Notably, the camera module, color sensing (RGBC-IR sensor) and LED flash have been relocated to the upper left-hand corner of the device as on earlier Xperia phones.

[7] The chipset is carried over from the Xperia 1: a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC and an Adreno 640 GPU, accompanied by 6 GB of LPDDR4X RAM.

The display is smaller and has a lower resolution than the Xperia 1, using a 6.1 in (155mm) 21:9 1080p (2520 × 1080) HDR OLED panel which results in a pixel density of 449 ppi.

The battery is 6% smaller than the Xperia 1 due to the reduced physical footprint, with a 3140mAh cell which can be recharged at up to 18W via the USB-C 3.1 port.

[7](The Japanese SO-01M variant was available with 64 GB of internal storage only) The Xperia 5 runs on Android 9.0 "Pie", along with Smart Stamina battery saving modes and Sony's proprietary multimedia apps.