The design of Sony’s subsequent smartphone, rumored to be the Xperia 1 V, seems to have leaked in unofficial renders revealed over the weekend by OnLeaks and Inexperienced Smartphones. And true to type, the corporate is doing… nothing too thrilling, sticking with the identical design because the earlier Xperia 1 IV. Squint, and it’s exhausting to inform the 2 telephones aside, with their vertical digital camera bumps, squared off edges, and tall aspect-ratio shows. 

That doesn’t imply we’re anticipating the Xperia 1 V to be similar to final 12 months’s cellphone. Inexperienced Smartphones reviews that its ultra-wide digital camera may very well be upgraded to make use of a 48-megapixel sensor (up from 12-megapixels), and there’s additionally an opportunity it may ship with 16GB of RAM fairly than 12GB. Though the display screen is rumored to be the identical measurement at 6.5 inches, the machine is reportedly barely shorter and fewer huge, suggesting we’re going to see thinner bezels this time round. It’ll additionally virtually actually use this 12 months’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor.

However that is nonetheless a really Sony smartphone, which you’ll like both like or be fairly bored by. Although one plus for a lot of customers: it doesn’t appear like the corporate is dropping the increasingly-rare 3.5mm headphone jack from the design.

The leaked specs recommend that the Xperia 1 V received’t be a significant departure from Sony’s earlier units. The corporate’s market share has dwindled in comparison with Samsung and its Chinese language rivals, but it surely’s seemingly content material to concentrate on specialist options like the continual optical zoom lens on final 12 months’s cellphone or speedy burst images. These fanatic options have usually been paired with fanatic pricing, just like the eye-watering $1,599 price ticket on final 12 months’s Xperia 1 IV.

There’s no phrase but on how a lot the Xperia 1 V may price, however Inexperienced Smartphones reviews that we may see an announcement “later this month” forward of a launch this summer time. With Cell World Congress set to happen in Barcelona in only a couple weeks time, it appears protected to anticipate to listen to extra from Sony then.