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we got off to a shaky start with Sony this year the xperia x left us feeling a bit underwhelmed we genuinely enjoy it when companies focus on a back-to-basics year sony walked away from what the xperia z represented and is claiming to focus on the features which really matter to consumers but we're still apt to pay a premium for that Sony branding of course before we can really review this phone we have to get it out of the box this simple packaging holds what you would expect it to the xperia x performance crece up front we get a charger a cable and those papers will never ever ever read like the regular xperia x it's an attractive handset clean angular lines a monolith style design straight out of 2001 a Space Odyssey and this brushed exterior looks great in the hand there's just nothing separating this from it's less expensive stablemate and we wouldn't blame anyone for confusing them out in the wild most of these specs look familiar to a 5 inch LCD with a 1080p resolution 3 gigabytes of RAM and 32 gigabytes of storage a 23 megapixel rear camera front-facing speakers and a microUSB port though we do move up from a two thousand six hundred and 20 milliamp hour battery to a 2700 milliamp hour battery so that's an improvement and we will be reviewing the international version of the xperia so our review phone does have a fingerprint sensor built into the power button an option which will be removed from xperia sold in north america first boot is respectively quick though the setup process does have a few additional Sony hoops to jump through and the Wi-Fi scanning was one of the slowest we've seen during an initial setup there are some helpful menus and an introduction widget to get people up and running quickly and we get about the same collection of pre-installed bloatware we found on the regular xperia x now sony skin influences almost every aspect of the android UI but overall navigation is still stock adjacent no one's going to be shocked pulling down the notification shade switching apps in the multi-tasking menu or scanning through settings early impressions this phone is a solid performer and it's a great form factor for using a phone one-handed it's got a well-balanced bit heft to it which feels nice and adds to that premium appearance we love having a dedicated camera button but this volume rocker still doesn't make much sense with how low it's mounted it's early on we just got this phone out of the box but we're already having difficulty sorting out our feelings on this phone we held off on some of our sony coverage waiting for this specific xperia for example delaying our real camera review so we could use sony stop offering for this year we knew it would be similar to the xperia x but we were hoping to see a few more differences and that's probably where we should wrap up for this first look we need to spend a little time playing with this phone determine if it's more than just a processor upgrade and we'll report back how does it perform as a gaming machine our speaker playback and headphone quality improved does this version of the xperia still throttle the camera after nine minutes of video so many questions to answer and the ex performance faces some intense competition from recently review phones like the one plus three the Moto Z and this axon 7 which just got dropped off in our hot little hands we'll have plenty to report soon as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for our full sony xperia x performance coverage and help us out with some sharing on your favorite social networks 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 video