Sony Xperia 10 VII ships without a USB cable in the box
Five years after the demise of the included charging brick, Sony is killing the bundled USB cable. Like almost all other smartphones, the mid-ranger Xperia 10 VII comes without a charger in the box, but unlike any other, it also lacks a charging cable.A Reddit user shared a photo of the packaging of a new Sony Xperia 10 VII, which includes only printed user manuals. An icon on the back of the phone’s box confirms that there’s no cable included, so that’s not a mistake.
That was predictable
The Xperia 10 VII packaging. | Image Credit – u/Brick_Fish on Reddit
Sony is far from being a major smartphone manufacturer, but the company is still popular enough to make an impression, and that move is not exactly surprising. Just like with the charging bricks before, brands will like us to think that omitting the cable will save resources on shipping and reduce e-waste. What they’d like us to forget is that it also saves them money on the millions of cables that won’t enter our phone’s boxes.
While no other phone has shipped without a cable before, Apple has paved the way for that already. The company’s AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods 4 both ship without a USB-C cable. It won’t be surprising for the Galaxy S26 and iPhone 18 to follow suit.
Is that such a big deal?
My only issue with brands ditching the cables is that the USB-C cables are a mess. Despite looking the same, some cables support high-speed data transfer and charging, but others don’t. That makes buying the correct cable a little more complicated than just using what was in the box.
Putting that inconvenience aside, I don’t think people will be as mad about that move as they were about the removal of the charging brick. I already have dozens of USB-C cables, and I genuinely don’t need another one. I know that’s also true for most of my friends and family, so it should be true for many others, right?
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