Sony Ericsson unveils Android phone
Presenting the company’s first phone based on Google’s Android OS, Sony Ericsson unveiled its new X10 flagship mobile phone, but announced that it would not go on sale until early next year.
Google’s baby, Android OS smartphones have gained a lot of footing this year as the handset vendors look to beat the Apple’s iPhone sales.
The world’s fourth largest handset maker and currently in loss, Sony Ericsson, saw overall third-quarter sales shrink 45 percent year-on-year.
The new phone, X10 will have a 4-inch-wide touch screen and will with an 8.1 megapixel camera. Sony Ericsson’s current top model Satio, with a 12 megapixel camera, has just gone on sale and the announcement could hurt sales in the key sales period ahead of year-end holidays.
US game sales down by 23% in May
Amidst recession, vide gamers across the US spent considerably lesser amount on games, hardware and accessories during the month of the May.
The NPD group announced on Thursday that the consumer spending on the gaming sector reduced by a sharp 23 per cent in the month of May this year as compared to the figures a year ago.
The spending was reportedly down by $863 million, and also that this is the first monthly account falling below the $1 billion mark since August 2007.
During the month, the best best-selling title was THQ Inc.’s “UFC 2009 Undisputed,” selling about 678 thousand units on software giant, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and 334,400 units on Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3. Compared to the last year figures, “GTA IV” sold 1.3 million units last May on both platforms.
It was followed by Nintendo co. Ltd’s “Wii Fit” selling 352,800 units this May, down from 687,700 a year ago.
The hardware sales were also down by 30 per cent to $303 million. Software sales plunged a sharp 17 per cent to $449 million where as accessories sales fell 25 per cent to $112 million.
Sony unveils new PSP Go
Aiming to give a tough competition to the arch rival Nintendo’s Wii, Sony Corp unveiled a smaller, lighter PlayStation handheld game device named PSP Go.
Sony’s PSP Go goes on sale October 1 in North America and Europe for about $249, followed by Japan on November 1. According to the company executives, the new PSP shall be only half the size of the Sony’s current PSP 3000 and 40 per cent lighter that it.
Earlier, Nintendo said it sold more than 15 million units of its highly popular “Wii Fit” fitness game. The company also announced its plans to update it to the Wii Fit Plus later in the year 2009.
The Japanese electronics giant, Sony is aiming to sell 15 million units of the PSP in the financial year to March. This is about 1 million more units than the previous year’s 14.1 million units, giving a neck to neck fight to rival Nintendo.
The new PSP is about the size of a regular smart phone featuring a large sliding screen. It comes with Wi-Fi range wireless capability, and 16GB of memory for storing pictures, music and games.
Sony e-book reader to get 500,000 books from Google
Google Inc. will be making around 50,000 unprotected by copyright books, available for free on Sony Corp’s electronic book-reading device. this would be the first time that the search engine giant, Google, has made a gigantic collection of scanned public-domain books available to an e-book device.
This will make the Sony Reader as the device with the largest available library, at about 600,000 books, even more than Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle.
All of the scanned books were published before 1923. the books include the impressive works of Charles Dickens’ including, “A Tale of Two Cities”; nonfiction classics like Herodotus’ “The Histories.”
The free downloads of the Portable Document Format (PDF) formats of the books are already available. However these do not work on any e-reading devices. Google will be providing the EPUB (electronic publication) format of the books to the Sony Reader. This format allows the lines to flow differently to fit a smaller screen.
Jennie Johnson, Google’s spokeswoman said, “Really our vision is: any book, anywhere, any time and on any device,” she said. “We want to partner with anybody who shares our vision of making them more accessible.”
Sony Issues Recall for 100,000 Laptop Batteries
Sony has issued recalls for around 100,000 laptop batteries worldwide after reports came in of several batteries getting heated with some of them even leading to ignition and property damage.
According to a report released by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, there have been nineteen complaints of batteries overheating with at least seventeen cases of flame or fire. Even though only two individuals have as yet been injured by overheated batteries to the point of flash incineration, the Commission ordered Sony to issue recalls in the interests of consumer safety.
The bulk of the recall is expected to affect Hewlett-Packard laptops sold between December 2004 and June 2006 with a variety of models falling into the ambit. Among other notebooks to fall under the recall order are a large number of Toshiba units of the Satellite and Tecra models as well as a small number of Dell notebooks of the Latitude and Inspiron models.
This is not the first time that Sony has been forced to issue a recall of its batteries. In August 2006, Dell had issued the then largest recall of laptops in computer history as instances of batteries overheating and catching fire began to surface from across the world. Even then Sony had turned out to be the manufacturer of the faulty batteries.
Massive Sony Laptop Recall!
We all use our laptops as safe devices and many of us (including me) leave them on for hours on end if not days. Sony has announced it will be recalling almost half a million laptops due to faulty wiring which can cause overheating and even burns! (One consumer has reported a burn). 73,000 of the recalls are from the US alone.
15 complaints of overheating have been reported, one them as i mentioned earlier was a burn. It has recalled VGN-TZ100, VGN-TZ200, VGN-TZ300, and VGN-TZ2000 series of laptops. The problem is suspected to be due to wiring and screws located near the hinge, almost all laptops have wires routed through the tight area, which can result in overheating and possibly a short circuit.
A facebook user had commented two days before the recall that her VAIO had scorched her arm. “I posted on my Facebook page about my beloved VAIO turning on me and burning the skin off my poor arm on Sept. 2,” the commenter wrote.
Regulatory bodies are going to have to make sure that they detect such things before even the product is introduced in the market. Let’s hope for the best and prepare for the worst when using laptops.
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