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Sony Tablet S and Tablet P Android 4.0 update 'this spring'
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Sony has told TechRadar that it will be bringing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to its tablet portfolio this spring – which is the first time the company has actually named a time frame for the update.
Before, Sony would only confirm a 'coming soon' but at an event in London, a spokesperson for the company said that ICS would be hitting both the Sony Tablet S and Sony Tablet P in the spring and at the same time.
This means that the tablets will be getting Ice Cream Sandwich around the same time as Sony's phone portfolio.
Cream of the tablet crop
Sony also said that both tablets would be getting a new update in the near future which would bring Microsoft Office functionality but the company d...
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Sony redesigns back-lit CMOS for improved smartphone cameras
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Sony has developed CMOS designs to offer improved performance on small sensors and is planning three such sensors for smartphones and similar devices. The 'Stacked CMOS' design builds on the backlit CMOS idea by building the light-sensitive photo element on top of the processing circuitry, rather than combining them in a single layer. This creates a greater light-sensitive area while also making more space for processing circuitry. The company has also demonstrated two feaures that use the extra circuitry space of the design.
The first of these features is what Sony is calling RGBW Coding, which appears to be another attempt at including clear (white) pixels in the sensor's color filter arra...
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Sony Freshens Up Vaio Series with New Color and Hardware Options
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Sony today announced a bit of a Spring refresh for its Vaio Z laptop line, which is really more like a post-CES refresh here in the States where Spring doesn't officially kick off for about another two months. Timing and verbiage aside, Sony's tweaked Vaio Z laptops represent a minor refresh that begins with a new color option -- Carbon Fiber Silver -- and continues with an optional 4G LTE mobile broadband upgrade.
The Carbon Silver SKU joins Carbon Black, Carbon Gold, and Premium Carbon Black (matte) as color options. Inside Vaio Z laptops are upgraded Core i5 and i7 processor options and RAID 0 solid state drives (SSDs). Sony's Vaio Z line is still highlighted by Sony's Power Media Dock dr...
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AT&T switches up Sony PlayStation Vita data plan options
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AT&T announced at CES 2012 that it would be carrying the Sony PlayStation Vita portable connected gaming device, and with that announcement, it said that customers would be able to choose between two data plans for it - a $15 per month plan that offered 250MB of data, and a $25 per month plan with 2GB of data. Now that AT&T has introduced new data plans for its smartphone and tablet devices, it has decided to change the offerings for the Vita as well. Gone is the $25 per month option, replaced by a 3GB, $30 per month plan. It appears that users will still be able to choose the smaller data package if they desire. The PlayStation Vita is due to hit AT&T's shelves on February 22 for $299.
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Sony develops new CMOS sensor tech
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Sony has announced that it has developed a new "next-generation" back-illuminated CMOS image sensor, which it claims "embodies the continuous evolution of the camera."
The new sensor layers the pixel section containing formations of back-illuminated structure pixels onto chips containing the circuit section for signal processing.
This is in place of supporting substrates for conventional back-illuminated CMOS image sensors.
This means the usual supporting structure is omitted and the two sections can be produced separately.
As a result Sony claims that the structure can achieve further enhancement in image quality, superior functionalities and a more compact size. Faster speeds coupled with ...
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Hack Allows PS3 Games to be Played Remotely on Vita
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People are already doing hacking that involves the PS Vita, but the hacking is taking place on a PS3. Apparently PS3 firmware 3.55 sees the Vita as a mobile phone, and that somehow allows the portable to play games via its Remote Play feature.
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Sony announces the Cyber Shot DSC-WX50 and DSC-W630 in Japan «
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Cyber Shot fans rejoice! Sony did not forget about you and announced today two new Cyber Shots with the :
- DSC-WX50, a 16.2Mpix Exmor R CMOS Camera with a 5x optical Zoom, an ISO speed up to 3200 and expandable up to 12800, 3D Photo, SDXC, and 1080/60i AVCHD Video for just 25,000 Yen.
- DSC-W630, a 16,1Mpix CCD Camera, with 3D Photo and 3D Panorama, SDXC, ISO up to 3200 and 720/30p video mode for just 17,000 Yen.
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Sony Announces BDP-S790 Blu-ray Player Coming Soon
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Sony is looking to release new Blu-ray players in April. Among the collection is the BDP-S790, which is the company’s flagship model. The main feature about this device is that it is capable of upscaling Blu-ray movies from full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution to a 4K resolution. A 4K resolution is 4 times the pixels of 1080p resolution and provides the same kind of detail that is seen in the theaters. Other major features will include Wi-Fi capabilities, the Smart TV platform, and access to the Sony Entertainment Network. Sony has not announced a retail price for the BDP-S790 at this time.
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PS Vita sales crash in post holiday slump
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Sony's PS Vita hasn't been out in Japan very long, launching in December 2011, however after a promising start its sales have plummeted, dropping to 18,361 in week five.
Although you'd expect a steady decline in sales after any big launch the week five figures constitute a 95 per cent drop on the very decent week one figures of 324,859. This is a serious bit of free fall for the console and sullies the PS Vita's 500,000 units-sold milestone.
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Leaked Sony 2012 smartphone roadmap reveals potentially birdy, minty flagships
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Grab a bowl of salt and start pinching, folks. A sales report for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications India is floating around the internet that's purportedly packing a list of 2012's planned handsets along with suggested pricing. The 11-strong list is in Rupees, and whilst we've reproduced it in full above, it's worth bearing in mind that cellphones in the "developing world" (no offense intended) are often more expensive than the equivalent handset in the US (the 16GB iPhone 4S, for example costs $650 in the US but $882 in India).
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Sony Still Plans to Develop OLED HDTVs
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It was announced last week that Sony would be discontinuing development of OLED HDTVs and monitors. Apparently those statements are false as Sony announced that they are still working on OLED-TVs alongside of their new Crystal LED TV that was also announced at CES. The Crystal LED technology uses thousands of tiny LED lights to replace pixels from an LCD screen. By controlling the LED lights, the TV is able to give a better color quality and impressive black levels. The OLED TVs have indeed been discontinued, but it was announced that Sony plans to continue research, development, and produce OLED TV panels. Hopefully Sony will see how the market behaves with the many other companies that are...
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Sony's "four-screen" platform teased, to be called Dot Switch?
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When talking about the buyout of Ericsson's part in the Sony Ericsson joint venture, CEO Sir Howard Stinger mentioned that a big part in that decision played something he called the "four-screen" concept. Sony's idea to make its TVs, computers, tablets and smartphones interact with each other seamlessly has been five years in the making, he clarified in November last year, and the presence of another company in its smartphone unit, by which it had to run decisions, was only hampering progress. Well, now that Sony Ericsson is Sony Mobile Communications, nothing is stopping the dream from being fulfilled. Sony outed a video which shows how things will eventually work across the board. If you a...
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Sony's upcoming Nypon handset to feature its WhiteMagic display with 1000 nits of brightness?
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The Sony Ericsson LT22i "Nypon" prototype that was leaked a while ago, is seemingly coming with Sony's new "WhiteMagic" display tech, if this new spec leak below is to be believed. Sony's upcoming Nypon handset to feature its WhiteMagic display with 1000 nits of brightness? Coming at qHD resolution with the Nypon, the WhiteMagic screen technology's main virtue lies in its 1000 nits of brightness in "outdoor mode", as much as the brightest mobile display out there, on the Nokia 701. Also, Sony claims that in regular mode, the display draws half of the juice that conventional LCDs usually do, which should do some wonders for the battery life on the Nypon. The handset was also pictured recently...
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Sony HDR-PJ760V Camera Projector Now Available for Pre-Ordering
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Sony made big news back in June when they unveiled their PJ series camcorders. These devices came with their own pico projectors for instant viewing of what the user just recorded. This week at CES, Sony has unveiled the next generation, the HDR-PJ760V. This device is capable of recording full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution images or 24.5MP still images. There is a 96GB flash memory that equates to about 40 hours of recording time. The projector has a run time of about 100 minutes from the battery and can display up to a 640 x 360 resolution. It can also display a 100 inch screen from about 16 feet away. Unfortunately the company did not release additional information about the projector at thi...
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Sony Music Unlimited bringing its own streaming flair to iOS soon
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We heard back in December that Sony's fledgling Music Unlimited service would eventually be spreading its wings to cover even more operating systems, and here at CES 2012, we've learned that it's Apple's own iOS on the docket. Tim Schaaff, head of Sony Entertainment Network noted this week that the company will offer a gratis iPhone and iPad app for Music Unlimited "at some point this quarter." It's bruited that the iOS edition will offer offline caching for subscribers to its service (at least the premium ones), enabling 'em to save playlists for listening even when away from a network connection. Naturally, Sony's got some stiff competition in the world of iOS tunage, but it's hoping that ...
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