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		<title>Xbox One&#8217;s &#8216;Future-Proof&#8217; Digital Strategy Isn&#8217;t Unique to Xbox One</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/12/xbox-ones-future-proof-digital-strategy-isnt-unique-to-xbox-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes things don&#8217;t go as planned. Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox One E3 pre-show press salvo on Monday morning lived up to its gaming-focused promise, the company spotlighting a gorgeous demo of Metal Gear Solid V alongside beautiful exclusives like Forza Motorsport 5, Ryse: Son of Rome, Sunset Overdrive, Crimson Dragon and Below. But Redmond chose to run silent about several controversial content usage policies outlined days earlier in an online FAQ. Later that evening, Sony, spying an opportunity to promote its PlayStation 4 as, among other things, not-Microsoft, demurely went for the console&#8217;s throat. Sony&#8217;s either principled or opportunistic (you pick) rebuttal of mandatory Internet access and intrusive disc-based game usage policies was indeed a PR coup. But more importantly, it was also a meaningful coup. There&#8217;s no such thing as doing nothing in this industry &#8212; every choice is still a choice with potentially galvanic consequences. Holding your position is just as tactically significant a choice as charging someone else&#8217;s. The Xbox One&#8217;s connectivity requirements happen to align, unfortunately, with the ongoing National Security Agency data-tapping debacle that&#8217;s been driving public paranoia way up. The notion that we ought to embrace a set-top box that sits in our most intimate spaces, watching and listening to us, always connected to the Internet or minimally connected once every 24 hours, collating and transmitting usage-related information about us to Microsoft&#8230;well, whatever else it is, Redmond has a message problem. And it&#8217;s done nothing at E3 to remedy that. I won&#8217;t challenge the legitimacy of selling a device in 2013 with mandatory Internet requirements &#8211; something I&#8217;ve written about before. What I would challenge, is Microsoft&#8217;s vague explanations about why this makes the Xbox One somehow a superior device. Forcing people to be online all the time (or periodically) makes sense if you&#8217;re offering clear and compelling advantages. Microsoft hasn&#8217;t explained this &#8212; at least not very well. Yes, system and game updates will now happen in the background without our attention. But was anyone really bothered by these brief (and rare) interruptions on current-gen devices? Aren&#8217;t we, if we so choose<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164546&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Sony May Have Won E3 With the PlayStation 4</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/11/how-sony-may-have-won-e3-with-the-playstation-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I don&#8217;t work for Sony, thanks for asking. But just to be up-front, I&#8217;m about to type a bunch of positive things about Sony (having typed a bunch of negative things four months ago). That&#8217;s because its E3 presser resonated quite a bit more than Microsoft&#8217;s, which aired early Monday morning. E3 (and, you know, life) isn&#8217;t made of perfectly balanced events where everyone comes out equally potent. Sometimes that&#8217;s just how things roll. For starters, what some took for a subdued performance for much of Sony&#8217;s presser — the sort of subdued where anodyne music plays and presenters actually spend time talking substantively to the audience instead of visually assaulting it — was something of a blessing, a respite from the juvenile techno-infused thump-thump-thump party vibe that tends to hang over these spectacular spectaculars like a locker-room miasma. Nintendo and Apple are masters of this let&#8217;s-treat-viewers-intelligently approach. Sony seemed to be learning how to pull that off (whereas Microsoft still has no idea how it&#8217;s done). I was neither impressed nor unimpressed by the actual PS4 system reveal: it&#8217;s basically a trapezoidal PS2, but who cares what it looks like, really. For all intents and purposes, it&#8217;s a black brick, just like Microsoft&#8217;s black brick. For most players, it&#8217;s going to sit on a shelf, only be visible from the front and not move. If Sony withheld this reveal to give its E3 presser extra pizzazz, it hardly needed to. Gamewise, I saw exclusives that interested me and others that didn&#8217;t — the same reaction I had to Microsoft&#8217;s no more or less engaging lineup. (I admit games predominantly about cars, guns and sports tend to live at the bottom of my play list nowadays.) Notables: The Order: 1886, Knack, Kingdom Hearts III, inFAMOUS: Second Son, Final Fantasy XV (née Final Fantasy Versus XIII) and every one of the demoed indie titles. Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox One indie shout-out by comparison during its event: another Minecraft port. (Update: Square Enix just revealed that KHIII and FFXV will be on Xbox One as well.) I&#8217;m still not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164439&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At E3, Sony Gives the People What They Want</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/11/at-e3-sony-gives-the-people-what-they-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony seemed to be going through the motions for the majority of its E3 press conference. Sure, the company spent plenty of time talking about the PlayStation 4, showing off games like Destiny, Kingdom Hearts III and Assassin&#8217;s Creed IV: Black Flag. The company made its obligatory mentions of the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita&#8211;promising continued support for both&#8211;and gave some love to indie game developers. Details from Sony&#8217;s PS4 press conference in February were rehashed with some minor new details. It was all pretty unremarkable&#8211;even the big reveal of the actual console hardware. But just as things seemed to be winding down, Sony dropped a few bombs: The PlayStation 4 will not have any new restrictions on used, disc-based games. Players will be able to resell, trade or lend their discs to anyone. Single-player PS4 games will work entirely offline. Players won&#8217;t be required to check in periodically. The PlayStation 4 will cost $399 when it launches this holiday season. (Pricing outside the United States is 399 Euros and 349 British Pounds.) Those first two points wouldn&#8217;t be such a big deal if Microsoft hadn&#8217;t recently announced major restrictions on Xbox One games. Last week, Microsoft said all Xbox One discs would be tied to a single account, effectively preventing players from loaning their games to friends. Players can still sell their used games, but only to partnering retailers with publishers&#8217; consent. Players can transfer a game to someone else, but only one transfer per game is allowed. Presumably to enforce these policies, Xbox One systems must check in online once every 24 hours, or else games will not work. Jared Newman / TIME.com The $399 price tag for the PS4&#8211;$100 cheaper than the Xbox One&#8211;was Sony&#8217;s trump card. The crowd at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena went wild. Sony had painted itself as the anti-Microsoft. There was one bit of bad news, which Sony glossed over at the event: On the PlayStation 4, online multiplayer will require a PlayStation Plus membership. Sony has given away this service since<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164431&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Second-Generation Duo Is a Windows 8 Slider That Makes Sense</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/04/sonys-second-generation-duo-a-windows-8-slider-that-makes-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 03:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Microsoft released Windows 8 last October, it unleashed a sudden burst of unbridled creativity among PC makers. Companies which had been making desktops and laptops in much the same form factors for decades started trying out fresh new ideas: notebooks that turned into tablets, tablets that turned into notebooks, all-in-one desktops which could be unplugged and used as portable tablet-top computers. The rampant experimenting was refreshing, but many of the machines felt like just that: experiments. Sony&#8217;s VAIO Duo 11, for example, was both a tablet and a notebook &#8212; you slid up the touch display to reveal a keyboard below. Intriguing! But doing the sliding was a cumbersome two-handed job. The system had an odd little pointing button instead of a touchpad. The battery life, at &#8220;up to&#8221; four hours and 45 minutes, couldn&#8217;t compete with an iPad. And at $1199 for an 11.6&#8243; display, the Duo felt pricey for a second computer and cramped for a primary one. Over at the Computex show in Taipei this week, PC makers are announcing scads of new computers &#8212; including ones that have learned lessons from the first wave of Windows 8 machines. One of them is the VAIO Duo 13, Sony&#8216;s second pass at the slider idea. The company recently gave me a sneak peek, and it looked like a markedly more practical take on the concept than the Duo 11. That practicality starts with the touchscreen. It still sports 1920-by-1080 resolution, but it&#8217;s now a markedly roomier 13&#8243;, which makes it feel like a full-sized portable computer rather than a miniaturized one. There&#8217;s a touchpad now instead of the previous model&#8217;s oddball pointer, letting you work with the Duo as if it were an utterly conventional PC. As before, you also get a pressure-sensitive pen for drawing and note-taking; a pop-out &#8220;inkwell&#8221; lets you temporarily stow it so it doesn&#8217;t get lost on your desk. Despite the bigger display and touchpad, the Duo&#8217;s footprint and weight (2.97 pounds) are only a skosh larger than that of the Duo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164006&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The PlayStation 4 Is &#8216;First and Foremost a Video Game Console.&#8217; So?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/01/the-playstation-4-is-first-and-foremost-a-video-game-console-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Microsoft spent much of its Xbox One reveal talking about television, Sony is eager to position itself as a pro-gaming alternative. &#8220;The most important thing we need to do is agree and understand that the PS4 is a great video game console that appeals to video gamers,&#8221; Sony President and CEO Kaz Hirai told reporters at the D11 conference, according to The Verge. &#8220;Providing other non-game content is an area we will reveal and talk about in the coming months, but it&#8217;s first and foremost a video game console.&#8221; Wooing the hardcore gaming set is a logical move, considering the backlash Microsoft has faced over its all-purpose entertainment box ambitions. Microsoft has been panned by the press and even some game developers for the lack of gaming focus in the Xbox One&#8217;s big reveal. Players have been making their displeasure known as well: A YouTube video that splices together a dizzying number of &#8220;TV&#8221; mentions at the Xbox One announcement has 6 million views. At the gaming forum NeoGAF, some folks put together some convincing mock advertisements on Sony&#8217;s behalf. Hirai&#8217;s comments make for great headlines, but let&#8217;s not pretend they represent anything more than pandering. PR messaging aside, there&#8217;s much evidence that the PS4 is clearly the gamer&#8217;s console, while the Xbox One is not. It&#8217;s not as if Microsoft is pursuing TV opportunities at the expense of gaming. As Official Xbox Magazine recently reported, Microsoft will spend more than $1 billion on exclusive games, including eight games that aren&#8217;t sequels. The company has also opened up three new game studios over the last two years. Is Sony outspending Microsoft? We don&#8217;t know, and it doesn&#8217;t really matter. Both companies will lock up their own exclusives, and people will have to decide which games they value more. The fact that Microsoft didn&#8217;t spend much time talking about games at the Xbox One reveal will become a moot point at E3, where games will be the focus. Will the PS4 dashboard be more game-centric than the Xbox One dashboard? We don&#8217;t know that yet either.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163781&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai Is Focused on &#8216;Sonyness&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/31/sony-ceo-kazuo-hirai-is-focused-on-sonyness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 18:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final session on the final day of this year&#8217;s D conference was an unusual one: Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher chatting with San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York and Sony CEO Kazuo &#8220;Kaz&#8221; Hirai. Much of the conversation concerned Levi&#8217;s Stadium, the 49ers&#8217; new home in Santa Clara, California, which is scheduled to open next year. The team and Sony are collaborating on technology for the venue, and while the stuff they talked about was thin on concrete details &#8212; it might involve 4K content and services to let you order food from your gadget &#8212; it was intriguing enough to make me want to check it out when the place opens. And I hate football. Some of the discussion, however, was on general Sony news &#8212; which, between Sony&#8217;s ongoing efforts to turn around its electronics business, the upcoming PlayStation 4 and hedge fund manager Dan Loeb&#8217;s current attempt to convince Sony that it should spin off its entertainment business, is not in short supply. (During the Q&#38;A portion of the D11 session, one reporter asked Hirai if Sony should simply get out of the hardware business &#8212; which is not a question that would have occurred to anyone back in the era when Sony dominated consumer electronics.) After the session ended, Hirai continued the conversation in an interview with several tech journalists, including me. The main thing he had to say about the idea of breaking up Sony was that the board is considering Loeb&#8217;s proposal. But he made the case for Sony benefiting from being a company that both creates content and manufactures devices used for consuming content. Just as Sony Electronics President Phil Molyneux told me at CES in January, Hirai says that Sony is well-positioned to drive adoption of super-duper-high-resolution 4K TV, since it makes TVs, both professional and consumer cameras, movies and home-video versions of those movies. &#8220;We obviously can&#8217;t do it alone,&#8221; Hirai says. &#8220;It will take time, but it will be time well spent.&#8221; Transitions such as 4K require &#8220;collaborative work of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163773&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revealed: Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 Is Actually a Giant Lump of Coal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/revealed-sonys-playstation-4-is-actually-a-giant-lump-of-coal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look up in the sky! It&#8217;s a&#8230;vent! It&#8217;s a&#8230;vaguely beveled protuberance! It&#8217;s a&#8230;oh, umm, okay, I guess it&#8217;s just the PlayStation 4, you know, viewed in the teaser video above as if held under an opaque, grayish tarp. In other words, it&#8217;s a giant lump of coal. As giant lumps of coal go, it certainly has features! Like: the PlayStation logo, because we were sure worried it wouldn&#8217;t have that; lots of black holes, possibly for thermal egress (thus giving me a chance to use &#8220;egress&#8221; in a sentence); the rounded underside possibly of the new controller, which if we go with precedent is going to look exactly like the last five-bazillion controllers (but since that&#8217;s too obvious, probably won&#8217;t); a line of chevrons, which is kind of weird; and then a bunch of stuff that goes by too fast for me to care. (If you really want to see each frame, someone&#8217;s done the world that kindness here, though spoilers, all you&#8217;re getting is that it&#8217;s black and still conforms to the tenets of Euclidean geometry.) What&#8217;s Sony up to besides sitting back, watching the headlines roll and chuckling &#8220;Made you look!&#8221;? Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox event is tomorrow at 1pm ET, during which the company&#8217;s probably going to unveil its latest Xbox-quel. Thus Sony&#8217;s PR stunt, in case you somehow missed the show back in February when Sony tipped us off to the PS4&#8242;s existence, or, you know, ever bought a game console because one looked cooler than another.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163144&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 Places to Buy or Sell PlayStation 2 Games If GameStop Axes PS2 Trade-Ins June 1</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/x-places-you-can-you-buy-or-sell-ps2-games-after-gamestop-axes-trade-ins-june-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 1 &#8212; mark that one on your calendars, PlayStation 2 holdouts, because not only is it International Children&#8217;s Day, it&#8217;s reportedly also the last you&#8217;ll be able to divest yourself of PS2 classics like Knight Rider 2, Little Britain: The Video Game and Miami Vice. Yep, according to Reddit, which apparently has a snap of an upcoming in-store display, GameStop is pulling up the drawbridge on PS2 trade-ins next month, including systems, games and accessories. Woe unto Sony&#8217;s poor PS2. Its incredibly drawn-out demise was arguably unbecoming given its sales pedigree. Sony never cut it a break after the PlayStation 3 arrived in 2006, briefly supporting PS2 game playback in its flagship console with a dedicated &#8220;emotion engine&#8221; chip (in those early, monstrously big, ridiculously expensive models), then shifting ever-so-briefly to software emulation and finally &#8212; unceremoniously &#8212; pulling the rug out from under &#8220;holistic&#8221; PlayStation devotees by yanking PS2 backward compatibility from the PS3 entirely and forever. To this day, bizarrely, the PS3 plays PS One games (as do the PSP and PS Vita), but nary a PS2 title. That&#8217;s a shame, at least for videophile PS3 owners, who know that playing PS2 games on a backward-compatibility-supportive PS3, running HDMI-out to 720p or 1080p, the upscaling can enhance the image quality slightly (though yes, to be fair, plenty of 480p games still look better at 480p, and then there&#8217;s the display medium itself: pretty much every 480p games looks better to me on a CRT, hands-down). In any event, the days of unloading your stack of PS2 games at GameStop for quick cash or to help fund a new purchase via store credit may nearly be over. Is anyone surprised? Sony formally discontinued PS2 production worldwide last January, so hello inevitability, but slow clap that the PS2 survived (and thrived) this long, emerging back in 2000, then going on to sell over 155 million units. It&#8217;s the bestselling game console in history &#8211; still a few million ahead of Nintendo&#8217;s DS handheld, and at least 50 million ahead of the next-bestselling set-top box, Nintendo&#8217;s Wii,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162122&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: 4K Media Players Are Ridiculously Expensive, Too</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/08/reminder-4k-media-players-are-ridiculously-expensive-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who can afford to spend $5,000 or more on an Ultra HD television, another $699 for a 4K media player is probably chump change. Or so the logic goes at Sony. This summer, Sony will launch its first 4K media player for $699. The exquisitely-named FMP-X1 4K Media Player includes 10 feature films in 4K resolution (also known as Ultra HD): Bad Teacher, Battle: Los Angeles, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Karate Kid (2010), Salt, Taxi Driver, That&#8217;s My Boy, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Other Guys and Total Recall (2012). A handful of video shorts will be included as well. If the idea of watching old and/or mediocre movies in beautiful 3840-by-2160 resolution doesn&#8217;t excite you, worry not; Sony promises that users will be able to download more movies to the player this fall, via a &#8220;fee-based video distribution service.&#8221; Just don&#8217;t get any ideas about using the Media Player with other Ultra HD televisions. A Sony spokesman tells me the FMP-X1 will only work with Sony 4K televisions, and only in the United States. The good news is that Ultra HD televisions will come a lot cheaper as TV makers start offering them in smaller screen sizes. In addition to the new media player, Sony announced 55- and 65-inch Ultra HD TVs, respectively priced at $4,999 and $6,999. That&#8217;s still really expensive&#8211;these days you can get a good 55-inch LED HDTV for around $1,000&#8211;but not as insanely pricey as Sony&#8217;s 85-inch set, which costs $25,000. And even Sony&#8217;s largest Ultra HD television isn&#8217;t as expensive as Samsung&#8217;s 85-inch set, priced at $40,000. As I&#8217;ve said before, the current Ultra HD push from TV makers has a &#8220;because we can&#8221; feel to it, but Sony&#8217;s strategy is broader. As the company churns out more televisions, it&#8217;s also tapping its Sony Pictures division to produce Ultra HD content, including native 4K movies and &#8220;Mastered in 4K&#8221; Blu-ray discs, with 1080p video optimized for 4K televisions. The idea is to start putting out content now so there&#8217;s a decent<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159763&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3G PlayStation Vita Prices Are Falling</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/12/ps-vita-3g-prices-are-falling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something funny&#8217;s going on with Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Vita handheld. As Joystiq reports, several Sony stores around the United States are selling the 3G Vita for $200, which is $50 less than the Wi-Fi-only model. Some other stores told Joystiq that Sony is discontinuing the 3G model altogether. Meanwhile, Sony&#8217;s online store has dropped the price of the 3G PS Vita down to $250 &#8212; same as its Wi-Fi counterpart. That 3G bundle also comes with an 8 GB memory card and a free PSN game. It gets weirder. If you go to GameStop&#8217;s PS Vita landing page right now, the retailer only lists refurbished units and a $300 bundle of games and hardware. If you want to buy a new, standalone Vita from GameStop, you can&#8217;t; the full list of Vita hardware on GameStop&#8217;s website shows that all models are out of stock, both Wi-Fi and 3G, with the exception of that $300 bundle. Best Buy is still selling the 3G Vita for $300, but only for in-store pickups. I&#8217;ve reached out to Sony to find out what&#8217;s going on, and will update if I get a response. (Update: &#8221;The reduction in price is the result of a limited time sales promotion through retail,&#8221; says Sony.) In the meantime, consider that Sony recently dropped the price of the PS Vita in Japan &#8212; a move that reportedly quadrupled sales. It&#8217;s not crazy to think that a U.S. price cut for the PS Vita is imminent, despite the insistence to the contrary by Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida. The other possibility is that Sony is preparing a 4G LTE version of the Vita, which would of course greatly improve data speeds on the handheld. But the only evidence I can find on that front is one pretty sketchy rumor. As my colleague Matt Peckham wrote back in August, the Vita&#8217;s $250-and-up price tag is just too high compared to what people expect for a handheld, and sales have been predictably slow. This creates a vicious cycle where software makers become afraid<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157983&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Xperia Z Tablet: Thin, Waterproof, Nice-Looking &#8212; and Normal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/25/sonys-xperia-z-tablet-thin-waterproof-normal-looking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011, Sony introduced the Tablet S, an Android tablet with a unique wedge-shaped case that mimicked a folded-back magazine, making it &#8212; in theory, at least &#8212; comfy to grasp. A year ago, its successor was a bit less unorthodox in form factor, but still sported a bit of a hump on one side. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony is announcing the worldwide rollout of the Xperia Tablet Z, a model which it first introduced for the Japanese market last month. Sony gave me a sneak peek earlier this month, and the 10.1&#8243; Z is an attractive-looking tablet &#8212; but this time they&#8217;re conventional good looks, not a continuation of the company&#8217;s previous attempts to go off in its own direction. Instead, the company has tabletized the design aesthetic of its Xperia Z smartphone, with a more straightforward black, angular design which exudes class. The Tablet Z is 6.9mm thick &#8212; Sony says it&#8217;s the thinnest 10.1&#8243; tablet on the market &#8212; and it weighs just 1.09lb. It&#8217;s waterproof &#8212; Sony dumped a Z in a small aquarium during its demo for me, with no ill effects. It&#8217;s the first tablet to use Qualcomm&#8217;s newest Snapdragon S4 quad-core processor. And its camera features seem to be a cut above average: the rear camera packs 8 megapixels, and the camera app is modeled on the interface which Sony uses for its standalone digital cameras. As with the Xperia Tablet S, the Z&#8217;s predecessor, Sony emphasizes features which make the new Xperia feel at home in the living room. It has an infrared port, which lets it serve as a universal remote, and TV SideView, a new version of Sony&#8217;s fancy guide to TV shows available on cable, Netflix and other sources. Like most new Sony products, it uses NFC technology to enable the feature Sony calls One-touch: the ability to send music from the tablet to a One-touch speaker by tapping the two gadgets together. Sony says that the Tablet Z will be available this spring, and it&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157163&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the PlayStation 4 Play Used Games? Maybe, Maybe Not</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/21/will-the-playstation-4-play-used-games-maybe-maybe-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahead of Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 announcement Wednesday night, the rumor mill put odds on the new game console&#8217;s ability to play used games at right about zero. Bear in mind the rumors came from gossip blogs known for chasing the moon, but the notion struck a chord with gamers because it&#8217;s been happening for years over on the PC side of the biz: bigwigs like Valve and Blizzard eliminated the secondary PC games market entirely years ago by tethering Steam and Battle.net accounts to game activations, whether via digital or physical copies. Maybe you&#8217;ll make a few bucks reselling your collector&#8217;s edition of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, but the disc inside might as well be a coaster: Whoever you sell to still has to pay for a code to unlock the game itself. That&#8217;s essentially how the rumor mill claimed Sony was planning to roll with the PS4, tethering game content to online user accounts and establishing an activation system that&#8217;d put the thumbscrews to resales, digital or physical. Sony was mum on the subject at its PS4 press event, preferring instead to highlight the console&#8217;s graphical brawn, tease the modestly redesigned controller and talk up social interactivity, but Eurogamer managed to corner Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida and pop the question &#8220;Will it or won&#8217;t it?&#8221; Sony&#8217;s answer, concludes Eurogamer, is that the PS4 will play used games (the article&#8217;s subtitled &#8220;PlayStation 4 will not block used games&#8221;). But reading what Yoshida actually said, I&#8217;d say the answer&#8217;s still clear as mud. &#8220;So if someone buys a PlayStation 4 game &#8230; you&#8217;re not going to stop them reselling it?&#8221; asks Eurogamer, to which Yoshida doesn&#8217;t immediately respond, eventually saying: &#8220;So, used games can play on PS4. How is that?&#8221; Mission accomplished? Not so fast. Remember when you asked your elementary school teacher &#8220;Can I go to the bathroom?&#8221; and she/he answered &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, can you?&#8221; Silly semantics, I know, but when you&#8217;re parsing potentially game-changing corporate directives, they mean everything. It&#8217;s possible Yoshida meant &#8220;will&#8221; play, but without clarification, who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157018&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 Reveal Raises More Questions than Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, Sony&#8217;s Manhattan-staged PlayStation media event was the sort of hype-lathered spectacle we&#8217;ve come to expect from companies that bet the farm on overlong, action-packed game teasers whose crowning achievements involve moments where tricked-out environments pop with dazzling granularity. For the better part of a somewhat erratic two hours, Sony turned its official PlayStation 4 announcement into exactly that: a collage of developers dragging millions of live-stream viewers through hypothetical exhibitions of the PS4&#8242;s prowess, capsulized in money shots of gleaming race cars, blaze-filled iron sights, exploding buildings and impressive (if still not entirely human-looking) faces. It&#8217;s as if Sony expected gamers to exhale in collective elation as it rang the old Pavlovian graphics bell. It was, in short, precisely what I&#8217;d been hoping the company wouldn&#8217;t do: deploy breathless presenters who wound up showing way too much of much too little. To be fair, we probably won&#8217;t lay eyes or hands on the PS4 until E3 this June, and we won&#8217;t be able to actually buy the thing until late this year (probably in November), which means the system specs, console housing and pricing are still in flux, to say nothing of the launch games &#8212; always a crazy, last-minute affair, a situation doubtless complicated by soaring production costs associated with creating better than passable content for a console that&#8217;s undergone a complete architectural reboot. (MORE: PlayStation 4 Unveiled: Sony Announces New Game Console, Social Features) Speaking of architecture, let&#8217;s talk about the PS4&#8242;s specs for a moment. We don&#8217;t know much: an eight-core x86 AMD CPU paired with a “highly advanced” AMD-based graphics processor capable of 1.84 TFLOPS (both processors on the same die), a respectable 8GB of GDDR5 system memory (&#8220;capable of moving data at 176 gigabytes per second,&#8221; boasted Sony) and of course a hard drive (size unspecified, though Sony at one point referred to it as &#8220;massive&#8221;). It&#8217;ll also sport a secondary processor dedicated to &#8220;background processing,&#8221; which Sony hyped by referencing the ability to start playing a digitally delivered game before it&#8217;s done<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156902&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PlayStation 4 Unveiled: Sony Announces New Game Console, Social Features</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/playstation-4-unveiled-sony-announces-new-game-console-social-features/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rumors you&#8217;ve been hearing are true: nearly eight years after Sony announced its current-generation PlayStation 3 game console and media hub at E3 in 2005, Sony used a press event in New York City on Wednesday night to unveil the PS3’s official successor, the long-awaited PlayStation 4. As Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Andrew House took the stage, he promised to give us &#8220;a glimpse into the future of play.&#8221; The event wasn&#8217;t just about hyping a slab of custom-built computer hardware, either. Sony dedicated much of its presentation to new features like remote play, game streaming and social interaction — all stuff it says comes built into the PS4’s DNA. And it even managed to pull off a few surprises no one saw coming, including a partnership with PC gamemaker Blizzard. The Console Itself Sony took us further into the weeds than expected, though just barely, laying out the PS4’s specs in slight detail, revealing that it&#8217;s powered by an x86 CPU, a &#8220;highly advanced&#8221; graphics processor that uses GDDR5 memory, a respectable 8GB of memory and of course a hard drive (size unspecified). How powerful are we talking? Sony left performance comparisons with earlier systems up to developers, who teased abstract figures that only glancingly addressed the question. Given what was shown in game-play demos and sizzle reels, it&#8217;s obvious the PS4 will pack more oomph than its predecessor, though eyeballing those same demos, it&#8217;s also clear the company&#8217;s playing catch-up to PCs, which have been capable of the sort of raw generational power demonstrated during the presser for years. Suffice to say the adage that &#8220;the last generation&#8217;s prerendered cut scenes become the next generation&#8217;s real-time game play&#8221; sounds about right. Alas, we didn&#8217;t get a peek at the physical console itself, though that&#8217;s also no shocker, given that the system&#8217;s final specs are probably still in flux. The Not-So-Different Controller The PlayStation 4’s new controller — unimaginatively dubbed the DualShock 4 — looks a lot like its predecessor with slightly longer handlebar grips, but also includes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156888&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: Sony Unveils PlayStation 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video streaming by Ustream At a press conference in New York on Wednesday, Sony unveiled its newest PlayStation console &#8212; the PlayStation 4.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156905&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Things Not to Expect from Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Event</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/19/6-things-not-to-expect-from-sonys-playstation-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would it be fair to call Sony&#8216;s Manhattan-based Feb. 20 shindig &#8220;P-day&#8221;? We might as well, what with that PlayStation logo headlining Sony&#8217;s &#8220;Meeting 2013&#8243; event teaser site &#8212; a site that&#8217;s now sporting a mini-history of most of the hardware that falls under the renowned moniker&#8217;s umbrella. My memories of the first PlayStation&#8217;s earliest days are mixed. Maybe that&#8217;s because I was playing the thing months in advance. The guy I worked for &#8212; the store manager of a Babbages &#8212; paid a shedload of cash for a Japanese import model. He liked to drop it in the store display window, then run the Ridge Racer start screen demo to see how many passerby would stop to gawk, or ask what the heck it was. Remember when video games still had that power over us? (MORE: The Great Hotmail-to-Outlook.com Transition Begins) Don&#8217;t worry, this isn&#8217;t my PlayStation retrospective, which, like yours, could probably fill a book three people want to read. Let&#8217;s talk instead about Sony&#8217;s ballyhooed Wednesday evening event, 6:00pm ET, where we&#8217;re expecting to see the company&#8217;s next-gen game system. TIME Tech editor Doug Aamoth is kindly attending in my stead and should have all the details straightaway, and you&#8217;ll be able to watch things unfold live courtesy the event site. I&#8217;ve already scribbled down a few lessons I hope Sony&#8217;s learned since the PS3&#8242;s debut in November 2006, so here&#8217;s another list &#8212; this one of things I&#8217;m not expecting from the event. Like&#8230; &#8230;something that isn&#8217;t the next PlayStation. We don&#8217;t know what we don&#8217;t know, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, but the way this typically works is, a company announces it&#8217;s holding a major media event, the press speculates irresponsibly, and if that speculation morphs into certainty (as it has in this case), the company typically follows up with some sort of off-the-record denial to recalibrate expectations. Sony&#8217;s done nothing to quiet the rumor mill here. In fact you could say it&#8217;s poured rocket fuel on the rumormongering with its PlayStation retrospective videos, all but guaranteeing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156808&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ides of March: Farewell, Sony MiniDisc Player</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/04/the-ides-of-march-farewell-sony-minidisc-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to bid a nostalgic farewell to Sony&#8216;s MiniDisc format &#8212; those of you who remember it at all, anyway. After upwards of two decades, the MiniDisc is finally on the way out: The BBC reports that Sony plans to ship its final MiniDisc stereo system in March. The MiniDisc almost made sense in the early 1990s: Compact discs were amazingly thin, but wider in diameter than cassette tapes, which predated them by over a decade. If little analog, magnetized, write protect-notched rectangles of plastic (compact cassettes) could eventually supplant bulky eight-track tapes (Stereo 8), wasn&#8217;t a tinier compact disc the future of optical media? (MORE: The Next PlayStation: 5 Lessons I Hope Sony’s Learned) Compact discs seem positively enormous nowadays: nearly five inches in diameter, or four times the width of Apple&#8216;s stamp-sized iPad Shuffle, which at 2 GB storage can easily hold the audio content of 30 MP3-compressed CDs. The jewel cases CDs still most often come in are nearly six inches wide by five inches high (to say nothing of how scuffed, gouged and generally battered they can look over the years). Ever try cramming a CD in your pocket? I used to jam three or four into a pair of cargo shorts (without the cases, of course) if I was going to be on foot for three or four hours straight, a Sony CD Walkman with cutting-edge &#8220;skip&#8221; protection in my hand or hooked to a belt loop. You may not remember this if you identify compact discs with the later 1980s, when they were readily available, but the very first commercially sold CD was Billy Joel&#8217;s 52nd Street, on Oct. 1, 1982 (the first actually pressed was ABBA&#8217;s The Visitors), after which CDs trickled into the market for several years &#8212; the first artist to break the million-CDs-sold mark was Dire Straits with Brothers in Arms, released in 1985 &#8211; before finally outselling cassette tapes over a decade later. Sony&#8217;s MiniDisc format seemed like a logical next step when the company debuted its MZ1 MiniDisc player in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156040&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next PlayStation: 5 Lessons I Hope Sony&#8217;s Learned</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/01/the-next-playstation-5-lessons-i-hope-sonys-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From wishful thinking to shockingly sudden all-but-certainty, Sony&#8216;s next game system may be here at last (I&#8217;ll try to avoid calling it things Sony hasn&#8217;t, like &#8220;PlayStation 4&#8243; or &#8220;Orbis&#8221;), apparently head-faking Microsoft to debut earlier than expected at what&#8217;ll no doubt be a media circus in New York (and online) come Feb. 20. The event invite cleared my inbox last night accompanied by, well, see for yourself in Sony&#8217;s slick dubstep tease above. Sony labeled the event &#8220;PlayStation Meeting,&#8221; which is sort of like calling E3 &#8220;L.A. Occurrence,&#8221; but, well, marketing. (MORE: How to Watch the Super Bowl Live Online) At this point, your guess would have been as good as mine: probably the next PlayThing, because what else is Sony going to hype for three weeks and drag folks to from all corners of the earth? Still, I could have flown around the room on a broomstick: a PlayStation VitaPad, a PlayStation Phone (pPhone!), or heck, even Sony&#8217;s answer to Google&#8216;s Project Glass (Sony GlassStation!). But no, the Wall Street Journal went and spoiled the fun by claiming that, yes indeed, Sony&#8217;s going to give us a peek at its next games console and ship the thing later this year, probably around the holidays. I consider that slightly more plausible than hearsay since it&#8217;s the Journal, but bear in mind it&#8217;s still a claim based on unidentified sources (the Journal pulls the phrase &#8220;people familiar with the matter&#8221; off the shelf at least four times). No surprise, the story&#8217;s taken off like a guy air-riding a horse, prompting a bunch of people to throw odd notions at the wall based on even sketchier sourcing. Instead of regaling you with tales of mystical multi-core processors pulling contextually meaningless speeds, why don&#8217;t we look back at some of the things I suspect we&#8217;d all agree Sony needs to do better the next time around. Don&#8217;t launch at $500-$600. I still can&#8217;t imagine what Sony was thinking in 2006 (well, beyond &#8220;we can barely afford to build this franken-thing!&#8221;). Yes, everyone loved the PlayStation 2, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155945&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony Xperia Tablet Z Aims for &#8216;World&#8217;s Thinnest&#8217; Crown</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/22/sony-xperia-tablet-z-aims-for-worlds-thinnest-crown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so few companies releasing high-end Android tablets these days, it&#8217;s kind of refreshing to see something like Sony&#8217;s Xperia Tablet Z. The Tablet Z weighs just 1.09 pounds and measures 0.27 inches thick, with a 10.1-inch, 1080p display. As Engadget notes, it edges out the Toshiba Excite 10 LE as the world&#8217;s thinnest and lightest 10-inch tablet. For good measure, it&#8217;s also thinner and lighter than Apple&#8217;s iPad 2 (and the bulkier current-generation iPad) and slimmer than the iPad Mini. That&#8217;s not for a lack of tech specs, either. The Xperia Tablet Z has some fancy innards, including a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor from Qualcomm and  2 GB of RAM. Other specs include 32 GB of storage, a Micro SDXC card slot, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel front camera, virtual surround sound speakers and built-in LTE connectivity. The only concern here is its 6,000 mAh battery, which is a bit smaller than what you find on other Android tablets, but it&#8217;s unclear how that will translate to real-world battery life. The Xperia Tablet Z also shares some common threads with the Xperia Z smartphone that Sony announced at CES. Both devices are waterproof and dustproof, and they&#8217;re both equipped with NFC, so you can stream music or video from one device to the other by tapping them together. They have similar design flourishes as well, with slightly boxy looks and glass panels that cover the rear sides of both devices. Sony For software, the Tablet Z will run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, with some additional tweaks and apps from Sony. For instance, there&#8217;s a Walkman music app with its own visualizer, a built-in photo editor and a slideshow app that can automatically select appropriate music. So far, Sony has only announced the Xperia Tablet Z for the Japanese market, due to launch this spring, but it seems likely that it&#8217;ll eventually go on sale elsewhere. I&#8217;m guessing we&#8217;ll find out more at Mobile World Congress, a trade show held in Barcelona at the end of February. As I noted<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155410&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CES 2013: The View from Sony&#8217;s Phil Molyneux</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/13/ces-2013-the-view-from-sonys-phil-molyneux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Consumer Electronics Show may have a long-standing reputation for hype and hoopla, but overall, I found this year&#8217;s edition to be relatively restrained on the over-the-top pizzazz front. One striking example was Sony&#8216;s press conference. There were no celebrity guests or special effects &#8212; just Sony executives showing off Sony products onstage. Sure, the execs lavished praise on the gear, and some of the items were technology concepts which may never reach consumers in their current form. But it was still refreshingly low-key by CES standards. One of those executives was Phil Molyneux, a Sony employee since 1987 and the president of Sony Electronics since 2010. Later in the week, when I got the chance to chat with him, I told him that I found the press conference to be more focused on, well, stuff than usual. He told me that was intentional. And when I asked him what Sony&#8217;s big story was for CES 2013, he said &#8220;We&#8217;ve got more than one story &#8212; that&#8217;s the beautiful thing.&#8221; The goal with the press conference, he told me, was to show off multiple Sony products and technologies and explain how they work together. &#8220;Particularly with the Sony One-touch demonstrations, it&#8217;s about how the consumers can use products from Sony to easily use their content,&#8221; Molyneux said. One-touch is Sony&#8217;s brand for a gadget-linking feature based on Near-Field Communications (NFC); it lets you, for instance, send music from the company&#8217;s new Xperia Z smartphone to a Sony speaker by tapping the phone on the speaker. The Xperia Z was the first Sony smartphone to debut at CES since the company took full control of its phone unit, which was formerly a joint venture with Ericsson and distinct from the rest of its electronics business. Molyneux told me that it was crucial for Sony to create its own phones and make them work well with other Sony products: &#8220;The handset is going to be the sensor of consumers&#8217; lives &#8212; how they manage their content, how they communicate, how they<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154854&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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