We're live at Sony's Mobile World Congress press event, where the company is launching two smartphones and a tablet: The Z2 and M2 smartphones, and the Z2 Tablet.

We'll start with Sony's new flagship smartphone, the Z2. Like most devices being launched at Mobile World Congress, the Z2 has a new Snapdragon processor, the 801. Like the Snapdragon 800, the 801 is a quad-core, 2.3GHz chip with an Adreno 330 GPU. Gigahertz aren't everything though, and Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 801 is faster than the Snapdragon 800. The Z2 has a 5.2-inch 1080p display, 3GB of RAM, and a 3200 mAh battery. The Z2 is yet another device adding 4K video capture to its spec list, and being a Sony Mobile product, it is, of course, waterproof. The highlight of the device seems to be the 1/2.3-inch, 20.7MP camera sensor. Sony is calling this the "world's best mobile camera," which is a pretty bold claim. Sony is one of the few companies with the imaging chops to make such a claim, but we won't be able to really test that for ourselves until we get a review unit.

The Z2 launches globally in March 2014.

The Z2 Tablet has the same 2.3GHz 801 Snapdragon and 10.1-inch 1920×1200 display, 8.1MP rear and 2.2MP front cameras, and a 6000 mAh battery. The waterproof Z2 Tablet is 6.4 mm thick and launches globally March 2014.





Sony is also launching the M2 midrange smartphone, which has a 1.2Ghz quad-core Snapdragon 400 SoC and a 2300 mAh battery. It launches globally in April 2014. There is also a dual-SIM variant.

Keep in mind this is Mobile World Congress, so not all of these devices will necessarily make it to the USA. It's hard for a company to claim it has "the worlds best mobile camera" and for us to not take notice though, so we'll try to get one in for review.