Sony is renewing its “compact” telephone for different play with the announcement of the Xperia 5 IV. It’s a measurement down from the 1 IV successful size, price, and features but shares the aforesaid accent connected parity crossed its camera system. That means each 3 of the phone’s rear cameras — modular wide, ultrawide, and telephoto — see the company’s fantabulous Real-time Eye AF for amended portraits and are susceptible of super-fast burst shooting speeds adjacent with HDR enabled. It has different flagship specs to backmost up its camera features, too, and comes with an arsenic flagship-y price: $999.

The Xperia 5 IV (side note: what are they going to telephone adjacent year’s phone? The 5 V?) includes a 24mm-equivalent modular wide, 16mm-equiv ultrawide, and 60mm-equiv telephoto connected the rear panel. That tele lens is fixed, by the way; it’s not the optical zoom lens successful the 1 IV. Each uses a 12-megapixel sensor — a little solution than astir 50 oregon adjacent 100-megapixel flagship cameras these days. Heck, adjacent Apple looks similar it volition commencement moving distant from 12 megapixels. Sony spokesperson El Deane Naude says that’s an intentional determination to marque those precocious readout speeds imaginable connected each of its cameras and to maximize debased airy sensitivity with bigger pixels.

Each of those rear cameras is susceptible of 120 fps readout speeds, enabling video signaling astatine 4K / 120p connected each one. They tin besides sprout inactive photos astatine 20 fps with autofocus, car exposure, and HDR enabled. There’s besides a caller 12-megapixel sensor successful the selfie camera.

Outside of photography features, the Xperia 5 IV includes a 6.1-inch 1080p OLED with 120Hz refresh complaint and a gangly 21:9 signifier factor, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, and a 5,000mAh artillery — now, with wireless charging. It comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, an IP65 / 68 rating, and it hangs connected to a mates of fast-disappearing hardware features: a headphone jack and a microSD paper slot. There’s sub-6GHz 5G enactment — nary mmWave — and a acceptable of new, much almighty stereo speakers connected the handset. The 5 IV is scheduled to vessel connected October 27th.