A promo video for the upcoming Sony Xperia 5 V made its way to a Redditor during the tail end of last month, revealing a few things about the upcoming device, at least on the outside. Naturally, the leak meant that an official announcement was upcoming, and the company has finally pegged the date at 1 September. Ahead of the official unveiling, though, more details of the phone may have made its way into the wild.
A Sony device with the code XQ-DE54 has appeared on Geekbench, showing a bit of what the device may run. Among the key takeaways here are naturally the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, Android 13, and 8GB of RAM. The device is shown to have achived scores of 2,004 and 5,059 for single and mutli-core tests.
Beyond the timing of its appearance, this label of XQ-DE54 provides more hints of it being the Sony Xperia 5 V when compared to the ones that came before. To start, the preceding Xperia 5 IV have multiple model tags, from XQ-CQ44 for the Japanese market and XQ-CQ54 for the USA, to SO-54C for the NTT Docomo carrier-exclusive.
Comparing that to the model two generations back, the Xperia 5 III, which feature designations like XQ-BQ42, XQ-BQ52 and SO-53B, and there’s a vague sequence going from B to C and then D. The same can be seen from the Xperia 5 II, which primarily has A in its model designation, with the series starter having a very different code scheme.
Of course, in the end this is all conjecture. Official confirmation will still be after the company officially unveils the Sony Xperia 5 V later this week, and review models get benchmarked while producing comparable results.
(Source: Geekbench)
