The Sony Xperia 10 IV takes on a competitive market niche, but is outgunned by the competition.
The cameras are decent but unexceptional, which pretty much sums up the entire phone. You get a 12MP sensor behind the main cam, which has an equivalent focal length of 27mm and an aperture of f/1.8, with 8MP ultrawide and 2x tele alternatives.
In its favour are optical image stabilisation, an HDR mode that can be left on the ‘auto’ setting, and the usual Android tricks such as slow-mo, panorama, manual mode and live filters, but despite there being a selfie portrait mode, we couldn’t find the background-blurring ability on the main camera.
Despite this, we found the phone to be generally responsive with just the slightest feeling of lag when moving between apps or pressing the home button . There's also a useful Window Manager app that allows an app to run in a small window over the home screen, useful for quickly checking messages. As is becoming more common, there's no charger in the box, and it’s not a super-fast charging phone either. You do get USB PD and adaptive charging to take care of the battery, but it still doesn’t fuel up particularly fast.If you must have the greatest smartphone, then no. If you’re happy with something modest and reasonably priced, that’s good for chat apps, web browsing and the odd photo, and which can last two days on a charge if you don’t tax it too much, then maybe.
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