Posts Tagged ‘sony ericsson’

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Sony Announces Time Frame for ICS on their Devices

Sony already announced what phones are expected to recieve the Android 4.0 update, and now they are giving us a time frame. Sony states that by the end of March and early April,  the Xperia Arc S, Xperia Neo V and Xperia Ray will be the first to get Ice Cream Sandwich. The Xperia Arc, Xperia Play, Xperia Neo, Xperia Mini and [...]

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Sony Ericsson releases preview ROMs of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Xperia Arc S, Ray and Neo V

Once seen as almost the worst manufacturer for rolling out updates, Sony Ericsson looks to be living up to their promise that they will no longer hold that title.  With the release of the Android 4.0 source code, and of course the Galaxy Nexus now starting to launch around the world, Sony Ericsson as released some preview [...]

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Sony Ericsson also talks about process for ICS updates

Sony Ericsson is the second OEM to release the details of how they go about their updating process today.  Earlier we saw Motorola give us a breakdown on their procedures, and not to be left out Sony Ericsson has done the same.  As with the Motorola blog post Sony Ericsson does go into some detail [...]

Sony Ericsson Xperai Arc Finally Comes To The US, And Unlocked To Boot!

After CES this past January the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc was one of the devices that had caught everyone’s eye.  The Xperia Arc was initially released in Europe and then slowly started to make it’s way around the globe, but up until today the US had been left out of the party.  Today the Xperia [...]

Sony Ericsson Announces The Xperia Ray And Active

Sony Ericsson announced two new Android phones this morning, the Xperia Ray and Active.  Both of these devices will be running Gingerbread and add to the already pretty impressive new line of Xperia phones, the Play and Arc.  The Xperia Ray is an aluminum framed device, where as the Active is rubberized for that user [...]

Xperia X10 Gets Gingerbread Demo, Update Set For August Release

No you are not dreaming, and no you have not travelled into some kind of parallel universe!  That is indeed a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 that you see in the video, and yes it is running Gingerbread (Android 2.3).  So has you can see in the video the X10 is slotted to get an official Android 2.3.3 build, and [...]

Sony Ericsson Releasing Android 2.3.4 For The Xperia Arc And Xperia Play Next Week In The UK

We originally applauded Sony Ericsson for launching the new Xperia Arc and Xperia Play with Android 2.3, as many manufacturers still aren’t doing it.  And now Sony Ericsson is receiving another applause from us as they are getting ready to roll Android 2.3.4 out to the two new Xperia devices in the UK.  This update will not only include [...]

Verizon Officially Announces The Xperia Play, Launching May 26th With Pre-Orders Beginning May 19th

Today Verizon has released the official launch of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the Android/Playstation device.  The Xperia Play will be launching on Verizon on May 26th for $199.99 on a two year contract and will come loaded with Android 2.3, 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 4″ display, dual cameras and that fancy slide out game [...]

Google Announces Team That Will Create Guidelines For Device Updates

This is one of the most exciting things to come out of the Google IO keynots today.  Google has announced that they are creating a team, including many manufacturers and carriers, to create a set of guidelines to mandate the update process for Android.  The team will include such partners as Verizon, HTC, Samsung, Sprint, [...]

Sony Ericsson Provides “How-To” For Custom Kernel Building

If there is one thing that most manufacturers don’t want you doing to their devices, it is building a custom kernel and flashing it.  Sony Ericsson has previously been criticized for their lack of updates for older devices, and they have vowed that this year would be different.  First they proved this fact by providing [...]