We Need More Niche Smartphones

Omar Zahran
The Shadow
Published in
7 min readJan 30, 2021

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As we grow older, we will often yearn for life as it was when we were younger. This much is evidenced whenever a throwback food item makes a comeback and the internet freaks out to try a bit of nostalgia. A bit of nostalgia on a higher level I have always reminisced over is the boutique niche shop. The idea of a place that is only selling a group of products for a specific customer as opposed to the one-size-fits-all approach of the superstore culture in modern society. This norm of uniformity has permeated into many aspects of modern life, and one of those aspects is the way that smartphones are designed and utilized. The recent launch and subsequent reaction of the Sony Xperia Pro, Sony’s smartphone designed for professional content and broadcast creators.

What is the Xperia Pro?

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It is essential to understand what the Xperia Pro is as a product, but also why Sony decided to make it. The Sony Xperia phone is an Android smartphone and a high-end one at that. But what makes it an interesting piece of tech is that everything is made with professional broadcasters in mind. The exterior of the phone has a grippy polycarbonate for enhanced durability, designed to be carried with other…

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Omar Zahran
The Shadow

Freelance sports writer fascinated by the stories that our favorite teams and athletes present to us