{"id":467477,"date":"2026-06-08T22:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467477\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:42:11","slug":"sony-eyes-rebound-from-xperia-smartphone-stumble-with-ai-camera-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467477\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony eyes rebound from Xperia smartphone stumble with AI camera functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/electronics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Electronics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">After power defects in last year&#8217;s flagship, Japan group widens focus of target audience<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260608N Xperia\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Sony hopes its new Xperia model with AI-enhanced camera performance will help it recover from last year&#8217;s hardware issues in its flagship phone.\u00a0(Photo by Keigo Yoshida)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Sony releases a new flagship version of its Xperia smartphone on Thursday, adding artificial intelligence camera capabilities as the Japanese company looks to bounce back from power malfunctions that plagued its predecessor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electronics After power defects in last year&#8217;s flagship, Japan group widens focus of target audience Sony hopes its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[365,8046,2753,151600,111,139,69,8602,4535,6361,125906,145,236551],"class_list":["post-467477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-camera","tag-eyes","tag-functions","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rebound","tag-smartphone","tag-sony","tag-stumble","tag-technology","tag-xperia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467477","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=467477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}