New Sony Xperia 5 V leaks suggest the phone will bizarrely lose its telephoto lens

an official marketing video for SonyThe Xperia 5V has recently surfaced and the forecast is not good as the upcoming smartphone may face a significant price drop.

Video was originally posted on the r/SonyXperia subreddit by user JB2unique will be uploaded to youtube, The clip is your standard marketing show: different models show off the Xperia 5V from different angles to attract customers. The most surprising thing is that there are only two cameras on the back side of the device. There is likely a wide-angle lens that sits above the ultra-wide option. There appears to be no third camera for a telephoto lens, which is a very strange omission on previous models such as Xperia 5IVThere are three.

Sony Xperia 5 V (full promotional video) – *leaked* with audio pic.twitter.com/C38GqgtAlD24 July 2023

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It is not known why Sony is taking this route. A user on the original Reddit thread believes that the company may have somehow figured out a way to integrate the telephoto lens into the main lens to create a dual-lens smartphone camera. Or maybe Sony is ditching it altogether in an effort to keep the Xperia 5 V priced the same as the Xperia 5 IV (normally retailing for $999 / £949 / AU$1,399); Possibly even less. The latter seems to be the prevailing theory online.

It is certainly a bold move by Sony to remove the telephoto option from its next flagship mobile device. Xperia phones, eg Pro-IKnown for his skill in photography.

However, perhaps the signs were already there. One of the things we complained about in our review of the Xperia 5 IV was the camera. It also has “the weakest zoom range of any flagship Xperia phone since the original Xperia 1 and 5.” Perhaps Sony saw the removal of the telephoto lens as the logical next step for the series.

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Apart from the camera array, the video reveals a few interesting things. As others have noted, the front of the phone looks like Xperia 1 IV, complete with a selfie lens in the top edge. There will be a 3.5-inch audio jack on the top – a surprisingly rare feature present in smartphones nowadays. one of these is the one around the camera Zeiss T* Logo This shows that the anti-reflective coating is making a comeback. It could also be launched in three different colours: Black, White and Light Blue.

Xperia 5 Camera Updates24 July 2023

Nothing else can be ascertained from the video, but the leak doesn’t stop there.

Back in February 2023, a entry appeared on geekbench Revealing that the Xperia 5V will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC (System on Chip) plus 16GB of RAM. Another leak from April states that this will be the device 33W fast charging power, Both hardware specs are a direct upgrade from the Xperia 5 IV. So the theory that Sony is trying to keep the retail price of its upcoming smartphone low might not be that far-fetched.

Of course, like any leak, take all of this information with a grain of salt. Things can change at the last minute.

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