A percentage of the Android community has been requesting a small-sized flagship phone for a while now. That should not be a surprise seeing as Apple released two “small” iPhones last year – the iPhone SE 2020 and the iPhone 12 Mini. Now, their wish is about to come true, thanks to Sony, as a leak has revealed that there is indeed a new Xperia Compact coming this year.
The last Xperia Compact smartphone was released in 2018 and several fans of the series expected a successor but there wasn’t one. Seeing as most manufacturers had dropped small screen phones in favor of larger ones with tall aspect ratios, Sony too had followed suit. Now, the Japanese manufacturer is breathing new life into the series and the popular leaker, Steve Hemmerstoffer a.k.a. OnLeaks, has given us a first look at the 2021 Xperia Compact.
The upcoming phone is said to have a 5.5-inch screen and the images show that there is a waterdrop notch for the front-facing camera and a significantly thick bezel at the bottom. The display is flat and there is no mention of it having a high refresh rate.
Sony has put two cameras on the back of the phone and they are arranged vertically in an elongated pill-shaped housing along with the LED flash. Save for the camera and the Sony logo, there is nothing else on the back panel.
The 2021 Xperia Compact doesn’t have its fingerprint scanner under the display but on its side where it doubles as the power button. There is an extra button other than the volume rocker and power button on the right side of the phone. We want to believe this button is either a dedicated Google Assistant button similar to that of the Xperia 5 II or a shutter key which the Xperia 5 II also has.
The SIM card tray is on the left and from the design, we can see that it doesn’t need a pin to be opened. We hope other manufacturers can emulate Sony in this regard. The 2021 Xperia Compact has an edge over Apple’s small-sized iPhones and that is the audio jack at the top. There is a USB-C port at the bottom that is flanked by a slit for the speaker on one side and the microphone hole on the other.
The source says that the phone has an 8MP selfie camera and a 13MP primary rear camera. He also gave its dimension as 140 x 68.9 x 8.9 millimeters. This leaves us with so many unknowns such as the processor, battery capacity, and screen resolution. There is also no info about the price and launch date.
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