Sony S2 dual-screen tablet to appear on AT&T with 4G radio

AT&T will be the exclusive U.S. mobile broadband provider for the Sony S2 tablet, a dual-screen slate that Sony Corporation plans to launch later this year, the company announced in a press release. AT&T's version will feature an HSPA+ 4G radio, which is nice, but no launch dates or price ranges were specified.

It's good to see AT&T taking a chance with the Sony S2, which is actually a codename, and the tablet will most likely be called something else when it appears in AT&T's portfolio. It's a very innovative form factor and might wither be a flop, or turn out a very useful gadget, depending on how the software gets written for it.

Just a reminder - the Sony S2 tablet features two 5.5" LCD displays, and looks like a hard case for your glasses. Both displays have decent resolutions at 1024x480 pixels, and the whole thing is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset, which presupposes that Android Honeycomb will come standard, of course.

We can think of numerous ways for this thing to be useful, and the least of it is typing on a virtual keyboard on one display, while looking at our email app or browsing on the other screen. We are sure Sony is thinking of even more ways to differentiate the S2 from the Android tablet pack, so come September we might see those ideas in action already. Catch a quick glimpse of the Sony S2 in the video below.

source: AT&T

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Sony teases its tablets in an enchanting gadget love story

We've heard about Sony's S1 9.4-inch tablet reminiscing a folded magazine. We've also heard about the Sony S2 with its mind-boggling dual-screen setup. But did we know they were capable of delivering emotions? Sony has managed to humanify its tablets in an enchanting love story of the S2, the feminine tablet, setting on a quest to reach the masculine S1. It all starts with a message traveling through the dark fields of gadget circuitry, only to be delivered to the S1 tablet.

We won't spoil the rest of the story, but there is a happy ending to this first episode in a series of five videos, all aimed at revealing Sony's “Two will” concept. Oh and you didn't expect any additional technical details, did you? Because you don't get them unless you count the fact that both tablets feature what looks like vanilla Honeycomb, at least judging by the familiar capacitive buttons. But it's certainly worth a look, so check out the Sony Tablet video and feel free to share your thoughts about it in the comments below!

source: Sony via Engadget

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Sony plans make PSP Phone

From the 2001 when naciá joint venture with Ericsson that the people of Sony do not send a telephone with its own mark but the Japaneses seems that they are thinking about returning to the fields.

According to an article of Wall Street Journal, Sony wants to send to its east telephone year because it feels “threatened by the stable growth of Apple in portable devices” and the truth would have to be it mainly by the incredible amount of games for iPhone with the greater quality of the market (they know that it in Apple and is very probable they consider that it at the time of its next devices).

The Cellphones assumption PSP that plans Sony (for short while rumors the possibility but now it seems serious) would be smartphone able to unload and to play games of PlayStation and to accede to Sony the future Online Service (that would be similar to iTunes) and although the mark would be Sony is very probable they make that it in collaboration with Sony Ericsson.

Sony wants that smartphones plays a strategic roll in the future of the company and most interesting if this is confirmed it is going to be what operating system elijen for the telephone.

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