Category: Sony

Sony introduces h.ear in and h.ear on wireless headphones, h.ear go wireless speaker

Sony h.ear in wireless in-ear headphones

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 Xperia Z6 Lite with Hexa-Core Snapdragon 650 SoC, metal body rumored

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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 Xperia Z5 Premium Dual Benchmarks

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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 Xperia Z5 Premium Dual Unboxing

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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.

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Sony tipped to be working on new batteries that lasts 40% longer

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 Xperia Z5 Dual Battery Life Test

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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).

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Sony Xperia Z5 Dual Review

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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.

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Sony Xperia Z5 Autofocus Speed Test – Fastest Shooter in town?

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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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Sony CES 2016 announcement set for January 5th

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Sony has started sending out invites for its CES 2016 announcement next month. The teaser shows Project Morpheus VR headset, some kind of speaker, headset, camera, a smartphone and a slim TV. It might introduce successor of these devices at the event. Continue reading “Sony CES 2016 announcement set for January 5th”

Sony to develop its own mobile processor in 2016?

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Sony Mobile will reportedly follow Apple, Samsung and Huawei to develop its own mobile processor for its Xperia smartphones, according to a report from DigiTimes. The report also says that LG will also introduce its own processor. LG NUCLUN 2 processor was already spotted on GeekBench few months back, confirming its existence, after the company’s failed attempt with the Odin chipset. Continue reading “Sony to develop its own mobile processor in 2016?”

Sony rolls out camera update for the Xperia Z5 Series – Brings in new UI and features

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DxO, the popular benchmarking website for cameras and smartphone cameras had ranked the Sony Xperia Z5 as the smartphone with the best camera. Now, Sony has released an update to the camera app which brings in a new UI and features to help make the best out of the camera.

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Sony Xperia Z5 Dual Benchmarks

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Sony launched its flagship Xperia Z5 Dual smartphone in India last month for Rs. 52,990. 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 RAM, packs 5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below, and also the gaming review in which it scored 5/5 stars. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z5 Dual Benchmarks”

Sony Mobile sales down 15.2% YoY in Q2 FY15, 6.7 million smartphones shipped

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Sony Corporation has reported its revenues for second quarter of the financial year 2015 that ended September 30, 2015. Sales remained flat year-on-year at 1,892.7 billion yen ( US$ 15,773 million) with just 0.5% decease compared to the same quarter last year. Sony shipped just 6.7 million smartphones in the quarter compared to 9.9 million in Q2 FY14 and 7.2 million in the previous quarter. Continue reading “Sony Mobile sales down 15.2% YoY in Q2 FY15, 6.7 million smartphones shipped”

Sony launches new headphones and in-ear headphones in India, price starting Rs 6,990

Sony has launched new hi-resolution headphone and noise cancelling in-ear headphones in India. The company has launched these new headphones in the MDR series.

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