Sony's new Xperia 1 VII borrows Hi-Fi sound tech from its Walkman

Sony's smartphones astir apt haven't made overmuch wealth successful a agelong time, but they bash supply a showcase for the company's latest camera and AV tech. A lawsuit successful constituent is the caller Xperia 1 VII flagship, a exemplary that borrows Sony's Alpha camera and Bravia TV tricks and present features Walkman audio exertion for the archetypal clip arsenic well.

On the camera side, Sony introduced a caller 48-megapixel ultrawide camera (16mm full-frame equivalent) with a good-sized 1/1.56-inch sensor, importantly improving the specs of the Xperia 1 VI's ultrawide. That's connected apical of the main 48MP 1/1.35-inch 24mm camera and 12MP 85-170mm telephoto zoom.

Another caller camera diagnostic is AI-powered Auto Framing. It lets you seizure an full country with a wide angle, portion automatically creating a closeup harvest (vertical oregon horizontal) of a taxable wrong the frame. That matches exertion already disposable connected Sony's Alpha camera lineup. Other cardinal camera features see an improved Bokeh mode, real-time tracking and real-time oculus autofocus, "telemacro" photography via the 120mm equivalent lens (with absorption arsenic adjacent arsenic 4cm), pro controls, a dedicated shutter button, unrecorded streaming and "low-light capableness successful enactment with full-frame cameras," Sony claims.

As for audio, Sony has upgraded the Xperia 1 VII considerably from the previous model. It present uses the high-end Walkman components successful cardinal areas similar dependable resistors. Unlike different smartphone makers, Sony has kept its headphone jack and improved wired dependable via a premium-grade integrated circuit, portion besides improving its LDAC wireless audio quality. Plus, the Xperia 1 VII supports Sony's DSEE Ultimate AI dependable upscaling technology, on with 360 Reality audio oregon Dolby Atmos formats.

The Xperia 1 VII is besides taking a cue from Sony's Bravia displays with a caller adaptive brightness diagnostic for the 6.5-inch OLED display. It present has airy sensors some beforehand and backmost to amended gauge biology airy levels and set brightness, opposition and colour accordingly.

Other cardinal features see a Snapdragon 8 Elite processor with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of retention (expandable to 2TB with microSD), WiFi 7, FPS gaming optimizer, 2 days of artillery beingness via the caller 5,000mAh battery, a vapour enclosure cooler and Gorilla Glass Victus 2 for biology protection. Sony is adjacent throwing successful a escaped acceptable of its top-end WH-1000XM5 headphones worthy astir $300.

Unfortunately there's nary motion that the Xperia 1 VII is coming to the United States. It's present disposable to bid successful Europe and the UK for €1,499 and £1,399 respectively, oregon astir $1,700.