Sony provides HDMI to final 12 months’s Android cellphone, costs $2,500

We have seen smartphones with stratospheric value tags earlier than, however often, one thing is particular about them. Telephones just like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X are anyplace from $2,000-$2,600, however these have been first-gen foldable smartphones with brand-new show expertise. Sony’s newest entry into the smartphone market, the Sony Xperia Professional, is a boring previous slab cellphone that appears totally forgettable till you have a look at the value: an astounding $2,500, or the value of three brand-new, $800 Samsung Galaxy S21s. Sony has actually outdone itself.

Principally the Xperia Professional appears loads just like the Xperia 1 II, Sony’s already-overpriced $1,300 flagship smartphone from 2020. Each have 6.5-inch, almost-4K, 3840×1644, 60Hz OLED shows, the Snapdragon 865 SoC, three rear cameras, an IP65 score, and a 4000mAh battery. This 12 months’s Xperia Professional will get a tier bump to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, however that is solely often value $100 additional. There’s additionally mmWave 5G this 12 months, two “app shortcut” buttons on the facet, and a shutter button. Fancy.

None of that explains why this cellphone is a minimum of $1,000 greater than it ought to be. Sony’s justification for the outrageous value is (drumroll please) an HDMI port. Sure, along with the USB-C port on the underside, there’s additionally a Micro HDMI port that can be utilized as a video enter. Sony suggests both hooking the cellphone as much as a Sony Alpha digicam and utilizing it as a reside video monitor or pushing an exterior video supply out to the web for reside streaming. Simply this one function and the camera-adjacentness is value $1,000 additional by Sony’s logic.

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