Sony's Xperia 1 V may or may not be made official at MWC in Barcelona at the end of this month. While we wait to see if that actually happens, let's enjoy the first leaked image purportedly showing the upcoming flagship smartphone.
If you compare this camera island to the
Xperia 1 IV's, you'll instantly notice that the ToF camera and the RGB IR
sensor are gone. Thus, we're left with three big sensors (they look bigger than
on the 1 IV), of which the lowest one houses a periscope camera. The LED flash
has moved into the island in the upcoming model, whereas it was outside the
island, above it, in last year's handset.
You can spot the NFC logo to the right of
the camera island, which means this leaked unit is the international version of
the Xperia 1 V - if it was the one destined for the Japanese domestic market
then we'd have gotten the Felica logo instead.
According to a Chinese leakster on Weibo,
the Xperia 1 V will use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, which is no
surprise. It will also be the thinnest smartphone to use that SoC, and that
could make it the hottest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 device around. Literally. Of
course Sony is expected to have some kind of cooling solution, and hopefully
that will alleviate the thinness, but that remains to be seen.
If the Xperia 1 V will indeed be announced
at MWC, we're only a few weeks away from finding out all possible info about
it, so stay tuned. In the meantime, we're sure more leaks will pop up.
