Sony has a long history of tragically overpricing its otherwise promising high-end smartphones, especially stateside, but although the newly unveiled Xperia 5 II is certainly not an affordable handset by any measure, its $950 MSRP doesn’t look completely prohibitive either at first glance.
When that happens, Sony Xperia 5 II users will be left behind, and that’s simply unacceptable after spending close to a thousand bucks. If you don’t have a problem making that compromise, you still need to wait until September 29 for pre-orders to kick off and an unspecified later date for actual US shipments.