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The Holodeck is real and there’s no Lt. Barclay to make things awkward. Using a combination of a Steadicam, multiple EyeToy cameras, PlayStation Move controllers, projection mapping, motion tracking, spandex-clad actors and giant rubber sea monster tentacles, Sony Europe, Studio Output and Marshmallow Laser Feast shot three web videos to highlight the immersiveness of movies rented or purchased from the PlayStation Store. Impressively, the shots rely exclusively on visual tricks, with zero editing or postproduction work. Is this the future? See for yourself after the break and relive the joy of the Holodeck without having to interrupt Worf from one of his weird workout routines.

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Sony brings the Holodeck to life, throws in giant sea monsters for free (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A vast number of Bravia LCD TVs dating from 2007 and 2008 will be recalled after components in some Japanese sets went into meltdown and started smoking. So far only eleven incidents have been reported and it looks like no one has been hurt or experienced any wider damage, but Sony says it wants to take back 1.6 million TVs that were sold in the US, Europe, Japan and elsewhere. No word on exactly which models are affected, but we’re expecting further details from Sony imminently.

Sony to recall 1.6 million Bravia TVs due to melting components originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, it’s been almost a month since we first pinched our greasy fingers across the Pearl E-Ink screen gracing the front of Sony’s latest e-reader, and your opportunity to do the same is quickly approaching. The 7-inch, Android-powered Reader is now available for pre-order (at the source link) for 0, just as expected. The current shipping date is listed as “on or about” October 16th, so if you put in your order now, you’ll still have a couple of weeks to wait. Still, if you could hold out six years for A Dance with Dragons, what’s three weeks to you?

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Sony Reader WiFi almost ready to let you (multi)touch it, up for pre-order now originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It seems we weren’t the only ones doubting Sony Ericsson’s future. In a poll last month, you guys voted on exactly when the company will die—and the results ain’t pretty. Will this super-slim Android-running Anzu save them? More »

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Sony Digital Photo Frame Review

With the decrease in price of digital camera, the digital frame got popularity. Digital frame is best source of displaying digital camera picture in different styles. Sony digital photo frame come with variety of slide show display options.  You can adjust timing and pause of slide show. One very good feature of Sony frame is its adjustment of images according to your calendar. You can adjust whole year event with picture. Sony digital frame is a great addition to home and office decor.

The best feature I enjoyed in Sony digital frame is ease to use. Just one button controls most of the functions of digital frame. The frame is handled automatically. You don’t need to set resolution and brightness with color.  It will adjust automatically. Very powerful remote control comes with the digital frame which allows you to control frame setting from distance. Mini format card slot support many range of different memory cards.  Memory card, memory stick, Compact flash drive enable plug and play display mode of most of digital cameras.

S-frame can show 48 mega pixel image and it can handle more then 100 MB size image big built in memory help in storing many image and help in displaying many image simultaneously.

When I purchase it and plugged wire a demo started and after watching complete demo I just added some images in memory of my family. Slide show of the pictures with ten second pauses was default setting of slide show. I tested it with different speed of slide show and really enjoyed it. Another best feature of Sony digital frame is SDHC (high capacity memory card support). Most of digital cameras come with high capacity memory card and it give option to digital camera user to just plug your high capacity memory card in SDHC slot of digital frame and play your images and frame immediately. Automatic colors and brightness control system work very nicely and give very pleasant picture. The brightness of frame adjusts automatically with colors which is very good features of digital photo frame.

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Enjoy DVD and video on popular Google Android phone: Sony X3, Moto Droid, Samsung i7500

Enjoy DVD and video on popular Google Android phone: Sony X3, Moto Droid, Samsung i7500

Android system has been taken into our memory early, many friends favor Smartphone input more energy to concern and discuss. The operating system of mobile Google was just come in, many firms are involved in its ranks. Although several Android system model, but from many large communication exhibition and conference, we can feel the intelligent system is brewing powerful planning and this program will allow rival felt unprecedented pressure. First, it is released- the recent Android 2.0 improving many functions in the basis of the original version. Further more, many using the Android system and budding Smart phones, from many world famous big mobile phone manufacturer, will give the arrival of the mobile phone market nowadays squabble. Today is for everyone to collect three typical phones of the Android phone system, if you are focused on a new system, so might as well see below, which can allure you?

Sony Ericsson’s Android-Based Xperia X3
Relative to the Sony Ericsson X2, we pay more attention to the next paragraph – Sony Ericsson Smartphone X3 first using Android system smart phone in Sony Ericsson group. At times, we finally got similar official news, this high hardware configuration Smartphone will officially released in November this year.
According to unconfirmed reports, this Smartphone will have a tablet shape dominated by a 4-inch, 800-by-400-pixel touch screen. It will reportedly run the Android OS on a 1 GHz processor Snapdragon processor. Rather than use Google’s standard user interface, Sony Ericsson has created a proprietary one for this device that emphasizes social networking (see here). One of the highlights of the X3 will apparently be its 8 megapixel camera with flash and support for VGA (640 x 480 pixels) video recording at 30 fps. This will offer face and smile detection, as well as image stabilization. It will allegedly be a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) GSM phone with dual-band (900/2100) 3G: 10 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA. Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi g will also be included. In addition, it comes with built in music player. This music player is expected to be simple to use and manage. The music files can be traced according to the name of the song, album, artist or genre. As no proper information is available on the equalizer, we have to wait and watch what the sound control feature would be like. The music player is capable of playing music files based on MP3, AAC and e-AAC+ formats. Music can be enjoyed with wireless stereo Bluetooth also.

Samsung Galaxy I7500
Samsung’s new i7500 Galaxy makes it the first manufacturer after HTC to enter the Android game and it does so with a fairly feature-rich phone. The Samsung i7500 fuselage, using only 11.9 millimeters thickness of design, equipped with a straight HVGA 3.2-inch 480 x 320 level of resolution touchscreen, built-in 500 pixel camera support autofocus, equipped with LED flashlight and using the high MSM7200A CPU, 8G memory.
The Samsung i7500 interface is pretty much the standard Android 1.5 OS platform, with very little in the way of customization. It equipped with 350 mm stereo headphone jacks, battery capacity for 1500mAh, support the global positioning system (GPS), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and all services, including Google search, Google maps, Gmail, Google calendar, YouTube and integrated GPS function of Google Talk. The video player on the Samsung i7500 Galaxy is of decent quality, while not bringing extra functionality (much like the music player). Videos are organized the same way as pictures in the gallery, and the default view makes it hard to search for the video you’re looking for. However, there’s also a dedicated video viewer as well, with the videos listed by name. It support with video format: MPEG4, h. 263, h.264 and audio formats: MP3, WMV, AAC, AAC +, e AAC +, WMA, RA.

Motorola DROID
As time approaches, the “Driod” on the operators of Verizon Wireless official web page will be officially released in the near future. But recently, it was announced that Motorola Sholes will launch with the newest Android2.0 system, for this machine attracting more attention.
The screen on the DROID is a 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen — a full glass display with a WVGA resolution clocking in at a handsome 480 x 854 full QWERTY keyboard. The DROID will be launched by the introduction of dedicated, support and 1XEV CDMA2000 1X CDMA network – A blinding Rev, this also makes this phone become the first CDMA mobile phone of carrying Android system. And it supports A-GPS navigation, Wi-Fi, USB2.0, E-mail, HTML web browsing and send out Google services, etc. Meanwhile This phone will be equipped with 3.5 millimeter earphone interface and stereo headset function, packing a 550MHz OMAP3 CPU, dedicated graphics processor, 512MB of ROM, 256 of RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, a digital compass, and accelerometer. Another, Motorola has smartly outfitted the DROID with a 5 megapixel camera coupled with an LED flash. Video, on the other hand, was somewhat of a pleasant surprise. The DROID is capable of shooting at a 720 x 480 resolution, will support AMR-NB/WB, MP3, PCM/WAV, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA and mpeg-4, H263 H264, video files, WMV formats.

All of these three phones are excellent smartphone. Here I should explain my smartphone requirements. I’m looking for a device to serve as my personal telephone, media player, mini computer and business assistant. For personal telephone, it is used for daily contact, to make calls and receive calls. All of these were easy to use and very convenient to dial a number. But if it is possible to watch dvds in these phones? I search this question on Google. And I find a good software to solve this problem – [url=http://www.nidesoft.com/dvd-ripper.html]Nidesoft DVD Ripper[/url] which could rip DVD movies to most popular formats easily and quickly, such as: Rip DVD to MP4, 3GP, iPod/PSP/Zune, MOV, WMV, AVI, etc which these phone supports formats. Now I have tried it.
Firstly, download this software from: http://www.nidesoft.com/downloads/dvd-ripper.exe
Install and run it !
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive.
Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, and find the DVD folder of the movie. (It is not only load DVD disc, but also could open a disk backup’s directory.)

Step 2: Click the “profile” button and select the format for your player.
Step 3: Click the “convert” button. Please wait before the conversion succeeds!
Now, I could enjoy the videos with any other player. In addition, I also find [url=http://www.nidesoft.com/video-converter.html]Nidesoft Video Converter[/url] could convert video or audio files between all popular formats. It can help us to convert video formats for players. Both softwares are good assistant for Smartphone.

Conclusion
All of these three phones are good android smartphone that a modern user would expect. Through the above simply introduce, we are not hard to find it will be a good choice that no matter chose which kind of mobile phones. We expect Android to take more and more rich system products, hope each manufacturer could take out excellent products. So ultimately benefit will be our consumers.

There’s been a ton of attention recently to the fact that Google Voice was banned from the iPhone app store. Here, Ron Richard reviews the free app for T-Mobile G1 users running Android
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