Today Sony is following up on certainly one of its newer form-factors that the corporate had launched final yr with the Xperia 5. The new Xperia 1 II (learn as mark two), follows up on the smaller flagship sibling gadget, retaining its form-factor, but in addition considerably enhancing its design in addition to sustaining an virtually full feature-parity with the larger Xperia 1 II.
The new cellphone additionally units out to distinguish itself from different Sony choices: the corporate seemingly has targeted on the extra gaming-centric usability of the gadget regardless that externally it doesn’t have the aptitude of a gaming cellphone. With a brand new inner warmth dissipation system and a 120Hz refresh price OLED and 240Hz pattern price contact enter, the Xperia 5 II punches above its weight in terms of fluidity.
Sony has achieved this all while retaining the form-factor and weight of the Xperia 5 – even cramming in a brand new 4000mAh battery simply by advantage of improved inner engineering. This is Sony’s seemingly best bundle in years, let’s go over the main points:
| Sony Xperia 1 Series | |||||
| Sony Xperia 1 II |
Sony Xperia 5 II (NEW) |
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| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
1x Cortex-A77 @ 2.84GHz Adreno 650 @ 587MHz |
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| DRAM | 8GB | ||||
| Display | 6.5″ OLED 3840 x 1644 (21:9)
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6.1″ OLED 2520 x 1080 (21:9) 120Hz Refresh w/ 240Hz Touch |
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| Size | Height | 166 mm | 158 mm | ||
| Width | 72 mm | 68 mm | |||
| Depth | 7.9 mm | 8.Zero mm | |||
| Weight | 181 grams | 163 grams | |||
| Battery Capacity | 4000mAh
18W USB-PD Adaptive Charging |
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| Wireless Charging | Yes | – | |||
| Rear Cameras | |||||
| Main | 12MP 1.8µm Dual Pixel PDAF 1/1.7″ sensor 24mm / |
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| Telephoto | 12MP 1.0µm PDAF 1/3.4″ sensor 70mm / / 3x zoom |
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| Wide | 12MP 1.4µm Dual Pixel PDAF half of.6″ sensor 16mm / 130° |
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| Extra | 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) | – | |||
| Front Camera | 8MP 1.12µm f/2.0 |
8MP 1.12µm f/2.0 |
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| Storage | 256GB +microSD |
128 / 256GB +microSD |
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| I/O | USB-C 3.5mm headphone jack |
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| Cellular | – | – | |||
| Wireless (native) | |||||
| IP Rating | IP65 & IP68 | ||||
| Other Features | Dual Speakers | ||||
| Dual-SIM | 1x nanoSIM + microSD or 2x nanoSIM |
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| Launch Price | $1099 / £ / 1199€ | $949 / £799 / €899 | |||
At the core of the cellphone we discover a Snapdragon 865 SoC which permits the gadget to have wonderful efficiency. Although the SoC is sort of conservative when it comes to its energy draw, the Xperia 1 II did have some very slight throttling underneath sustained workloads resembling gaming. In order to alleviate this, Sony has developed an improved thermal dissipation system contained in the cellphone, principally due to a brand new giant graphite pad that is ready to switch warmth from the SoC to the bigger footprint of the display screen panel. This ought to assist the gadget obtain virtually indefinite sustained efficiency underneath regular circumstances.
Memory clever we nonetheless see an inexpensive 8GB of DRAM and storage capacities at 128 and 256GB, extendable with microSD playing cards.
In phrases of design, the Xperia 5 II takes queues from the Xperia 1 II because it options and virtually similar back and front design. On the entrance, which means that there’s nonetheless two prime and backside bezels as a substitute of extra fashionable notches or hole-punch cameras, nevertheless this comes at the good thing about having two surprisingly good and what Sony claims to be a lot better balanced stereo entrance audio system than what we see in different competitor smartphones.
One change within the ergonomics of the cellphone is the truth that the Xperia 5 II comes with a rounded side-frame design quite the extra rectangular and boxy design of that of the 1 II – on this sense the cellphone appears to be extra just like the Xperia 1, and albeit that’s a constructive as I feel that offers a a lot better in-hand really feel and ergonomics than the 1 II.
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