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Sony Xperia XA1

smartphone model by Sony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ30943511 ↗
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The Sony Xperia XA1 is a smartphone produced by Sony. Part of the Xperia X Series, the device was unveiled along with the Sony Xperia XZ Premium, Sony Xperia XZs and Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra at the annual Mobile World Congress in February 2017.

Specifications

Hardware

It features a 23 megapixel rear camera, an 8 megapixel front-facing camera, headphone jack, 32 GB of on board storage (which can be expanded up to 256 GB via micro SD) and a 5.0 inch 720p display.

The Xperia XA1 SoC uses a MediaTek Helio P20 (MT6757) with only 3GB of RAM.

Software

It runs on Android 7.0 "Nougat" out of the box and it can be updated to Android 8.0 "Oreo" via software update by Sony.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sony Xperia XA1” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.