The Sony Xperia 1: A Long 21:9 HDR 4K OLED Smartphone

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Being a high-tech company with multiple divisions, Sony can fetch technologies from various units to build products with unique qualities. At Mobile World Congress 2019 the company introduced its new flagship smartphone offering, the Xperia X1, that uses technologies developed by at least three divisions of Sony. The new Xperia 1 is based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 and features an exclusive OLED display with a 21:9 aspect ratio, a 4K resolution, and a wide color gamut.

The screen is one of the key components that defines the Xperia 1 smartphone. The 6.5-inch 21:9 8+2-bit OLED display that the handset uses is naturally pretty long and narrow, which makes the shape of the phone different from other devices on the market. The screen features a 3840x1644 resolution, it supports the BT.2020 and the DCI-P3 color spaces with the D65 white point. To take advantage of the display and reproduce HDR properly, Sony uses algorithms originally designed for its Bravia TVs, though it does not disclose whether the phone has a special display co-processor, or just does some software tuning for Snapdragon 855’s display engine. Sony says that the Xperia X1 reproduces colors so accurately that that one of its movie studios uses the smartphone to review its work on set, which simplifies production.

An advanced 12 MP triple lens camera comprising of a 26-mm regular RGB, 16-mm wide-angle, and a 52-mm telephoto sensor is another key feature of the Xperia 1. The camera uses algorithms firstly developed for Sony’s α (Alpha) digital still cameras as well as Sony’s CineAlta cameras used to shoot motion pictures. In particular, the camera supports Eye AF technology to focus exactly to the level of eyes, supports burst shooting with up to 10 fps AF/AE tracking, and can shoot in 4K HDR at 24 fps with different color presets.

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[jasonX]

Wow very nice phone!!!!! Me likey!