The smartphone also features slightly wider bezels above and below the 6.5-inch display, allowing Sony to include front-facing stereo speakers and accommodating the 12MP selfie camera without a punch hole or notch. While the screen size doesn’t change, the smartphone is around 4mm shorter in height and 2mm narrower than its predecessor, measuring 161.0 x 69.3 x 8.5 millimeters, which is made possible by the thinner screen bezels.
The camera module protrudes significantly further from the housing than in the Xperia 1 IV. Sony is said to install a 12 MP main camera, a 12 MP periscope telephoto camera and a 48 MP ultra wide-angle camera, the ToF sensor is omitted. According to previous rumors, the main camera will have a much larger 1/1.28-inch sensor and a variable aperture that can be set from f/1.7 to f/4.0.
A 4K 120 Hz LTPO-AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and up to 16 GB RAM should round off the equipment. While past rumors have spoken of a launch at Mobile World Congress on February 28, Green Smartphones assumes sales will start in the summer.