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  • I really wanted to like Sony's Xperia XZ1 Compact

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    Jamie Rigg
    Jamie Rigg
    01.24.2018

    No one really makes decent small phones anymore. Apple hasn't updated the iPhone SE in almost two years, and the "mini" flagship phase fizzled out long before that. Tracking down a sub-5-inch Android phone you'd actually consider buying could be the plot of the next Indiana Jones movie. I guess it'd be a short flick, though, because you only have to look as far as Sony and its "Compact" smartphones, which the company keeps making despite the wider industry's having moved on. Perhaps I'm a champion of choice or just feel nostalgia for a time when phones were smaller and life was simpler, but I wanted to like the Xperia XZ1 Compact, released last fall. I really did.