The Sony Internet Player! Is it just another expensive box for your home entertainment system? Or, is it a new player in providing a standardised entertainment platform in Australia? Well these are the questions I will be answering in this mini review. First off, what’s on the unit (beware, lots of specs): There is no [...]

Renders of what could possibly be Sony’s next Android tablet have leaked on to the internet thanks to a user on XDA-Developers. This new design is riffing off of the Tablet S but Sony have removed the wedge design in favour of a more flat overall look. According the post on XDA, the tablet will [...]

The Ice Cream Sandwich update is ready for owners of the Xperia S from Optus and they have updated their Facebook page with a Youtube video showing how to go about getting the update. The video is actually hosted on the Sony Xperia Support Youtube Channel but the Facebook post does offer Android 4.0 to [...]

It caused a bit of a stir a few days ago when a Product Manager at Sony UK advised via a Facebook Q&A that the Xperia Arc S and the Xperia Mini Pro would not be getting an upgrade to Jelly Bean, now Sony has back-pedalled advising on their Mobile product blog that their local [...]

According to the Vodafone blog the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for the Sony Xperia Arc and the HTC EVO 3D have both passed testing and are awaiting rollout by their respective manufacturers. The upgrade will see both the Sony Xperia Arc and HTC EVO 3D go from Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) to Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream [...]

Sony have begun rolling out the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” update for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc globally. Included in that roll-out is the Pearl Blue version (1246–2425) from Optus — the update was officially pushed out last Monday according to Sony, so you should be seeing it soon. To download and install the [...]

If your spidey sense was tingling this morning it’s possible it was caused by the arrival of The Amazing Spiderman game from Gameloft in the Google Play store, at a price of $7.49. The Game presents the city of New York in a 3D style sandbox, in which you fight the titular villian from the [...]

Sony is bringing their Android-powered Google TV setup to Australia, and it launches here next week. Sony are only planning to launch their standalone Internet Player with Google TV (NSZ-GS7) which also comes with a nifty remote that has a touchpad and keyboard on different sides. At launch the Internet Player will only come bundled [...]

Sony today officially announced that the Xperia P and the Xperia U would be launching on Australia; more specifically on Telstra and Crazy John’s respectively. While we had already confirmed the release of the Xperia P on Telstra (a week ago), the release of the Xperia U on Crazy John’s is news to us. The [...]

Courtesy of our good friend Secret Squirrel we can confirm that the Sony Xperia P will be coming to Telstra at the end of June, the 26th of June to be exact. The Xperia P is the baby brother of the Xperia S with a 4″ QHD (960×540) screen, 8MP camera and 1GHz dual core [...]

Vodafone’s latest weekly software update post outlined Android 4.0.4 “Ice Cream Sandwich” updates for the Samsung Galaxy Note and the Sony Xperia S. The Galaxy Note update hasn’t yet been submitted by Samsung to Vodafone, however it is on its way which is positive news. As for the Xperia S, the update has already hit [...]

A video showing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running on the Sony Xperia S has “leaked” its way onto the interwebs. Going by the language, the device is from Thailand and it’s running a fairly fluid version of skinned ICS. The build date of the kernel is April 19th, so that’s not very recent. Nothing [...]

It turns out everyone’s suspicions were correct; Sony isn’t updating the Xperia Play — their flagship gaming smartphone — to Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”. Citing stability issues, Sony stated that it wasn’t worth updating the device to ICS if games weren’t going to function to their full capacity. In regards to Xperia PLAY, after [...]