

Body: 166.0×72.0×8.9mm, 211g Glass front (Gorilla Glass Victus), glass back (Gorilla Glass 6), aluminum frame IP65/IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins).The Pro-I does take its own unique path when it comes to design, but we’ll talk more about that on the next page. The Pro-I reuses that one’s 120Hz 4K display, the Snapdragon 888 is doing the calcs (not the plus, not that it matters), the battery is the same too. The rest of the internals are almost entirely straight from the Xperia 1 III.

As for zoom, gone is the dual focal length periscope of the Xperia 1 III, replaced on the Pro-I with a more modest 2x-only unit. There’s an autofocusing ultrawide that’s at the reasonable end of the ‘ultrawide’ spectrum instead of the extreme. The other cameras aren’t all that special but complete a capable tri-set. What they don’t explicitly mention is that the Pro-I isn’t using all of it – just 12MP, but we’ll elaborate on that later on. Inside the Pro-I, Sony fitted a 20MP 1.0″ Type sensor, and it’s the first one this big with phase-detect autofocus on a phone, they point out to get that Sharp out of the conversation. The Xperia Pro-I, on the other hand, is not an accessory, it’s the main act – the phone is the camera. The Xperia 1 II’s ultra-expensive alter ego was meant to be used as an external monitor for Sony Alpha cameras… and it also happened to be a phone with 5G connectivity. Sony has a habit of making phones no one expects, and no one has thought to ask for.
