Two new Xperia smartphones have leaked, sporting the
in vogue fullscreen bezel-less designs. The images come courtesy GizChina.com,
who are confident these are indeed images and not renders.
The two devices not just look different from current
Xperia devices but also between each other. One device has the current squarish
Xperia design with what look like speaker grilles at the top and bottom on the
front. On the back is a very unique looking curved matte and glossy surface,
with the matte regions forming semicircles at the top and bottom. The glossy
area in the center is supposed to be glass with a fingerprint sensor
underneath. The two camera modules are oddly spread apart, which probably means
one is just a depth sensor as this much spacing would result in much larger
parallax for any other arrangement.
The other device has more pronounced rounded corners
but with the same stereo speaker arrangement on the front. It does have a
uniform metal back with the fingerprint sensor prominently in the center. In
the top left is a dual camera system along with the flash on the side. Both
phones are supposed to have a 5.7-inch, 18:9 4K displays. They'll also be one
of the first devices to have Snapdragon 845, and have 6GB of RAM and Android
8.0.
To tell the truth, these do kinda look sketchy.
However, their outlandishness is almost a point in their favor as anyone making
a fake would normally make them look believable or close to existing Xperia
designs. Still, I would take these with a pinch of salt. We will probably find
out for sure at CES or MWC.
