Monday, February 24, 2020

Sony’s new Xperia 1 II adds 5G to its lineup of tall phones

One year postliminary the grant of its super-tall Xperia 1, Sony is rearmost with a successor, the obscenely wellborn Xperia 1 II. In Europe the handset will be Sony's inceptive to support 5G, area it will be stalwart to connect to sub-6GHz networks. Sony is thirsting to hard-hitting the photography capabilities of its flagship smartphone, as well-built as there are arriver some perfectionist housewares inclusions like a 3.5mm headphone jack as well-built as support for wireless charging. (Both of those were missing from aftermost year's handset.) It additionally announced a new mid-range handset chosen the Xperia 10 II. In the US, area the flagship 1 II handset will be 4G only, Sony teased a separate 5G device chosen the Xperia Pro.

In an era of 108-megapixel smartphone cameras, the 12-megapixel triple-camera farrago found on the rearmost of the Xperia 1 II risks converging broadness as under-specced, on cardboard anyway. Except Sony has what it thinks are a couple of tricks up its sleeve, thanks to gloss brought over from its Budding lineup of cameras. The inceptive is that the roast supports up to 20fps shooting in cleaved orate (a inceptive for a smartphone, according to Sony), as well-built as the spare is the artistry to calculate AF/AE at up to 60 times per second. The eye-tracking autofocus share from aftermost year as well-built as now works with animals. Sony says that this year the camera's autofocus covers 70 percent of the frame.

*The phone's eye auto-focus now works on animals as well-built as humans.*

Sony additionally has a new Photo Pro app, which joins the Talkie Pro app that it debuted aftermost year. The aim lifing is to harmonics you other chiral inhabitancy over your photography with what Sony says is simply a similar interface to an interchangeable lens camera. Of course, you can additionally booty photographs application a other archetypal smartphone camera interface if you so choose.

In agreement of camera hardware, the roast has three rear cameras as well-built as a 3D iToF sensor to squire with focusing. All three cameras feature 12-megapixel sensors, similar to the iPhone 11 Pro. On the Sony Xperia 1 II, the plaza 24mm f/1.7 camera has a larger 1/1.7-inch sensor, similar to the 1/1.76-inch sensor Samsung is application for the plaza camera on the Galaxy S20 as well-built as S20 Plus, though it's not as largish as the 1/1.33-inch 108-megapixel sensor found in the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Aslope its plaza sensor, Sony's new roast additionally has a 16mm f/2.2 ultrawide camera, as well-built as a 70mm f/2.4 telephoto camera. On the front, there's an 8-megapixel selfie camera, as well-built as on the side there's a committed camera button.

If you're shooting video rather than photos, Sony's new device ups the picked frame span for 4K recording to 60fps, as well-built as 120fps for 2K recording. Sony additionally says the roast gotta be preferably at recording audio, thanks to its artistry to filter out wind noise.

On the audio side, Sony has announced that the Xperia 1 II is the world's inceptive smartphone to come with implanted 360 Reality Audio decoding, the new audio improvisation that Sony launched aftermost fall. This is an object-based spatial audio improvisation that makes it announced as though audio is converging from all circa you. Sony says that you'll be stalwart to watercourse the improvisation on Tidal.

Like aftermost year's phone, the Xperia 1 II has a 6.5-inch 4K HDR OLED disport with a tall 21:9 earmark ratio. Although Sony is thirsting to hard-hitting the perks of this screen for media consumption, aftermost year, we found it had plenty of perks for natural usage of the phone, like person stalwart to see other emails at already or other content on Twitter.

Rounding out the specs, the Xperia 1 II has a Snapdragon 865 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of onboard storage, as well-built as a 4,000mAh battery. In Europe, 5G connectivity will be handled by a Qualcomm X55 modem. The fingerprint sensor is still side-mounted, there are dual front-facing speakers, as well-built as the roast is baptize self-starting with IP65 as well-built as IP68 certifications. Sony expects to ship the roast in Europe from moratory spring, while in the US a release stage has yet to be determined.

*Sony additionally teased the Xperia Pro, which will feature 5G connectivity including both sub-6GHz as well-built as mmWave.*

*Sony envisages the Xperia Pro's HDMI input arrogation it to be acclimated as a outrider for a camera.*

While its new flagship won't support 5G in the US, the visitor did tease a mystic new 5G device chosen the Xperia Pro. Although it looks a lot like the Xperia 1 II, Sony is pitching the Pro as an appurtenance for brochure video cameras, with an HDMI input that allows it to assignment as a camera monitor. Then, Sony imagines you'll be stalwart to use its 5G connective (it supports both sub-6GHz as well-built as mmWave) to upload video footage to wherever you need it.

It's an interesting intellection that could pick up area RED unavailing with its other aspiring Hydrogen roast program, except it sounds like the artefact is still a conceptualization for the time being. Sony didn't have any information to share on potential release dates or pricing, as well-built as it metrical said that it hadn't decided whether it will be affairs it through its statutory consumer channels.

*The Xperia 10 II's screen has the aforementioned earmark ratio as the other expensive flagship, despite with lower specs.*

Finally, Sony additionally has a new mid-range handset chosen the Xperia 10 II. It's got a slightly subside 6-inch 21:9 1080p OLED display, a less powerful Snapdragon 665 processor, as well-built as a subside 3,600mAh battery. Although it's additionally got a triple-camera farrago with the aforementioned conjoint of focal lengths, two of them have 8-megapixel sensors rather than 12 megapixels. It additionally keeps the 3.5mm headphone jack, except there's no stableness of wireless charging. Sony program to ship the roast in "select markets" this spring.

Update February 24th, 3:30AM ET: Added appended specs, an embedded video, as well-built as images.