Sony Xperia V

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!

Premium, powerful and pocket-friendly – but not quite perfect

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.

Is this media machine worth the money?

Honey, I shrunk the Xperia 1

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

A Sony phone for better and for worse

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

Sony might not be one of the top manufacturers of phones currently (at least in the US), but how does its new, waterproof Xperia V stack up?

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.

The Sony Xperia 5 is a compact, capable camera phone with a few tricks up its sleeve

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

The smaller, less expensive Xperia 5 III strikes a better balance for photographers, filmmakers, gamers and creative types than the larger Xperia 1 III.