Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. While not available in the US, the Sony Xperia 5 V packs tons of high-end hardware into a reasonably sized package that's easy to ...

Slick performance. Solid battery life. Includes a headphone port and microSD card slot. Physical camera button and manual mode. Not available in the US. Still too expensive. Nothing else comes in the ...

The Xperia 5 V is a rarity: a compact phone built for multimedia lovers. That makes it even more of a real shame that Sony's slim flagship has grown a little stale, and in some areas become ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was just a poor kid trying to cobble together my first circuits from the Forrest Mims Engineer’s ...

During IFA 2023, Sony unveiled its latest Xperia 5 V smartphone. Positioned as the phone creators will choose, the Japanese company even compared this smartphone's camera with the Alpha 7 III product, ...

This year was quite good when it comes to compact phone offerings. We’ve seen rather compelling high-end compact devices out there. In this article, we’ll compare two of them, the Google Pixel 8 vs ...