Sony’s naming scheme is messed up at the moment. It launched the Xperia 1 in February 2019 and followed it with the Xperia 5 in September 2019. One of the phones it was supposed to announce at MWC 2020 before the event was canceled is said to be a flagship phone called the Xperia 5 Plus or Xperia 1.1. Now a new leak has surfaced of an upper mid-range phone called the Xperia 9 and it should be the successor to last year’s Xperia 10.
A press render of the Xperia 9 was posted on Reddit a few days ago and it gives us our first look at the upcoming device which is rumored to be powered by a Snapdragon 765 processor.
The Xperia 9 is shown to have a curved display with a big bezel at the top and a significantly smaller one at the bottom. The phone looks like an elongated Pixel 4. The forehead of the phone houses a single camera and the cutout for the speaker.
On the back of the device are triple rear cameras arranged vertically. All three sensors share the same housing while an LED flash sits below the setup. If you look closely, you should see the NFC logo a few millimeters from the camera setup.
The authenticity of this image is not yet verified, so we advise you to take it with a grain of salt.
Sony says it will have an online event on its Xperia YouTube channel. We will have to wait until then to know if this leak is false or not.
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