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Happy 10th anniversary, Android

It’s been 10 years since Google took the wraps off the G1, the first Android phone. Since that time the OS has grown from buggy, nerdy iPhone alternative to arguably the most popular (or at least populous) computing platform in the world. But it sure as heck didn’t get there without hitting a few bumps…

12:30 pm PDT • September 23, 2018
Happy 10th anniversary, Android

Sony promised an “ultra low-light camera” during its Mobile World Congress press conference back in February. The off-hand announcement was intended to throw a bit of shade at Samsung’s recent…

Here’s the ultra-low-light phone camera Sony promised

For all of its consumer electronics prowess, mobile has always been a tough proposition for Sony. The Android market is overcrowded for one, and the company hasn’t really done all…

Sony stays in the picture with premium Xperia camera features

Sony announced two mid-range smartphones today focusing on what Sony does best — smartphone cameras. As a reminder, Sony is one of the leading providers of smartphone cameras, supplying the…

Sony’s New Phones Are Perfect For Snapchat, Yet No One Will Buy Them

Sony hasn’t had a great time of it in the U.S. smartphone market over the past few years, and it recently announced that its new flagship, the Xperia Z2, would…

Sony Xperia Z2 Review: A Waterproof Android Smartphone That Goes Beyond Gimmicks

Both Samsung and HTC have new flagship Android phones out in the U.S., but Sony isn’t just sitting back and doing nothing. The company has its new 5.2-inch Z2 smartphone launching…

Hands On With The Xperia Z2 Smartphone And Z2 Tablet, Sony’s Waterproof Wonders

Samsung and Apple stand firmly at the stop of the smartphone heap, and players like HTC and LG continue ride their way up the market share rankings. But what of…

Sony Plans To Overtake Mobile Rivals Without Focusing On China And The U.S.

We didn’t see a new phone from Sony at MWC this year, though it did take the opportunity to show off the Xperia Z it demoed early this year at…

Sony Xperia C670X Specs Leak, Suggesting A New Android Flagship To Take On The HTC One

After Sony released a string of curious Android tablets that failed to catch on, the company had no choice but to go back to the drawing table and try something…

The Super-Slim Xperia Tablet Z Feels Like Sony’s Finest Tablet Yet

According to a forum posting on Chinese site Digi-wo, Sony may have a 6.44-inch 1080 device in the works. We don’t know much else about the alleged device, other than…

Please Let This Leaked 6.4-Inch 1080p Sony Phone Be A Joke

This latest Xperia tablet has been the stuff of rumors for a few days now — a release from Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo first hinted that the so-called Tablet Z…

Sony (Finally) Moves Past Kooky Tablet Designs, Introduces The Svelte New Xperia Tablet Z

Sony Mobile’s top-tier Xperia Z may have been one of CES’s most pleasant non-surprises (seriously, is there anyone Sony didn’t brief about that thing?), and it turns out that the…

Sony May Kiss Low-End Smartphones Goodbye To Better Compete With Samsung And Apple

Sony only outed its newest trio of Xperia smartphones just over a month ago in Berlin, and AT&T has just announced that it’s already grooming the device for a U.S.…

AT&T Confirms It Will Carry Sony’s Xperia TL, Keeps Mum On Pricing And Release Date

After a bit of on-stage patter (and a rather pointless Wonderbook video), Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai officially pulled back the curtains on a slew of new Xperia handsets — the…

Sony Pumps Up Mobile Lineup At IFA With New Xperia T, V, And J Smartphones

It’s been a long time since Sony released a smartphone in the U.S. market that had a chance of hitting it off with customers — too many of their recent…

Sony Xperia Ion Review: Punching Above Its Weight Class

Though an errant Google ad gave away some of the surprise a few weeks back, AT&T has just announced that the Sony Xperia ion will be hitting all of the…

AT&T To Launch The $99, LTE-Capable Sony Xperia ion On June 24

Sony’s been bringing it lately, with a trifecta of monosyllabic Xperia goodness at CES and MWC. I personally believe that a key ingredient in the secret sauce may be Sony’s…

Sony Unveils The Xperia Sola: Look, Mom! No Hands!

Besides a fear of imminent conjunctivitis from handling the same phone as hundreds of others at the Sony Xperia Press Event at the GSMA Mobile World Congress…what else comes to…

TC@MWC: Hands-On With The Sony Xperia U

While the idea of skipping Sony’s event to watch a beautiful Barcelona sunset was strangely appealing, we nevertheless come to you from Sony’s press event where the recently divorced company…

Sony Officially Unveils The Xperia P And Xperia U At MWC

In addition to outlining its plans in Dutch on Facebook, Sony Ericsson has clarified its stance on bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to the Xperia-toting masses on its blog today. As…

Sony Ericsson Clarifies Xperia Ice Cream Sandwich Plans

Sony Ericsson has joined HTC in offering up a general plan for pushing the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates to existing handsets. In a message on its Dutch Facebook…

Sony Ericsson Plans To Release Android 4.0 To The Xperia Line In 2012

A day after Google announced that 190 million Android devices have been manufactured to date, Sony Ericsson this morning revealed that 22 million of those that were sold were its…

Sony Ericsson Sold 22 Million Android Devices To Date, Going Smartphone-Only In 2012

Did you hear? I’m a fan of the Xperia Play. Watch the video above and I say it about a billion times. Thanks to the flights to and from E3…

There’s just something about Kristen Schaal’s quirkiness I find cute. They got her to compare gaming on the Xperia Play to the iPhone in a sort of Apple-esque manner (solid…

I’m totally down with Sony Ericsson trying almost anything to stay relevant in non-niche markets, so the Xperia Arc looks actually exciting and/or good. Sadly, as handsome as it is…

When the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 was announced in November, my major concern was whether it was coming to the U.S., when it was coming and if it would be…

More Android handsets are on the way from Sony Ericsson as the handset manufacturer just announced smaller versions of the Xperia X10: the X10 mini and X10 mini pro. Clever…

Long-suffering handset maker Sony Ericsson is all about the UX, people, and they’ve got the screens to prove it. The new system does basically what everyone else is doing and…

Windows mobile has had a hard time of it of late, what with the Blackberry and iPhone being so popular. And frankly, the current version of the mobile OS, sucks.…

A group of tinkers have been hard at work getting the Panels interface from the Sony Xperia working on the HTC Touch HD. Progress is being made at a decent…