Sony is slated to launch a new flagship phone later this year called the Xperia i1 (codename Honami). It’s supposed to be the phone that turns the company around, and rumors say it’ll have a 20 megapixel camera with optical image stabilization that can also record 4K video. Whether or not that’s true remains to be seen. Sony is going to hold an event in France on the 4th of July, but it would be presumptuous of me to assume that’s where they’ll launch the i1.
Yesterday, a “system dump” of the i1 hit the internet. Think of a system dump as a copy of all the files in a phone’s root directory. In those files was the camera user interface for Honami. The hackers over at XDA have figured out how to make the app run on existing Xperia devices, and the Xperia Blog has a few images of what that UI looks like.
As you can see, it’s quite pretty. It features real time filters, barcode scanners, and what appears to be a clone of Microsoft’s “Lens” feature for Windows Phone. For those unfamiliar with Windows Phone, instead of having multiple camera apps in your app drawer, you have just “one” camera app. Within that app you can select different “lenses”, which are basically just shortcuts.
