Sony has introduced its newest flagship smartphone, the Xperia 1 VII, and it matches proper into the corporate’s wheelhouse: a well-recognized design, tech cobbled collectively from throughout Sony’s different {hardware} manufacturers, and a price ticket that’ll sting.
Sony’s previous few flagships have been technological powerhouses that eschewed tech business traits in favor of fanatic options like expandable storage, headphone jacks, and an emphasis on Sony’s {hardware} know-how. In recent times, Sony has leaned on the experience of its Alpha digital camera and Bravia TV groups in designing its Xperia handsets, and this time it’s added the Walkman division into the combination for upgraded audio.
On the digital camera aspect, the large Alpha addition is an AI-based auto-framing mode, which acknowledges human topics and routinely crops movies to maintain them centered within the body (although the max decision drops to Full HD as a result of crop). As for {hardware}, a brand new 48-megapixel ultrawide, with a sensor twice as giant as earlier than, is the principle improve on final yr’s telephone. The ultrawide was the clear weak hyperlink within the 1 VI’s camera setup, so it’s comprehensible that the principle and variable telephoto lenses are returning unchanged.
As for audio, high-end parts from Sony’s fashionable line of Walkman audio gamers have been carried to the telephone, proper right down to utilizing greater high quality solder within the headphone jack. AI-based DSEE Final upscaling is supported, together with Hello-Res, LDAC, and Dolby Atmos codecs, and the stereo audio system have been given a bass increase.
The massive raise from the Bravia show division is smarter adaptive brightness for the 6.5-inch OLED show. The telephone has gentle sensors on each the back and front to extra precisely assess surrounding gentle ranges and modify brightness, colour gamut, and colour temperature accordingly.
Not one of the core specs are in any other case too stunning. It’s powered by the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite, with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage — expandable by as much as one other 2TB with microSD. There’s an IP65 / 68 score, wi-fi charging, and a beneficiant 5,000mAh battery. One draw back is the dedication to solely 4 years of OS updates and 6 years of safety patches, a number of years much less help than Samsung and Google provide.
The opposite factor the Xperia 1 VII shares with its predecessor is the place it’s popping out. There’s no signal of the telephone releasing within the US, although it’s accessible to order within the UK and Europe beginning in the present day, the place it prices £1,399 / €1,499 (about $1,700).