Leaked Sony Xperia 1 V renders have us xperiencing déjà vu

The design of Sony’s subsequent smartphone, rumored to be the Xperia 1 V, seems to have leaked in unofficial renders printed over the weekend by OnLeaks and Inexperienced Smartphones. And true to type, the corporate is doing… nothing too thrilling, sticking with the identical design because the earlier Xperia 1 IV. Squint, and it’s arduous to inform the 2 telephones aside, with their vertical digital camera bumps, squared off edges, and tall aspect-ratio shows. 

That doesn’t imply we’re anticipating the Xperia 1 V to be equivalent to final 12 months’s cellphone. Inexperienced Smartphones studies that its ultra-wide digital camera could possibly be upgraded to make use of a 48-megapixel sensor (up from 12-megapixels), and there’s additionally an opportunity it might ship with 16GB of RAM slightly than 12GB. Though the display is rumored to be the identical measurement at 6.5 inches, the machine is reportedly barely shorter and fewer extensive, suggesting we’re going to see thinner bezels this time round. It’ll additionally nearly definitely use this 12 months’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor.

However that is nonetheless a really Sony smartphone, which you’ll like both like or be fairly bored by. Although one plus for a lot of customers: it doesn’t appear like the corporate is dropping the increasingly-rare 3.5mm headphone jack from the design.

The leaked specs counsel that the Xperia 1 V gained’t be a significant departure from Sony’s earlier units. The corporate’s market share has dwindled in comparison with Samsung and its Chinese language rivals, however it’s seemingly content material to deal with specialist options like the continual optical zoom lens on final 12 months’s cellphone or speedy burst pictures. These fanatic options have typically been paired with fanatic pricing, just like the eye-watering $1,599 price ticket on final 12 months’s Xperia 1 IV.

There’s no phrase but on how a lot the Xperia 1 V might price, however Inexperienced Smartphones studies that we might see an announcement “later this month” forward of a launch this summer season. With Cellular World Congress set to happen in Barcelona in only a couple weeks time, it appears secure to anticipate to listen to extra from Sony then.