Sony’s new Xperia phone gets an overdue redesign

May 12, 2026 Dominic Preston

Sony Xperia 1 VIII in four different colors in front of a maroon and gray background
Sony’s new flagship doesn’t look much like its predecessors. | Image: Sony / The Verge

Sony's Xperia 1 flagships have looked more or less the same since 2020, but that's finally changing with the Xperia 1 VIII, which moves to a chunky square camera island. The phone also boasts what should be a substantially improved telephoto camera, along with an AI camera assistant that looks like an improved version of Google's Camera Coach.

While every previous Xperia 1 phone has had three vertical cameras, and the last six have positioned them in the same top-left corner spot, the 1 VIII mixes things up. The three lenses are now laid out in a square block, together with the flash and a Sony logo, that's raised from the phone but slopes …

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