Sony will do the bare minimum that they are forced to. So 5 years due to the EU. Repairability idk about that. Parts are hard to source outside of Asia for Xperia phones.

They removed the drm on phone released after 2019 with the start of the current Xperia 1/5/10 lineup.

• The naming is dreadful. What comes after the Xperia 1? Why the Xperia 1 II of course! I swear only their console division is capable of clear and sensible naming.

Their phone division is run by their camera division and unfortunately the naming makes sense in that situation

• They've fallen seriously behind in software support. This will be mitigated by EU legislation forcing longer support, but it'll still be behind Samsung/Google.

I think only Samsung and Google are doing 7 years of updates. Plus fun fact Sony releases Asop builds of newer versions of android 3 years after eol. But for some reason they won't extend updates for their gms roms

I hope they improve the amp for the jack at least.

No it did. I'm just confused about what this community is.

Yes if you get the global one since the ones that are the Japanese carrier/us model

I think so except for certain Uwb radios if I remember correctly.

There was the Sony Xperia 5 series which is smaller than the 1

I mean Sony uses an even more stock version of android that Google doesn't even use.

Yes. But the American model is locked because of fucking Verizon

Yes