Our friends at Sony have taken the time to update the masses on its Android 4.1 Jelly Bean rollout plans for the foreseeable future. For starters, they’ve confirmed that the Xperia T, Xperia V and Xperia TX’s upgrades will go out as planned throughout the months of February and March. The Xperia P, Xperia J [...]
Sony’s steadfast on keeping their promise of upgrading most 2011 phones and tablets to Ice Cream Sandwich, and three more devices have been added to the list. The OEM announced that the Sony Xperia Go, Xperia U, and Xperia Sola will all be geting the OTA starting today and, of course, only unlocked versions are [...]
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down …
It looks like Sony’s Xperia Sola has gotten a round of applause and approval at the FCC. The device was torn apart for all the important people to see. While it’s not necessarily pretty or interesting, it lets us know that the “Floating Touch” enabled device could soon be on its way to store shelves. [...]
Sola, Pepper, MT27i — it’s got many names, and now it’s got the official thumbs up from American regulators. The Sony Xperia Sola made an appearance at the FCC, got itself torn asunder and even dragged along its user manual. Beneath the rather underw…
If the newly announced Sony Xperia sola’s floating touch input seems a bit too sci-fi, you might be surprised to find out that this bit of smartphone magic relies on technologies already commonplace in modern handsets. We are all familiar with multi-touch capacitive displays. In this type of display, mutual capacitance is utilized to plot [...]
Sony has introduced another new smartphone. The Sony Xperia sola is a 3.7 inch device with a Reality Display quite unlike other Xperia devices. You can use gestures to do things like browse the web without touching the display. Called “floating touch,” it’s kind of like the technology that we got a look at when [...]
So, it turns out the sola isn’t a US-specific version of the Xperia S after all, but a new handset in its own right — albeit one we’ve already seen under the “Pepper” codename. In some ways, it’s a budget version of the S, with a similar appearance m…
