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Sony's looking to streamline its phone offerings walking away from the ultra-high-end but before we can gauge whether this experiment is a success we've got to get this phone out of the box I'm Juan Carlos bag now for pocket now and here's our first impressions of the sony xperia x ah sony limping its way back into the north american market you'll notice the DHL packaging here is our first review unit arrived DOA we have to send a major thank-you shout out to the folks at clove code at UK for helping us out with a review unit to start our coverage the box contents are pretty conservative basically just charger cable and origami practice paper once removed from the packaging we're greeted by an attractive slab of smartphone tight angular corners with nicely rounded sides Sony calls this color black but in the hand it's ever so slightly gray enough to look a bit gunmetal it's a seriously clean look and we appreciate the subtle badging walking around the hardware we've got a micro USB on the bottom 3.5 millimeter headphone jack up top the left side is home to the SIM card and microSD card tray no pin tool needed to pop this tray out and all the hardware buttons are on the right side of the phone which makes sense for a company so focused on photography the back of the phone is where we'll find the 23 megapixel main camera with single LED flash the front is where we'll find the 5-inch 1080p IPS LCD flanked by front firing speakers the selfie cam here is another pixel dense shooter delivering 13 megapixel stills and in a break from other manufacturers the front top-left corner is where Sony included the NFC radio it might make mobile payments a bit easier to use this on the top edge though this phone feels great in the hand the metal back has a satiny finish which doesn't feel overly slick and though the forehead and chin bezels are a bit thick most people won't need to dance the phone around too much to use this one-handed a first boot happened delightfully quick I'm not very well versed on the Qualcomm 650 chipset but it moved us through the initial setup efficiently we are happy to report that whatever gremlins might have plagued the last generation of Z phones the fingerprint sensor on this X was easy to set up and unlock this phone reliably enough it's not the fastest we've used to do in part 2 the combin of power button press and fingerprint scan but so far we haven't experienced any wonky issues in operation there is some value-added software pre-installed minimized to a handful of Sony services and some partner apps most everything can be disabled but I'd really prefer being able to uninstall programs like AVG and the rest is just react limiting to Sony design I haven't used an experience ignition happily Sony has taken a step back from more deliberate skinning elements like the notification shade and the settings menu feel pretty stock but I am going to have to tinker with this after our arrangement probably just go back to something alphabetized so how does this thing perform with a 600 series processor how does the camera stack up to lower resolution competition does Sony maintain its reputation for top-tier audio well to answer all of those questions you'll just need the to back in when we deliver our full review coming soon as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for our full xperia and hit that thumbs up button for a little extra positive reinforcement for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos back now you can chat me up on Twitter and Instagram and some gadget guy and I will catch you all on the next video you