Remember the Sony Xperia Tapioca, a budget Android smartphone that first surfaced back in January? Having successfully managed to keep itself hidden for several months, the handset is now back out in the wild, and it has been pictured again by two separate sources ahead of its official unveiling. The image above — which was

Sony is yet to release a smartphone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, but thanks to a number of leaked images in recent months, we know that the Japanese company has at least been testing prototype devices with Windows Phone installed. One of those prototypes, named ‘Jolie’, is now available to purchase on eBay,

A photo of what is thought to be the Sony ST25i ‘Kumquat’ has shown up on the web. Obtained by Xperia Blog, the leaked picture shows a handset fairly similar to the Xperia S or LT22i Nypon we’ve seen before, however, shows a slightly different placement of the forward-facing camera than those models, indicating it

It looks Sony is set to announce a slew of new smartphones at February’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Three of them have already been pictured out in the wild, but only two of them are running Android. The third, surprisingly, is running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. Assuming none of the handsets are part

Clove UK announced on Friday the Sony Xperia S (in black only) is now available for preorder. The device is one of two smartphones Sony Ericsson announced at CES 2012 this past week, the second being the US-bound Xperia Ion. The wireless carrier said the Xperia S will start at £389.99, with stock arriving the

Sony has announced its new Xperia S at CES 2012 in Las Vegas this week — one of the company’s first devices since dropping Ericsson from its smartphone venture — and we were lucky enough to go hands-on and get some first impressions of the new device. It looks set to be a big hit for Android fans,

Sony Ericsson is “gearing up for some interesting news next week” according to its Facebook wall. The company posted this picture today of a group of 70′s-style teenagers checking out what appears to be a smartphone. Sony will be dropping the Ericsson name from its phone division at some point in 2012. The photo could

Sony (Ericsson) might be down but they ain’t out yet. The InterWeb’s got the goods on a rumored Android-based flagship that’s apparently set to debut at CES 2012 next month in Las Vegas. The LT28at, as it’s being referred to, will purportedly feature a 4.5-inch 720p “Reality Display” screen, 13 megapixel rear camera 720p front

Sony Ericsson is expected to unveil new Android smartphones at CES next February, but if you can’t wait until then, feast your eyes on the new Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc HD. You may have seen this baby kicking around the web before — previously codenamed the “Nozomi” — but these are the best shots we’ve

Having bought Ericsson’s 50% share of the Sony Ericsson brand for $1.47 billion back in October, Sony is now focused on phasing out the “Ericsson” part of its smartphone brand. From mid-2012, the Japanese company’s new smartphones will simply be labeled “Sony.” A senior executive for the company confirmed the move in an interview with The Times of India,

Sony Ericsson announced in a press release yesterday that it has struck a deal with Box.net to provide all Xperia smartphone users in the U.K. with 50GB worth of cloud-based storage completely free. If you’ve attempted to sign up for the offer, however, you’d have already noticed that it isn’t quite ready yet. Those who

Everyone seems to be giving away free cloud-based storage with their smartphones these days: Buy an iPhone and it comes with iCloud, get a Windows Phone device and you get SkyDrive, and choose HTC and you’ll get free Dropbox storage. For those in the U.K., you can now get free storage on your Sony Ericsson

We already knew that Sony Ericsson’s Xperia line of handsets were going to get Ice Cream Sandwich, and now we know when. The company announced on its blog earlier this month it would be updating the entire 2011 Xperia line with Ice Cream Sandwich, this week Sony’s head of marketing Maurizio de Palma said on

Sony Ericsson today announced a deal to distribute unlocked handsets in the United States through Ingram Micro. Ingram specializes in technology distribution and supply-chain services, and counts Amazon.com, Best Buy, Buy.com and Newegg.com among its retail distribution partners. The deal will kick in later this month and include U.S. distribution of SE’s newest smartphone, the Xperia arc

When Xperia users worldwide finally join their Nordic brethren in getting their hands on the Gingerbread 2.3.4 update, Sony will have a little treat stuffed in the box — gesture typing. Not unlike Swype — in fact, kind of a dead ringer for it — this “Gesture input” implementation lets users swipe around the onscreen QWERTY to

Loyal HP followers can rest easy: After a painstaking evaluation, and a look into alternatives, HP announced today that it plans to keep its Personal Systems Group (PSG) as part of the company. CEO Meg Whitman abandoned the proposal made by HP’s former CEO Leo Apotheker after the company conducted a strategic review, saying that

Now that Sony has gotten total control over Sony Ericsson, what will it do next? Dump any and all featurephone initiatives, says Sony prez and CEO Sir Howard Stringer. The focus from here on out, he says, will be on smartphones. The logical assumption would be that Sony Ericsson will be all “Android ahoy!” since

A takeover has been the subject of rumors for several weeks now, but today, Sony announced that it will take complete control of Sony Ericsson with a €1.05 billion (approx. $1.47 billion) buyout. Sony Ericsson will now become part of the Sony family, wholly-owned by the Japanese company. The deal is good news for Sony Ericsson

Recent rumors have suggested that Sony may be about take over Ericsson’s 50% of the Sony Ericsson joint venture so that the company has complete control over its smartphone lineup. As things stand, according to one report, Sony feels it can take its smartphones further if it goes at it alone. However, Sony’s executive deputy president,

If you’ve got a Sony Ericsson device built this year, you’ll be pleased to hear that you don’t need to purchase a new one to get your hands on Google’s latest Android release. The company confirmed in a message posted to its Facebook page that lucky users with 2011 handsets will be getting their Ice Cream Sandwich

It would seem that Sony may be ready to say “so long” to its long time partner Ericsson. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Sony is in talks to buy out Ericsson’s 50 percent stake in the Sony Ericsson brand that the two companies jointly founded in 2001.  Currently the company is

This week’s roundup is the last in this series for U.K. carriers. We’ve already covered O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and Three, and this week we’ll turn our attention to Virgin Media. Virgin isn’t quite as big as the others, but it does have some pretty impressive devices on offer. It’s also one of the few

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G, aka the latest “PlayStation Phone,” landed at AT&T recently, and we’ve got the goods. Like its Verizon Wireless predecessor, this one’s got Android 2.3, 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon processor, Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU, a 4″ touchscreen (854 x 480 res), dual cameras (with 720p vid capture) and a $50

It’s not often that Microsoft thinks up with an impressive piece of hardware. Its Xbox 360 console is the only piece of kit I’ve purchased from the company for as long as I can remember, however, if it was to produce the smartphone detailed in this patent application, I’d be adopting Windows Phone in a

We’re now close to covering all of the U.K.’s major carriers with our weekly top 5 phones roundups: we’ve already done O2, Vodafone and Orange, and this week we’re taking a look at T-Mobile. These roundups are designed to help you keep track of the most exciting handset releases, and quickly see the best devices