Sony Xperia X Premium
This February Sony bid
farewell to its Z line of smartphones as it introduced the new Xperia X, Xperia
X Performance, and Xperia XA. And now it seems like a new member will be added
to the X family at some point in the near future.
We're talking about the
Xperia X Premium, which according to a new rumor is going to be the successor
to the Z5 Premium from last year. That particular device was the first
smartphone to sport a display capable of showing 4K content, and if this report
is accurate then the X Premium's main differentiator will be the screen too.
Namely, it's said to come
with an HDR display, something that would be a first for the mobile world (but
is becoming more and more widespread in TVs). This will allegedly mean it will
be capable of displaying 1.07 billion colors, compared to the 16.8 million
color depth of every other high-end device out there.
The Xperia X Premium is also
apparently going to feature 120Hz refresh rate, 2,000:1 contrast ratio, and it
will have the brightest display panel ever put into a phone. It will offer
1,000 nits of "white brightness" and could actually go up to a
whopping 1,300 nits, which is more than twice as much as the 539 nits the
Samsung Galaxy S7 can achieve.
The upcoming handset should
be powered by the Snapdragon 820 chip from Qualcomm, aided by 3 GB of RAM. It
will have a USB Type-C connector.
