Sony has updated its Xperia 1 flagship phone with the new Xperia 1 II (mark two).
Compared to last year’s Xperia 1, the new model for 2020 adds sub-6 5G, wireless charging, and a 3.5mm audio jack.
It’s also the first Sony phone with Zeiss optics, which were previously exclusive to Nokia-brand phones. The Xperia 1 II has triple rear cameras — standard (f/1.7, 82º), wide (124º), and telephoto (34º) — all of which are 12 megapixel. It also has a unique auto-focus system that focuses up to 60 times per second.
Its 6.5-inch OLED display sports 4K resolution (3840 x 1644 pixels) and HDR. It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset with 8 GB of RAM. It also has 256 GB of storage, a 4,000 mAh battery, USB-PD fast charging, NFC, Bluetooth 5.1, and IP68 water resistance.
Currently, Sony has only announced a version with support for European 5G networks, although it has 4G LTE support in most of the bands used by US networks.
