Sony Xperia Z4 News, Specs and Rumors

The Xperia Z3 may have just recently been delivered late last year, but Sony's speedy release schedule means we have already started getting excited for its next flagship device hitting us in 2015. Recent speculation has suggested that Sony is ditching its two flagships per-year approach (sadly it hasn't appeared to do its smartphones sales much good) but it looks like the Xperia Z4 might just pack enough punch to carry us through to 2016.

Amongst all the fun of the hackfest that is Sony Pictures' email servers right now lie a few very interesting images of the new Xperia Z4 (and maybe the Xperia Z4 Compact). Sony Mobile was pitching the next-gen device for inclusion in the new James Bond flick and felt the need to include some pics to help sway 007 (or perhaps the new Q).

The images are very different, with one looking quite Xperia Z3-ish (seen above), one showing a weird back that looks like padded leather and a detail of a very angular corner setup (below).

The original Sony Xperia Z was released in February of 2013, with the Xperia Z2 following a year later in March 2014. Sony had previously stated that it wanted to beat the yearly release cycle that most manufacturers have set for their flagship handsets and instead release them on a bi-annual basis, which is why the Xperia Z3 landed in the Autumn. This idea appears to have been abandoned now, and we think that the Xperia Z4 will be the only flagship released by Sony next year, so here's hoping it produces more than a just a modest upgrade over the Xperia Z3.


Another recent rumor came from a blog going by the name of futuresupplier.com which leaked what it claims is the Xperia Z4 LCD digitizer. What a "digitizer" is, for those who aren't aware, is the glass sheet that covers a smartphones display and translates your swipes and presses into digital information (i.e. it tells your phone when and how you have touched the screen). From this we can get an impression of how the front of the device will look.

As you can see from the pictures, the Z4 looks to have a similar screen-size to that of the 5.2-inch Z3. The top speaker has been moved from the top-centre to the top-right of the handset, while the camera flash and proximity sensor have swapped sides. The speaker at the bottom of the screen is also not apparent on the Z4 digitizer, so we presume this will be making its way to the underside of the device, if the rumor pans out. Check out the image below.

Android Origin has previously speculated that a 5.5-inch QHD (2560 x 1440) display will appear the Xperia Z4. The rest of the specs revealed include a 64-bit compatible quad-core Snapdragon 810, 4 GB of RAM, and 32 GB as the base model for internal storage.

Category 6 LTE (up to 300 Mbps download speeds) and Bluetooth 4.1 are a given, but one of the most exciting tidbits is that the Xperia Z4 might be getting amplifiers for its speakers, creating an audio experience like HTC's BoomSound.

SOURCE: ANDROIDPIT

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