Sony has opened the pre-order books for the Xperia 5 IV premium compact smartphone, a content-creation powerhouse that features a bunch of tech trickled down from the company's 2022 flagship, the Xperia 1 IV.
The handset measures 156 x 67 x 8.2 mm (6.1 x 2.6 x 0.3 in) and features a 6.1-inch Full HD+ OLED display at 21:9 aspect that's reported to be 50% brighter than its predecessor and comes topped in scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass Victus. The screen boasts a 120-Hz refresh rate, 240-Hz motion compensation and a 240-Hz touch response – all of which should make for smooth action video watching and precision gaming, with the user able to tweak image and sound settings for optimum gameplay. A 12-megapixel selfiecam punched in the top bezel enables 4K HDR videochats, even in low-light settings.
Like the current Xperia flagship, the compact handset packs in a triple camera array that's home to three 12-MP snappers – a 24-mm main with a F1.7 aperture and optical image stabilization, 16-mm F2.2 ultra-wide and a 60-mm F2.4 telephoto (also with OIS). Eye AF and object tracking are available on all rear cameras, plus 20 frames per second AF/AE burst shooting on all HDR lenses. Folks who like to include Matrix-like cinematic slow-mo scenes in their mobile video masterpieces will appreciate the array's ability to capture 4K HDR video recording at 120 fps using any of the rear cameras, and livestreaming is made possible courtesy of a Videography Pro application.
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