Sony Touts Camera, AV Features in Latest Flagship Smartphones
Sony included a variable telephoto lens paired with a dual pixel diode sensor in its latest flagship series 5G Xperia phones. The Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III, due in the U.S. in summer, have 70mm and 105mm focal…
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lengths in the same periscope camera, it said Wednesday. The phones were co-developed with the engineers behind Sony’s Alpha brand cameras and have fast, continuous autofocus and real-time eye autofocus in all lenses, said the company. Sony’s Bionz X processor enables low-light shots in burst mode, it said. The Android phones have AI zoom, a 4K HDR Gorilla Glass display with 120 Hz refresh rate, stereo speakers and game enhancer features including 240Hz motion blur reduction. Sony positioned the phones to creators, citing 5x slow-motion in 4K HDR at 120 frames per second; it also records in 21:9 ratio at 24/25/30/60fps. They are the first phones to support Sony's 360 Reality Audio, and subscribers will get three free months of Tidal Hi-Fi when they buy either phone model, including Sony's 360 Reality Audio experience. Two-channel music sources are upmixed into an "immersive sound experience, in real time," said the company. Prices weren’t given for the phones, which run on the Qualcomm 888 5G platform.