{"id":419726,"date":"2026-05-09T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419726\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:42:29","slug":"the-sony-xperia-1-viii-is-coming-on-may-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419726\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is coming on May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony just officially confirmed the date of its Xperia 1 VIII unveiling &#8211; May 13 at 11:00 AM, Japan time. Sony didn&#8217;t really add much in the way of information, only saying that &#8220;when brilliance comes full circle, the next one is coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that Sony will announce its long-awaited next flagship, the Xperia 1 VIII, but Sony will also announce its high-res flagship full-frame camera, the A7r VI, as well as a new lens &#8211; the 100-400mm f\/4.5 GM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778344949_665_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is coming on May 13\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We know that the Xperia 1 VIII will usher in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/new_batch_of_sony_xperia_1_viii_renders_detail_its_dimensions-news-72542.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new design<\/a>, highlighted by a new square camera island, and a body that&#8217;s ever so slightly wider and thicker than its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that there will be a new telephoto sensor, ranging between 1\/3.0-inch and 1\/2.0-inch, a 16mm ultrawide, a 24mm wide-angle camera, and &#8220;2-day battery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Per leaked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/sony_xperia_1_viii_gets_prematurely_listed_by_amazon_revealing_pricing_and_the_release_date-news-72702.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary listings<\/a>, the Xperia 1 VIII could begin shipping on June 26, and cost a whopping \u20ac1,868.99 in Germany, \u00a31,728 in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony just officially confirmed the date of its Xperia 1 VIII unveiling &#8211; May 13 at 11:00 AM,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-419726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}