14 DAY TRIAL // We already know that Sony is working on a bezel-less smartphone dubbed Lavender, and according to the rumor mill, the handset might make it on the market as the Xperia T4 Ultra or Xperia C5 Ultra (which makes more sense).
Now a new report from China coming to us via Mobi Picker indicates that Sony is working not on one bezel-less smartphone but on two. The second one is dubbed Sony E5706 and we should expect it to launch sometime around August, possibly even alongside Lavender.
We’re not given any information related to the name of the phone, so maybe it’s the Xperia T4 Ultra we’re talking about here. Or the other way around.
Anyhow, even as we’re not given the name of the device, we can tell you a few things about the phone's specifications. The upcoming Sony smartphone should arrive with a 5.8-inch bezel-less display with 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution and 380ppi.
The Sony E5706 seems similar to the LG G4, spec-wise
The phablet will receive power from a Snapdragon 808 chipset that contains a hexa-core CPU and Adreno 418 GPU. Sony will also offer 3GB of RAM on the inside and probably 16GB of internal storage for the base model, although the current report doesn’t mention that.
Other specs include a primary 16MP camera plus a capable 8MP front-facing, selfie snapping camera. And like most smartphones being unveiled today, this mysterious product should ship with Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box.
As for Sony Lavender, the phone should be making it out with a 5.5-inch display with at least 1080p resolution onboard. In the silicone department, we have a 64-bit MediaTek processor in charge of keeping things afloat (earlier leaks suggested an octa-core MediaTek MT6752 chipset) fitted with 2GB of RAM.
Lavender is also poised to have a 13MP front-facing camera with LED flash, so the newly surfaced phablet seems to be a more high-end affair than Lavender.
So even as Sony’s smartphone business is not exceling at this point, the company doesn’t seem to want to give up on building new smartphone models. And in a month, we might actually get to see the company unveil two new handsets.