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Sony Xperia XZ1 Sony's cheaper version of the Xperia XZ Premium   Smartphones are beginning to put a lot of faith in unique gimmicks in a frenzied effort to stand out from the crowd. Case in point: HTC’s squeezy phone – the U11 – was equipped with pressure-sensitive sides for quick-launching applications.  The Xperia XZ1 is Sony’s (slightly cheaper) alternative to its flagship XZ Premium. It’s not quite as low-priced as its XZ1 Compact alternative, but with it comes a Full HD 5.2in display, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. There’s a 19-megapixel camera on the back, which supports 3D scanning (more on that later), and it runs Android 8 Oreo out of the box. But who can blame them? At a time where smartphones are essentially big rectangular slabs of metal and plastic, it’s getting trickier for smartphone firms to stick out from the masses. Sony’s new mid-range Xperia XZ1 joins this pack of showoffs, with a 3D-scanning feature unlike any other, but is i...