The Xperia 1 VII is a greatest hits of Sony R&D

Sony has announced its latest flagship smartphone, the Xperia 1 VII, and it fits close into the company’s wheelhouse: a acquainted design, tech cobbled unneurotic from crossed Sony’s different hardware brands, and a terms tag that’ll sting.

Sony’s past fewer flagships person been technological powerhouses that eschewed tech manufacture trends successful favour of enthusiast features similar expandable storage, headphone jacks, and an accent connected Sony’s hardware know-how. In caller years, Sony has leaned connected the expertise of its Alpha camera and Bravia TV teams successful designing its Xperia handsets, and this clip it’s added the Walkman section into the premix for upgraded audio. 

On the camera side, the large Alpha summation is an AI-based auto-framing mode, which recognizes quality subjects and automatically crops videos to support them centered successful the framework (though the max solution drops to Full HD owed to the crop). As for hardware, a caller 48-megapixel ultrawide, with a sensor doubly arsenic ample arsenic before, is the main upgrade connected past year’s phone. The ultrawide was the wide anemic nexus successful the 1 VI’s camera setup, truthful it’s understandable that the main and adaptable telephoto lenses are returning unchanged.

As for audio, high-end components from Sony’s modern enactment of Walkman audio players person been carried to the phone, close down to utilizing higher prime solder successful the headphone jack. AI-based DSEE Ultimate upscaling is supported, on with Hi-Res, LDAC, and Dolby Atmos formats, and the stereo speakers person been fixed a bass boost.

The large assistance from the Bravia show part is smarter adaptive brightness for the 6.5-inch OLED display. The telephone has airy sensors connected some the beforehand and backmost to much accurately measure surrounding airy levels and set brightness, colour gamut, and colour somesthesia accordingly. 

None of the halfway specs are different excessively surprising. It’s powered by the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite, with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of retention — expandable by up to different 2TB with microSD. There’s an IP65 / 68 rating, wireless charging, and a generous 5,000mAh battery. One downside is the committedness to lone 4 years of OS updates and six years of information patches, respective years little enactment than Samsung and Google offer.

The different happening the Xperia 1 VII shares with its predecessor is wherever it’s coming out. There’s nary motion of the telephone releasing successful the US, though it is disposable to bid successful the UK and Europe starting today, wherever it costs £1,399 / €1,499 (about $1,700).