Sony is renewing its “compact” telephone for one more season with the announcement of the Xperia 5 IV. It’s a step down from the 1 IV in measurement, value, and features however shares the identical emphasis on parity throughout its digicam system. Which means all three of the telephone’s rear cameras — commonplace large, ultrawide, and telephoto — embrace the corporate’s glorious Actual-time Eye AF for higher portraits and are able to super-fast burst taking pictures speeds even with HDR enabled. It has different flagship specs to again up its digicam features, too, and comes with an equally flagship-y value: $999.

The Xperia 5 IV (aspect word: what are they going to name subsequent yr’s telephone? The 5 V?) features a 24mm-equivalent commonplace large, 16mm-equiv ultrawide, and 60mm-equiv telephoto on the rear panel. That tele lens is fastened, by the best way; it’s not the optical zoom lens in the 1 IV. Every makes use of a 12-megapixel sensor — a decrease decision than most 50 and even 100-megapixel flagship cameras lately. Heck, even Apple appears like it can begin shifting away from 12 megapixels. Sony spokesperson El Deane Naude says that’s an intentional transfer to make these excessive readout speeds doable on all of its cameras and to maximise low gentle sensitivity with larger pixels.

(*5*)Every of these rear cameras is able to 120 fps readout speeds, enabling video recording at 4K / 120p on every one. They’ll additionally shoot nonetheless images at 20 fps with autofocus, auto publicity, and HDR enabled. There’s additionally a brand new 12-megapixel sensor in the selfie digicam.

Outdoors of pictures features, the Xperia 5 IV features a 6.1-inch 1080p OLED with 120Hz refresh charge and a tall 21:9 kind issue, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, and a 5,000mAh battery — now, with wi-fi charging. It comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, an IP65 / 68 ranking, and it hangs on to a few fast-disappearing {hardware} features: a headphone jack and a microSD card slot. There’s sub-6GHz 5G help — no mmWave — and a set of recent, extra powerful stereo audio system on the handset. The 5 IV is scheduled to ship on October twenty seventh.