started selling half-inch devices

started selling half-inch devices

The Japanese company will start selling in the second half two devices based on Android. The S1 has a 10-inch screen and compete with the iPad, Galaxy Tab and Xoom. The S2 has two folding screens, 5.5-inch

Sony also intends to offer online content for your tablet, similar to Apple's iTunes platform for downloading music, videos, digital books and games.

The Japanese electronics giant operates a service for Playstation games and music and movies sold through Qriocity platform. Also now has an online store of books for electronic reading devices.

Kunimasa Suzuki, Sony representative said that these new tablets will be compatible with the original online games for the PlayStation, by an application.

The books can be loaded and read in these multimedia terminals that can be used as remote controls for domestic appliances.

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The S1 model, competitor iPad front, is equipped with a touch screen about 10 inches, two cameras, wireless access to Wi-Fi and 3G.

The S2 is different from the first tablet because it folds in two and stored in a pocket. Remember a little game console, Nintendo DS, with an appearance to adults, the format is larger than the smartphone but smaller than a tablet.

The concept is similar to that used by Acer in notebook Iconium, which has two 14-inch full touchscreen.

Deployed, the S2 shows two color touch screens 14 inches diagonally each. You can use both open 90 degrees like a mini portable PC, and 180 º, flat like a tablet, landscape or portrait.

These two new devices, for a wide range of potential users, operating under the Google Android 3.0, thus allowing the development of numerous applications for Sony or others.

The price of the devices was not disclosed, but is anticipated to be "competitive with competing products."

The mode of sale vary depending on the countries and the relationships between manufacturers and operators of telecommunications networks, according to Suzuki, who imagines, for example, a user may subscribe to a single mobile subscription and use both as a traditional cell phone Sony a tablet.




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