It features a grippier matte frame and rear frosted glass finish akin to the Xperia PRO-I, and a boxier design than the previous flagships.

The phone has Corning Gorilla Glass Victus protection both on the front and the back as well as IP65 and IP68 certifications for water resistance.

The display still has symmetrical bezels on the top and the bottom, a hallmark Xperia design, where the front-facing dual stereo speakers and the front camera are placed.

The left side of the phone is completely devoid of any controls or ports, with only antenna bands present.

[4] The rear cameras are arranged in a vertical strip like its predecessor, with the LED flash and color spectrum sensor along the top.

The phone features a 21:9 4K CinemaWide HDR 10-bit 120 Hz OLED display first seen in the Xperia 1 III, now improved with 50% more brightness.

[8] Whether or not this is true, either implementing the same 12-MP crop as the Xperia PRO-I on the IMX650, or the hardware information app HWiNFO used could be reporting incorrect data (which according to Notebookcheck seems unlikely), or if it's using a new or unknown IMX sensor altogether, remains to be seen.