The newest Xperia smartphone is upon us. It has been announced today at IFA 2013 in Berlin. Last year marked a turning point for Sony’s mobile business, as it divorced with Ericsson, and CEO Kaz Hirai announced the One Sony initiative, aiming to bring all the various departments and their inventions together for products that will embody the best Sony can offer in all their aspects.
Note: We will be at the Xperia Z1 launch in Cape Town tomorrow, 5 September, so stay tuned!
Well, we can consider the just-announced Sony Xperia Z1 as actually the first One Sony phone embodying the results of this strategy, and it is every bit as exciting as it was rumored to be since day one. Let’s dive into the juicy details of the next best cameraphone thing in the Android universe.
Stuffed inside that glass and metal body is Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, clocked at an astonishing 2.2GHz. The Galaxy S4 currently sits proudly around the top of the phone power league, but that has a slightly slower 1.9GHz chip.
The most exciting update, however, is probably the camera. The Z1 indeed sports a 20.7 MP Exmor RS sensor, just as speculated in numerous leaks before. It is, however, 1/2.3″ in size, so don’t expect the wonders that some of Nokia’s cameraphones are capable of with their much larger sensors. Here we just have a lot of pixels stuffed into a sensor size that is about average for a smartphone.
We will bring you the report from the South African launch with some hands-on footage, so stay tuned.
