2022 may go down as the year of smartphone refinement, or stagnation if you prefer, but that’s a description we’ve been applying to Sony’s Xperia handsets for a good few generations now. Even so, Sony’s premium lineup reviewed well throughout the year, at least as far as hardware is concerned. The Xperia 1 IV served the ultra-premium market with a selection of Sony’s latest and greatest photography and videography features, while the Xperia 5 IV successfully distilled this formula down to a more mainstream flagship price point. Meanwhile, the Xperia 10 IV played to the more affordable end of the market, albeit in a very unbalanced fashion.
But as much polish as Sony has applied, these handsets could still do with buffing up. Disappointingly, much of our wishlist resembles last year’s. Still, here’s what we’d like to see from Sony’s Xperia lineup in 2023.