back to a time when using live wallpapers mean that your device is a highly spec'd device lol

They had space for HDMI port back in 2011...today even headphone jack doesn't find its place!!

2:32 Sony leaked ps5 in 2011, I've never been so blind before.

This is how my kids will see the s20 ultra in 10 years !!!! That i bought for over 1k lool

That was a fantastic phone in his time, especially design wise. And I remember Sony UI was the most visually appealing back then.

Your video and voice quality is so insane

The kinds of reactions I get to my iPhone 4s... I get a lot of "oh its so cute" and "it's so small". I swear one girl literally cried over it.

Anyone watching in 2011??

i had a chinese version of this costing 40 dollars back then haha

Oh my god! Sony is / was damn good at design because this phone definitely doesn't look like it's straight out of 2011. PS: This video was amazing, I can see your production value increase, keep up the good work! Edit: so I edited the comment and lost the heart that Arun gave me, so I'll just leave this here as a warning not to edit your comments when they have a heart.

This was one of the best smartphones I've owned. Towards the end stages of my ownership, I've used a custom ROM (Xperia S rip) from xda. This had quick toggles, brightness slider and all bloatware removed. It gave the phone a fresh breath as the physical design looked futuristic to begin with. (Disabling the google play services made the battery last 2 days) The real challenge was a mere 128MB usable internal storage, while apps continued to grow in size. (Whatsapp alone was 100mb+ !!) I had to upgrade because of this sole reason.

This IS one of the most beautiful phone OF ALL TIME. Meanwhile every phones today looks almost the same.

ah so that's why my grandparents keep batteries in the fridge

Sony should return to its flat and clean Z5 design, with frosted glass on the back, just with no bezels

My first Android phone had a single core 600mhz CPU, 512mb ram🤣🤣🤣

I used to use that live wallpaper in my phone that you have in the thumbnail. I loved it 😍

2027: I used a 2019 Smartphone in 2027 - This is what happened. Edit: woah 723 likes!

I still think around 5" is the sweet spot for screen size. I don't get the hype around huge displays.

This was actually my first Android phone and only god know how much I really loved it back in the days. Just unlocking the bootloader on my Arc / and flashing a optimized custom kernel (Doomkernel) on it for unleashing the full potential of the SOC it came with was a great experience all by itself honestly.

Watching this video and then watching the ones from this year, I can only commend you for how great you try to make your content get better. Best tech reviewer on here for me

Sony ericsson i miss u a lotttt plsss come back😓

Bring back solid plastic cased phones. So much more durable in this era. I absolutely hate glass backed phones now.

Loved this content using old phones 🔥🔥 Make more videos 💜

I used to have this and i have to say it's one of the beats I've ever had. Thanks for the nostalgia.

IDK why but this looks so beautiful! It's like the bezels and the buttons give it a character, making it different from other phones!

2015: Sony sold over 45 million smartphone 2018: Sony sold around 18 million smartphone

Best phone I ever owned was a Sony Ericson flip phone in high school I destructible too ... lost it on my street in the winter found it in the spring when the snow melted after being run over all winter Charged it and worked

I'm still rocking with my Nokia E72 as my second phone and it's a fine piece, I love its fm Radio.

I remember the Galaxy s2 was the shit Back then🤣

I remember pre-installed games on my mom's old 2010 phone.... *NOSTALGIA HIT HARDER THAN PUBERTY*

The accent alone makes the subscription worth it... Like listening to Earl Grey tea talk about tech in an ever so slightly snide but entertaining manner. Perfect. Let me go get my smoking jacket and que the next video

"Made out of plastic like every phone back then" Htc Desire: hold my beer

2011-2013 - Xperia Arc (Stil used as modem phone) 2013-2016 - Xperia Z (Can used but need to change Battery) 2016-2019 - Xperia Z5 Compact (Batery Problem again) 2019 - Waiting Xperia One

I honestly wish they would make the phones with this form factor again. All we have now is uninteresting bricks that all look pretty much the same. I loved having this phone way back when.

The Galaxy S2 though 😍 I have so much nostalgia for that phone, it really was amazing for it's time

You did a Sernandoe impression with this title. You cannot beat the king of clickbait in his own game. :D

Hats off to your choice of music! Tbh, I agree with you, if they put 2019 hardware in that same phone, I want it and fast!

2011 Sony Phone already has smaller bezels than the 2017 iPhone

You have no idea how much i missed that android 2.3 water live wallpaper tbh, 2021.

My mom had that phone! It really gave me a feel-y feeling. And oh man! Remember those in-app cartoons? So cool!!

I still have my Galaxy S II running a Lollipop-based custom ROM. (I don't use it as a daily. I'm not crazy.)

Love the new aspect ratio 😍😍

First post in a long time just wanted to know your my go to for honest reviews of phones, I've still got my OnePlus 7 pro 5g and still love it 😁

Loved my Galaxy S2, one of the best phones ive owned. Lived longer than S3's and S4's

I had the Arc S in white too! Such a stunning phone back in the time.

Sony Xperia Play. I'd like to have one with recent hardware and software

called the mini smartphone making a comeback

Since time changes really fast, as well does technology, you should do another video like this, but in 2023. That would be interesting.

Absolutely agree. The Xperia Arc S was one of the most aesthetically good looking phones. This was my first Android phone, and while Android 4 was quite terrible, and the software experience was underwhelming even back then, the design was superb.

This was my first touchscreen phone. One of the best, good old times.

Now I see where Sony got the inspiration for the PS5, lol

This was my second ever smartphone! I loved it a lot and remember really liking the tactile home, menu and back buttons. I was in 8th grade at the time and my entire school had sony ericsson phones it felt like. This was the first model that wasn't extremely clunky.

other youtuber in future: I used a 132 BC Smartphone in 27183

How I wish sony would release a bezelles 4.7 inch compact flagship in 2019..

Amazing! I was looking for this kind of information. You done it!

Man, your accent is clean cut! Nice vid.

Xperia series from 2011 was awesome. I had Neo V, it was cheap, fast and durable. The only bad thing was the ICS update, it made the phone laggy. On gingerbread it was amazing.

My phone is from 2k13. Still happy with it. My plan is to use it up to 2033 and ask Samsung for a new one then... in exchange 😂

8 years not only feels like a generation, it IS one...! But then again, I owned a Sony Ericsson, too, and I loved it! (the tiny one with the extra slide out keyboard... Can't remember, but I think it was android 4 or so...)

Oh that soothing voice is so calming to listen to.

This is what we need: one handed phones. Except for the XZ3 Compact and the Pixel 3, this segment is pretty much empty.

Compact smartphones need to be brought back !!!! Nowadays you can't find a flagship below 5.8 inches.

I remember when my mom had that phone, it's so cool to see it in a video

I think this was the last phone released under the flag of Sony Ericcson, and it has a lot of that Ericcson design language still in it. Definitely one of the most attractive of my previous phones and the "feel in the hand" was very high. The camera was also pretty decent, I seem to remember. But it really did lack performance and updates to the OS pushed by Sony really made it worse. But I stuck with Sony a little longer and went down their later Xperia phones.

It's the first time ever I watch you or your vid BUT ALSO FOR ME MY FIRST SMARTPHONE WAS A SE XPERIA ARC S (BLACK) IN 2011. I KNOW THAT FEEL BRO😍😍👍👏💜💪🔝

This device was a beauty.. Neo series n Arc series.. The beasts during its day

Arun: Calls android 4.2 "ancient". Me watching this video in a Samsung galaxy S3 with 4.2: *Silent sobbing*

The long forgotten menu button? 😂😂 Child please. I still miss the search button.

The design still holds up to phones in this year! I've been saying this for a long time, Sony could just reuse the designs of the Xperia Z for their newer phones and it would still look great

Using a 2013 on 2019. - That's me everyday still using my LG G2.

I used the Xperia Ray back then. Basically the Arc S in a smaller body. It has been the nicest smartphone I ever had. I love the design with a fully featured Android in a small body, with removable battery, SD card, headphone jack and a good quality camera. It's a pity that nobody makes nicely designed small smartphones anymore. I'm now on the Sony XZ1 mini which also is quite nice. But the Ray is still ascetically ahead.

I'd go back to those phones any day. It's so hard to find a phone these days that isn't that size of tv or coats half years salary

Sony Ericsson last phone, I still have it. Sad It's design ended there.

Wow, smartphone design has changed quite a lot since 2011.

Just bring back the old weather app that old sony smartphones come out with. I hate cold weather but I remember wishing for snowfall just to watch the widget animation on that weather app.

Wow, even the music sounds from that era. Kristy Hawkshaw..

Kind of reminds me of when I had my Aquos, the first "bezel-free" phone, sort of. Just swipe along the top edge for a screenshot. Good times.

If I controlled rewind, I'd want fortnite.. ..And Arc S Brownlee.

@Mrwhosetheboss I know what you mean about using old smart phones. My Xiaomi Redmi Pro was stolen recently and a neighbour kindly lent me his son's old original Galaxy S !! This was the very first smart phone I had back in the day ! And it's amazing to see that the screen still looks really good, even by today's standards ! That Amoled Screen is amazing ! It hasn't aged badly at all !! Although the phone is a bit slow now, I still Love the little size (by today's standards) and the nostalgia of it. I think you're right about small phones coming back though....I think it's a great idea. As long as we can keep all the other sizes as well ! Great video ! Thank you and God Bless you always !

This was my dream phone back in the days. I won't mind using it even today if I got one leaving the new tech

This is literally my favorite and first smartphone I ever got in my life. I really loved the Xperia arc s. The only issue I had with it was the god awful battery life and small storage of 2 Gb. issues that could be so easily addressed nowadays. I Plan to buy my self a new one as I am very unsatisfied with the new phone mdels that are so fragile like shit unlike the phones back then. The older smartphones could take quite a beating, since the screen was made of plastic and not glass.

I remember that day when my friend's buyed new sony arc s and Motorola razor, i was just 16 back then with no phone. Today i have a job and buyed OnePlus 6T last month.

There is one other issue related to battery life: Running modern app on old hardware uses a lot of processing power and in turn energy from battery just to do basic things. And even old apps get updates and features that make them hardware intensive. My previous phone would operate Google Maps just a bit on a slow side, everything worked, but in turn it would get very hot and use more energy than regular car charger would provide.

People switch smartphones every 2 years Me: still using an iphone 6 plus in 2020

1:12, I still own one of these phones ( the one in the middle (Sony Xperia C2305) ) I heard they stopped making them though how sad it's still working perfectly fine with me as my second phone, sad that it only has 1Gb ram though

Then in the year 2030: "This is iPhone 11 pro, a nine year old flagship OF THAT TIME"

Ahh good memories I used to have a Xepria arc, its was my first smartphone (if I not count my 5800 express music as a smartphone) I really love it.

i cant imagine using audios on this phones.back then the only.one capable are mh410/500 and early mh650s, the. mh1 came along

the only good Sony devices r those ended with Ericsson at their name. i still use my Xperia PLAY! for playing PS1 Winning Eleven series. besides that, still have my favourite device, Xperia Mini Pro(not X10 one) in my closet. btw if Ericsson ever reunited with Sony, only then i will buy Sony.

An Hdmi port in phones I didn't know if that even exist 🤓

I LOVED the Nokia E63, beautiful qwerty keyboard! X

Gosh I loved my Xperia S back then, beautiful design and the HDMI port with CEC support was a godsend, I used it as a media player all the time.

It was my first Android smartphone 😍 It came preloaded with 2.3 , but they gave it a upgrade to ics... I used it for few more years with custom roms for jelly bean,& kitkat.. only drawback of it was it was pretty unusable without micro sd card.. apart from it..i loved every bit of it. And i agree Sony ruined smartphones after Ericsson separation

One of my first few high end mobile device!

Why am i hearing the male version of Hermione Granger when Aron talks 😂😂😂

I still have a few of my phones from around that time. Every now and then I like to pop my SIM card into one just to remember what was once considered state of the art technology. T-Mobile HTC Amaze 4G, a great phone when it came out, but the only thing I can appreciate about it now, is its size. Phones used to be just the right size to fit in a front pocket, and as you mentioned, were a hell of a lot easier to use one handed. But things have come a long way since then, and if we want our blindingly bright screens and El Zippo 9000 processors with 32 corez, the phone has to be bigger, if for no other reason than to make room for the necessarily larger battery required to power them. The phone I have now, a Samsung Note 10+, is the first phone that I've had to decrease the brightness. A lot. Every single phone I've ever had, I cranked the brightness up to 100% because that's what I felt the most comfortable with and I turned of any kind of adaptive or automatic brightness control. It was full on, 100% brightness day and night. I currently run my Note 10+ around 35-40%, and I actually like it there. When I first got it, just like all phones, it was in light or day or whatever mode they call it that isn't dark mode, and the first thing I did was grab that brightness slider and drag it full right. I quickly figured out that it needed to be way down lol. Even my Note 5 from just five years ago is noticably slower, but right up until the day I got my 10+, it was still perfect. Or so I thought. Once I got done rebuilding it and making it work again, I realized how infuriatingly slow it is. Another phone I still have from around 2011 or so is an HTC MyTouch 4G Slide, and that's even worse than the HTC Amaze. Painfully Slow, miserable battery life, apps can't be updated to their most current version because they're no longer compatible with the phone, constant for e closes, etc. Hell you should see the Google Play Store on that thing lol!

2:01 Notch Spotted!😁

Complains that modern phones don't concave out instead of in. Well I'm glad to tell you that you can infact bend your phone inwards by 90 degrees (warning may break phone)

The Sony Ericsson Zperia phones were honestly great all around. My first smartphone was an Xperia Play. Would love to see Sony give it a go with that gaming concept again seeing that mobile gaming has become such a big thing

You don't even a single clue how much I loved that particular phone