Sony has launched a caller flagship phone, the Xperia 1 VIII, pinch its astir notable features revolving astir photography. The telephone comes pinch nan brand's caller AI Camera Assistant powered by Xperia Intelligence. Sony says nan adjunct tin propose changes to your settings based connected what you're photographing. When you constituent nan camera astatine your subject, nan adjunct is expected to automatically admit nan scene, nan taxable itself and nan upwind conditions to make suggestions connected nan champion colour tones, lens and bokeh effects to use. You tin past pat connected nan proposal to use it to your photo.
The caller Xperia besides features a caller 1/1.56‑inch image sensor successful its telephoto camera. Sony says it's astir 4 times larger than nan 1 it utilized successful nan erstwhile exemplary and enables elaborate images moreover successful low-light conditions. The telephone applies RAW multi-frame processing, HDR and sound simplification for photos taken successful debased light. All of nan device's rear cameras are now arranged successful a quadrate alternatively than connected a vertical island. In front, there's a 12-megapixel camera for selfies. Aside from its photography-focused capabilities, different standout characteristic is nan 3.5mm audio jack for wired headphones, which you seldom find connected modern smartphones.
Sony's Xperia 1 VIII has a 6.5-inch OLED show and is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform. It will beryllium disposable successful Graphite Black, Iolite Silver, Garnet Red and Native Gold colors for 1,499 euros aliases £1,399 for the 12GB RAM/256GB retention configuration and for 1999 euros / £1,849 for the 16GB RAM/1TB retention configuration. You tin pre-order nan telephone starting coming and get it successful June astatine nan earliest, but only if you're successful Europe. Sony has nary plans to bring it to nan US astatine nan moment. If you do pre-order, you'll get Sony's WH-1000XM6 headphones for free.