Sony show off the OLED 11 inch screen TV

April 12, 2007 by davidallen | 9 Comments

Sony appear to upping their game these days, it was not that long ago when to mention the name Sony was normally follwed by a laugh or two, but it has to be said that recently they have been coming out with some really cool stuff and the OLED TV’s are no exception, due to [...]

Sony’s Revolutionary Social Network

March 10, 2007 by J1mmy | Leave a Comment

Could this be a new pull factor for the new Playstation 3?
Sony has finally let the cat our of the bag with their new social network, Playstation Home. Playstation Home is like an online world, where you, the player, can do a variety of different actions, such as meeting other Playstation 3 members, hang-out, share [...]

Sony 8GB Memory Stick Soon.

March 2, 2007 by Static | Leave a Comment

Sony Japan announced their new MSX-M8GS Memory Stick PRO Duo that will have a capacity of 8GB. But, the massive flash memory card unfortunately will not work with all of the Sony products. It is said that the Sony Cybershot cameras and the Sony VAIO laptops will not be compatible with this memory stick; that [...]

New Sony Walkman launched in UK first

March 2, 2007 by davidallen | 1 Comment

It is most unusual that the Japanese electronic company Sony have decided to launch their latest mobile portable music player the Sony Walkman in the UK before anywhere else. The Sony Walkman is an icon in portable music playing sector, it was the first purpose made device that allowed the user to play music cassettes [...]

Sony VGX-XL3: Hometheater PC

March 2, 2007 by poeloq | 3 Comments

Sony has announced the VGX-XL3 Home Theater PC, which not only impresses with good looks but also with nice features – except for my obvious dislike of Blu-Ray compared to HD-DVD. Speaking of which, the VGX-XL3 doesn’t only offer a Blu-Ray drive but a Blu-Ray burner!
Apart from Blu-Ray, the VGX-XL3 also offers a huge 500GB [...]

Sony: New 46″/50″ 1080p Bravia TVs

February 28, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment

Sony today announced, among other products, two new rearprojected Bravia HDTVs that are capable of full 1080p input via HDMI and a the full 1920×1080 resolution and they are truelly huge at 46″ (KDF-46E3000) and 50″ (KDF-50E3000). Even at this size they still manage to be ultra-slim at 11.9″ and 12.6″ deep respectively.
Apart from 1080p, [...]

Sony to cut Bluray player price to $599

February 27, 2007 by poeloq | 1 Comment

Sony is going to cut it’s Blu-ray player prices and will offer the new BDP-S300 for “just” $599, fairly cheap compared to prices now. It will also be the size of a standard large size DVD player and not bad looking at it either. More News on this as it breaks…

[via Gizmodo]

60GB Sony PS3 in stock online, hardware specs for Europe release revealed

February 24, 2007 by aleks | Leave a Comment

The Sony PS3 model with 60GB is widely available at several online suppliers like Amazon, Gamestop, BestBuy and CircuitCity for the standard price of $599. Seems like the situation is calming down. No more paying $2000+ for a console on eBay, or camping at the local hardware store like the days before and after the [...]

Sony’s high speed 1/1.8″ CMOS sensor

February 18, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment

Sony has announced a new high speed 1/1.8″ CMOS sensor, which is an important because it offers seamless transition between still image capture and video capture with up to 6.4 Megapixel and 60 frames/second (~=380 Megapixel/second).
More technical information over at Digital Photography News.

Sony Ericsson: PC300 Mobile Broadband PC Card

February 6, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment

Sony Ericsson has announced the PC300 Mobile Broadband PC Card, which is a PCMCIA supporting HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE and GPRS with download speeds up to 3.6Mbps.
The PC300 will support HSDPA/UMTS/EDGE handover and resel ection with HSDPA and UMTS working on 850, 1900 and 2100 MHz (Tri-Band) and GPRS and EDGE at at 850, 900, [...]

Multi coloured retractable headphones from Sony

February 5, 2007 by techbuzz | 3 Comments

Sony has just come up with three new models of retractable headphones in Japan, which will be available from 10th of February 2007. The model numbers are MDR-KE30LW, MDR-Q68LW and MDR-Q38LW.

The key ring type facility offered by MDR-KE30LW if fashionable and trendy keeping in mind the new generation users. It comes in four cool colours [...]

Sony VAIO VGN-AR31S: Optional Blu-Ray

February 1, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment

Sony is one of the obvious members of the Blu-Ray camp in the HD battle, and has now announced the Sony Vaio VGN-AR31S, which will have a optional Blu-Ray drive.
Offering a Blu-Ray drive also means that Sony has equipped the VGN-AR31S with a large 17″ display that is HD capable. The hardware is also up [...]

Sony Vaio UX1 UMPC: Too expensive?

February 1, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment

Sony’s UMPC. the Vaio UX1, has been the talk for a few days now, and to my surprise many have commented that it is “ugly”. Well, I actually like it:

Sadly the Vaio UX1 and it’s 32GB of flash storage (instead of a HDD), 4.5″ widescreen touchscreen, 1GB RAM and all the other flash features and, [...]