Renders show unannounced midrange Sony Xperia smartphonessmart

Renders of upcoming midrange smartphones from Sony have surfaced online. The Xperia devices get compared to their predecessors a fingerprint scanner. It is on the back and not on the side, as with more expensive Xperia phones.

The most expensive of the three midrange Xperias, the XA2 Ultra, will have a double front camera, according to the renders, Venturebeat writes. The piece’s author is Evan Blass, who as @evleaks on Twitter has posted accurate information about unannounced smartphones countless times over the past five years.

The dual front camera of the XA2 Ultra would have a resolution of fifteen megapixels. Like its predecessor, the phone would have a 6″ LCD with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. The smaller XA2 will have a 5″ screen with the same full HD resolution. The dual front camera is missing: instead there is a single 7-megapixel front camera and a single 21-megapixel camera on the back. Both XA models would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630-soc.

The cheapest of the three would be the Xperia L2, with a 5.2″ screen with 720p resolution. Little else is known about the successor to the current Xperia L1. The first moment when Sony could announce the phones is electronics fair CES next week.The renders show a date of February 25. That is the day of press conferences prior to Mobile World Congress, the fair that Sony has used for years to show new smartphones for the first time.