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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s nothing like a good camera you don’t have to hang around your neck — or one that doesn’t feel like your carrying a brick in your pocket or purse. That’s why I’m telling my family and friends to consider the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700. It allows you to take great pictures at those special occasions [...]

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Tags: Cool Stuff · Gadgets & Gear · Guy Stuff

Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1a available for pre-order at Best Buy

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Cellphones

As one astute tipster’s pointed out, the XPERIA X1a is now available for pre-order on the Best Buy site. Now that the phone’s really, finally, almost here are you totally psyched? Or have you been too busy playing with your G1 to notice? Like we saw last week, the phone will retail for [...]

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CLXVI: the Sany Ericssan X1 with Wyndowz Mobil

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Cellphones

Strategic advantages Sany Ericssan holds over Sony Ericsson:

A quarterly sales volume measured in the hundreds is considered a rousing success.
Neither Sany nor Ericssan have any intention of pulling out of the joint venture.
“Outsourcing” of industrial design saves time, money, and staff.
None of those pesky Windows Mobile licensing fees to worry about.
GPRS data speed [...]

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Sony announces new CMOS sensors, 12+ megapixel cameraphones coming soon

November 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras

If you’ve enjoyed the point-and-shoot megapixel race, which has pushed sensor resolutions in your average 3X zoom compact cam well into the teens — leaving a sad trail of dark and noisy holiday pictures in its wake — you’re going to just love the mobile phone megapixel race. Samsung’s 10 megapixel [...]

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Sony smartly hacks $100 off of its mylo 2 before the holidays

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Handhelds

We don’t have any hard sales figures in front of us or anything, but we can’t imagine that Sony has moved too many (or just two, actually) of its mylo 2 “Internet Devices” since launching it this past January. To that end, the outfit is hacking a full Benjamin from the purchase price, [...]

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Exclusive: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 review, release date, pricing

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
(Credit: Corinne Schulze/CBS Interactive)

You’re hearing it here first, folks: The long-awaited Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 will be available in the United States on November 28 for an unlocked price of 9.99 through Sony Style stores. Go ahead, we’ll give you a …
The Rest Of The Story at Popular Science Magazine …

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Tags: Cool Stuff · Gadgets & Gear

Manufacturing delays said to be slowing XPERIA X1 sales

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Cellphones
As you might have noticed, there’s already plenty of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1s out in the wild by this point, but there’s apparently not quite as many as SE would like, and it’s laying the blame on some slightly mysterious manufacturing delays. According to IDG News, Sweden, Germany and the U.K. have been [...]

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CMEL shows off 1mm-thick 25-inch HD OLED panel

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Displays, HDTV
Call us crazy, but we’re thinking the OLED battle is totally on. With the novelty of Sony’s XEL-1 behind us and the lust for bigger screen sizes completely consuming our minds, we’re drooling at the mere thought of a 25-inch OLED panel that checks in at just 1-millimeter thick. Taiwan’s Chi Mei [...]

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Sony Ericsson posts XPERIA X1 user guide for your perusal

October 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Cellphones
We won’t embarrass you by asking when the last time you read a book was, but we know good and well you’ll be fixated on this here PDF. As the run-up to the long-awaited release of Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 continues, the outfit has been kind enough to post up the official 26-page [...]

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New Sony Reader Brings Backlight, Touchscreen to Digital Books: Hands-On First Look

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Sony has introduced a new PRS-700 Reader e-book. We got some brief playtime with an early model at Sony’s launch event last night and found the improvements over the PRS-505 to be useful, but hardly revolutionary.

The Rest Of The Story at Popular [...]

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