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[Xperia Z General] vivftp:
This is a lovely development. Sony is apparently set to aquire Gaikai Inc. for about $380 million USD.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/02/us-gaikai-sony-games-idUSBRE86109P20120702

The beauty of a service like this is that so long as you have a fast enough conneciton, you can play games that your device is nowhere near powerful enough to play. For example, you could play an actual PS3 game on your cell phone via wi-fi!

This deal was rumoured just before E3, but nothing was announced. I'm overjoyed that it's now official and can't wait to see what Sony does with this. The potential is huge for Playstation as a whole, but also for their TV and mobile divisions.

EDIT.

Here's some more info:
[Xperia Z General] supercoolman:
if I remember correctly, the IR in Japan phones was used to exchange contacts with ease.
[Xperia Z General] pitamus:
Ahem onlive ahem
[Xperia Z General] draugaz:
At least in Europe (Germany and I think several other countries) they actually tried it and mostly failed. There even is a special broadcasting standard called DVB-H.

The problem is carriers struggle to build a profitable business case out of it.

It is understandable that they don't want to offer it for free. And the TV-Broadcasters also wanted their share of the new cake. So, for example in Germany they got together and asked something like 10Euros/month for couple of public TV channels.

Of course, there were not many takers. People found it strange to pay a substantial amount of money for something what they otherwise watch "for free" over DVB-T, be it a public TV or commercial financed with ads.

So, here we are. Carriers can control DVB-H but can't earn any money out of it. And the DVB-T is broadcasted completely past the carriers, so they can't control it and also can't earn any money out of it. So they don't sell any phones with DVB-H support and possibly even try to restrict such phones in case there is a miracle and people suddenly are prepared to pay for DVB-H or UMTS/LTE streaming.

And the manufacturers themselves have problems with fragmented standards, import duties, certifications, royalties etc and also no real ways to earn money.

As far as I know, the the 1-seg broadcasts in Japan still are not profitable and are not killed only because consumers kind of take it for granted and would revolt. No?
[Xperia Z General] LUCA LUCA:
"Nobody knows for sure. But GX/Hayabusa is supposed to be released 3 month after Japanese release, which would be around September/October"

thats is a pain, i was just about to buy the xperia P when i saw this phone, so decided to wait for the SX, but now ... maybe i should get the xperia P
[Xperia Z General] batman_112:
I just checked Sony Style USA today and still no word on the Xperia P. Any ideas?
[Xperia Z General] Spectre51:
I was told they are just waiting for shipments but I will send another message tomorrow to check.
[Xperia Z General] chrisp7:
Would have made so much more sense to have used DMB over DVB-H. The reason DVB-H failed was because the infracturure wasnt setup around Europe. DVB-H was decided as the standard by the European government (sadly). DMB could have leapfrogged on top of existing DAB transmissions (with modification) and could have meant mobile TV would have been a european reality - now we will end up using mobile networks which is a good thing if you want catchup services, bad thing for network strain.
[Xperia Z General] draugaz:
I doubt it. At least not universally. While UK quite possibly has a good DAB network coverage, many other countries are not so lucky.

For example, in Germany (barring couple of regions) DAB is more dead than alive. And most probably will be scrapped in favour of DAB+ which i think will also have a very difficult time.

In contrast, DVB-T adequately covers most of the country and DVB-H can basically share the same existing equipment. So DMB rollout would be actually much more expensive.

In other words, at least in Germany the problem was not the infrastructure. It was a mismatch between price and offer.

Actually it is quite typical for the modern media industry. New distribution channels are authorised only for direct additional revenue. For example, when DVB-T replaced analogue broadcast, commercial "free to air" broadcasters basically did not bother to migrate. They wanted to get it encrypted, so they can use it as a trojan horse to establish the paytv infrasture. They did not get it, so they dropped the ball.

There are a lot of technologies which were sound by themselves but nevertheless died because of precisely the same reason.
[Xperia Z General] Spectre51:
Still waiting for shipment to arrive.
[Xperia Z General] batman_112:
Cool thanks. Any idea when? Next week or will they release everything with the XS on July 13th like you mentioned earlier?
[Xperia Z General] Spectre51:
They are just waiting for the barcode to be scanned at the logistics warehouse and once it is then the site will go live with the Xperia P. So it could be anyday. Checked today and they should have come in yesterday or today but again have not hit the logistics warehouse yet.
[Xperia Z General] Awesome_Aleks:
I do hope the Xperia SL isn't going to be the flagship for the last few months of the year.

As much as everyone complains, the CPU was one of the things that wasn't really wrong with the device.
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
Its not
[Xperia Z General] georgesmh:
so the xperia SL is for sure??
[Xperia Z General] xperiax10.awesome:
Yes

sent from seXperia S
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
I wonder if there will be a Xperia "flagship" at all this year. First thought Hayabusa would be Sonys H2 flagship device, but according to recent rumors Hayabusa won't be available worldwide, which means that there must be another device. Mint will be the "hero-device" in the new James Bondy movie, so could this be the flagship phone?! I highly doubt that, cause it's a LTE phone which also won't be released worldwide. This means if there is a H2 flagship phone, then it's one we have never heard of before. And considering that CES or MWC 2013 will bring the next wave of Xperia phones along with one (or more) high end models with quad core CPU, then this fourth unknown 2012 device should be available sometime around September-October.
[Xperia Z General] supercoolman:
perhaps skipping flagship for 2H in the rumble of acquisition and rumours is better than consumer disappointment from the hype?
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
Just have more patience :)
[Xperia Z General] khayjason:
What's the difference between Xperia GX's NTSC 100% Display and Xperia S's?

Is there a great difference?
[Xperia Z General] mrsanches:
I'll probably wait for the next mid-range phone, just like the Xperia P

screens are getting to big for me. so mid-range will have the same size as high end have now(xperia s or p). so it will be cheaper and hopefully will do the same job
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
Patience is my virtue, but will it be rewarded by Sony? :)

I've checked this topic and found one comment from u13x which I had almost forgotten.

after some wild discussion, u13x said this:

So there is indeed a fourth yet unknown device "waiting to land" sometime, but if this will be the H2 "flagship" device remains to be seen.
[Xperia Z General] karun11:
Maybe he was hinting at the Xperia S refresh?
[Xperia Z General] TheEndHK:
Your imagine actually is correct because when you read the old posts in this thread, start from the beginning. Some rumors here are keep telling us, there is a unnamed high-end handset other than Hayabusa and Mint which doesn't exist on the leaked 2012 road map. However, the status currently is unknown, we have no idea about it.

People guess it Xperia Play2 at first in this thread but there was a Japan Sony Senior Management staff who claimed there is no Play2 in the last month if my memory correct. It might be a Sony Note or Xperia Nexus in my opinion since Samsung Note2 and HTC Note is almost on ready to roll out around Sep to Oct.

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http://www.eprice.com.cn/mobile/talk/102/4498670/

According to the confirmed leaked info. the XS refresh should be a minor upgrade because it clearly stated out the CPU is still Cortex-A8, I think they will use One S(S3)'s 1.7G Dual Core instead.
[Xperia Z General] batman_112:
SonyStyle.com in the USA are offering the Xperia P for $569!!!! :confused:

I am not sure what are they smoking over there?!!:rolleyes:
[Xperia Z General] xperiax10.awesome:
Wats the price of XS there???

sent from seXperia S
[Xperia Z General] batman_112:
The XS is not offered through SonyStyle but you can get it at Amazon or Expansy for between $499-$599.
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
I don't have much time, but for the dutch people (and if they want to translate), this is fun part for you guys :)

https://twitter.com/Boender070/status/220850758428532736

Google there names ;)
[Xperia Z General] batman_112:
Seems like they are talking about something exciting coming up.
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
Harold de Kort:

'From now on I'll definitely use the geo-tagging function! yfrog.com/o0r4uoop. New gallery on the Xperia S is nice!'

Wouter Boender:

'Yeah it's good **** isn't it? Was actually supposed to be for IFA. The new Xperia's (Xperiences) are going to be highlighted there. So the idea was to keep it quiet until then. That **** rocks!'

Harold de Kort:

'Alright, I'll be a little less enthusiastic about it, and about the other things. It's going to be hard not to!'
[Xperia Z General] Spectre51:
Won't be available on sonystyle.com till July 13th
[Xperia Z General] dachao:
Sony Mobile moving HQ from Sweden to Tokyo on October 1st

Late last year Sony Ericsson moved its headquarters to Lund, Sweden from London and now just six months later Sony Mobile plans to move HQ again. This time Sony Mobile will move its headquarters to Japan and expects the move to take place on 1st October 2012.
[Xperia Z General] Stedus:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony-LT30p-gets-Bluetooth-certification-more-specs-leak_id31976

Leaked Spec of the Mint :D

i wonder which one should i buy anymore :>

The Mint? or the Hayabusa? (don't even know whether an international version exist :<)
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
So the mint is going to be smaller than the GX but heavier due to the metal cover

131 x 69 x 10.5 mm - 127g

129 x 68 x 09.0 mm - 140g
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
Nothing really new to the table, beside dimensions and weight of Mint. We already knew it's gonna have the same hw like GX/Hayabusa but with LTE radio. I assume the markets which don't have LTE won't get Mint but instead Hayabusa.

BTW: The forth device that u13x mentioned sometime ago, was he talking about the Xperia SL or a completely new device?
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
I know, but dimensions are important to some people, like me, My ultimate dream is 4" version of GX.

Completely new device, he wouldn't talk that way about an upgrade device
[Xperia Z General] xperiax10.awesome:
Its July and still rumours!!!

Hurry up SONY.

sent from seXperia S
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
These are no rumours....
[Xperia Z General] khayjason:
What's enhanced mobile bravia engine? is that NTSC 100% display?

What's the difference between Xperia S and Xperia GX?

Is it just software or hardware?
[Xperia Z General] Surethom:
HDR Video ?

I like that the dimensions are slightly smaller than the GX, 140g is fine with me.

I am hopping this will have the upgraded camera chip with HDR movie :fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Z General] Ambroos:
There have been some build issues with the first batches, however this was quickly corrected.

Below the battery cover you can see the revision number. Revision AAAB has it's quirks, revision ABAC and later should do better. When buying an Xperia S you should try to make sure it's ABAC or better before you purchase.
[Xperia Z General] xperiax10.awesome:
I have taken the pic (after removing the back cover) it was AAAB CB5..

from xperia PLAY
[Xperia Z General] xperiax10.awesome:
Is there any way I can check this Revision ABAC.. without opening the box, is it printed anywhere on the box itself???

from xperia PLAY
[Xperia Z General] draugaz:
Well, you can safely assume, that each and every app is benefiting from dualcore even if the app itself is singlethreaded. Because android has many other background processes to deal with. And even your singlethreaded process generates a lot of garbage as it goes, so the garbage collector can do a lot of things without interrupting your application. Thus dualcore brings some perceivable improvements.

But the quadcore as it stands now is complete and utter overkill. And not without its share of problems. You even *do not want* any app to use all those 4 cores at once for longer than a few brief moments, or the CPU will just overheat and throttle its speed (eg. Tegra3 on HTC One X).

Besides that, there are technological tradeoffs. With a given power budget you can either have many slow cores and suck in the single thread performance (like Tegra3) or not so many but quicker cores (like S4) which will excel in single thread performance. The S4 approach seems to work better at the moment.

LG could be the first company to push something to the market, but as the LG 2X example shows (it was the first dualcore phone), even many months later it had major bugs still unfixed. Hardly an reassuring strategy.
[Xperia Z General] Ambroos:
I don't think it is unfortunately. On the other hand, in Belgium and The Netherlands at least the Xperia S doesn't have a sealed box, so you could always ask the store employees to check it for you.
[Xperia Z General] DooMLoRD:
correct!

sometimes we forget that these devices are "phones" and if we run out of battery to make an important call there isnt much point to getting a top-of-the-line phone is it? ;)

thats why the Snapdragon S4 (cortex-a15 chips) is the better chip.. optimized dual cores, better battery life...
[Xperia Z General] revthanki:
Yup, I'll take Krait cores over straight A9s any day. I'd prefer OMAP 5 to both, though but we won't see that til the end of the year at least.

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I agree with you mostly, but S4 is not true a15, it implements some of its features but is not completely there. OMAP 5 will be the first true a15 on the market and it will have the big-LITTLE architecture which is tailor made for Android (will play very nicely with background tasks - like the companion core in the Tegra 3 but better).
[Xperia Z General] markksa1978:
:mad:

I just bought my XS one month... how come...
[Xperia Z General] Surethom:
Its weird putting the power button on the left looks uncomfortable & not convenient, they should put The USB port on the left & the power button on the right or on the top right.
[Xperia Z General] zodiac100:
I think you meant to say they should have rather than they should. It's too late to make those sorts of changes and that's assuming that they would even listen to what a mere mortal like you has to say.
[Xperia Z General] cikomiko:
i bought mine 2 weeks ago.

first i intented to sell it and buy hayabusa/gx, but the current plan is to keep it and wait for sony´s 2013 line-up. hopefully with a functional transparent bar and latest hardware :)
[Xperia Z General] Aruman:
I really like the Xperia GX, it's very nice, love the idea of the software buttons compared to Soft Key buttons, I currently have the HTC Sensation and I always thought what's the point of the Soft Key butttons, when the phone(display) is off you see them, but you can't use them anyways, only when the display's on.

For me the new way of Software button will make it more screen size in the same area of the phone compared to a soft key buttons phones of the same size, would't it be better for when watching videos etc. just my 2 cents.

As for the Xperia Mint l aka LT30i, it will be Sony First Quad Core Pone with a new OLED screen size in the vicinity of 4.3 inches,

found on Google, can't post the link.
[Xperia Z General] batman_112:
Not accurate. Xperia Mint is just the GX (aka Hayabusa) with LTE support.
[Xperia Z General] Aruman:
The Mint 1 or Mint l, not the regular Mint.
[Xperia Z General] unknown13x:
Since when did Sony started reusing codenames? :rolleyes:
[Xperia Z General] LitoNi:
guys galaxy S III confirmed with Dual Core snapdrag S4 for the states (verizon)

http://www.gsmarena.com/dualcore_snapdragon_s4_confirmed_for_verizon_galaxy_s_iii-news-4244.php

i guess this is head on with the xperia GX now lol.

still the GX looks better than that . . .
[Xperia Z General] xperiax10.awesome:
Globally?

from xperia PLAY
[Xperia Z General] karun11:
Is there something else you're hinting at? :D
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
In less than 10h NTT DoCoMo will present their 2012 summer lineup featuring the GX and SX. If I am not mistaken there will be a live stream

LINK:

http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/...icid=CRP_TOP_mainPR_Flash_2012_summer_feature

Hope to see the GX/Hayabusa in his full glory
[Xperia Z General] xperiax10.awesome:
I hope to hear about Global release :)

from xperia PLAY
[Xperia Z General] supercoolman:
spend the money and stimulates some local economy :confused:

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https://www.bluetooth.org/tpg/QLI_PRD2Profiles.cfm?varID=38815&ProductID=22309

technical spec says AVRCP v1.3

if this is true, I'm going for it
[Xperia Z General] TenkaTsai:
No 4" version of GX, but how about 4.3"? You can wait for the NEXT Acro (LT25i). ;)
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
LT25i is Xperia U....
[Xperia Z General] cikomiko:
nevermind
[Xperia Z General] batman_112:
Newegg.com is offering both the P and S for $388 and $469, respectively. My question is: According to SonyStyle, newegg is an online Sony retailer so will Sony honor the warranty if I buy through newegg?
[Xperia Z General] TheEndHK:
No mention the HDR movie completely, so I think the real flagship at Q4(rumors said) has a high chance to equip with stocked cmos and that's the reason for me to not getting Lt29/lt30(Q3) because they are still not the 2012 flagship.
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
Wasn't it already confirmed that GX and Mint will have the new CMOS sensor with HDR movie recording capability?

If they don't have it then the fourth "flagship" device also won't have it. u13x said

. So in terms of hardware that unknown device will be almost like GX. I suppose it's the software which will be different and if the rumors about multiple Nexus devices are true then this could be Sonys 2012 Nexus phone.
[Xperia Z General] TenkaTsai:
Xperia U is ST25i......
[Xperia Z General] Awesome_Aleks:
The Acro S is LT26w...
[Xperia Z General] NoTnERb:
I really wish an Xperia nexus is coming
[Xperia Z General] supercoolman:
either google accepts non-OLED display or Sony puts OLED onto their device to make that happen?
[Xperia Z General] NoTnERb:
There was the news that Sony was buying AUO's OLED screens for their mobile phones right?
[Xperia Z General] draugaz:
Why shouldn't they? European Nexus S has a very nice LCD display. Nexus1 also had a LCD variant.
[Xperia Z General] jonmorris:
The Nexus 7 tablet isn't OLED either.

The OLED screen on the GS3, despite being PenTile Matrix, is pretty good and has pretty accurate colours IF you change the colour profile in settings (like most Asian companies, by default the colour saturation is turned WAYYYYYY up) and obviously you get the nice black level you can't get on any LCD, but if you look at the Xperia S screen, with its crazy PPI, nobody can suggest Google wouldn't accept that?

Thanks to Apple, everyone is going mental for high PPI now.
[Xperia Z General] supercoolman:
I prefer Sony LCD (IPS!).

there was a rumor earlier last year saying that google loves AMOLED and that's why, eventually, GN came out.

would be great to see Xperia Nexus with Jellybean before end of this year with all the optimization from both Google and Sony. I'm holding my breath until next Nexus comes out.
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
The next Nexus won't be running on Android 4.1/Jellybean, but a newer version (Key Lime Pie?), cause new hw came always with new sw. Considering there is a new Android iteration every 5-6 month, November/December could be the time where the new Nexus could be released.
[Xperia Z General] supercoolman:
ICS was out November 2011 for GN only and widely available for all other devices after January, but JB for GN won't be OTA until sometime this month. this timing pattern says that next Android probably won't be out until Q1 2013. Sony device has always been lagging on new Android OS too, so that puts more uncertainty.

consider sony just rolled out ICS for its devices, how long do you think sony need to roll out JB?
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
In November Android is turning 5 and I doubt Google won't "celebrate" this event with new sw and hw.

Regarding Sony: If there is Xperia Nexus, then the Updates will come directly from Google and not from Sony. They are just responsible for the hardware.
[Xperia Z General] LegibleEel:
The new android update probably won't be called 'Key lime pie' but more like Kandy Kane???http://tinyurl.com/6pckja5

Also I thought making a Google device 'xperia nexus' then I would of thought it be AOSP, so they would have no problem with making new sw.
[Xperia Z General] draugaz:
I think it is not as simple as that. While el goog is responsible for the whole OS, a fair chunk of the underlying firmware and drivers is still done by the OEM. That's why older nexus devices get updates with such a delay.

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While google certainly has a lot of influential amoled fans, I think the real reason for Google Nexus One was an attempt to show, that you can build a hi-end android device. I do not know who actually paid for what, but I suspect this device jumpstarted HTC android efforts. Like helped to build a HTC Desire, first and very successful hi-end android phone for the rest of the world outside US and UK.

If sony puts their stuff it won't be a nexus anymore.
[Xperia Z General] supercoolman:
GN refers to Galaxy Nexus

there are "carrier" Nexus with loaded software and variety of hardware. not sure if Google is going to handle all of that on its own.
[Xperia Z General] Rubenos:
I found this one, made me think
[Xperia Z General] vivftp:
So Rubenos, I take it that the picture gives us a general idea of what the Mint will be all about. Xperia GX shape with screen size and metal rear like the Ion?
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
two insiders already said Mint will look like a "fat Arc" and will have a metal back cover, but no removable battery. And no onscreen software buttons for Mint.

u13x didn't like the Mint, he prefers the design of the GX.
[Xperia Z General] supercoolman:
he also said it could be personal preference...
[Xperia Z General] zymo:
No onscreen buttons and non-removable battery = (personal) dealbraker
[Xperia Z General] dachao:
I personally can live with the non-removable battery but no on screen buttons if true is a big disadvantage.

The only thing I do not like on my XS is that the buttons below the screen are hit an miss.

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New Sony Tablet (SGPT1211) passes through FCC; Tablet S successor?

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LG to debut in-house quad-core L9 chipset in a phone this September.

LG is about to debut its own L9 chipset this September. The L9 will be feature a quad-core ARM processor and a powerful GPU, but the architecture is yet to be announced.

What is Sony waiting for?