Sony Xperia 5 V: New compact flagship launches with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 5,000 mAh battery and 48 MP camera from Xperia 1 V

[Redaktion]

Sony has now presented the Xperia 5 V, the smaller alternative to the Xperia 1 V. As expected, the Xperia 5 V combines many of the features of its larger sibling in a significantly smaller package. The Xperia 5 V will be available in three colours for €999 but only with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage globally.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-Xperia-5-V-New-compact-flagship-launches-with-Snapdragon-8-Gen-2-5-000-mAh-battery-and-48-MP-camera-from-Xperia-1-V.745447.0.html

[YUKI93]

I feel somewhat conflicted about the new dual-camera setup. While I am happy to see the 1 Mk5's primary camera made its way here, I think Sony can keep the 5 Mk4's native 2.5x zoom telephoto camera. I know the primary camera can do up to 3x lossless zoom, but keeping the telephoto camera for Portrait photography won't hurt.

Other than that, it's the familiar Xperia 5 as always. I'm even surprised this new phone is shorter than last year's predecessor while maintaining the 5000mAh battery capacity.

[luke123]

... I know the primary camera can do up to 3x lossless zoom, but keeping the telephoto camera for Portrait photography won't hurt.
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It's impossible for this sensor to do 2x lossless zoom. That's the max in theory (48/2x2=12mp). But you always lose lot of absolute resolution. Realistically is more like 1.5x zoom. Images from gsmarena show clearly lot of detail loss even though they missed it.