Engadget has posted an in-depth preview of the upcoming Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone, dubbed the “Xperia Play”, which should be unveiled officially at the MWC next month.
The Xperia Play has a 4-inch display with 854×450 resolution and will run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Although unconfirmed, the device’s multitouch screen will allegedly be powered by a Sony Bravia engine for smoother video playback.
Under the hood, the device appears to run on a single-core processor clocked at 1-1.2GHz, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB RAM.
As is standard, the smartphone/handheld will have 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, and an FM receiver plus transmitter.
Physically, the smartphone has 4 buttons, Back/Menu/Home/Search, a 1500mAh battery, USB port, microSD slot and 5MP camera which lacks 720p recording.
For now, the site only has a prototype so not all features (especially the gaming aspects) are fully clear and the editor says the firmware is still very buggy, but everything should be become clearer next month at the Mobile World Congress event.
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Samsung has said today that they have sold 1 million Galaxy Tab tablets already, surpassing their expectations.
When the device launched two months ago, Samsung said it expected to just hit 1 million sales by the end of the year.
The device sells on all four major carriers in the U.S., and on a number of carriers worldwide.
Both Verizon and AT&T said recently they were “encouraged” by Tab sales, but neither revealed specific numbers.
For comparison’s sake, the market leader Apple iPad hit 1 million sales in just 30 days, and sales have recently topped 8 million.
Samsung’s tablet runs on Android 2.2, has a 1GHz processor, a 7-inch multi-touch screen and dual cameras.
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Samsung Electronics has already sold 600,000 units of the Galaxy Tab tablet, says The Korea Herald, in less than a month after launch.
The tablet is available in 30 countries.
In Samsung’s home country, Korea, SK Telecom has sold 30,000 units since launch last week.
“We believe tablet PCs will take over a bigger portion of the market next year,” adds Samsung’s mobile division head Shin Jong-kyun. “For this year, we’re projecting to sell up to 1 million units.”
Apple, the market leader, has sold 8 million iPad tablets since launch in April.
Samsung’s tablet runs on Android 2.2, has a 1GHz processor, a 7-inch multi-touch screen and dual cameras.
