Finally decent software support which is nice to see. But for the price, Sony really should have updated the old, old, telephoto and also added a discrete DAC for audio. Still good battery life but not amazing like the VI

5Ah is standard for a phone of that size, but GSMArena’s tests show it underperforms given the capacity. Hopefully Motorola can improve it with updates? And I’m not sure how good custom ROM support is on their phones, it’s definitely an option as you say but all phones should have at least 5 years of security patches imo.

Seems like a solid phone for the price, shame about the battery life and only 3 years of security updates

get a decent VPN

As another public only user, gotta emphasise this. I’m on a pretty quick fibre connection, so luckily it’s not a bother for me to get really good ratios but every little helps folks!

Fair, I was being conservative just in case they were interested in any RT games. 2077 would get up there at 1440p

Do you have a specific budget in mind, what sort of games do you play?

I’m not sure what the used market is like in your area but I’d see if you could pick up a 6800XT, 1440p would benefit significantly from the additional RAM. Here I think you could probably negotiate to £350-£370 or so?

Tfw it barely felt different on androidheadlines pre AI

Fair enough if you’re getting that much off the phone, hope it’s a good one 🤞I can’t hack the iPhone-like design so am glad I went for the Xperia 1 VI

Would’ve backed but for the lack of 3.5mm jack. I get the even greater fight for space in a phone this small plus the prevalence of TWS/Bluetooth headphones but it’s something that I personally won’t compromise on

Read enough there to make me never consider Moto again. I miss the Moto X days

Thanks for the post, just sent $30 through

I’ve not had UI issues but agree on the Pop Shop. The next iteration with Cosmic looks to be significantly improved at least

PopOS has an ISO with Nvidia drivers included, no issues gaming straight away on my old 1080ti. As I’m a simpleton who just likes their system to with I’ve stuck with it even after upgrading to an AMD card

Very interested in this considering the specs for possible price. Would love to know exactly which cirrus logic DAC is in this device though. Also I’d be fine with sticking to Android 13 for an audio focused phone but wish they’d at least commit to security patches

Edit: ignore comment, didn’t realise it was about the Deck initially!

I used Pixel Experience on the Pocophone to replace MIUI, pretty much flawless experience. Many thanks to José and other contributors for their hard work!

I’ve got a SP8 which I’ve been running PopOS on since the start of the year. The cameras don’t work but this isn’t a deal-breaker for me, it runs smoothly and is perfect for my needs as a media consumption device (music, movies, comics) with some browsing. There were some issues I had on installation but nothing that couldn’t be resolved. Many thanks to the Linux surface team!

I use it on my Surface Pro 8 with PopOS as Xorg doesn’t work properly