Sony’s new flagship smartphone is a reminder that impressive specs don’t matter anymore
Sony's Xperia 1 Mark II has a 21:9 screen to make it extra tall. (Sony/)Compared to the rest of the big players in the smartphone market, Sony doesn’t sell a ton of devices. In fact, according to Sony’s reports, the company sold roughly 1.1 million smartphones in Q4 of 2019, which doesn’t sound impressive when you compare it to the 72.9 million iPhones Apple slung or the nearly 70 million shipped by Samsung in the same quarter. Still, Sony hasn’t given up on the mobile market, and its latest flagship phone sticks to the company’s strategy of emphasizing the spec sheet.On paper, the Xperia 1 Mark II is undeniably a flagship phone. It uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 processor and 5G hardware. If you’re planning on paying attention to the slew of smartphone announcements happening this week (when Mobile World Congress was supposed to take place), you should get used to...