Sony Xperia October event: How to watch it and what to expect

(Pocket-lint) - Sony typically announces its latest harvest of Xperia smartphones astatine MWC Barcelona successful precocious February and past much astatine IFA Berlin successful Setember. For 2021 however, the institution announced some the Xperia 1 III 5G and the Xperia 1 III 5G astatine a Spring event, followed by the Xperia 10 III devices a small later, meaning the accustomed merchandise rhythm has been slighty different.

A caller Xperia merchandise is connected the skyline though, with Sony announcing an lawsuit successful October. 

When is the Sony Xperia event?

The Japanese marque volition clasp an lawsuit connected Tuesday 26 October 2021 astatine 12:00 JST. Here are the antithetic section times:

• London: 04:00am BST
• Paris/Berlin/Amsterdam/Madrid: 05:00am CEST, Tuesday 27 October
• New York: 11:00pm EDT, Monday 26th October
• San Francisco: 08:00pm PDT, Monday 26th October 
• Tokyo: 12:00pm JST

How tin you ticker the Sony Xperia event?

Sony has confirmed it volition big a watercourse for the lawsuit via the Sony Xperia YouTube account. We volition embed the video astatine the apical of this page.

What to expect from the Sony Xperia event

Sony hasn't confirmed which devices it volition unveil, but fixed its flagship and mid-ranger smartphones were each unusually announced astatine the opening of the year, it's hard to conjecture what the institution has planned for the event.

We haven't seen a tablet from Sony for a portion - since 2015 erstwhile the Xperia Z4 Tablet arrived - truthful a successor to that waterproof slab could beryllium 1 happening to spot a stake on. It could besides beryllium an wholly caller smartphone of course, 1 that doesn't autumn into the company's existent 3 ranges, though fixed those ranges were introduced to simplify things, this would beryllium a small strange. 

For now, it's anyone's guess.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 22 February 2018.