Sony has Nougat upgrades planned for a bunch of Xperia devices, but not the Z3 or Z3 Compact

While Android enthusiasts understandably celebrated the highly anticipated public rollout of a final, fully polished 7.0 Nougat build a couple of days ago, it’s important to remember this also marks the beginning of another major struggle.OEMs will now start over-promising and under-delivering, missing their own self-imposed deadlines, snubbing popular, relatively new devices, or worse yet, they’ll stay completely mum ...

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Sony pushes Marshmallow goodies to Xperia Z2 Tablet, more Z2 and Z3 phones

It’s almost impossible to be a major Android device manufacturer and not get flak at some point from disgruntled owners of this phone and that tablet. Either you roll out software updates with great delays (the most common complaint), or you give priority to a newer product over an older, more popular one.Following a habitually late and timid start to Marshmallow promotions however, Sony kicked the upgrading machine into high gear recently, making it very difficult for the OEM’s fans to show any sort of dissatisfaction.The Xperia Z5 family was of course

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Sony opens Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact US pre-orders

Mention “hot new tablet” to a mobile device enthusiast this week, and they’re likely to assume you’re talking about the Nexus 9 or one of Apple’s latest iPad models. But those are far from the only tablet to recently catch our eye, and today marks an important step froward towards retail availability of one of the most notable tablets from last month’s IFA launches, as Sony kicks-off pre-orders for its

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Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact hands-on (Video)

“But Sony, you make big tablets!” The Tablet Z, Xperia Z2 Tablet – even old models like the Xperia Tablet S all came in well north of nine inches. Perhaps the Tablet P bucks the trend, but with its weird dual 5.5-inch folding layout, it hardly seems like it should count at all. But now Sony has come to IFA 2014 with an eminently portable tablet,

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Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact joins its smartphone cousins

Sony came to IFA this year with new mobile devices in nearly every category imaginable: we’ve got new phones, new wearables, new camera accessories, and so it’s only fitting that we round that out with a new tablet. Leaks already managed to ruin some of the surprise, but today we get official word of ...

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Sony at IFA 2014: rumor roundup

Though it tends not to get the most media attention at IFA – Samsung has been stealing that spot for a bit now with its glamorous unveils – Sony almost always has quite a lot of things to show off at the Berlin trade show. This year is no exception, and the count for what the OEM plans to announce currently stands at seven mobile-related devices. That’s quite a lot, so we were quite eager to get ...

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Sony teases just how water resistant its IFA products will be

Ever since the launch of the Sony Xperia Z, the company has dared the odds of what a water resistant smartphone should look like. At times when the only thing that was water resistant looked like a tank, Sony showed us that there are smarter ways to bring water resistance to the masses. The company continues to push that bar today with is Xperia ...

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Sony’s Xperia plans for IFA 2014 get detailed, see what the OEM is planning to announce

We already saw Sony’s alleged wearables plans for IFA 2014, but that’s not all we’re going to see liked before the big event it seems. In a massive leak today, the Sony IFA 2014 plans for the Xperia line have presumably leaked in their entirety.First off, let’s talk Xperia Z3. This one isn’t much of a surprise, as it has been ...

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Latest Sony IFA teaser offers some mysterious measurements

Quite a few smartphone manufacturers have been hinting at their IFA 2014 product launches, if not outright spilling the beans, and while Sony got off to a slow start, it’s recently been really stepping-up its efforts, most recently delivering a teaser video featuring the silhouettes of three devices, presumed to represent the Xperia Z3, Z3 Compact, and Z3 Tablet Compact. Today Sony’s UK Twitter account released a new IFA teaser, but this one’s proving to be a bit harder to figure ...

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Sony’s IFA teaser video helps reinforce device rumors

As we just looked at in our IFA 2014 Rumor Roundup, Sony’s got quite a few new devices we’re expecting to see launched next week. Those range from phones, to tablets, to wearables, to accessories, and a relatively consistent stream of leaks has been slowly feeding us information about many of them. But in contrast to companies like Samsung or ASUS, which have been delivering IFA teasers that outright identify their upcoming ...

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Leaked specs of the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact spell flagship

IFA 2014 is just a couple of weeks away, and in addition to Sony’s press invitations for its press event, we also got a small teaser yesterday that shows us the Sony smartwatch and Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact that are in the works. The biggest problem with these smaller tablets is that they’re also mini on the spec sheet, though ...

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Sony’s Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact and new smartwatch allegedly caught on camera

Sony looks to be preparing for a blockbuster IFA event this year, with reported plans for the Xperia Z3, the Xperia Z3 Compact, the Xperia Z3 ...

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Sony paperwork hints to an Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact in the works

Sony has done an amazing job at regaining its popularity for cutting-edge smartphones, though we wish we could say the same about its tablets. We can’t deny that we loved the Xperia Tablet Z at the time of our review, but neither this tablet, nor its successor gained a decent level of popularity. We do know that Sony is working on an

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