Remind me again, Sony's still making a profit out of these?...Then the strategy works, though as a Sony fan I've not been swayed to go back to a Sony smartphone. If I'm to buy one then its price can't go up any further(even then I'll probably buy one second handed), and it needs a Type-1 module, fully covered of course, no cheap cropping, with both above average(for a flagship) telephoto and UWA. However, I'm looking out for a likely a7c2 this year, which could finally tick all the boxes so that I might upgrade my old a7RII...
The supposed Sony Xperia 1 V price and Xperia 10 V price have been leaked for a number of markets. While the alleged price for the Mark 5 version of the Xperia 1 might startle newcomers to the smartphone scene, long-term fans of the Sony devices might actually see it as a double-edged sword.