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This is a new Sony Smartphone, But not just any phone, I'm holding the phone with the most impressive hardware camera setup of any smartphone out right now. But there is a catch. So this is a Sony xperia Pro-1. So the Pixel doesn't really have to be a world-class phone for Google to be okay. So then there's Sony. And Sony makes a lot of stuff. They make the PlayStation 5, they make the Sony Alpha cameras, they run movie studios. They've got a lot going on making them money, and they also happen to make smartphones too, sure, but the smartphones are not one of the high priority things. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that a full year after we found ourselves wondering why people don't buy Sony's super interesting, super niche smartphones, they're back at it again with another one, with another ridiculous set of quirks and features. This phone has a 4k 120 Hertz OLED display. I'll say that again, a 4k 120 Hertz OLED display. And in that unconventionally tall 21 by nine aspect ratio that makes the six and a half inch screen look narrow, but also still be easy to hold. It's got all the buttons on the side, including a dedicated camera shutter button with the half-press for auto-focus and a second press for snapping a shot, plus a second custom button alongside it that launches their custom made built-in video Pro app on this phone. It's still got the underrated tool less SIM card tray, which is back to back with the rare micro SD card slot for adding up to a terabyte of extra storage to the phone. There is a high quality headphone jack up top too, naturally. And this phone has an eyelet at the corner for a wrist strap, because of course it does. And also in classic Sony fashion, this phone is called the Sony Xperia Pro-1. But, so they had the Xperia 1, and then they had the Xperia 1 Mark iii, with I's representing the three. And so now this is the Pro-I. It's like they're trying to make it as confusing as possible. But the cherry on top of everything is this phone is $1,799 and launches in a month, classic Sony. But, like I said at the beginning, this is what makes the phone, the Pro-1 has an incredible hardware system. That's what I wanna talk about in this video. You would think with this incredible hardware, it takes the best photos and videos, we'll get to that in a second, but yeah, this is really impressive. So Sony Xperia-1 has a ridiculous, massive one-inch sensor for that main camera. Now, it's also flanked by a 12-megapixel Ultra camera up top. And then there's also a depth sensor and a 2x telephoto camera below it. But let's talk about that main camera. Smartphone camera sensors have been getting larger and larger lately, reaping all of the benefits, all the light gathering, all the shallow depth of field as a result. This phone has the largest we've ever seen, a full one-inch diagonal. So for some perspective, the iPhone just moved from a 1/2.55-inch sensor last year to a 1/1.9-inch bigger sensor this year. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro with their headline making new sensor, it's 1/1.3 inches, which is matching the Samsung galaxy S21 Ultra. And Xiaomi mi 11 Ultra with one of the largest camera bumps of all time has a one 1/1.1-inch sensor. This Sony Xperia 1, the 1 stands for imaging, turns out, is all about this massive new barrier being broken of a full one-inch diagonal sensor. That is the largest sensor ever fit into the back of a phone. Now, some of you who are in the photography world might recognize, that's the same size sensor that's in their world-class point and shoot cameras. The RX100 Mark VII has a one-inch sensor. And I know that's true because this is the sensor from the RX100 Mark VII. Those two devices have the same one-inch CMOS sensor inside for taking photos and videos. That is pretty incredible for a smartphone. It kinds feels like a camera first that happens to have a phone attached to it. That it's got this crazy huge sensor, but it's unable to use all of it. And, you know, maybe in a future version they were able to use more Z space or maybe a larger overall camera cut out on the back. I don't know exactly what fixes this, but yeah, that's one of the most interesting things I've seen in a phone a long time. And there's obviously more to a camera or more to a phone than just the camera, but you know, when it's the Xperia I, for imaging, and when it's $1,800, and when it's got a one of a kind sensor, that's kind of what you're looking at. So yeah, this particular phone is one I would probably only recommend to people who obviously have a lot of money to burn, but are really looking for the manual control offered by the apps that Sony ships with these phones Kind of the same way they did with the Xperia 1 Mark iii, still amazing. All the manual control with videos, to the focus slider, everything built-in, it's great.
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