The Sony Xperia 1 VIII was announced bright and early in the morning and – in typical Sony fashion – the new model won’t actually ship until mid-June. That’s later than the Mark 7 and the Mark 6, which were announced in mid-May and released in early June. But if you have your heart set on it, you can pre-order one today.
The Xperia 1 VIII is available on Amazon UK and Amazon Germany – links below – and will go up on pre-order in other regions as well. For any North American readers seeing this, sorry, this doesn’t include that part of the world.
The good news is that Sony is including a free pair of WH-1000XM6, which are some of the best over-ear ANC headphones that we’ve ever tested. These have an MSRP of €450 / £400, so it’s a pretty good deal (note that you can have them with around a 15% discount, but getting them for free is still a good deal).
Sony Xperia 1 VIII
Amazon only has the base 12GB/256GB model. The top-specced 16GB/1TB version will be sold exclusively at Sony stores, so don’t expect to see it elsewhere. Outside of Europe, third-party retailers will also carry the 12GB/512GB and 16GB/512GB variants, though. Whichever model you get, you can add as much storage as you want via the oh-so-rare microSD slot. The phone is available in Graphite Black, Iolite Silver and Garnet Red.
Anyway, you can check out our Sony Xperia 1 VIII review for our thoughts on this unique flagship and through tests of its cameras, screen, battery and everything else.
Sony Xperia 1 VIII 5G
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