Sony Xperia 1

The Sony Xperia 1 was announced  in February 2019, and it represented a new rebrand for Sony's flagship series of smartphones, as it marked the end of the Xperia XZ series of devices.  Made out of metal and glass, it includes a side-facing fingerprint scanner, and it is quite tall, and quite narrow at the same time, despite having a 6.5-inch display.

The Sony Xperia 1 announced February 2019, new rebrand for Sony's flagship series of smartphones, it marked the end of Xperia XZ series of devices.Sony Xperia 1


Released 2019, May

The reason for that is in its display aspect ratio, the phone ships with a display aspect ratio of 21:9, and is the very first Sony-branded SmartPhone of that kind in the market.

Sony Xperia 1 SmartPhone Specifications

Display

Type

Resolution

Protection

Screen size

Multitouch

Features

OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

1644 x 3840 pixels (~643 ppi density

Corning Gorilla Glass 6

6.5 inches

Yes

HDR BT.2020 compliant
DCI-P3 100%
Triluminos display
X-Reality Engine

The Sony Xperia 1 includes a 6.5-inch 4K display, 6GB of RAM and 64GB / 128GB of storage. The phone is fueled by the Snapdragon 855 processor, and it ships with Android 9 Pie out of the box.

Camera

Main

Triple 12 MP, f/1.6, 26mm (wide), 1/2.6", 1.4µm, predictive Dual Pixel PDAF, 5-axis OIS
12 MP, f/2.4, 52mm (telephoto), 1/3.4", 1.0µm, predictive Dual Pixel PDAF, 2x optical zoom, 5-axis OIS
12 MP, f/2.4, 16mm (ultrawide), 1/3.4", 1.0µm

Second

Features

Video

8 MP, f/2.0, 24mm (wide), 1/4", 1.12µm

HDR, EIS, Video calling, Video sharing

4K@24/30fps HDR, 1080p@60fps, 1080p@30fps (5-axis gyro-EIS), 720p@960fps

Three 12-megapixel cameras are included on the back of this phone, and make it the very first Sony-branded phone to ship with three cameras on the back. Stereo speakers are included here, and so is a 3,330mAh battery.

Battery

Type

Talk time

Type: Non-removable Li-Ion 3330 mAh battery

Up to 11 hours 30 minutes (2G) / Up to 14 hours 50 minutes (3G)

Charging

Fast battery charging (USB Power Delivery)
18W (Quick Charge 3.0)
Qi wireless charging

Connectivity

USB

WLAN

3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector; USB Host

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot

Bluetooth

GPS

5.0, A2DP, aptX HD, LE

Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO

Network

Technology

GPRS

EDGE

GSM / HSPA / LTE

Yes

Yes

4G bands

LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 13(700), 17(700), 19(800), 20(800), 26(850), 28(700), 29(700), 32(1500), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500), 46, 66(1700/2100)

Speed

HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (5CA) Cat18 1200/150 Mbps

Memory

Card slot

microSD, up to 1 TB (uses shared SIM slot) - dual SIM model only

Internal

64/128 GB, 6 GB RAM

Platform

CPU

Octa-core (1x2.84 GHz Kryo 485 & 3x2.42 GHz Kryo 485 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 485)

OS

Android 9.0 (Pie), planned upgrade to Android 10.0; Xperia UI

Chipset

Qualcomm SDM855 Snapdragon 855 (7 nm)

GPU

Adreno 640

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