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Sony Tablet S pushed to Ice Cream Sandwich

Mark Raby, Apr 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

The latest version of Android is now landing on Sony's Tablet S. Version 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is now being rolled out to device owners in the US. Ice Cream Sandwich is one of the biggest updates to Android yet, and includes such features as scanning your face to unlock the phone, a much more robust speech-to-text software program, and an entire platform of data sharing that focuses on Near Field Communication (NFC). Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: April 26, 2012

Mark Raby, Apr 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Happy Thursday, everyone. We're coming up to the end of April, with bright hopes for amazing weather and happiness around the corner. And for one company, that's a pretty poignant analog to make right now - Nintendo. It just posted its first annual loss. But it's seen mostly as a fluke, as the next year will include the Wii U launch, which incidentally, is also in the news: Wii U with Android tipped for launch. Not all the news today was about Nintendo, though. There's still one particular smartphone thar's still making headlines - Galaxy S III guide appears in the wild. Read The Full Story

Android 4.0 coming in late April for Sony Tablet P/S

Shane McGlaun, Mar 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

We recently put up a review of the Sony Tablet P and lamented that Honeycomb needed to be ditched in favor of Ice Cream Sandwich. Sony has announced that next month owners of its Tablet S and Tablet P will be getting the update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The update has been confirmed for Japan, but it's not clear if other countries will also get the update. Read The Full Story

iPad has the least issues, says FixYa tech Q&A site

Rue Liu, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [22]

Tech Q&A site FixYa has released the number of support issues logged on its site for popular devices over the holiday season, revealing that the iPad is the least problematic in the tablets category. The data also revealed which issues were most prominent with each device, such as screen or connectivity problems. Read The Full Story

Nintendo prepping Wii U eBook store and courting iOS devs says source

Chris Davies, Jan 3rd 2012 Discuss [1]

Nintendo is reportedly not only preparing an app store for the Wii U, the company's next-gen console scheduled for launch this year, but an ebook platform for distributing game guides, digital magazines and more. The company has already approached publishers and developers about the Wii U ereader store, ForgetTheBox's source claims, and is considering offering its back-catalog of out of print "Players Guides" for titles like Super Mario World free to download to Wii U gamers. Read The Full Story

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Tablets: an Android 2011 Retrospective

Chris Burns, Jan 2nd 2012 Discuss [18]

When the year 2011 is looked back upon by the Google historians, they’ll mark it as the first time they officially made an effort to bring the Android platform to devices with displays larger than handheld smartphones – what we saw, as a result, was everything from the XOOM to the ASUS Transformer Prime. The folks at Google created a version of their mobile operating system Android titled Honeycomb and numbered version 3.0. This operating system began its life in the wild on the Motorola XOOM, a 10.1-inch tablet that by the end of the year would be replaced by the XYBOARD, a tablet which physically in weight and thickness to the iPad 2 – the dominant force in the tablet space throughout the vast majority of this past year.

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Sony Tablet S gets $100 discount to undercut iPad

Chris Davies, Jan 2nd 2012 Discuss [3]

Sony has slashed $100 off of its Tablet S, undercutting the iPad with the Android-powered slate in an attempt to better bite into Apple's segment dominance. Described at Sony's online store as an "instant saving" - but to betanews as a permanent price reduction - the $100 cut makes the 16GB Tablet S $399.99 and the 32GB model $499.99. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 52 2011

Chris Burns, Jan 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Welcome to the last week of the year, and here at SlashGear an odd week since last week we did not have a wrap-up as such. What we're doing this week is checking out our last reviews, our last featured posts, columns, top posts, and the like. Note furthermore that this review is one part of a set of reviews of the whole year of 2011, pieces that we choose and that you choose in kind! The last posts of the year were an odd bunch, let me tell you, and at no point should you expect that a holiday season would be bland - in fact it was utterly wild when it came down to it - enjoy! Read The Full Story

Sony Tablet S, Tablet P getting Android 4.0 update

Rue Liu, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [12]

Sony recently posted some good news for Tablet S and Tablet P owners, confirming that the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will indeed be rolling out to both devices. The news was posted in Sony UK's community forums, but the company hasn't confirmed yet when this update will arrive. Read The Full Story

Sony Tablet P hits UK and isn’t cheap

Shane McGlaun, Nov 23rd 2011 Discuss [5]

If you like the idea of an Android tablet, but want something that is a bit different from the normal tablets out there the Sony Tablet P might be the ticket. This is the tablet with the hinge in the middle of the screen so you can fold it into a more portable form factor. That hinged screen also lets you run one app on each little screen if you want. Read The Full Story

Wii U launch no time soon: Hardware finalizing June 2012

Chris Davies, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [2]

Nintendo has warned that gamers shouldn't expect to see the Wii U any time soon, with president Satoru Iwata confirming that the final version of the next-gen console isn't expected to go on show until E3 in June next year. "Based on the bitter experiences we have had with the Nintendo 3DS, we are making every effort to prepare so that the Wii U will not stumble during its launch" Iwata said following the company's dreary last-quarter financial results. Read The Full Story

PlayStation Suite to hit non-Sony Android devices

Rue Liu, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [5]

Sony may finally be loosening up its grip on the PlayStation suite platform. Currently, the platform is only available to Sony-branded Android devices, including the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Sony Tablet S and Sony Tablet P. In an interview at the AsiaD conference, Sony Computer Entertainment Chairman Kaz Hirai confirmed that the company was working on having the platform available on other non-Sony devices. Read The Full Story