Sony Xperia 1 IV

The Sony Xperia 1 IV

Design

The Xperia 1 IV is designed with more professionalism in mind, while improving on the now-signature designs of its predecessors, the Xperia 1 II and Xperia 1 III. It features a grippier matte frame and rear frosted glass finish akin to the Xperia PRO-I, and a boxier design than the previous flagships. The phone has

The display still has symmetrical bezels on the top and the bottom, a hallmark Xperia design, where the front-facing dual stereo speakers and the front camera are placed. The left side of the phone is completely devoid of any controls or ports, with only antenna bands present. The microSD/SIM card combo tray now found at the bottom (or right-side if placed in landscape) along with the USB-C 3.2 port and the primary microphone, while the right side contains the fingerprint reader embedded into the power button, a volume rocker, and a dedicated 2-stage shutter button with an embossed finish, the previously included customisable shortcut button from the Mark 3 omitted. Xperia 1 IV is also the last Xperia 1 series to feature LED notification light as Xperia 1 V removed the feature the following year.^[4]

The rear cameras are arranged in a vertical strip like its predecessor, with the LED flash and color spectrum sensor along the top. The phone will be available in three colors: Black, White, and Purple,^[5] with only Black and Purple being available in the North American market.^[6]

Specifications

Hardware

The Xperia 1 IV is powered by the

The highlight of the 1 IV is its continuous zoom telephoto lens, a major improvement over its predecessor's variable zoom telephoto. It is a 12 MP 1/3.5" sensor with 1.0 µm pixels and PDAF, contained in the same periscope design like the 1 III, it can now zoom between 85mm all the way up to 125mm without any stepping or using digital zoom, just like a true digital camera. There is no confirm detail on the specific Sony IMX sensor used on the telephoto, other than some insights by independent reviewers such as GSMArena^[7] where they've discovered that it is "presumably" an IMX650, a 40-MP sensor with a 1/1.7-inch optical format that was last used on the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro smartphones.^[8] Whether or not this is true, either implementing the same 12-MP crop as the Xperia PRO-I on the IMX650, or the hardware information app HWiNFO used could be reporting incorrect data (which according to Notebookcheck seems unlikely), or if it's using a new or unknown IMX sensor altogether, remains to be seen.

All 3 cameras of the 1 IV use

The Xperia 1 IV runs on the latest Android 12, with promise for 2 major Android software revisions and 2 years of software support. It is also equipped with 3 different camera apps specifically made to take advantage of the 1 IV's camera hardware: "Photo Pro", developed by Sony's α (Alpha) camera division, focuses on the full manual control setup and configuration commonly seen on Sony Alpha line of professional cameras; the professional movie-oriented "Cinema Pro", developed by Sony's cinematography division CineAlta, and the "Basic Mode" first seen on the 1 III, replacing the stock camera app but with additional controls from the "Photo Pro".^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of longest smartphone telephoto lenses

Notes

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