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Sony unveiled an interesting gem tonight at CES 2012, as it introduced the Android 2.3-powered Walkman Z1000 series Mobile Entertainment Player to go against the iPod touch and the Galaxy Player. For what is primarily a music player, Sony wanted to make sure this thing has a great music experience. In terms of audio quality,…
Sony likes to make a big splash at CES and the 2012 conference is no different, as it introduced a bevy of new products including two new Xperia smartphones. As you may know, Sony is buying out Sony Ericsson to make mobile devices a bigger part of its brand and we already heard about the…
It wouldn’t be CES 2012 without NVIDIA whetting our appetites for one of its Tegra 3 devices and Asus just teased a 7-inch Android Ice Cream Sandwich with the quad-core Tegra 3 chip for a cool $249. While we didn’t get much about hard specs, we really know the things that matter: Android 4.0, a…
During the CES 2012 introduction of the Lumia 900, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop was touting the fact that the company would have exclusive apps from heavy-hitters on its Lumia line before any other Windows Phone got it. While Nokia needs to stand out from the crowd, Elop clearly stated that the company would never do…
Nokia just took the wrapping off the Lumia 900 at CES 2012 and the Windows Phone will be coming to AT&T within the next couple months and it could kickstart Nokia’s comeback in America. The Lumia 900 sports a 4.3-inch Clear Black LCD display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, an 8-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera and…
Well, it’s not much of a surprise but RIM announced that it will be previewing the next major iteration of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS, version 2.0, at CES 2012 this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. With it comes a host of new improvements and features — one of them being native e-mail! Who ever thought…
Visteon, a global automotive supplier, today revealed its plans to launch an in-vehicle wireless charging system sometime in 2013. The company will get the help of a major vehicle manufacturer and will become one of the first automotive suppliers to bring wireless charging into a vehicle. Similar to Palm’s Touchstone charger, Visteon technology eliminates the need…
At a press event today at CES, AT&T, Microsoft and Nokia jointly announced the high-end Lumia 900, the first 4G LTE Windows Phone handset from Nokia. It was a star-studded event with Stephen Elop, Steve Ballmer and Ralph de la Vega on stage at the same time. As expected, the Lumia 900 is Nokia’s flagship…
Tired of being limited to just two mobile OS’s when it comes apps? Well, this may be a thing of the past. OpenMobile today announced its Application Compatibility Layer (ACL) technology that allows Android apps to run on any platform. This software ports more than 300,000 apps available for Android to devices running on other OS’s…
After completing his keynote speech at CES 2012 today, AT&T President and CEO Ralph de la Vega participated in an interview in which he was asked about shared data plans. These plans would allow multiple AT&T customers with smartphones to all grab from a monthly pool of gigabytes of data. His response? Well, it’s still…