Reports began surfacing last year regarding a compact Sony Xperia smartphone. An Xperia smartphone’s renders leaked with a 5.5-inch screen and dual cameras. While many were excited about the possibility of the return of Sony’s popular Compact series, it seemed that the leaked render depicted a midrange smartphone – which contradicted the “Compact” series – which always used flagship internals in a small size.
A new report from AndroidNext pointed out
that although the leaked smartphone render depicted a small smartphone, it
wouldn’t in fact be a true “Compact”. Rather, the report quoted a Weibo post
that said there would be no global variant for this “5.5-inch compact Xperia”.
The Weibo post says that the smartphone in
the render above is actually a successor to the original Xperia Ace. As such,
this new “Ace 2” would have a limited release in Japan under the nation’s
Docomo wireless carrier.
According to AndroidNext, this Xperia
phone may be powered by the Snapdragon 690 5G. Meanwhile, the 5.5-inch display
has a notch cutout for the selfie camera, it won’t have a tall 21:9 aspect
ratio, and it will have a dedicated camera button, integrated fingerprint
scanner in the power key, and a headphone jack. There’s also a dual-camera
setup on the back.
