It’s finally happened, after months of unofficial renders, photos, teasers and various other images, Sony’s own Xperia Z1 glamour shots have emerged on the interwebs.
The high resolution leaked snaps come via XperiaBlog and have arrived just days ahead of the Xperia Z1’s official unveiling right before IFA 2013 on September 4 in Berlin, Germany. The device will go head-to-head with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 launching on the same day.
There’s little to glean from the new pictures other than they confirm what we suspected before – the Xperia Z1 looks pretty sharp, though it is a bit thicker and has more bezel than its immediate predecessor, the Xperia Z.
That bit of extra girth is likely a bid to improve battery life, something of an Achilles’ heel for the Xperia Z. The Sony Xperia Z1 is understood to be packing a sizeable 3,000mAh unit onboard. Some have also suggested improved waterproofing may be partly responsible for the added bulk and we’re still rooting for optical image stabilisation (OIS) on the 20-megapixel Exmor RS camera with Sony’s aspheric G-Lens, Xenon flash and BIONZ image processor.
The extra space around the display could be an attempt to improve touch responsiveness, but we’ll wait to see if Sony says anything officially on that front. Rumours have repeatedly indicated the screen is a 5-inch Triluminos display with a full HD 1080p resolution and Sony’s X-Reality Engine, an enhanced version of the Sony Mobile Bravia Engine 2.
Much of this display tech comes from Sony’s TV expertise and the entire Xperia Z1 is thought to be the first ‘One Sony’ smartphone. The One Sony brand is a bid by Sony to leverage its expertise from across various specialist departments within the company. As a result, much of the camera tech is also borrowed from its digital compact camera division.
The phone will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor with a clockspeed of around 2.2GHz and 2GB of RAM (plus an Adreno 330 graphics processor), while there’s 16GB of onboard storage and microSD support for card expansion.
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