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Sony Xperia 5 V review: Compact and powerful with a great camera

Reece Bithrey's review of the Sony Xperia 5 V Android phone. Is it worth the money against a crowded market of Android …

The Xperia 5 V comes with last year's flagship Qualcomm chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor (the same as the recently reviewed Honor Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design), 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. However, the fact that Sony has added in a Creator Mode here, which warms the screen's tones up to balance out the coolness of its out-the-box settings, is a saving grace, and makes the Xperia 5 V's displayed images to look a lot better. The expertise Sony has in some class-leading full size cameras has transferred well over to the Xperia 5 V with images that possessed natural looking colours and great detail levels thanks to both the 48MP main snapper and 12MP ultrawide.

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