The newest flagship Sony Xperia 1 II with an excellent camera goes on sale

Three months after the announcement and so far only in Japan

There are still no official reports on the exact date of the global release of Xperia 1 II

The Japanese operator KDDI officially announced that on May 22, sales of the latest flagship smartphone Sony Xperia 1 II will start in the country, which will be available at a price of about $ 1243 for a version with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of flash memory.

Xperia 1 II

Sony introduced the Xperia 1 II in February this year, the smartphone was expected in April this year, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, the appearance of the phone on the market was significantly delayed. There are still no official reports on the exact date of the global release of Xperia 1 II. Earlier it was reported that he will appear in Europe before the end of May, but there are no clarifications yet.

The smartphone received a 6.5-inch 4K HDR OLED CinemaWide display with an aspect ratio of 21: 9, the flagship single-chip Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 system, a 4000 mAh battery and front stereo speakers.

Sony has installed three 12-megapixel cameras with ZEISS optics in the main camera. The main camera uses a Sony IMX557 image sensor with an optical format of 1 / 1.7 inches in the optical image stabilization system. The Sony IMX363 is used in an ultra-wide-angle camera, Samsung ISOCELL S5K3T2 is used in televisions. The front camera received an 8-megapixel sensor Samsung S5K4H7.