XZ2 Premium: Sony launches new high-end and midrange smartphones – Tech News

Sony's new Xperia XZ2 Premium smartphone will be released in the US at the end of July, priced at US $ 999 (RMB 4,062), well above the XZ2 (US $ 800 / RM3, US $ 253) and XZ2 Compact ( US $ 650 / US $ 2,643).

The last flagship of the Japanese manufacturer packs a 4K resolution screen of 16: 9 (2160 x 3840 pixels). But despite the current trend towards unglazed phones with fully-screened facades, Sony's latest still has a big "forehead" and "chin" above and below its screen.

On the back, the XZ2's dual camera merges -speed, wide-angle color lens (aperture 19 megapixels / f1.8) with a monochrome lens (12 MP / f1.6). The phone allows you to take high-contrast photos and videos (HDR) and view them on its 5.8-inch screen

The phone also features a Snapdragon 845 Gigabit LTE processor with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.

Sony has also announced the Xperia XA2 Plus, a new midrange phone available in Europe for € 400 (RMB1,899), with no price confirmed for the United States.

18: 9 6-inch screen in Full HD Plus resolution (2160 x 1080 pixels). In addition to its 23-megapixel main camera that can capture 4K video, the device features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 processor, 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM and 32 GB of space storage. – dpa