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Sony's phones have looked the same for the amend part of a decade at this point, but the company announced a revamped design at Mobile World Congress with the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Meaty. Now, a third fellow member joins the XZ2 family — the Xperia XZ2 Premium. This phone has a dual camera system, a bigger battery, and a 4K display. That's a lot of pixels on a smartphone.

From the front, the XZ2 Premium looks similar its non-premium sibling. At that place are somewhat chunky tiptop and bottom bezels, but there are at to the lowest degree front-facing stereo speakers in there. This function of the design hasn't changed much from Sony's older phones. The back is a single piece of curved glass like the regular XZ2. This is quite a divergence for Sony, which has used textured aluminum on most of its phones in recent years.

Within, this phone has a Snapdragon 845, simply like the Samsung Galaxy S9. At that place's besides 6GB of RAM, an upgrade from the 4GB in the XZ2, and a larger 3.540mAh battery. It volition run the same build of Android eight.0 Oreo as Sony'southward other new phones.

In that location'southward 1 like shooting fish in a barrel way to tell the XZ2 premium from the regular XZ2 at a glance. The Premium has two cameras on the back — the first time Sony has done that. They're a flake farther downwardly than most phones, which also pushes the rear-facing fingerprint sensor lower than I'd like. The most common implementation of dual cameras right at present is to have a regular sensor and a telephoto one for "optical zoom" shots — that'southward not really optical zoom, but it's close enough. Sony opted for a 19MP RGB sensor and a 12MP monochrome. The phone combines the two images for sharper photos.

Sony says it designed the cameras to excel in low light. When capturing stills, the XZ2 Premium is capable of ISP settings equally high as 51,200. For video, you lot can go a maximum of 12,800. ISO settings that loftier tend to go extremely noisy, simply Sony claims its new epitome signal processor tin can combine data from both sensors to eliminate the noise.

The XZ2 Premium has a 5.7-inch 4K LCD (2160 x 3840), but this is not the kickoff 4K brandish ever to grace a smartphone — Sony'due south Xperia Z5 Premium likewise had a 4K display in 2022. The new XZ2 Premium adds HDR back up, allowing you to sentinel the HDR video you capture with the aforementioned cameras.

This is an LCD rather than OLED, which is impractical to manufacture at smartphone sizes. LCDs are slower to refresh than OLED, and so you lot tin't utilise them for VR. That's one of the few instances where a super-loftier resolution would make sense. Otherwise, information technology'due south kind of a novelty. Odds are the UI won't even render at 4K natively.

Sony didn't mention a price for this telephone, but the regular XZ2 is already $800 unlocked. The XZ2 Premium could hands pause the $one,000 barrier.