Sharp is true on cue with its newest Japan-exclusive flagship smartphone launch – the Aquos R8 and R8 Professional. Aquos R8 Professional builds on final yr’s Aquos R7 with the newest era flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset from Qualcomm.
Aquos R8 and R8 Professional
Aquos R8 Professional will get a 6.6-inch Professional IGZO OLED display screen with 1,260 x 2,730px decision and a 240Hz refresh price. The panel additionally brings 10-bit shade assist and Dolby Imaginative and prescient in addition to 2,000-nits peak brightness.
Aquos R8 incorporates a 6.39-inch panel with a waterdrop notch the identical core specs because the R8 Professional albeit with a 1,300 nits peak brightness.
Across the again, Aquos R8 Professional incorporates a 47MP essential cam with a 1-inch kind sensor co-developed with Leica, an F/1.9 aperture and a 19mm focal size. There’s a 1.9MP depth sensor retaining it firm however no ultrawide or telephoto lens. Aquos R8 brings a 1/1.55-inch 50.3MP essential sensor alongside a 13MP ultrawide module.
Aquos R8 digital camera system (left) and R8 Professional cameras (proper)
The opposite attention-grabbing bit is that the digital camera rings on each telephones additionally double as passive coolers by dissipating warmth away from the telephones’ motherboards.
Each telephones are geared up with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC which is joined by 12GB LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB UFS 4.0 storage. Aquos R8 Professional packs a 5,000 mAh battery whereas the vanilla R8 will get a 4,570 mAh cell.
Aquos R8 and R8 Professional are IP68 water and dirt resistant and include microSD card slots and headphone jacks. Each telephones boot Android 13 with a promised 3 OS model updates and as much as 5 years of safety updates. The latter will likely be service dependent.
Aquos R8 is available in Blue and Cream colours whereas Aquos R8 Professional will be had in Black. Each telephones are happening open sale in Japan from July 15.
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