Sony Xperia 1 ii :: A9 in a Smartphone?
Squarespace is the all in one platform, to build a beautiful online presence and run your business. This has been kind of an announcement intensive week, but I’ve got one more for you guys. I want to talk about an announcement from Sony. This happened earlier this week. This is not a camera it’s, not a lens. It is the new phone. Many of you know that I have reviewed both the Xperia one and the Xperia 5 this year, it’s a phone that I’ve been very impressed with, especially when you consider these are kind of the first part of a reboot that Sony are doing. There was an announcement. This week for the Xperia 1 mark 2, as well as a development announcement for the Xperia Pro. So I want to get to both of these today because I think there’s, some really exciting stuff in the mix. But first let’s talk about the Xperia 1 mark 2. As I mentioned in my experience here, this is an interesting phone, because Sony is this: gigantic company that umbrellas over many divisions, and so you have the Sony Alpha Division, which is the camera division. You have cine alto, which is high end video you’ve got bravia. That does TVs, you’ve got a gaming division, so these phones represent actually a collaborative effort across all of those little sub companies under the big Sony umbrella and you’re getting a phone. I think that’s really starting to look interesting. So with the Xperia 1 mark 2.
The cameras on this phone are going to integrate features like real time, auto focus even animal AF we’re, looking at 20 frames per second burst, shooting with full AFA e tracking, while using the main 24 millimeter wide angle. Camera there’s also full manual control. This time around we’re finally getting raw support, and this is all going to be coming to the phone any future. Software update the Xperia 1 Mark 2 actually features a triple camera configuration. You have three 12 megapixel sensors, and these are gon na sit behind 16 millimeter lens a 24 millimeter lens and a 70 millimeter lens. These are all Zeiss lenses with Zeiss T coating that are going to give. You quote: unquote, exquisite rendering and contrast the 16 millimeter and the 24 millimeter cameras both feature sensors with dual photodiode autofocus and then the largest sensor of the bunch that’s on the 24 millimeter camera in the middle is a 1 1 7 inch Exmor RS for mobile That’S actually 50 larger than the one 2.6 inch sensors that Sony has used in the past and we also get a 3d indirect time of flight sensor, that’s going to provide better low light autofocus. This is powered by the Sony, buy ons x4 mobile engine that’s going to allow you to do things like 60 calculations per second for auto focus and auto exposure on the main camera and on the 16 and 70 millimeter cameras. It will do these up to 30 calculations per second.
The Xperia one mark 2 also has upgraded hardware. It uses a snapdragon, 855 5g processor it’s got 8 gigabytes of RAM and comes with 256 gigabytes of on board storage. Of course, we retain the 21 by 9 aspect: ratio 6.5 inch, 4k HDR OLED display with 100 coverage of dcpip 3. We now have a four thousand milliamp battery with wireless charging support, finally, and also an IP 65 68 water and dust resistant rating. Few months back, I did a review of the Xperia One when it was released, and I also did one on the Xperia 5 and I was very impressed with both of these as really interesting alternatives, any very overcrowded smartphone markets. So if you look at smart phones, particularly in terms of image making, this is part of everybody’s day to day life. Now we communicate using a visual language more than we ever have in the entire human history. So this is really exciting to me actually, but what I like that Sony offer that’s very different, is they offer you a phone that will also operate like a camera, and this is kind of one of their strong suits? I think, because you have this umbrella of Sony, like I mentioned before, you have all these companies that work underneath that and they all make really cutting edge, high end products, and so why not bring them together to make the best phone that you can find. So what I personally like the most about Sony’s approaches, they let you use things like the camera.
As a photographer, you have access to manual settings. You get great image quality. The lenses behave like lenses sure you do have computational imaging. That goes on behind the scenes, which is only going to get stronger as Sony keep progressing in this field, but I really feel like that. If photography is your thing, this is the phone that behaves a lot more like a camera than other smartphones and so that’s a really unique edge that Sony have in this space and I think it keeps them fairly competitive. So I’m really excited what we’ve got with the Xperia 1 mark 2, because the only downfall on the Xperia 1 and even the Xperia v were things like battery life. The fact that you couldn’t do wireless charging, and so a lot of improvements have been made we’re getting an even more upgraded camera system, there’s a lot of functionality under the hood that we’re going to be able to do this starts to rival what we see on Cameras like the Sony a 9 now there was also a development announcement for the Xperia Pro which I want to get into as well, but real quick. I want to give a shout out to our sponsor for this video, where the awesome folks, over at squarespace.com present your photography using squarespace’s, modern professional portfolios. The layouts are completely customizable and you can use squarespace’s, drag and drop based back end system, which is really easy to use to present your work.
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Thinking with this, with coming up with an antenna scheme that’s going to essentially get you better reception, so it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out in the long run. But the other interesting thing about this that I think a lot of you are going to be really into. Is this camera actually a micro HDMI input which is going to allow you to connect the phone to pretty much any camera that has HDMI output and so you’re gon na be able to use the phone as a monitor for DSLRs mirrorless cameras, professional camcorders? Whatever you want to plug in and hopefully it will also be possible to transmit broadcast video during shooting to a server or cloud that has a 5g connection. So the idea is that you could get really high quality. Looking video that you could stream over 5g connections to YouTube or Instagram or Facebook it’s going to up the game of what you’re able to do by using the phone technology and having it interface with cameras, I still think we’re a long way from 5g being the Adopted standard, but I do love the fact that Sony are being very forward thinking with their strategy here, because once 5g does come along you’ll be able to do a lot more with higher speeds than we’ve had before, and thinking about this phone. In terms of how this interfaces with existing cameras, obviously this is a space that Sony’s been in for a long time, not only for video but also for still photos, and how can we integrate those two things? So if we have the broadband capacity to upload a really beautiful, looking video that’s broadcast quality to YouTube or wherever we want to upload it to, then why not make that available? That makes the phone integrate with that system really nicely.
I mean if you look at the whole adoption of phones, the reason one of the reasons they’ve been so popular with people is they enable us to do things in the mobile capacity while we’re on the go that we used to have to do on a computer. You’Ve got access to your email, you don’t have to be chained to a desk and a device, and I think, being forward looking into how photography and how cameras and how video interfaces with this, I think, is actually pretty cool. So I hope to get my hands on an experience into review, for you guys, I am really excited about that phone. I would love to know what you guys think about all this drop me. A comment below I’ll see you all in the next video.
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2 months and still no phone?
Is this just a gimmick?
Cases for this phone now available online.
Spoiler: Sony will continue to put all the necessary efforts they need to put in their Smartphones to make it better, but people will still resist, consumer is unpredictable
If only they brought back the 19 or 23 mp camera from the xz era
I just love sony… 5 years back I used to have a sony phone,,, xperia t2 ultra dual which made me fan of it,,, since then I haven't used another sony phone bt,,, it did it's job it made me a fan… That stayed and it'll forever stay with me being a sony fan
Can anyone confirm a USA compatible model? I think that's a negative but I could be wrong. Band 71 lte is a must
5G might come sooner than you keep saying, but for corporate, news outlets, media for that livestream like you said. Good review, but be good to have more images than looking at your close-up shot =)
Watching this on XZ1 COMPACT !!! Still going strong after all these years. Truly hope Sony makes Mark II COMPACT βΊοΈβΊοΈ
Xperia Pro – Pro for Professional
iPhone 11 Pro – Pro for Problematic
Finally a phone that is finally an fully smartphone and not a dumbphone
Oh no I should have wait for this phone not S20 but I didn't know the new Sony phone has the best quality of camera.
I can tell Sony knows what they're doing, because every camera is 12mp. Not freaking 64 which is absolutely useless on a cellphone
Plis2 review LG phones as well
Once u go 4k u don't go back π
It will be Β£800 – Β£1000, while a good spec sheet, very few will be able to afford it. Pixel 4a will beat this in DXOMARK (I think)
Hopefully, the prcessing software will improve a lot. The hardware in Sony mobile devices are great, it's really good, but when it comes to processing power, it's just no.
Apparently, Sony change the director or holder of Sony Mobile with director/holder of Sony Alpha. It's supposed to be good. Because right now, The director of Alpha is holding mobile segment.
Watching this on the XZ1 Compact. Have always appreciated Sony. Might get this and keep the compact as a backup phone.
I got an OG Pixel XL, served me well for 4 years, but its time to upgrade. And to my own disappointment, 99.9% of cellphones no longer have 3.5mm headphone jack. I am crippled, and use my phone literally every day for many hours when I am stuck in bed. For movies, tv, youtube, netflix, amazon, pandora music, etc. Lacking a headphone jack is just fucking stupid. Then the phone has 4k, HDR, and the 21:9 aspect ratio, with the fastest mobile processor you can buy…. I'm sold. I am ready to upgrade. Swap my nanoSIM into the sony xperia 1 mark 2 and I will be happy. I would rather have the pro, because you can use it as a monitor/tv in the sense of the miniHDMI input, which means I could build a pc for the bedside and use the phone as the monitor…. that would help me A LOT when it comes to being bored AF when stuck in bed.
Is this better than Nokia 9 PureView? I dont think so. Nokia 9 captures huge data and pictures are pretty well exposed. Can you put a comparision video.
I tried the Samsung S20 plus and ultra in the stores with a huge hope to purchase one for its photographic and video qualities but the pictures rendering are just horrible, I tried both auto and pro mode, switched off every filter but the pictures were absolute garbage with a lot of pastel effect, noise reduction and overall detail loss. The video is over sharpened and unusable, if you use another video app to control the sharpness, you lose the super stabilisation mode so it is useless. I am now waiting for the new Sony Xperia mk2 with big hopes !
I really hate that aspect ratio, and shame on Sony for using disposable AMOLED on such an expensive phone. For the vast majority of videos, that will be quite a tiny phone. Hooray for the headphone jack though!
I mean this is sick!
Is this possible to have all that in a phone!!!
what about A9?
I still have and love my Z5 compact, maybe it's finally time for an upgrade.
Your specs intro is really interesting, however, I would love to know the camera setup you use for your Youtube videos, the image quality is so amazing.
Sony is still around?
Battery should have been atleast 5000mah. Samsung is better in this sense
It will go on sale for 1100$ usd and then 500$ after couple of months.
Too bad it has 5g, it gonna make the price higher. The rest is perfect.
Xperia battery is crap
Make a 7.5" screen and I'll be locked in for life. Otherwise I don't care.