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what's up guys long hear from Andrew authority and we're here at MWC 2018 taking a look at Sony's latest flagships the Xperia XE 2 + XE 2 compact these are the successors to the XE 1 and XC 1 compact and bring about some of the biggest changes we've seen from the company starting with the Xperia XE - it still has a lot of the core elements of a Sony design but there's some pretty significant differences from previous Sony phones that make this feel refreshing and new it's much more curvy and rounded which gives the design a lot more style but also makes it more ergonomic at the same time it's fortified by a metal frame with Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and back you'll also notice that it's extremely reflective Sony calls it ambient flow because it's meant to look like water and sort of blend in with whatever it's surrounded by it's most likely going to be a fingerprint magnet but I like the direction Sony is headed in the only thing I'm not a fan of is how thick the phone looks and feels and despite how thick it is sony decided to get rid of the headphone jack this year sony is adopting an 18 by 9 screen with small bezels so the phone is much narrower and you're getting a pretty large 5.7 inch display it's still tending to P like previous Sony flagships but the big selling point here is its HDR capabilities it supports HDR 10 and is fully supported by Netflix and Amazon or HDR content and the screen is also capable of upscaling standard videos to HDR to complement the viewing experience you've got dual front-facing stereo speakers which we've seen from Sony before but sony is promising that these are 20% louder than the XZ one so they should sound a lot better there's also a new dynamic vibration system which is pretty unique and the best way I can describe this is it's like dual shock for your phone the phone will vibrate to the beats of a song or during certain parts of a movie or video games like where the action might get a little intense the fingerprint sensor will finally work now if you're in the US and Sony has repositioned it to the back and I'm usually a fan of rear-facing fingerprint sensors but this one felt a little too low and not as comfortable as other phones with rear fingerprint sensors as far as the rest of the hardware the xe2 is one of the first flagships of 2018 to rock these snapdragon 845 processor along with four gigabytes of RAM it also has a thirty 180 milliamp hour battery inside with support for qi wireless charging on the backside is a 19 megapixel camera with all the same capabilities as the previous XE one like the 3d creator and 960 fps super slow-motion but now you can record at 1080p whereas before you were capped at 720 the xe2 will also be the very first smartphone to record 4k HDR video so not only are your videos going to look incredibly sharp but they're going to have much more color and contrast and because the phone screen natively supports HDR you'll be able to enjoy the videos you record right on your phone software of course is android oreo out of the box and there's no real surprises here it's your typical stock like sony software that we've seen on many Sony devices in recent years now if you like what the XD 2 offers but one in a smaller size you have the XE to compact and it makes very few compromises it pretty much has everything from the standard XE 2 but it's in a plastic body doesn't have wireless charging or the dynamic vibration system but everything else like the processor camera and software is exactly the same obviously the screen is going to be smaller but unlike previous compact phones where the screen was 720p the XE to compact will be the first phone in the compact line that keeps the same 1080p resolution you can expect the Xperia XE 2 + XE to compact a ship in late spring and come to the US as an unlocked phone for more on the XE 2 and XE to compact check out our website at Android 30.com and keep it tuned here for more MWC 2018 coverage