 Hey guys, I'm Vlad with The Verge here at IFA 2017 in Berlin and Sony has just announced this new flagship smartphone. This is the Xperia XZ1. Right here it's a 5.2 inch Android device, has a 1080p display, an aluminum unibody design and it's thin and aside from this color there's really nothing exceptional about it seemingly. Honestly when I was coming here to do this video I was going to complain about just how iterative Sony's design has become. It's just a little bit slim but it's still the same old design. The bezels are so Sony, large and in place. They're not like Samsung and LG. They don't seem to be moving with the times. You know this was the thing I was going to tell you about. There's this and there's also the Xperia XZ1 Compact which is a 4.6 inch device which again has these big bezels on there. When you have the bezels and Android controls you don't get that much screen anymore and again comparing this to something like the LG V30 which I've seen here at IFA, it's night and day. Such a massive difference and again I was going to complain about Sony's design. It's nice but we've seen it for five years running. That's what I was going to talk about. Instead there's this runaway sensation here which everybody who's going to try and you know invest a little bit of time to try is going to love with these new Sony phones is to think of 3D creator. It's a face slash head scanning application that Sony has preloaded on here and it has honestly blown my mind. I've scanned a couple of our video producers here and like the quality of these scans is just amazing. I'm one of these people who actually hates AR. Most AR applications up until now have been terrible and I hate anything that is tried to work with it because it's just been so clunky and horrible and Sony has actually done it. They've done such an amazing job with this scanner. It's shocking. I am lost for words with how cool this is and there are these dorky applications which usually put me off which usually I'm a cynic about but with the quality of these scans I want to use them. You know there are these things that make your friends face they superimpose it on like a bear costume and it starts dancing and doing sit-ups and whatever else in AR and usually I just roll my eyes at that but because of the quality of these scans I love it and we're all grinning and just can't get over the quality of it. It's just so sharp and good. So for once okay Sony's design has been iterative again yes but for once Sony has done something truly unique that makes its phones stand out. Aside from faces and heads you can scan food, you can scan all sorts of freeform items and I just I love it. It's amazing honestly the LG V30 as far as phones go is the best phone of this show and maybe even the best phone of this half of the year but as far as just brand new experiences surprises go Sony's 3D creator has just run away with it. So aside from me fawning about a 3D creator I might as well you know do my duty and tell you about what these phones actually include in terms of specs and everything else. Like I say the displays themselves aren't all that impressive or special you've got 1080p resolution on a larger phone 5.2 inches 720p resolution on a 4.6 inch smaller phone. Both of them are running on a Snapdragon 835 processor. Both of them have 2700 mAh batteries which isn't that much for the larger phone but it's actually a pretty nice size for the smaller phone. I think this will get you a lot of battery life. Also cool these are gonna be among the first Android Oreo devices. The Xperia XZ1 is shipping in the middle of September so Sony says it's gonna be the first Android Oreo device and the XZ1 Compact is shipping in October just a little bit later. A lot of other companies are launching phones here with Android Nougat Sony's in the lead with Android Oreo and it's 3D creator. Honestly I haven't been this impressed with Sony at IFA ever. Really the designs have always been attractive but this thing this 3D creator it just blow me away. So these are new Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact. Usually with smartphones we like to ask who is this phone for and with the big new feature here being that 3D creator you might have said people do snapchat and want to create stuff and just do videos and have fun or whatever else but that's not actually me I'm not that person. I'm somebody who hates AR and I've been blown away by the 3D creator purely because of its quality. So who is this phone for? Who are these applications for? I think everybody. You know you just got to give it a chance to give it a try. It's off to me because I'm not in the middle and I go and I want to be in the middle of the parade. Okay.