Gadget watch: Obeying the law of averages

Sony has delivered a truly average device in what feels like a concentrated effort to use a phone as a piece of commercial living art to prove just how commoditised the bottom of the market has become

Sony Xperia L3 Price: €199 Sim free

This week in perfectly cromulent devices: the L3 from Sony. It’s a smartphone that does everything you expect an entry level device to do and no more than that.

Sony has delivered a truly average device in what feels like a concentrated effort to use a phone as a piece of commercial living art to prove just how commoditised the bottom of the market has become.

This isn’t even a slight on Sony. ...