Sony Xperia PRO-I With 1-Inch Primary Camera Goes Official: Better Than iPhone 13 Pro?

Sony has launched yet another high-end camera-centric smartphone that you won't be able to buy in India. The Xperia Pro-I (Mark-1) is the latest and the first smartphone from the Japanese smartphone company with a whopping 1-inch camera sensor with support for variable aperture.

In the official documentation, Sony confirms that the new 1-inch sensor is designed and developed in-house and is also backed by Sony's own image signal sensor. Besides, the camera also gets ZEISS Tessar T* lens and dual aperture with support for eye auto-focus for images and videos.

Sony Xperia PRO-I Specifications

The Sony Xperia PRO-I comes with a 6.5-inch OLED display with native 4K resolution (3840 x 1644p). This is a tall 21:9 aspect ratio display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 240Hz touch sampling rate. The display offers 100 percent DCI-P3 color coverage along with 10-bit tonal grade support.

In terms of ingress protection, the Sony Xperia PRO-I is IPX5/IPX8 certified for water resistance and IP6X certified for dust resistance. The front display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass Victus, while the back panel is made using Corning Gorilla Glass 6.

The smartphone is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC and the device ships with 12GB RAM and 512GB UFS based storage. The phone runs on Android 11 OS and is expected to receive an Android 12 OS update in the near future.

At the back, the smartphone has a triple camera setup with a 12MP 1-inch Exmor RS sensor with 24mm focal length and comes with a variable aperture of f/2.0 and f/4.0 and 85-degree field-of-view. Then, there is a 12MP 1/2.9-inch telephoto lens with a 50mm focal length and an f/2.4 aperture.

There is another 12MP 1/2.5-inch sensor, an ultra-wide angle lens with 124-degree field-of-view with 16mm focal length, and an f/2.2 aperture. Lastly, there is an 8MP 1/4-inch selfie camera at the front, with an f/2.0 aperture and 78-degree field-of-view.

The Sony Xperia PRO-I offers a plethora of camera features like 4K 120fps HDR video recording, slow-motion video recording, up to 60 times per second continuous AF/AE calculation, and more. The phone can shoot both Jpeg and RAW format images while it can only shoot videos in .mp4(H.264, H.265) format.

A 4,500 mAh battery powers the Sony Xperia PRO-I with support for fast charging via the USB Type-C port, which is also capable of offering up to 10Gbps data transfer speeds and can even output 4K at 60fps to an external display using a DisplayPort or HDMI cable.

Better Than iPhone 13 Pro Or Pixel 6 Pro?

Yes, the primary sensor on the Sony Xperia PRO-I is superior to the iPhone 13 Pro or the Pixel 6 Pro. In fact, the Sony Xperia PRO-I is also one of the first smartphones to ship with a massive 1-inch sensor. As bigger sensors can capture more light, which will result in more detailed pictures even in challenging lighting conditions, especially when compared to phones with smaller sensors.

Smartphone photography has come a long way in the last few years, where software also plays a major role just like hardware. Hence, the image quality on the Sony Xperia PRO-I might vary when compared to the devices like the Pixel 6 Pro or the iPhone 13 Pro.