Sony could prepare a competitor for iPhone SE: Xperia ACE 3

iPhone SE remains a highly sought after phone, as it has reached the list of best-selling devices in 2021, and the new, newly launched model will offer extra performance and probably better battery life. While the ZenFone 8 was more of a competitor to the iPhone 12 and 13 Mini, it looks like Sony could be the company offering an alternative to the SE, with an outdated design, low price and high-performance hardware, in the form of the Xperia ACE 3.

The Xperia ACE 3 could be a significant performance upgrade over the ACE 2

The first unofficial images with the Xperia ACE 3 seem to reveal a design similar to that of last year’s ACE 2 model. It comes with a 5.5 ”screen with a notch at the top to accommodate the front camera. The screen has a pronounced “chin” at the bottom, and on the right side includes the power button, with integrated fingerprint sensor.

ACE 3 looks like the phones launched in 2017-2018, about the same time that the design of the iPhone SE debuted. Its dimensions are also small, with a housing measuring 139.7 x 68.6 x 9.1 mm. Like the SE, the ACE 3 has only one camera on the back, after the ACE 2 came with two, one for calculating the distance to the subject in portrait mode.

However, the hardware configuration is the point where we have some doubts about ACE 3. This is because Zollege, the site that published these images in partnership with OnLeaks, claims that this model could benefit from a Snapdragon 888 processor. compete in terms of performance with the iPhone SE model with Apple A15 Bionic. However, last year, the Xperia ACE2 used a MediaTek Helio P35 processor, an old lower-end chip.

The price will be higher, but cheaper than the iPhone SE

But the Xperia ACE 3 should be a little more expensive than more than $ 100, somewhere around $ 330. Thus, it is possible that the performance increases with the price.

What is certain is that we will not see this model on the market until the summer, when Sony usually launches new Xperia mid-range models. It remains to be seen whether the hardware configuration information is true or not.

source: zolledge