Sony Xperia 5

Honey, I shrunk the Xperia 1

Sony's compact flagship is a looker, but hard to live with

The Sony Xperia 5 takes all of the features that made the Xperia 1 a success and boils them down into a smaller, cheaper handset.

Sony's latest Xperia smartphone delivers premium audio and video performance

Four focal lengths and sleek styling make the Sony Xperia 5 III a unique, compact camera champ

Sony Xperia 5 is a spiritual successor to the extended Xperia Compact family with almost all of the same features and specs we saw on Sony's last marquee handset. Is it a miniaturized marvel or a diminutive disaster? Find out in our Xperia 5 review!

Sony's Xperia 5 smartphone features flagship-level hardware and build quality, but falls short on a number of other key factors.

The phone does everything well, but nothing best — and for $800, that’s sort of a problem.

Is this media machine worth the money?

Notebookcheck.com reviews the Sony Xperia 5, a compact flagship with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 that integrates an Adreno 640 GPU, 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal memory. Its 21:9 display should make the Xperia 5 ideal for streaming, but its cameras are not up to scratch.

A Sony phone for better and for worse

Need a smartphone with flagship-caliber hardware but more compact? Check out our Sony Xperia 5 III review and see if this is the one for you.

The Sony Xperia 5 II's triple camera provides plenty of shooting options, and both stills and video quality have improved since the Mark 1.

The Sony Xperia 5 II impresses in a lot of areas

The Sony Xperia 5 III is a new mid-range smartphone that inherits a lot of the core features from the flagship Xperia 1 III model, in a smaller and more affordable form factor. Read our in-depth Sony Xperia 5 III review, complete with full-size sample photos and videos...