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Alright, we admittedly don’t know a great deal about the provenance of the slide above. It was first picked up on Chinese social networking site Weibo, but the original post seems to have been deleted. What we do know, however, is that Sony’s forthcoming flagship phone, codenamed Honami, has already been rumored to possess a 4K-ready processor (the Snapdragon 800), and that Sony is wildly enthusiastic about 4K as something that can unite its expanding hardware ecosystem. The slide’s title therefore has a ring of truth to it, because it’s accompanied by Bravia branding and sounds like realistic marketing babble from a TV-focused presentation:

“How do you get 4K content? By shooting videos with a 4K cellphone.”

The slide also details a 20-megapixel Exmor R rear camera sensor for Honami, which tallies with earlier reports, as well as a meaty 2.2-megapixel front-facing camera. The only issue we have is with the quoted 4K video resolution of 4,000 x 2,000 — it’s unusual and doesn’t match the Ultra HD resolution Sony has settled on for its 4K TVs (3,840 x 2,160). In any case, resolution is only half the story. This is all speculative, of course, but if other bottlenecks in this phone forced Sony to compress the heck out of captured 4K video, there’s every chance it’d end up looking worse than 1080p.

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Over the past couple of months we have seen alleged specs and photos of the upcoming Sony Xperia i1, or Honami, with one particular photo seemingly confirming the fact that the Honami could come with a 20MP camera. Well thanks to a recently uploaded photo allegedly taken by the device, it seems that a camera with a 20MP sensor can be confirmed. While the photo’s EXIF data does not explicitly name the Honami, it shows the device’s model number to be that of the C6902 which is supposedly that of the non-LTE version of the phone. The EXIF data reveals the phone’s 20.65MP camera in 4:3 mode along with a aperture of f/2.0.

While Sony has yet to confirm the Honami, a recently leaked image has suggested that just like Samsung, Sony could be holding an event a few days prior to IFA 2013 to announce the device, which according to the image points at a 4^th of September announcement. The Honami is also expected to be somewhat similar to the Xperia Z, albeit with an upgraded camera. Either way we’ll keep our eyes peeled for more news, so check back with us at a later date for the details.

Alleged Photo Taken By Sony Honami “Confirms” 20MP Camera original content from Ubergizmo.

It seems like Sony’s Honami (or Xperia i1) is as badly kept a secret as Motorola’s Moto X because thanks to newly leaked images showing off the back portion of the phone, it seems that it might be confirmed that the phone will indeed sport a 20MP camera in accordance to the rumors.

As you can see in the image above, the back of the phone shows the camera long with “XX.XMP”, and according to the speculation of some, this would indicate that when the phone is released, the “XX.XMP” would be replaced by the “20.XMP” wording. The reason the device is showing “X” now is probably because it is a prototype and is apparently a pretty common practice in the industry.

In any case there is always the possibility that the image above is fake, and that the “XX.XMP” could be for different-sized sensor and not necessarily 20MP (previous rumors suggested anywhere between 16 to 20MP), but with the Sony Xperia i1 expected to debut at IFA 2013 later this year, we won’t have to wait too long for all the official details!

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Over the past couple of weeks or so, we have seen our fair share of devices that have made their way over to the FCC, which is more or less one of the final hurdles that a particular piece of consumer electronics device has to go through before it is deemed safe and sound to be released to the masses. The upcoming Sony PS4 console has made its way to the FCC, the iPhone Lite as recent as early this morning, a possible Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 which will jive with AT&T, the list could go on. However, here we are with yet another smartphone that has appeared over at the FCC, and it is none other than the upcoming Sony flagship device, the Sony Xperia Honami.

The FCC report did mention that the Sony Xperia Honami is set to be announced before September 30 is over, and those who are interested in picking up this bad boy will be able to do so by the time the first week of October ends. We did wish that the FCC documents discovered did reveal more about the Sony Xperia Honami, but unfortunately, we will still have to rely on rumors at the moment, such as a 5-inch Full HD triluminos display with the X-reality engine, a quad-core 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB RAM, a 20.7-megapixel camera at the back that has a Sony G-lens and BIONZ image processor, 16GB of internal memory, which can be augmented via a microSD memory card slot, is IP57 certified, and will boast of Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Wi-Fi and GSM/UMTS/LTE connectivity.

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The Sony i1 Honami is said to be a next generation flagship smartphone from Sony Mobile, and we have seen our fair share of leaks in recent times, which can only mean one thing – it is surely being prepared for a public release real soon. Well, right now, the Sony Xperia Z is sitting pretty somewhere on the high end verandah where smartphones hang out, but it looks set to be replaced by the Sony i1 Honami in due time. This time around, we have a leaked photo of the Sony i1 Honami that has been spotted beside the Sony Xperia Z, in addition to some more details concerning the Honami’s rumored 20-megapixel camera.

A recent system dump did show off what is new where the digital camera on the Sony i1 Honami is concerned, but this time around, at least it has been confirmed that the Honami will more or less carry a 20-megapixel camera. Sony’s recent smartphones do come with pretty decent cameras, and we do hope that this 20-megapixel shooter will be able to duke it out with the best of the rest when released.

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