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Forget shelling out thousands for a decent high-speed camera, the Sony Xperia XZ Premium smartphone not only sports a beautiful 5.5″ 4K (3840×2160) display, but has a 19-megapixel camera with an IMX300 sensor that captures video at 960FPS @ 720p. Other features include a Snapdragon 835 CPU, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage, a 3230mAh battery, along with IP68 water / dust resistance. Continue reading for three hands-on videos and more information. Click here for a few bonus hands-on images.
“A 960FPS video would never make it through the 5Gbps bus that connects the camera to the Snapdragon SoC. So to work around this, Sony equipped the CMOS chip with 1GB of onboard memory. Writing to on-chip memory gives you a much faster 25Gbps bus to work with and allows the XZ Premium to save a whopping 5 seconds of 960FPS, 720p video,” reports Ars Technica.
