Today Sony is following up on one of its newer form-factors that the company had introduced last year with

the
Xperia 5. The new Xperia 5 II (read as mark two), follows up on the smaller flagship sibling device, retaining its
form-factor, but also substantially improving its design as well as maintaining an almost complete feature-parity
with the bigger Xperia 1 II.

The new phone also sets out to differentiate itself from other Sony offerings: the company seemingly has
focused on the more gaming-centric usability of the device even though externally it does not have the flair of a
gaming phone. With a new internal heat dissipation system and a 120Hz refresh rate OLED and 240Hz sample
rate touch input, the Xperia 5 II punches above its weight when it comes to fluidity.

Sony has achieved this all whilst retaining the form-factor and weight of the Xperia 5 – even cramming in
a new 4000mAh battery just by virtue of improved internal engineering. This is Sony’s seemingly most
competitive package in years, let’s go over the details:

Sony Xperia Series

  Sony Xperia 1 II Sony Xperia 5 II
  (NEW)
SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 

1x Cortex-A77 @ 2.84GHz
3x Cortex-A77 @ 2.42GHz
4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.80GHz

Adreno 650 @ 587MHz

DRAM 8GB

Display 6.5" OLED 6.1" OLED

3840 x 1644 (21:9) 2520 x 1080 (21:9)

  120Hz Refresh w/ 240Hz Touch

Size Height 166 mm 158 mm

Width 72 mm 68 mm

Depth 7.9 mm 8.0 mm

Weight 181 grams 163 grams

Battery Capacity 4000mAh

18W USB-PD Adaptive Charging

Wireless Charging Yes -

Rear
Cameras
Main 12MP 1.8µm Dual Pixel PDAF
1/1.7" sensor
 24mm / 
f/1.7 with OIS

Telephoto 12MP 1.0µm PDAF

1/3.4" sensor

70mm /  / 3x zoom

f/2.4 with OIS

Wide 12MP 1.4µm Dual Pixel PDAF

1/2.6" sensor

16mm / 130°
f/2.2

Extra 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) -

Front Camera 8MP 1.12µm 8MP 1.12µm

f/2.0 f/2.0

Storage 256GB 128 / 256GB

+microSD +microSD

I/O USB-C
3.5mm headphone jack

Cellular - -

Wireless (local)    

IP Rating IP65 & IP68

Other Features Dual Speakers

Dual-SIM 1x nanoSIM + microSD 

or
2x nanoSIM

Launch Price $1099 / £ / 1199€ $949 / £799 / €899

At the core of the phone we find a Snapdragon 865 SoC which allows the device to have excellent
performance. Although the SoC is quite conservative in terms of its power draw, the Xperia 1 II did have some
very slight throttling under sustained workloads such as gaming. In order to alleviate this, Sony has developed
an improved thermal dissipation system inside the phone, mostly thanks to a new large graphite pad that is
able to transfer heat from the SoC to the larger footprint of the screen panel. This should help the device
achieve almost indefinite sustained performance under normal circumstances.

Memory wise we still see a reasonable 8GB of DRAM and storage capacities at 128 and 256GB, extendable
with microSD cards.