{"id":146232,"date":"2025-05-31T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146232\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:34:08","slug":"sony-has-reportedly-started-outsourcing-xperia-phone-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146232\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony has reportedly started outsourcing Xperia phone production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_Rg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Sony Xperia 1 VII cameras\"  alt=\"Sony Xperia 1 VII cameras\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sony-Xperia-1-VII-cameras.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sony may have outsourced the manufacturing of its flagship phones.<\/li>\n<li>The company has removed the term \u201csmartphones\u201d from the list of products on its manufacturing-focused websites in Thailand and China.<\/li>\n<li>The Xperia 1 VII is reportedly the first of its premium phones to be made by a third party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over the years, Sony has increasingly distanced itself from the smartphone market. The company currently relies on third-party manufacturers to make its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/cheap-android-phones-269520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mid-range<\/a> offerings. Although it outsources the manufacturing of its mid-range phones, Sony has at least continued to work on the high-end Xperia line. But it looks like Sony may have decided it\u2019s no longer interested in making its premium phones either.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report from <a href=\"https:\/\/sumahodigest.com\/?p=38449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smartphone Digest<\/a>, Sony has stopped manufacturing its own Xperia phones. The company has now removed the term \u201csmartphones\u201d from its list of devices on its manufacturing-focused websites in Thailand and China.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that the Xperia is dead, just that Sony won\u2019t be the company producing them anymore. Just like with its mid-range phones, Sony appears to have handed the keys over to a third-party manufacturer. Reportedly, we got our first taste of this with the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/sony-xperia-1-vii-launch-3555834\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xperia 1 VII<\/a>. It\u2019s said that the Xperia 1 VII is the first of Sony\u2019s premium phones to be manufactured by a different company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/sony-outsources-xperia-production-3562983\/mailto:news@androidauthority.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"mailto:tips@androidauthority.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-haspopup=\"menu\" target=\"_blank\">news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it&#8217;s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TL;DR Sony may have outsourced the manufacturing of its flagship phones. The company has removed the term \u201csmartphones\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[547,341,26236,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-146232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-sony","10":"tag-sony-xperia","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114601295023085344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}