Whether we like it or not, it's apparently aloof a amount of time afore best accordant smartphone makers are ditching 3.5mm audio jacks, at atomic on their high-end devices. Samsung, LG, and Sony accept not done this yet, but it looks like Sony may do it in the actual abreast future.
Last week, the FCC (US Federal Communications Commission) accustomed a abstruse Sony phone while absolute a few absorbing things about it. According to abstracts fabricated accessible by the FCC, this unannounced Sony phone (currently accepted alone by its FCC ID, PY7-21831A) appears to be application a USB Type-C anchorage for both audio, and charging functions - thus, it should not accept a 3.5mm angle jack at all.
The FCC is additionally advertence that the new Sony handset is 152.79 mm alpine and 72.42 mm wide, featuring a awning of about 5.7 inches. This agency the accessory is abate than the Xperia XZ Premium (156 x 77 mm, pictured above), while absolutely accepting thinner bezels about its screen, as the XZ Premium's affectation alone measures 5.5 inches.
Finally, we apperceive that this new Sony accessory is a GMS/LTE phone with abutment for all the 3G and LTE bands of AT&T and T-Mobile. So it could be launched in the
With assorted contempo rumors pointing appear a drastic redesign of Sony's next-gen high-end smartphones, the abridgement of a 3.5mm audio jack on them should not appear as a shock. Of course, abounding Xperia admirers will apparently not like this. But at atomic we're not activity aback to the times when Sony Ericsson phones had proprietary charging & audio ports.
Sony already appear three new handsets this year (Xperia XA2, Xperia XA2 Ultra, and Xperia L2), but it has yet to bare a new high-end model. So there's a ample adventitious that the 5.7-inch accessory accustomed by the FCC is an accessible high-end Xperia.
We ability see at atomic one new (and hopefully interesting) high-end Sony phone at MWC 2018 abutting month. Stay tuned!
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