Sony just announced Pink variant of the Xperia Z5 smartphone, as expected. It is already available in green, white and black colors, and uses the same frosted glass finish as the existing phones. “The sophisticated pink variant of Xperia Z5 is designed to round out the options for prospective Xperia owners and provide customers with new ways of expressing their style,” said Sony. Continue reading “Sony introduces Pink Xperia Z5, available starting February 2016”
Sony has been teasing the launch of a pink coloured Xperia smartphone on its Instagram for a while now. Apparently, the company is set to launch a pink coloured smartphone on 12th January and is likely to be the Xperia Z5.
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Sony announced h.ear go wireless speakers along with the h.ear on wireless headphones at CES 2016. We are live at the event and got to check out the speakers, so let’s take a quick look at its the hardware and specifications. Continue reading “Sony h.ear go wireless speaker Photo Gallery”
Sony introduced the h.ear on headband-style Bluetooth wireless headphones with Digital Noise Cancelling at CES 2016. We are live at the event and got a chance to check out the headphones. So let’s take a look at hardware and specifications of the headphone. Continue reading “Sony h.ear on wireless on-ear headphones Photo Gallery”
Sony has announced a range of audio focused products at the CES 2016. The company has introduced an audio system GTK-XB7, SRS-XB3 and SRS-XB2 wireless portable speakers and MDR-XB650BT wireless over the ear headphones.
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Sony has announced two new models in its all-in-one wearable Walkman series. The WS413 and WS414 were announced at CES 2016 and are water proof and dust proof. They can also be used in saltwater.
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Sony announced h.ear on and h.ear in wired noise cancelling headphones at the IFA 2015 last year. Now at the CES 2016 Sony has introduced wireless variants. The new h.ear in is behind-the neck style in-ear Bluetooth wireless headphones and the h.ear on is headband-style Bluetooth wireless headphones with Digital Noise Cancelling. It has also introduced new h.ear go wireless speaker that has NFC support. Continue reading “Sony introduces h.ear in and h.ear on wireless headphones, h.ear go wireless speaker”
Sony Mobile is rumored to be working on the Xperia Z6 Lite smartphone, according to a report from China (Via). The smartphone is expected to be powered by an Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (Snapdragon 618 previously), pack a 5-inch display with 2.5D curved glass and a metal back. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z6 Lite with Hexa-Core Snapdragon 650 SoC, metal body rumored”
Sony launched the Xperia Z5 Premium Dual, its flagship smartphone with 4K display in India for Rs. 62,990 back in October. We brought you the unboxing recently, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 64-bit 20nm processor that has four bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.96GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.56GHz per core with 630 MHz Adreno 430 GPU. It has 3GB of RAM, packs a 5.5-inch (3840×2160 pixels) display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z5 Premium Dual Benchmarks”
Sony launched the Xperia Z5 Premium Dual, its flagship smartphone with a 4K display in India, priced at Rs. 62,990 back in October. We already brought you the hands-on impressions and the camera samples from the announcement. Here we have the unboxing of the smartphone.
Sony is working on improving one of the major hurdles of smartphones – battery life. A new report from Nikkei states that the company plans to introduce a new high capacity battery in 2020 that should last 40 percent longer than lithium ion batteries that are currently available in the market.
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Sony launched the Xperia Z5 Dual (E6683), its flagship smartphone in India for Rs. 52,990 back in October. We brought you the review of the smartphone earlier this week, here we have the battery life test results from the smartphone. It packs a 2900mAh built-in battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 support. This is actually less than the 3100mAh battery on the Xperia Z3. It has a 5.2-inch 1080p display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 810 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop).
As someone who writes about smartphones and gadgets for a living, you are bound to have come across almost every device that releases in the market. In the case of the Sony Xperia family, I had the pleasure of not just using but owning almost every flagship device released in the Z family. This includes the Z, Z Ultra, Z1, Z2 and Z3 in that order.
A photograph is as good as the subject in it. An out of focus photo is as good as a nonexistent one and this is a problem that still afflicts smartphone cameras. Anything apart from perfect lighting conditions or equally still subject apart, a majority of smartphones just can’t focus fast enough to capture the subject. So, color us surprised when we learnt that the Sony Xperia Z5 adopted Sony’s blazing Hybrid Autofocus system from it’s DSLR lineup and implemented it in a smartphone. With potentially class leading focus speeds, what better way than to see how much better the Z5 is against the competition than to pitch them head to head?
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Following reports from October this year, Sony has finally acquired Toshiba’s image sensor business for 19 billion yen that translates to $155 million.
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