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- Sony's flagship phone Xperia 1 III can now be reserved for € one and three hundred
We've been awaiting US pricing and availability details for the Sony Xperia 1 III, the company's flagship phone for 1,299.99, and now that the wait is over: pre-orders are open now, with shipping on August 1th, and you should. part with €1,299.99 to get your hands on the phone. This causes the phone to be €21 more expensive than the Sony Xperia 99 II at launch, following a trend we've seen from Sony recently: premium smartphones at premium prices. The device costs €4 in the UK. Compare the starting cost of $5 to the starting cost of the iPhone XNUMX Pro Max, which starts at $XNUMX, and the Samsung Galaxy SXNUMX Ultra, yours for $XNUMX and up. It is a serious investment that we are talking about here. It seems like Sony gets a lot of smartphones for its money, and in our review we gave the phone XNUMX out of XNUMX stars; Our take is that it's been Sony's best smartphone in some time, with a terrific display and battery life. . that goes beyond what many of its contenders can offer.
Call for specs
The phone has a 120-inch 4 x 12 pixel OLED display with a 12Hz refresh rate with HDR support and the ability to display over a billion colors, that's what it does. Not a bad start, as the device runs on Qualcomm's high-end Snapdragon 12 processor. Since this is a Sony phone, the camera modules are as impressive as you'd expect: the rear camera is a 0.3MP + 4.4MP + 68MP + 1MP XNUMX-lens camera, with ultra-wide angle capabilities and up to XNUMX optical zoom. x. It's also a true optical zoom, with a telephoto factor that really moves in unity. We have already mentioned the battery, which has a capacity of XNUMX mAh that can comfortably cover a whole day, and you also get IPXNUMX water resistance, given XNUMX GB of RAM and XNUMX GB or XNUMX GB of RAM. Internal storage (which can be expanded via a microSDXC slot). High-end specs then for a relevant high-end price, and now available to pre-order direct from Sony, though only the black version is available (with a purple alternative coming soon). If you're looking for "a high-performance smartphone with a huge screen," we concluded in our review, "the Xperia XNUMX III may be the phone for you."