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what's up guys long hear from Android Authority and we're here Aoife 2016 where Sony just announced a bunch of new products along with two new smartphones the Xperia XZ and the xperia x compact the X compact as the name suggests is supposed to be a smaller version of the XZ and it definitely is smaller but it's also a lot less powerful and doesn't come with as many features as the XZ the design is all that different from previous Sony phones it's been slightly tweaked with some new body lines and this looped design to give it a refreshed look but for the most part it's still a sharp rectangular slab the X compact is also made of plastic and comes in a variety of different colors from black grey blue and white and depending on the color you get it will either be a matte plastic or a less fingerprint friendly glossy plastic despite being made of plastic it felt surprisingly sturdy and with so many large screen smartphones on the market now it was a very refreshing feeling to hold and use a phone that fits so easily in the palm of your hand obviously with the X compact being as small as it is you're not going to get a very large screen it's got a 4.6 inch LCD display on the front with 720p resolution which may not sound all that exciting on paper but on a 4.6 inch screen 720p works perfectly fine it's sharp enough that text and graphics were still very easy to read and it also had some pretty nice-looking colors but with it being so small it's definitely not going to be the best experience for playing a lot of games or watching YouTube unlike previous compact phones that Sony has made the X compact doesn't share the same internal specs as the XZ instead it's running on a snapdragon 650 processor with three gigs of RAM which should be perfectly fine especially since the processor isn't having to push as many pixels but it's going to be disappointing to anyone who wanted a compact phone with flagship specs it comes with 32 gigs of internal storage a micro SD card slot and a 2700 milliamp hour battery but something that is oddly missing is that the X compact isn't water or dust resistant it does however have stereo front-facing speakers a headphone jack up top and a USB type-c port on the bottom with support for fast charging on the right side of the phone you have sony standard power button which also doubles as a fingerprint sensor and right below that is the volume rocker and physical camera shortcut button to quickly launch into the cam it does keep the same rear camera from the Xperia XZ with the 23 megapixel sensor and five axis image stabilization which should work really well for capturing photos and stable video but the front camera on the X compact has been reduced to a smaller 5 megapixel sensor it's running Android marshmallow and it does have some customizations from Sony like the swipe down from a me home screen to conduct an app search custom icons and the built-in theme engine but for the most part this is basically stock Android this is probably the lightest skin that Sony has ever made and it looks like they might be slowly doing away with their own skin or at the very least trying to not interfere as much with Android they've even gone as far as integrating the Google now home screen into their own launcher which I thought was a really nice touch for more information on the X compact in the Xperia XZ including pricing and availability check the website at android authority comm and feel free to let us know your thoughts on the X compact down in the comments below and give this video a thumbs up if you did enjoy it and also subscribe to the channel which is also down below and keep it tuned here to Android authority for all your coverage of Aoife 2016 here in Berlin