Leaker Roland Quandt shared a new batch of Sony Xperia 1 VIII images on Bluesky on May 11, offering what appears to be another close look at Sony’s upcoming flagship before its expected May 13 debut.
The source didn’t say where the images came from, but the renders line up with earlier leaks that surfaced in recent days. Because Quandt has a strong track record on unreleased hardware, the new set is widely being treated as a credible preview of the phone’s near-final design.
From the front, the device sticks with Sony’s familiar styling. It appears to use a flat 19.5:9 display and keeps the relatively wider top and bottom bezels that have long set Xperia phones apart from the rest of the flagship market.
Around the back, though, Sony seems ready to make a bigger visual change. The leaked images suggest the phone is moving away from the brand’s signature vertical camera strip and switching to a more compact rear camera island that sits close to the edge of the handset.
Sony also looks set to keep one of the Xperia line’s most distinctive hardware traits: a dedicated camera shutter button. That should still appeal to users who like shooting in landscape orientation and want half-press focus control. The side-mounted capacitive fingerprint reader also appears to remain integrated into the power button instead of shifting to an in-display solution.
As for colors, earlier reports said the flagship could arrive in Graphite Black, Iolite Silver, Garnet Red, and Native Gold. The newly shared renders show several of those options, though Native Gold does not appear in this latest batch. Taken together, the leak points to a phone that keeps Sony’s hardware identity intact while giving its camera design a noticeably different look.
