An upcoming smartphone from Sony, codenamed "Sirius" or "D6503," will include 4K video recording, Xperia Blog reports.
The Sirius, which looks like a clear successor to the Xperia Z1, will come with Android 4.4.2 KitKat and an advanced camera hardware and software that's capable of 4K video recording. It also has a feature called "Timeshift video" that records high frame-rate video and applies slow motion effects to it.
The phone will include something Sony calls "Smart call handling," which lets you handle upcoming calls without touching the phone's screen if you bring the phone to your ear, you'll automatically answer the call, and if you shake it, you will reject it. Finally, if you place the device face down, it will set itself to mute. We're very interested to see how this works in practice; any feature that can remove a step or two from call handling is very welcome.
Other features of note include double tap to wake the screen, a built-in answering machine, new personalization options and smart backlight control.
There are a couple of other innovations on the hardware front, including stereo speakers (on top and at the bottom), which could be a big improvement over Z1's somewhat unimpressive sound.