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Sony announced at IFA 2012 three new Xperia with the Xperia T, Xperia V and Xperia J (Specs Below). All devices comes with Android 4.0 (ICS) but are unfortunately not born equal! Indeed only only the high-end Xperia T will come with 16GB of memory and a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Krait MSM8260-A Dual Core CPU will the Xperia V will be powered with a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM8960 Dual Core CPU and comes with 8GB of memory and where the Xperia J will simply come with 4GB of memory and a 1 GHz Qualcomm MSM7227A …

Today Nokia announced that it has teamed up with JBL to introduce a new line of speakers meant to be paired with the Lumia. The full name of this new line is called “JBL PlayUp Portable Wireless Speaker for Nokia,” and they appear to be real attention-getters. In a post on Conversations with Nokia, the company’s Ian Delaney went through what we can expect from these PlayUp speakers, starting right off with the eye catching color and the similarities users are bound to see between these and the Play 360° speakers Nokia began offering last year.

The PlayUp speakers certainly are reminiscent of the Play 360° speaker, but we’re thinking that the color has more to do with that than anything else. As you can see in the image above, the speakers come in four colors – cyan, black, white and bright yellow. On the outside, we’ve got “specially created double-shot plastic” which makes for a more durable speaker, and though we don’t get many specifics about the speaker’s innards, Nokia says that this bad boy is capable of a maximum output of 89dB. In other words, this tiny thing (its dimensions are 118 x 118 x 128mm and it weighs 760g) can get pretty loud.

You’ve got a pretty big range when it comes to frequency response, which comes in at 85Hz – 22kHz (-6dB). Users can connect their phones through Bluetooth or, in the case of next-generation Lumias running Windows Phone 8, through NFC. Of course, Nokia isn’t about to leave anyone out in the cold, so if you’ve got a phone that doesn’t have Bluetooth or NFC, you can connect your device to the speaker through a 3.5mm jack. To top things off, we’re told that the battery lasts for 10 hours before needing a recharge.

There isn’t a solid release date for the PlayUp speakers yet, but Nokia says that they’ll begin shipping “before the end of the year.” While we don’t know the release date, we do know the price – picking up one of these will set you back €149, which is around $187. The PlayUp speaker is only the first product of Nokia’s partnership with JBL, and we’re told that more is on the way in the future. Stay tuned.

Nokia and JBL announce new portable NFC speakers for Lumia is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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At IFA 2012 the folks at Sony have let it be known that they’ll be keeping the Xperia brand name for some time to come, complete with a hero smartphone Xperia T. This device is one of three new devices including the Xperia J and Xperia S, each of them set to be released soon with a set of new Sony applications and NFC functionality that’ll bring the company straight into the future of mobile computing. What’s more, the T is set to take on the whole smartphone world with specifications that exceed the hero expectations.

With a feature part – read: product placement – in the new James Bond movie Skyfall, the Sony Mobile Communications group showed off the Xperia T, a device that’s got an HD display, a massively powerful camera, and NFC-powered “One-touch” functionality. Sony also showed off the Xperia J, a smartphone with a “stand-out screen size” that’s set to be released in the fourth quarter of 2012. There’s also an Xperia V smartphone that was showed on-screen at the IFA keynote for Sony that has not been detailed in full.

The Xperia T and J work with “design language” introduced with the Xperia arc and Xperia arc S released last year. These devices come with a brand new application called WALKMAN. This application of course uses the still-popular brand name that’s represented mobile music for decades and is ready to bring high-quality sound here in app form. This WALKMAN app is also able to work with Sony’s “recommended sound” with “ultimate clarity and presence across the entire spectrum of sound” with a simple activation of Sony’s ClearAudio+ mode.

Each of the new Xperia smartphones get a free 60 day trial of the cloud-based music network Music Unlimited. They also get Sony’s implementation of NFC and “One-touch” functions. With One-touch, these devices will be able to share content with a tap to 3rd party devices made to connect with them wirelessly. This includes the new Sony SRS-BTV5 NFC enabled speaker which will play your music with a simple tap connection.

The Xperia T has a 4.6-inch HD Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine for “razor sharp clarity”. This device has a 13 megapixel camera, 1080p HD video recording on the back, and 720p HD video on the front. This device is PlayStation certified for gaming excellence and has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor under the hood. You’ll be working with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich and Sony has made it clear that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is on the way. This device will also be known as the Xperia XT in some markets.

The Xperia J is bringing on a lovely 4-inch display with FWVGA (480 x 854 pixels) on a chassis that’s just 9.2mm slim. This device works with illumination for social media updates and has a 5 megapixel camera on the back. This device also has a front-facing camera for video chat and will be appearing on the market in Black, Gold, White, and Pink. The Xperia T will also have several color choices: black, silver, and white.

Sony Xperia T and J detailed with NFC “one-touch” is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Smartphones, tablets and headphones aren’t the only NFC-enabled devices that Sony announced at IFA today. While it didn’t make it on stage during the keynote, the company’s also officially announced a new wireless speaker that boasts NFC connectivity in addition to the usual Bluetooth — an addition that lets you play music simply by tapping the speaker with your smartphone. As you can see, the speaker (known only as the SRS-BTM8) is also available in your choice of black or white, and it’s clearly designed with portability in mind, boasting an integrated handle along with space for 4AA batteries that promise 20 hours of playback time. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing or availability just yet, but we’ll keep you posted if we hear anything.

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Sony just threw itself fully into the touchscreen Windows 8 arena — it’s introducing the VAIO Duo 11 slider tablet and the Tap 20 combination desktop and tablet design at its IFA 2012 press conference. The Duo 11 is a noticeably amped-up realization of the Hybrid concept we saw at CES. Its 11.6-inch, 1080p touchscreen is joined by a proper digitizer stylus for low-lag handwriting as well as some seriously powerful innards for a convertible PC its size: we’re talking an Ultrabook-level Core i3, i5 or i7 as well as a 128GB or 256GB SSD, NFC wireless, GPS, and HD-capable cameras at the front and back. Sony is hoping for a late October release for this beast of a slate, although we haven’t been given that all-important price.

The VAIO Tap 20, meanwhile, is more than just a tilting all-in-one desktop in the vein of Lenovo’s IdeaCentre A720. Despite carrying a 20-inch, 1,600 x 900 touchscreen, it’s still very much battery-powered — you can lug the 11.4-pound PC into the living room and treat it like a tiny multi-touch table, if that’s your inclination. It’s sharing the same processor picks as the Duo 11, but it turns to more conventional 750GB or 1TB hard drives and puts the emphasis on shareable apps like Family Paint and the Fingertapps Organizer calendar. Not surprisingly, there’s only one, front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera here, although NFC does make the cut. The Tap 20 is due to arrive at about the same time as its smaller Duo 11 sibling, although we’re once again without details of how much it will cost.

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