14 DAY TRIAL // The next flagship Android-based handset from Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile might have just received the necessary approvals from the FCC, where it has emerged with model number D6603 attached.
In fact, the phone landed at the FCC in two flavors, featuring IDs PM-0800 and PM-0801, which stand for model numbers D6603 and D6616, respectively.
As PhoneArena notes, the two devices appear to be similar hardware-wise, and might land on shelves as two flavors of the same smartphone, namely the Xperia Z3.
According to the FCC listing, the Sony D6603 arrives on shelves with support for LTE bands 2, 4, 5, 7, 13, and 17, as well as for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and GPS receiver inside. An infra-red transmitter is also present in the package, it seems.
The mobile phone is rumored to arrive on shelves with a screen capable of delivering a full HD resolution, as well as with a quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, and with 2GB/3GB of RAM.
Moreover, it should sport 16GB of internal memory, along with a 20.7-megapixel camera on the back, most probably with 4K video recording capabilities.
Should this Sony D6603 handset indeed be the aforementioned Xperia Z3, we will see it made official sometime in September, most probably during the IFA 2014 show in Berlin.