While Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich won’t be rolling out to the Sony Xperia Play, it will be rolling out to other Xperia devices next week. Sony has confirmed that the software will be arriving for owners of seven Xperia branded devices next week and it will be arriving in the form of Android 4.0.4 [...]
Sony has confirmed the bad news. The Sony Xperia Play, the company’s PlayStation phone, will not be getting the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In a blog post, the company updated its customers on the Android 4.0 roll out process and in it, Sony announced that the Xperia Play would not be getting [...]
Instead of rolling out in early June as was originally promised, it now looks like the Sony Xperia S Ice Cream Sandwich update will instead be rolling out at some point in the latter part of Q2. In a post on its forums, courtesy of Xperia Blog, Sony has confirmed the bad news to Xperia [...]
Sony is bringing its music streaming service to the iPhone, giving users yet another alternative to Spotify, Rdio, and MOG. According to 9To5Mac, the Sony Music Unlimited iPhone app is currently available in the New Zealand App Store, and will likely hit the U.S. App Store shortly. Like other music streaming services, Sony Music Unlimited [...]
It looks like Sony’s flagship Android smartphone, the Sony Xperia S, will be getting its boost up to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich by early June at the latest. A report from UnwiredView, citing a post on Sony’s forums, indicates that Sony is planning to push out Google’s latest mobile operating system to the Xperia [...]
With Sony’s rivals releasing thin and light smartphone designs with larger HD touchscreen displays and either powerful dual-core or quad-core processors, Sony is letting its Xperia lineup sit idly behind. A new Xperia flagship is being discussed by Chiense sources, which had a picture of the phone in the wild, called the Sony LT29i, codenamed [...]
A recently unearthed patent filed by Sony in late 2010 reveals that the company had been considering an Xperia smartphone design with multiple slide-out keyboards–similar to the idea of a Swiss Army knife–so that users can slide up the keypads that they don’t need to reveal a keypad that they do like. The versatility of [...]
It appears that the latest tablet to get Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system is none other than Sony’s Tablet S. The update is now available to those that own the Android slate. Sony confirmed the news on its blog, saying that the update is ready to be pulled. Owners should be prompted [...]
The Sony SmartWatch, that was first introduced back at CES 2012, has finally landed on shelves in the United States with a $149 price tag attached to it. The SmartWatch is a companion device in that it requires a connection via Bluetooth to an Android phone in order to fully take advantage of its capabilities. [...]
Expanding out from its LCD comfort zone on smartphones, Sony (formerly Sony Ericsson) will be releasing an Xperia smartphone with an AMOLED screen in the second half of this year. All prior and current smartphones from Sony and Sony Ericsson have utilized LCD panels, and recently Sony has began to expand its marketing efforts for [...]
Back at Mobile World Congress, Sony announced that it would start rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich updates in mid-April. Today Sony announced that three Xperia phones will start receiving Android 4.0 updates in that timeframe. Sony revealed that it will start the Android 4.0 roll-out with the Xperia arc S, Xperia neo V, and Xperia [...]
In May of 2011, Google launched its Chrome OS Chromebooks. They never really caught on with the masses. However, it seems that the project is not over as a Sony VAIO Chromebook called the Sony VAIO VCC111 Series has leaked out through the FCC complete with specifications and photos. If it makes it to shelves, [...]
Sony has filed for a patent application that would allow users to control their phones more accurately without having to touch their capacitive displays as they do now on many modern smartphones. By situating the front-facing camera, which is primarily used for video chats and self portrait shots today, behind the glass touchscreen display rather [...]
It’s apparently benchmark day here in the tech world as earlier today, benchmarks for the new (and mediocre looking) Droid Incredible 4G surfaced and now, we have some benchmarks for what appears to be a Tegra 3 quad-core tablet, running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, made by Sony. The device is apparently running Android 4.0.3 [...]
One of the biggest themes to come out of the Mobile World Congress this year has been quad-core smartphones. HTC has announced one. LG as well. And there have been a few smaller players like Fujitsu and Huawei who unveiled quad-core smartphones as well. Noticeably absent is Sony, famous for its Xperia line of phones, [...]
After Sony had announced that it would fully take over Sony Ericsson and buy out its partner Ericsson’s investment in the joint venture, it was believed–and hoped–that with Sony in full control at the helm of the new Sony Mobile, things would change for the smartphone division and there would be more synergies between Sony’s [...]
It’s been a long time since Sony announced the Tablet S and Tablet P. The Tablet S was released months ago, but in the US we still haven’t seen any hint of the dual-screen Tablet P. That is until today. AT&T announced that the Sony Tablet P will be coming to its network on March [...]
The Sony Xperia S smartphone, which was announced last month at the Consumer Electronics Show, is now shipping globally and users can begin to save up for the handset if they choose. The smartphone will be the first device to abandon the Sony Ericsson branding as Sony takes over the mobile operations from the former [...]
Sony has finally taken the wraps off of its much leaked Xperia P and Xperia U smartphones, which are mid-range and budget-conscious cousins the the company’s Xperia S flagship that was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month. Announced at Mobile World Congress, both the Xperia P and Xperia U will [...]
Good news for those of you who own a Sony Xperia Arc S, Xperia Neo V or Xperia Ray. The company has released an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich beta ROM for your devices that you can install, right now, if you want to get an early look at what Ice Cream Sandwich is going [...]
Two new promotional videos for the Sony XPERIA S were leaked showing new changes to Sony’s smartphone user interface on top of Android. Called the Sony UXP NXT, the new Sony UI reveals changes to the gallery, music player, and TimeScape. Additionally, there’s a new setup guide, a new lock screen interface, an FM Radio [...]
While HTC and LG figure to be the the leaders of the pack in terms of announcements at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, there are also going to be a couple of other familiar companies on hand announcing new hardware. One of those companies figures to be Sony who might be announcing a [...]
According to a report from Pocket-Lint, HTC will be delivering PlayStation Certified smartphones at some point during 2012, possibly as soon as Mobile World Congress which kicks off later this month in Barcelona. If true, it would mean that HTC would become one of, if not the first, company not called Sony to see the [...]
After acquiring Ericsson’s share of the mobile phone division, Sony’s move to bring smartphone development fully in-house may bring with it some unexpected change. Currently, Sony’s XPERIA smartphone lineup exclusively runs on Google’s Android operating system, but that may be coming to an end as the Japanese electronics giant as Sony may be looking to [...]
Sony is now beginning to support Mac users with its Android XPERIA smartphones by making a version of its synchronization software available to OS X customers. Though Mac users can mount their phones as a drive and drag and drop content into their phones, Sony’s new Bridge software will give an iTunes-iOS-like environment where Android [...]
A recent filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reveals that Sony is applying for a trademark on the XPERIA Sola name. Sola, which means solo or alone, could indicate an entirely new smartphone for the Japanese electronics giant, which had gained custody of the XPERIA phone line after a divorce with Ericsson, or [...]
Prior to landing his role as CEO of Sony, Kaz Hirai had been instrumental in helping to shape Sony’s tablet efforts. As Sony is organizational operated as independent divisions, it is said that the company had four different divisions develop four unique tablets simultaneously. The User Experience Group had ultimately in the end scrapped three [...]
The previously leaked Sony Nypon smartphone is now speculated to adopt the XPERIA P brand when the phone gets announced, probably at Mobile World Congress in February. The phone was leaked at around the same time that we’ve seen the recent Sony Kumquat leaks, which is now said to be launching as the XPERIA U. [...]
While most of the attention at CES 2012 was on Nokia’s Lumia 900 and Verizon’s Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX and Droid 4, Sony also launched two new Android phones. One of those phones is the Xperia S which is a GSM 3G/HSPA phone that will be sold internationally. And while we thought we knew what [...]
Sony is introducing some new technologies on its XPERIA S flagship smartphone for 2012, including the ability to repel stains and rapidly charge the phone. The former feature is something that manufacturers have experimented with in the past, including HTC with its Teflon coating on the original international GSM variant of the HTC Hero. According [...]
A new leak for AT&T reveals some interesting tidbits, including pricing and the launch date for the HTC Titan II smartphone as well as a new unannounced device called the Sony Crystal, which is believed to be a tablet. The HTC Titan II is said to be launching on March 18. The device is among [...]
Following Sony’s leaked code names of upcoming devices for 2012, it looks like we’re getting a better grasp of at least two new, unannounced models. Specs and photos for the Sony Tapioca and Sony Nypon smartphones were leaked. At this time, it’s still unclear what the final release names of these smartphones will be. The [...]
While Sony has been a late-comer to the tablet arena, the outfit’s Tablet S slate may be a breakout success in the Android tablet category. In October, Sony’s Tablet S has garnered 26 percent of the UK Android slate market share, placing it among the top Android slates. The tablet initially launched a month prior [...]
Prior to CES 2012, there were speculations that Sony would introduce a successor to its 2011 flagship Android smartphone in the form of the XPERIA Arc HD, but that never came to fruition. Instead, at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the company introduced a high-end XPERIA S smartphone. So what happened to the Arc HD? [...]
The leaked Sony Kumquat smartphone that we had recently reported on may launch as the Sony XPERIA U smartphone, joining its bigger brothers the Sony XPERIA Ion and the Sony XPERIA S. Still not a lot of information is known about the phone, but Indonesia’s regulatory body, which is the equivalent of the U.S. FCC, [...]
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