PACKING A BIG SENSOR

SONY XA1 $399, sony.com.au

Sony’s handsome XA1 looks and feels slick, with metal used in the right places. Inside, you get an ample 32GB of storage, and there’s also a microSD card slot (next to the nanoSIM) in the pull-out tray. Colour reproduction on the 720p screen is respectably rich and vivid, and the display is also super-bright with superb contrast. The XA1’s rear camera is among the very best at this price, using a 23MP sensor of 1/2.3inch size, the same scale as some dedicated compact cameras, and produces images with great detail.