Other quick notes: the screen has pretty dismal viewing angles and it's crazy glossy, the trackpad is textured (which we love), and we have no idea why Sony can't bother to at least properly align all the stickers on this thing -- it looks a bit of a mess.
In the annals of "clever patents that may never amount to anything, " we now have an entry from Sony: a method of sensing touch strength with sound.
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Well now we have some idea, as Sony has somehow or another come up with an official figure of just how much the PSN attacks have cost them.
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We suppose it's for the best, then, that Sony won't have a whole lot of 'em to hand out, since we're sure Sony's own costs will start to drop as production really ramps up next year.
We should have seen this coming after Sony explained that the PlayStation 4 would not be natively backwards compatible with its predecessors.
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If the WiiU continues to sell well, and we really do have new systems from Sony and Microsoft by the end of next year, you will see a dramatic rise in sales of hardware and software alike.
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We have a minor gripe with the way Sony chose to arrange the hardware keys and ports here.
We'll probably forever have our issues with Sony first and foremost that they won't return our calls, but that's neither here nor there but it is pretty weird when for years you air complaints about what they're doing, and one by one they actually, you know, fix their problems.
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Then we have four of the past traditional major smarthphone makers: Sony, Blackberry, LG and HTC.
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It's a little bit hard for me to laud the competitor, but Sony's a good company, and we have to assume that they're going to execute some things quite well.
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We'll have to wait and see if this latest victory helps Sony win the war.
"STARZ and ENCORE subscribers have enjoyed the consistently stellar theatrical product from Sony, and we are thrilled to extend our exclusive partnership into the next decade, " said Chris Albrecht, Starz Chief Executive Officer.
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Next up we have what appears to be the rumored 6.44-inch, 1080p Sony "Togari, " whose front panel was first spotted way back in January.
We might have a glimpse of this (terrible) next step in advertising courtesy of a new patent from Sony.
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"From the beginning, we have said that an open format means more choice for consumers, " says Steve Haber, president of Sony's Digital Reading Business Division.
So Jac: Can we have it in turbo, with neon reflective seat covers, a Hello Kitty steering wheel and a hologram of Sony PlayStation vixen Lara Croft providing a flawless direction system?
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