Sony Xperia 5 III
Two-minute review Following hot on the heels of the Sony Xperia 1 III , Sony’s best smartphone in years, comes the Sony Xperia 5 III. It’s ostensibly the same phone in a smaller and significantly cheaper package. It boasts a similar elongated design that prioritizes landscape media content above all else, benefits from the exact same top-level performance, and contains virtually the same flexible triple–12MP camera system. Jump to… Price and release date Design Display Cameras Performance Battery Should you buy the Sony Xperia 5 III? However, there are a number of areas where the Xperia 5 III doesn’t quite match up to its big brother. The design isn’t quite as sharp, the haptics are of lesser quality, there’s no wireless charging, and its display doesn’t even hit QHD let alone 4K levels of sharpness. None of which is particularly problematic in light of the Xperia 1 III’s sky high price tag. But the Sony Xperia 5 III also seems quite expensive in its own way. For aroun...