Sony to strengthen its mobile range with an eight camera phone
Sony is reportedly working on an Xperia smartphone with six snappers at the back and two in front.
The rumours have been surfacing around Sony’s new Hexa-camera smartphone for quite some time now. Sony is reportedly working on an Xperia smartphone with six snappers at the back and two in front, which gives us a total of 8 cameras on the device. The record of the highest number of cameras on a device currently stands with Nokia with its Nokia 9 PureView mobile phone; Sony looks poised to take that position and will try to strengthen their selves in the mobile market race with this new Hexa-cam phone which is currently doing rounds in the rumours.
According to sources, the Xperia smartphone will sport a 10MP unit on the front paired with a 0.3MP ToF camera. And around the back, it will have a 48MP snapper with a variable aperture of F1.2/2.4. This will be joined by a 12MP module which too will have F1.2/2.4 aperture. This hexa camera setup will also include a 0.5MP ToF unit, with the rest of the modules having a resolution of 20MP, 8MP, and 16MP - all having an F2.4 aperture.
Most likely, the main sensor and the ToF unit in its camera system in this new Sony device will be accompanied by a wide-angle and a telephoto unit. As rumours say, the phone is likely to go official at the end of this year, or next year in 2020.