Hasta La Gadget!

NTT DoCoMo has a heritage of exclusively signing up fictional personalities to hawk its handsets and following the likes of Evangelion, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and One Piece, it’s the turn of not-actually-real pop idol Hatsune Miku. She’ll be emblazoned on DoCoMo’s Xperia A, on a limited run of 39,000 handsets. Vocaloid‘s poster girl offers a turquoise theme to the hardware, with a hair decal on the back. While there’s no specific word yet on software-based tweaks, a website explaining the collaboration is inviting suggestions for logos, ringtone and wallpaper. The phone will launch in Japan only this September, so we advise overseas Miku fans to get straight to work on that visa application.

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Via: Engadget Japan

Source: DX39

We’ve been hearing stacks of rumors recently about a Sony flagship called Honami, which will supposedly come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 and a 20-megapixel camera. A system dump, purportedly from a Honami phone, surfaced last week and now XDA developer “krabappel2548” has managed to dissect the camera app and get it working on some existing Xperia devices — including the Xperia Z, ZL and Tablet Z, so long as they’ve been suitably prepped for hacking. From the resulting screenshots, it looks like Sony is set to introduce features such as augmented reality, “Time shift” (which sounds a lot like HTC’s Zoe feature), live filters and an image search engine dubbed “Info-eye.” All of this sounds reasonably in tune with the “One Sony” strategy of focusing on mobile and imaging. If Honami is real, and if it comes with the right hardware to support the updated camera module, it could be a big deal.

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Via: XPERIA Blog (1)

Source: XDA Developers

Sony’s new mondo handset, the Xperia Z Ultra, was just revealed to the world today, and so it should come as no surprise that the new phone has just received Uncle Sam’s seal of approval. That’s right, folks, a version of the 6.4 inch device sporting 1,700MHz HSPA and GSM 850/1900MHz radios has passed the FCC’s battery of tests. Alas, despite its cellular and dual-band WiFi radios being put through the wringer, there’s a dearth of LTE info in the docs, so we’re still in the dark as to the bands that the handset’s working with. Still, should you wish to know more of the Z Ultras secrets, all the charts and RF readings you can handle can be found in the source below.

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Source: FCC

Sony’s unveiled its latest addition to its Xperia Z series, a new smartphone that blurs the line between smartphone and tablet once more — the appropriately named Xperia Z Ultra. Packing a 6.4-inch display that runs at 1080p resolution, it bests other similarly gigantic superphones that all currently hover around 720p. This new screen is paired with Qualcomm’s latest and greatest mobile processor, the impressively potent 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800, 2GB of RAM and 4G LTE connectivity too.

It all weighs in at 212 grams (over 50 grams more than the Xperia Z) but the body has been slimmed down to a mere 6.5mm uniform thickness, jostling with the barely announced Ascend P6 for title of thinnest phone despite those high-end specifications (and screen dimensions). There’s 16GB of built-in storage, 11GB of which is user-accessible, while a microSD slot will add an additional 64GB if needed. To power that screen, Sony has also cranked the battery pack up to 3,000mAh and we’re hoping that will be enough for all those high-end components it’ll be powering. There’s no specifics on LTE bands just yet, but the phone also packs a pentaband HSPA radio, ensuring the global model will play nice on AT&T’s 3G service, at least, when it launches later this year. We’ve got more details (especially on that display) after the break.

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Sony Mobile Communications is releasing a compact and stylish wireless headset “SBH20″ in mid July. It’s compatible with NFC so that you can connect it quickly with your NFC compliant smartphone or tablet such as Xperia Z and you can enjoy listening to the music or talking on the phone.

The face of the square body has a manual operation button, its side has a slide power key, and its backside is a clip to hold on a pocket or another part.

4 colors are available: black, white, pink and orange.

Price: ¥4,980
Size: 33mm x 33mm x 12mm
Weight: 16.9 g