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Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact

5owners with an opinion
60%of verdicts positive
3/0positive/negative since 2024
7 yrslongest happy owner
1happy after 3+ years

Praised for reliability and battery; criticized for support and performance.

What people wrote

Likes itOwned 7 years
Serious question, when was the last time you degraded the battery of a phone enough to warrant replacement? I got a Xperia XZ2 compact in 2018, and used it daily util a month ago. It made it through a day of regular use until the very end, when I had to retire it because of issues with software updates. Modern-ish Li-Ion batteries can take thousands of full cycles.
Likes it
The best phone I ever had was a Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact. I would still be using it if it wasn't too slow to run modern versions of android. This is one of those things that just makes me feel so out of touch with the rest of the world. Does everyone else have giant pockets and giant hands? Does everyone use their phone with two hands and carry a bag everywhere? Is it just a trend like small phones were a trend before smartphones? Why do people want these giant phones?
Doesn’t like it
My xz2c works fine with a cheap splitter. They break once a year or so. The latest one works with PD which is nice. But. A few years later the usb port is almost unusable. Also note that, at least for this old phone, Sony updates stopped two years from when the phone was released which is pretty bad, especially as I bought it a year after it was released.
Doesn’t like it
I just recently stopped using my XZ2 Compact for an iPhone 8 because the Androids software is really crappy and messed up. Thats a 2017 Apple flagship compared to a compact 2018 android flagship and the apple device feels infinitely faster. I don't remember the details of it, but android uses more ram for applications, because of the dalvik VM. The iPhones also have way more cache on dye in the A CPUs. And apple completely decimates the competition in browser benchmarks. I had a z3 compact before and was happily using it for 4 years before that(when I bought it was already old). Someone patched the system so that the camera apps still work on an unlocked device and I used a custom ROM which was working well. Here's the thing about android devices. When you can keep them up to date with custom roms you gain things like fine grained privacy settings and faster lean custom ROMS. But ... Sony is notoriously bad at that. Not only did their software quality degrade. They added more DRM and security features to make sure your Camera and other DRM functionality will not work on your custom ROM. Compare that to Xiaomis Poco spinoff where they recently send all the XDA custom rom developers a free device to get the community involved. I like Sonys devices but the software is utter crap. They completely botched the Android 10 update for most of their devices. It took them 2 months to release a version that wouldn't randomly fail and even then gesture navigation is not working in the old