It can’t be easy to maintain a loyal fanbase when selling less than half a million devices per quarter, but somehow, that’s precisely what Sony‘s long-struggling smartphone division has managed to do all these years, building excitement among an undoubtedly small yet extremely vocal group of mobile consumers for products like the Xperia 1, the XZ family, and now the impossibly named Xperia 1 II.
Although we still wouldn’t exactly call the Xperia 1 a crazy bargain, the latest discounts available on Amazon certainly make the 6.5-inch phone more attractive than ever. Originally priced at an arguably excessive $950, the Snapdragon 855 powerhouse is currently on sale at $252 less than that in both black and purple models equipped with unlocked support for Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile’s 4G LTE networks.
Interestingly, this particular deal is fulfilled by Amazon, but the actual devices are sold by Focus Camera. The e-commerce giant itself sells brand-new unlocked Sony Xperia 1 units backed by a standard 1-year US warranty at an additional $100 discount, with those particular devices currently being listed as backordered and “due in stock” August 29, with reservations however still possible at the time of this writing.
