Take a look at the decidedly familiar but neatly refined Sony Xperia 1 V in high-resolution render 

When it comes to major design refinements, we can't think of any smartphone maker that

does a better job year after year of maintaining its brand identity while making slow and

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marginal progress than Sony. Is. The company is unlikely to start from scratch and put out a fundamentally new high-

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end Android handset in 2023 or so, instead pitting the Xperia 1 IV against all other

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contenders for the title of best phone Trying to keep up with everything. 2022.

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Right around the same time, Sony is clearly trying something different on the Xperia 1 V (pronounced Xperia One Mark Five) as it

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continues its search for the perfect tall smartphone.

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Based on a new set of renders revealed by the always reliable Steve Hemmerstoffer aka @OnLeaks in

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collaboration with Green Smartphones, the decidedly unconventional and totally iconic 21:9 aspect ratio isn't going anywhere,

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and neither is the overall sharper It's the square, and boxy form of the company's most advanced Android-powered slab.

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