Sony Xperia 1 V Specs, Price, and Best Deals

The Sony Xperia 1 V is the latest flagship smartphone from Sony. It is a high-end device with a powerful processor, a stunning display, and a cutting-edge cameras. The Sony Xperia 1 V just like the Xperia 10 V and Xperia 5 V sported a textured back with flagship overall feel with some powerful internal configuration.

Design

The Sony Xperia 1 V boasts an innovative texturized finish that enhances the smartphone’s tactile feel. The matte finish adds both elegance and durability to the device, while its compact and lightweight 165.0×71.0x8.3mm dimensions and 187-gram weight provide a solid yet manageable device, much like its predecessor, the Xperia 1 IV. Moreover, the completely matte back panel with a tactile blister texture offers an unparalleled grip and is smudge-proof.

The frosted finish of the hardened glass, featuring minute convex shapes, improves resistance to fingerprints and scratches. Furthermore, the embossed dot patterns on the glass back and a ridged aluminum mid-frame gives the phone a new textural elements. Notably, the specially textured surface ensures an excellent grip, enhancing user experience for various activities such as photography and browsing.

The Xperia 1 V’s design language emphasizes both style and functionality. The rear metal camera housing, reminiscent of Sony’s Full-frame Alpha cameras, provides a robust and high-quality feel. Likewise, the design elements include a shutter button and V-shaped grooves for enhanced grip. Meanwhile, this device features Gorilla Glass protection, IP68 certification for water and dust resistance,

It has a camera island on the left corner of the back panel, housing a 12MP ultrawide, 48MP primary, and 12MP telephoto lens, sits raised on the back, offering minimal wobbling. At the front, there is a notch-free 6.5-inch 4K OLED screen without distracting bezels thus, providing an impressive display.

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The bottom of the Xperia 1 V houses the primary microphone, the USB-C port, and the hybrid-SIM card tray. At the top, you’ll find a 3.5mm audio jack and an additional microphone. Meanwhile, on the right side, you have the volume controls, the power/lock key, and the two-step shutter key. The power key also serves as an always-on fingerprint reader, offering swift and reliable performance. Its scanning trigger can be customized from Touch to Press, a common feature seen on several other smartphones.

Display

The Sony Xperia 1 V features a remarkable 6.5-inch OLED display with an exceptional resolution of 1644 x 3840 pixels in a 21:9 ratio, providing an impressive pixel density of approximately 643 pixels per inch. This display boasts a vibrant color palette with 1 billion colors and supports a high refresh rate of 120Hz, ensuring smooth visuals and exceptional clarity. The device intelligently adjusts between 120Hz and 60Hz, utilizing the higher refresh rate for most operations and reverting to 60Hz for video playback and incompatible apps

Additionally, this device is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2, hence, the screen offers robust durability. It has an impressive screen-to-body ratio of approximately 84.2%, which enables this display minimizes interruptions, allowing you to immerse yourself fully in movies and TV shows.

Meanwhile the device boasts a 4K HDR OLED display, the full 4K resolution is not always active to optimize battery life and app compatibility. The android phone primarily renders content at an extended Full HD resolution of 2560 x 1096 pixels, switching to the full 4K resolution mainly in multimedia apps like photos and video playback/streaming.

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The Xperia 1 V’s display, featuring BRAVIA HDR remaster technology and X1™ for mobile engine, enhances contrast, color, and clarity, elevating your viewing experience, even while streaming content. It supports a 10-bit equivalent display, enabling a broad range of colors without banding. The screen also has a maximum of 866 nits brightness with the sunlight auto brightness boost, and 590 nits of typical brightness.

Camera

The Sony Xperia 1 V is equipped with a triple camera system on the rear, similar to that of the Xperia 1 IV, comprising a primary wide-angle lens, an ultrawide-angle lens, and an advanced telephoto lens featuring continuous optical zoom. Additionally, it inherits the selfie camera from the Xperia 1 IV.

The standout feature of the Xperia 1 V’s camera system is the utilization of the world’s first stacked CMOS sensor with 2-layer transistor pixel technology.

The primary camera features the Sony ExmorT IMX 888 sensor, an impressive multi-aspect 1/1.35″ imager with a resolution of 52MP (48MP effective) and 1.12µm pixels. This sensor is coupled with a stabilized (OIS) 24mm f/1.9 lens, which significantly improves image stabilization. The new sensor is notably larger, approximately 1.7 times bigger than its predecessor on the Xperia 1 IV.

Meanwhile, the 12MP ultrawide camera featural f/2.3 apertures at 85mm and f/2.8 apertures at 125mm. The lens is equipped with 1/3.5″ sensor size, 3.5x-5.2x continuous optical zoom capability, and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) for steadier shots.

This camera uses a 12MP Sony IMX 563 1/2.55″ sensor with 1.4µm pixels and also supports Dual Pixel AF therefore, you can seamlessly zoom between these two levels.

Furthermore, there is a second supporting sensor for the primary camera. it has a 12-megapixel ultrawide lens with an aperture of f/2.2 at 16mm, equipped with a 1/2.5″ sensor size. This lens also features Dual Pixel PDAF for efficient autofocusing. Additionally, this rear camera uses Zeiss optics, Zeiss T* lens coating, an LED flash, panorama mode, HDR capability, and eye tracking, contributing to a more diverse and enhanced photography experience.

Finally, the front-facing selfie camera includes a 12MP Sony IMX 663 1/2.9″ sensor with 1.µm pixels behind a 20mm f/2.0 lens and fixed focus. The rear camera offers versatile video recording capabilities, supporting 4K at various frame rates and resolutions with Electronic and Optical Image Stabilization. The Sony Xperia 1 V selfie camera also provides HDR support and offers 4K and 1080p video recording options with Electronic Image Stabilization for improved stability in selfie videos.

Hardware

The Sony Xperia 1 V is driven by a Qualcomm SM8550-AB Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (4 nm) chipset, an Octa-core processor consisting of (3.2 GHz Cortex-X3, 2.8 GHz dual-core Cortex-A715, 2.8 GHz dual-core Cortex-A710 and 2.0 GHz tri-core Cortex-A510), paired with an Adreno 740 GPU for graphics processing.

This is the same chipset found in models like the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, the OnePlus Ace 2 Pro, the ZTE Nubia Red Magic 8 Pro Plus, and the Nothing Phone 2.

In terms of memory, the gaming phone supports a microSDXC card slot (utilizes shared SIM slot) and internal storage options of 256GB with 12GB RAM or 512GB with 12GB RAM using UFS technology.

Meanwhile this device operates on Android 13, with the potential to be upgraded to Android 14. The Sony Xperia 1 V comes equipped with an always-on display feature (AOD), which is referred to as Google’s Ambient display. However, the customization options available for this feature are relatively limited.

Powering the device is a 5000 mAh battery, supporting 30W wired charging with PD3.0 and PPS, enabling a 50% charge in just 30 minutes.

In terms of connectivity, the Sony Xperia 1 V supports 5G, Wi-Fi 6e, Bluetooth 5.3, GPS, and a USB Type-C 3.2 port for charging and data transfer.

Sony Xperia 1 V Price and Availability

Sony Xperia 1 V price starts at between $ 898.00 / € 1,207.90 / £ 1,299.00. The Xperia 1 V price in Nigeria starts at ₦913,900.