying them because of the form factor and vanilla skin. Moto does well with being like stock android too. None of their phones overheat, but I also can't put them in my pocket. Look, EVERYTHING is great about the phone with the exception of the heat that will occasionally burn your hand or face. The camera app warns of "serious burns due to heat." I mean cmon... Is this phone equivalent to McDonald's coffee? One more thing to note, it does NOT connect to band 77 on Verizon. Not sure why, I think it's because it's 5g Na vs 5g nsa. It'll show a 5gUW icon, and boast high download speeds, but my pixel 6a on a lower tier plan beat it everytime. Upload speeds were useless. Maybe I had a bad modem in the unit? Also, most cases are coming from China because there just aren't options for it here in the states. Plenty for the 5 iii though. I'd proceed with caution if you want to purchase this phone.

This Android phone works great and still has features that Samsung and Google Pixel have decided to start removing (SD Card slot, headphone jack, etc). Only downside is that if you are transferring from a Samsung phone you will have to find 3rd party solutions to certain apps provided by Samsung (voice recorder for example).