Gadgetory

I'm here with Sony's newest flagship it's the xperia x z-bone it's got loads of camera technology onboard some of that tech is brought on from older phones and some of its new but let's take a look of what's inside it around the back that's a 23 megapixel camera while on the front that's a 13 megapixel camera now those are very big sensors but there's a lot more going on here the starters sony hopes that this thing will take a photo very very quickly so you're not hanging around and missing the moment the company reckons that you'll be able to take a photo in naught point 6 seconds now we're only getting a brief hands-on here but I have to say that it does feel pretty fast when it comes to hammering that shutter button there's no point in taking a photo quickly if that photo is then really blurry and looks rubbish so there's some interesting focus technology going on here as well vs. laser autofocus that's something that we have seen before in smartphones what that's basically doing is sending out a beam of light to try and very accurately gauge the distance between your phone and the subject the thinking is that that's going to lead to better low-light photography now something that's pretty interesting is what's only calls predictive hybrid autofocus now what that does is it lets the phone actually track objects you can see here I'm tapping on an object and the phone is monitoring whereabouts it is in the frame even if it's moving towards or away from the phone now the idea there is that the phone can make a best guess at where exactly the subject is going to be when you actually hammer down that shutter button we were playing around taking some photos using that technology of these moving toy trains here and they were looking pretty crisp even though the trains were moving not perfect but not paps finally if you'd rather take matters into your own hands something I like is that Sony's added manual focus so using this on-screen dial here you can control exactly what's sharp and what's blurring the ex-head also comes with an RGB Cir center now what sony says is that that's going to make for better color reproduction it's going to let the phone do a better job of gauging white balance and overall what you'll get a more accurate hues there's 4k video recording in play as well and Sony's touting this as the first phone with five axis image stabilization we've only been playing around with it again for a few minutes but I have to say that some of the moving footage we got just looking really quite smooth when we played it back so some interesting promising camera ideas in here but of course we won't know the full story until we get it into our labs for the full review where we can really really put it through its paces so stay tuned