Hopefully our friends in the north didn’t have their eyes set on the Xperia XZ and Xperia X Compact which were just announced yesterday because it’s looking like neither phone will be making it to Canada. As it stands, the Xperia X Compact will make it to the US but it’s unclear if the same holds true for the Xperia XZ.

Hi @aunakhtar , at this time there are no plans for the Xperia XZ or Xperia X Compact to come to Canada. — Sony Xperia CA (@SonyXperiaCA) September 2, 2016

In retrospect, the news shouldn’t be all that surprising. In early July, Sony announced that going forward, they would focus less on India, USA, China, and Brazil and so all along, we should have just assumed that Canada was lumped under it. Curiously, in early August, Sony did do a bit of backtracking by announcing another shift in strategy, where they would focus on more premium phones in India. It’s unclear if this was due to a true internal strategic shift and or if the initial reporting had something lost in translation.

Still, I wouldn’t use this as hope that Sony will bring either phone to Canada and if they do, it likely won’t be any time soon.

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Are you surprised?