At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Sony introduced a few new smartphones to its lineup, with a very tall 21:9 display and some features to go along with it. We take a look at what they can do.
At MWC 2019, Sony introduced the Xperia 1 flagship, as well as the Xperia 10 and 10 Plus mid-range phones, all with 21:9 CinemaWide displays. While all of the devices were on the show floor, the Xperia 1 seems to be too good for ordinary people to try out, so we could only take a look at it without really using it for anything other than the specific demos Sony wanted to show.
The phone does have a pretty nice design though, and this is coming from someone who’s typically hated Sony’s smartphones. It doesn’t exactly stand out from the majority of flagships out there, but the glass back does have some nice colors. The display also looks pretty good, as you would expect from a 4K HDR OLED panel on a smartphone. I’ve always said that Quad HD is already more than enough for a screen as small as a phone, so I don’t really care for the resolution, but it does look good.
As we couldn’t really use the Xperia 1, we took a look at the 21:9 display in the Xperia 10 models instead. The quality of the screen and the design are on a completely different level, but it serves to get an idea of what it’s like. As you would expect, the 21:9 display is incredibly tall, and it does offer you some more content while requiring less scrolling.
For some reason, Sony was touting its ability to use two apps at the same time in split-screen mode, which just about every modern Android phone can do.
