Rumors: Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE) Xperia T Releasing In Canada On 14th November

While talking about the Sony Corporation (ADR)(NYSE:SNE) Xperia T, there is always a chance that the handset will be called the ‘Bond Phone’. This is because the handset is the mobile choice of weapon off Daniel Craig in the latest Bond movie ‘Skyfall’. The handset is all set to be released in the US shores by AT&T as the Sony Xperia T. The handset, however, will retain its moniker once it reaches the Canadian shelves.

Till now, it was known that the Sony Xperia T will debut in Canada sometime in November, but now there are fresh rumors indicating to a specific date in which the handset is likely to become available for mass sale in Canadian territories. If the rumors are considered to be true, then Canadian smartphone brethren can get their hands on the phone through Bell on 14th of November.

The speculations started from a leaked screenshot of an internal Bell system showing internal communication over at the Canadian wireless provider that particularly points to a date on which the handset will be released. As of now, the smartphone will be release by Canadian carriers like MTS, Mobilicity, Rogers and Videotron, even though there has been no official word if the other carriers will launch their respective versions of the handset as well. Bell subscribers are supposed to know the official date when they can but the handset at the brick and mortar retail stores.

Sony Xperia T was declared last August and has been on sale in other nations since September. The smartphone is decked out in a black paint job and flaunts a curved back panel. The handset comes with 16 GB on onboard storage while there is also a microSD slot. The handset operates on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE) to let go office quarters to save money

The declining economy has been showing its effects on even the biggest of companies. Sony Corporation (ADR)(NYSE:SNE) too, has been suffering from low sales and market shares, and declining finances. The company recently decided to shut down work in one of the office buildings in Tokyo. This building was housing Sony workers who account for about 8 percent of the population of workers under the company in Japan. Sony Corporation, in order to deal with the declining economy, had decided to cut almost 4,000 jobs. The company will be restructuring itself, said Kazuo Hirai, the Chief Executive for Sony.

The building which will be shut down was built in 1998, and occupied by Sony from the very beginning. The building, called Shinagawa Technology Center is a 31-storey building, and about 4,800 members of the staff worked there, who will now have to be relocated elsewhere. The letting go of the Center was crucial for Sony, since this move will help the company save money, and use it more judicially. A realignment of the priorities and products which Sony will have to focus on will require some capital. Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate as well as Sumitomo Life Insurance Co along with Obayashi Corp owns the building at Shinagawa.

The company will be letting go of manufacturing TV sets, since they are lacing losses in that area. The selling of the building will probably be done by September next year, and the company is planning to cut down its number of workers by 10,000, by the month of March, in 2013.

In order to save money, a fifth of the staff at the headquarters will probably be cut, and the lens-making factory in Gifu will also be shut down by the company. The staff moved from the Shinagawa building will be taken to facilities which are cheaper to maintain. The company has already successfully sold its chemical business. It was sold to a bank in September this year. The stocks for the company have fallen since the current Chief Executive, Hirai, took the lead. They have fallen by about 43 percent. The company will now be focusing more on gaming, and mobile devices, and it will be pushing into lucrative opportunities, such as the making of medical devices. 

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Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE): The VAIO Duo 11 by Sony the company’s newest Windows 8 Convertible

Sony Corporation (ADR)(NYSE:SNE) is going to launch a new convertible with its operating system being Windows 8. The company is going to present its version of the convertible, which is, unlike the other ones, a tablet first, after which it shall serve the function of a laptop. Priced at $1099, the new VAIO Duo 11 is going to have an 11 inch display which will be full High Definition. The tablet, with its display, can be slid back to reveal the keyboard it comes with. However, the Duo does not have a trackpad. The optical sensor located in the middle of the keyboard, or the two buttons which are located below the space bar, or also the touch screen, are the options which are available to the users.

If users feel reluctant to use the keyboard, they can also write directly on the tablet with the help of the stylus, which is pressure-sensitive. If users want handwritten notes, they can opt for the Note Anytime app which accepts the stylus as well.  The Active Clip application on the tablet also allows for users to crop their photos whenever they want to. The processors which have been used for these tablets are all the new ones by Intel. 

Starting from the i3, the processors on the various models under the convertible can go up to i7. The convertible also has other variable specifications. The base model starts with about 128GB of SSD storage along with 4 GB worth of RAM. The different specs can go up to 256GB of SSD storage, along with 8 GB of RAM.

Along with all these very exciting facilities, the company has also added a back-light to the keyboards, so that users can type away in the dark as well. Sony has also provided for a special Sheet Battery for the device as a back-up for the actual battery running out. However, the company has not specified the battery life of the Sheet Battery, or of the actual convertible battery.

This convertible, along with the other new or revamped Sony products will be available in the market from the end of October, onwards.

Shares of SNY surged 2.55% to $11.65 in the opening session.

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Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE): The Extended Standby Mode is a major lifesaver for smartphone batteries

Smartphones can do a lot at the same time. Even when your phone is switched off, it will be busy syncing data on applications, getting updates, and, generally, multi-tasking at a rate which ordinary phones are not capable of doing. However, such a high level of activity eats into the battery life at a very fast rate. The price of getting everything done without having do it all by yourself, manually, too, has a price.

In order to counter this, Sony Corporation (ADR)(NYSE:SNE) has introduced the Extended Standby Mode as a solution.  This mode will be available in all the Sony smartphones which are running on the Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. The Extended Standby Mode is a power-saving facility through which the battery life of the Xperia phone being used will be extended substantially, thereby, increasing the standby time. However, what makes the Extended Standby Mode so different is the fact that, much like the phones on which it will be operating, it is smarter than other ordinary modes which save power.

As soon as the Extended Standby Mode is activated, it will, in turn, start doing it magic about fifteen minutes after the display has been locked by the user. it will start operating, and its power saving techniques will come into play. This will include the stopping of the syncing of data on different applications. Background work will not be allowed to wake up, and data will be turned off automatically.

However, if you are getting paranoid about the basic operations, they will still be running as usual. For example, the calendar and the alarm will be working, and you can also receive and call people. It’s the same with text messages. Therefore, instead of mechanically switching off everything, the Extended Standby Mode holds on to the essential functions which not letting the other activities carry on. Unlocking the phone will make things work like they normally do.

Sony’s testing proved that this software is indeed very useful. It increased the battery standby of the Xperia P smartphone from 13 to 65 hours. All the Sony smartphones with the Android Ice Cream Sandwich will have this software.

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Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE)’s PS3 is still selling admirably

Many were a little disappointed by the fact that the Sony Corporation (ADR)(NYSE:SNE)’s PlayStation 3 did not get its prices cut, when it was trimmed down and re-released into the market. What with many different makers putting in a new kind of gaming console into the market every other day, many people were expecting the prices of the PlayStation 3 to go down, in order to keep up the sales. Usually, when the console gets old, people do not want to buy it at an expensive price. They would want to go for better, newer models, or they would get the old one or cheaper.

However, contrary to what people expected, the slimmed-down PlayStation 3 is still managing to attract a decent amount of crowd, and is generating a very respectable amount of sales.  GfK Chart-Track official UK sales data, the sales for the console went up by 138 percent after the revamped PS3 was released into the market. This data was calculated on a week-on-week basis, and it was published in the UKIE, or the Association of the UK Interactive Entertainment. The revamped PS3 accounted for thirty seven percent of the sales of all the PlayStation 3’s. The 500 GB console has literally been slimmed down. It has become much thinner than before.

Price-reductions are usually the way to go, in the case of older consoles. However, it looks like Sony took a risk and it paid off. Without the price change, and with just a few minor changes to the older version of the same model, the PlayStation 3 is still generating a lot of interest amongst people. People who play on consoles all the time, are constantly on the look-out for newer models to make their own experience of gaming, a better one. However, PS3 might have managed to attract the relatively newer gamers with the same price. iFixit had opened up the PS3 to check out the changes made to the new version. However, they said that the changes were not that drastic. A cheaper Blu-ray mechanism, as well as a little less complex assembly is what the new version has.

But it is clearly drawing masses to it. The PS4 is said to come out during Christmas, next year. 

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