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while wrapping up our full review of the Xperia X we thought we'd take a minute or three to share some of our early impressions using sony's streamlined smart phone experiment here are three things we like and three things we don't hot design beauty is in the eye of the beholder but we're happy sony didn't skimp on build materials whether you feel this design language is getting stale we can't fault sony engineering for producing a high-quality frame not hot battery life it's tough to work around a smaller battery even with a 1080p screen and 600 series CPU battery numbers on the Xperia X are on the lean side with a two thousand six hundred and twenty milliamp hour cell this phone is best used in short screen on Sprint's hot stereo speakers will always be fans of pointing the speakers in the right direction namely at your face and we know many of our viewers will agree phone speakers will never be audiophile experiences but watching videos and playing games is certainly more enjoyable with forward-facing audio not hot headphone playback for as good as the speakers are headphone audio is about mid-pack analyzing test numbers we're seeing nearly identical performance to the Galaxy s7 which means we're likely using the DAC provided in the Qualcomm chipset and this is one of the weaker amps we've tested this year hot performance concerns over the Qualcomm 650 processor were quickly put to rest after the first day of use this little CPU outperforms last year's Snapdragon 808 this tier of product won't appeal to folks who play graphics intensive games but it's more than capable for just about everything else you might do on your phone and we think it will age well over the next year not hot overall camera performance no one would deny that Sony sets the standard for camera sensors this 23 megapixel shooter is paired with a tack sharp lens but the overall experience leaves us underwhelmed from mediocre macro performance to the buzzy shimmer produced by Sony software video stabilization to twitchy and reactive focused tracking we find ourselves fighting this camera more than nailing the shot we want someone should tell Sony than a manual mode means more than just exposure and white balance controls you can only adjust ISO when you reduce resolution to 8 megapixels but that's still kind of useless without some control over shutter speed and it's a strange feeling turning to Samsung for more even-handed image processing so there you have it folks three things we like and three things we don't do the pros outweigh the cons drop us a comment below and we'll publish our full review of the Xperia x2 so stay tuned as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for our full Sony coverage and hit that thumbs up button for a little extra positive reinforcement for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now some gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next one