ISSUE 72 • ANDROID ADVISOR 47Mobile World Congress (were this year’s trade show
was snuffed out by the increased risk of Coronavirus).
As for when the new flagship will hit stores, Sony
cites a late Spring arrival. For comparison, last year’s
Xperia 1 didn’t go on sale until the end of June.
With pricing still under wraps for the time being.
European pricing has been confirmed, with the only
version offering 8GB RAM and 256GB storage for
€1,200 (around £1,000).
New features
Cameras
Sony is doubling down on the enthusiast-appeal that it
placed on last year’s Xperia 1, targeting five main user
types: cinematographers, photographers, cinephiles,
audiophiles and mobile gamers.
First off, the triple 12Mp camera setup from last
year makes a return, with some minor hardware
tweaks, like a larger, wider 24mm (versus 26mm) main
sensor sporting an f/1.7 aperture and optical image
stabilization, a longer 70mm telephoto sensor (also
with OIS) and there’s a 16mm ultrawide once again.
The main hook with this new sensor setup is
the phone ultra-fast autofocus, which the Xperia
team developed in partnership with the Alpha 9
camera team, based in Tokyo. The focus area has
been expanded to 70 percent of the frame and such
camera smarts now also extend to making this the
first phone with 20fps autofocus and auto-exposure-
tracking burst shooting.
The company’s real-time Eye-AF tracking, which
previously tracked human eyes/faces, now works