MWC 2011- New Smartphone experience with Sony Ericsson

 In MWC 2011, Sony Ericsson introduced the most anticipated android phones in their history namely Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play,XPERIA Pro & XPERIA Neo.

Sony  Ericsson XPERIA Play

First ever PlayStation certified device that gives you immense gaming. Its the perfect combination of communication and entertainment.It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Sony Ericsson believes it is the best smartphone eve.The PlayStation Suite brings the PlayStation experience to the Android platform. PlayStation quality gaming experience   to be available on Android devices. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play is the first PlayStation certified store.

This handset features a 4 inch capacitive multi-touch display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread) operatingsystem, 1 GHz Scorpion ARMv7 processor, Slide-out gaming keypad, 5 megapixel camera, Dedicated gaming keys, Gesture gaming, Motion gaming and more. Check out the official photos of the amazing Xperia Play smartphone below.

The Xperia Play looks like a really interesting device, but I'm still wondering why Sony didn't just go ahead and make the NGP a phone, subsidize it to a carrier (or carriers), and recoup some of the costs. 

The iPhone has become the mobile gaming platform to beat -- it seems like the Xperia Play is going to be a worse gaming platform than the NGP, and a worse phone OS than the iPhone. In what universe is this thing going to be successful.

 Sony Ericsson's Xperia Neo

 Sony Ericsson's Xperia Neo is a Multimedia phone like XPERIA Arc form factor in a 3.7 inch screen running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and specs are really a media core device.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA Neo has athe following specifications:

• 116 x 57 x 13 mm, 126 grams
• 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor
• 3.7″  Capacitive TFT Touchscreen with Mobile BRAVIA Engine and 854x480 Pixels Resolution (Scratch Resistant)
• 8 Megapixel Exmor Camera with LED Flash and 720p (1280x720 Pixels) HD Video Recording
• Android 2.3 Gingerbread
• 320 MB Internal Memory, microSD Cards upto 32GB (8GB Card Included)
• Blue Gradient, Red and Silver Colour Variants
• 3.5mm Audio Jack, HDMI Output
• Bluetooth, microUSB, DLNA, Wi-Fi

If you look for very Android phone with  good camera and speedy 1Ghz processor device, then XPERIA Neo is best option in the current multimedia device 

category.  

Sony Ericsson XPERIA PRO

Xperia Pro is looks like the same form factor of XPERIA Mini pro with 

landscape slider.HD video, HDMI, Bravia Engine, Exmor R for mobile -- notice the trend. Slide-out QWERTY keyboard inspired by X10 Mini Pro.

 

The device sports a 3.7-inch, 854 x 480 display (which uses the company's Bravia graphics engine technology), runs atop a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, and is sporting SE's customized build of Gingerbread (Android 2.3). The phone has an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, 2 megapixel front facing camera

Nothing Much Appeal Design , it is  just an upgrade of Mini Pro for business users with combination  of Neo and XPERIA x10 Mini specs.

Pictures Source : Engadget

MWC 2011- Samsung's Smartphone Slam - Samsung Galaxy S2 & Tablet 2

Samsung announced the successor to the Galaxy S today at the Samsung Unpacked event in Mobile World Congress 2011 at Barcelona. It is officially known as the Samsung Galaxy S II. Specs proved to the world that Samsung is a  true leader in display and hardware distributor for smartphones.

Samsung Galaxy S II

• 4.27-inch 800 x 480Super AMOLED Plus display
• 8 megapixel primary camera with 1080p video capture accompanied by a 2 megapixel cam up front
•  TouchWiz 4.0, integrated NFC support
• 8.49mm thick, making it likely the thinnest smartphone ever to roll off , in fact, it's over 0.2mm slimmer than the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc's
• 1 GHz dual core processor, 
• 3D user interface, 
• HSPA+ connectivity, Bluetooth 3.0+HS, 
•  Android Market, Social Hub Premium, Readers Hub, Game Hub, Music Hub, Kies Air, NFC (Near Field Communication) and more.
• 1650mAh battery (largest battery on any smartphone)

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8 Mega pixel Camera with 1080p Full HD recording. Whoooww,,,,,,,,

Finally Samsung has gotten it. The phone looks gorgeous, specs are good, no more bump at the back, very thin. The only thing that bothers me is the form-factor. To me it seems too big for a phone. I don't like huge phones.

Looks good but being such a thin phone it probably means its got apathetic battery in it. The manufacturers inability to fit a sensible sized battery into a smart phone is the thing that gets more complaints than anything. I imagine with these specs it will be out of power in 6-8 hours if you used it a lot which isn't actually that smart. I still like it but would not buy it if the battery is crap.

Specs are way Better than original Galaxy S, but build quality is same, Crappy Cheap Plastic build. Looks like high end hardware in a cheap plastic box.

Rating : 8/10

Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2 

Galaxy Tab II teasing the HP touchpad ,Motorol XOOM , but the time has come ;Samsung's finally releasing the official details of its 10.1-inch, Android Honeycomb tablet to the world. The original Galaxy Tab had a 7 inch display, but the latest Galaxy Tab comes with a large 10.1 inch touchscreen display. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is powered by the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system.

Specs and launch details

This time counter attack won't be easy to APPLE, Nice work SAMSUNG!!!.But that is APPLE, also expecting be surprised.I think maybe next week, Apple will take some actions,

Hope not too late .This kind of competite, it will be good for Tablet World

Source : Engadget for Pictures

CES 2011 - Tablet War

Every one knows that Apple iPad tablet kills the Netbook market, but in CES 2011 most of all major manufactures like Dell,Samsung,LG,Blackberry ,Motorola launched their Tablets prodcut to stay in race with Apple. Most Tablets used  Android OS to gain some tablet market share with high performance  hardware  features to support 4G and LTE network .

Netbook market is sure to hit by the many latest tablets with Google and Windows 7 Flavor to makes customers to buy Tablet instead of Netbook.

In the lineup of the top  tablets released in the last couple of days we give you a rundown:

Motorola Xoom - DHOOM

Motorola is dropping a bomb with 3.0 Honeycomb tablet dubbed the Motorola Xoom.

• A 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2
• 10.1-incher
• 4G connectivity
• 1280 x 800 resolution
• 5 megapixel camera, 720p video recording and 1080p video playback
• 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• 32GB of onboard storage.

Velocity Micro
 Velocity Micro has just revealed a trio of new tablets: the 7-inch Cruz Tablet L37, the 8-inch Cruz Tablet P38 and the 10.1-inch Cruz Tablet L510
 

L37 is equipped with a 1024 x 600 capacitive touchpanel, 802.11n WiFi, 4GB of internal memory, front / rear-facing cameras, optional 3G, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and a micro-HDMI out port. The P38 is effectively the same, but it relies on a 1024 x 768 resolution display.

The L510 gets equipped with a 1366 x 768 resolution display, NVIDIA’s Tegra 250 chipset and a 1GHz dual-core CPU.

Dell Streak Tablets


Dell Streak 5 incher already exists and launched in India @ 35,000 Rs  and now the company has dropped the 7 inch Streak with the 10 inch teased and slated for next year, Lets take a look at the specs

• Brilliant seven-inch WVGA (TFT) touch screen display with Gorilla Glass
• Android 2.2 (Froyo) with Android Market
• Qik video chat with built-in front-facing 1.3-megapixel webcam
• Stage User Interface – easy access to the stuff you care about
• Dual core 1Ghz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor
• SMS/MMS, SWYPE® virtual keyboard and stereo Bluetooth 2.1 capable
• Support for Adobe® Flash® Player
• Support for Microsoft® Exchange e-mail, contacts and calendar
• 16 GB of internal memory and SD Card slot with support for expandable memory up to 32 GB
• Dimensions: 7.87″ x 4.72″ x 0.49″

Panasonic Viera Tablet

• The Android based and will be available in 4, 7, and 10-inch sizes.
• Android 2.2 with Panasonic’s Viera UI operating on top
• The 10- and 7-inch models feature HDMI and USB ports, as well as card readers
• The 4-inch only has an HDMI port.
• Still Prototypes

View Sonic

ViewSonic swapped some internals and moved to a smaller 16GB SSD, but it's still the same 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor underneath

 

• dual-boots Windows 7 Home Premium and Android 1.6 
• USB 2.0, mini-HDMI, microSD and 3.5mm headphone jack. 
•  10-incher also sports a 1.3 megapixel shooter on the front for your video chatting needs.
• Android 2.2 on Tegra 2.

Aspen

Azpen, which is actually introducing two variations on a dual-boot Windows 7 / Android tablet: one with a 16:9, 10.1-inch screen, and one with a 4:3, 9.7-inch display.

• packed with Atom N455 processor
• Android 2.2 alongside Windows 7 
• capacitive display, "up to" 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage

Augen

Just like the original, the next version of the Gentouch 78 and mock up looked a lot like Acer's 7-inch tablet 7-inch resistive display

• 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPU, front-facing cam, 8GB of storage
•  800MHz TCC 8902 processor, 
• 2GB of storage

2011 is going to be Tablet World......................

Source : Engadget

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