TL;DR
- Sony has halted gross sales and shipments of the Xperia 1 VII in its native Japan.
- Affected telephones spontaneously reset, and will refuse to show again on.
- Proper now now we have no affirmation that there’s any drawback with the Xperia 1 VII outdoors of Japan.
For a significant electronics firm, there’s in all probability no model whose smartphones are extra of area of interest product than Sony’s. Whereas we’ve had Xperia telephones going again to the early days of Android, Xperia handsets have by no means actually taken off within the US. However whilst rivals like LG and HTC dropped out, Sony stored proper on at it — we had been actually impressed with final yr’s Xperia 1 VI, and the brand new Xperia 1 VII sounded even higher. Or, no less than, it did, up till proper about now.
On a Japanese help web page, Sony broadcasts that it has suspended shipments of the Xperia 1 VII, and paused gross sales in its personal shops (through Reddit person Hashabasha). In line with a machine translation, the corporate is doing so in response to issues with the cellphone “sometimes experiences points such because the gadget shutting down, rebooting, or not turning on throughout use.”
The producer identifies a number of particular Japanese provider editions of the cellphone as being impacted. To date, we haven’t seen any direct reviews of this problem affecting the Xperia 1 VII outdoors of Japan, and a report from Kunkoku means that the software program bug on the coronary heart of this drawback may very well be particularly tied to a function solely out there within the nation.
That stated, final month GSM Area shared that pre-orders of the cellphone had been being canceled throughout European markets, and proper now we observe that Sony UK lists the Xperia 1 VII as out of inventory.
Sony advises that, if doable, affected customers arduous reset their telephones and try a software program replace. That sounds to our ears like a repair could already be out there, and this cargo pause could symbolize Sony attempting to forestall handsets at present on the market from being rendered inoperable earlier than customers have an opportunity to put in it.
At the very least, we’re hoping that is only a non permanent software program problem. Again on the finish of Could we heard that Sony may be outsourcing {hardware} manufacturing to 3rd events, and this apply may begin with the Xperia 1 VII.
