Sony unveils latest flagship smartphone — the Xperia 1 VII

Nylon

19-05-2025

Designed in collaboration with the engineers behind Sony's Alpha digital cameras, Walkman portable audio players and BRAVIA televisions, the Xperia 1 VII is the Japanese tech brand's latest flagship smartphone that incorporates all the cutting-edge technologies found in their range of iconic devices. Image courtesy of Sony.
AI technologies that were cultivated within these various fields have now been optimised for Xperia, enhancing the user experience, and offering a completely new camera experience that will allow you to capture stable and framed composition videos even when you're not looking at the shooting screen.
Under bright conditions, your viewing experience on the Xperia 1 VII is improved with an additional light sensor that has been added to the back of the device, enabling you to adjust the brightness and colour that best suits your condition. Image courtesy of Sony.
Whether you're outside or indoors in dim lighting, the smartphone accurately recognises the surrounding brightness and adjusts to the optimal brightness, colour gamut, and colour temperature for the environment. There's even a 'Sunlight Vision' feature which enhances visibility under direct sunlight to provide you with a comfortable viewing experience.
Equipped with Qualcomm's latest chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, NPU, CPU and GPU have been each been improved by over 40% to deliver fast AI processing during photo or video taking and high-performance gaming environments while reducing battery consumption. Image courtesy of Sony.
The Xperia 1 VII has three rear cameras that feature a new 16mm ultra wide-angle lens, equipped with a larger 48MP 1/1.56-inch sensor that is about 2.1 times larger than its predecessor. This means that you will be able to get clear night shots just like those of full-frame cameras, with low noise and wide dynamic range.
You also get minimal distortion in your photos with the ability to capture close-up shots from about 5cm away for incredible macro photography.
Built with the 'Exmor T for mobile' image sensor, you get excellent low-light performance as well as the ability to capture high-quality footage with bright and clear video, even if you are cropping the image using AI Camerawork and Auto Framing.
At a concert and want to capture photos from a distance? You can with the Xperia 1 VII and its telephoto lens which provides an optical zoom from 85mm to 170mm, allowing for high-resolution images of distant subjects. Image courtesy of Sony.
With the new AI Camerawork, you can now create pro level stable and framed videos while keeping your subject fixed in the centre of composition even in situations where you might be walking around while filming a moving subject.
This is made possible with the device's powerful image stabilisation and posture estimation technology that ensures your subject's relative position remain consistent for a professional-looking video.
Auto Framing, on the other hand, uses AI to track your subject and automatically crops the shot to centre it on your screen. This essentially means that you just need to point the camera roughly at your moving subject and the device will automatically capture it without you having to chase it yourself.
Incorporated with new components known for their excellence in Walkman devices, the Xperia 1 VII features significantly enhanced sound quality when you connect wired headphones, and also taps on a high-quality enhancement technology, the 'DSEE Ultimate', that utilises AI enabling so that compressed streaming audio sources can be enjoyed with immersive, high-quality sound when you connect wirelessly.