Monday, January 30, 2012

Sony Xperia S delayed in the UK until February

If you're a UK resident and on the lookout for Sony's Xperia S flagship, today isn't your lucky day, that goes for the people who've pre-ordered the device from online retailer Play and were expecting shipment starting today.



Play has delayed the device, which was previously on track for a release on January 30 - today, and says the new expected date to be February 13, although that is subject to change too.

Clove, another online retailer, went on record saying that the device will be available SIM-free from their website in the first week of March, with stock arriving on March 6 or 7, placing the arrival of the Xperia S in the UK shortly after the Mobile World Congress.

The Sony Xperia S sports an HD (720 x 1280) display measuring 4.3 inches, a 12 MP camera on the back capable of 1080p video recording, a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and will come out with Android Gingerbread 2.3 with an eventual ICS update at some point.

AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note launches on February 19

AT&T announced it plans to offer the Samsung Galaxy Note back on CES. The AT&T version looks much like the international one, but is based on a completely different chipset.

The AT&T's Note is powered by the Qualcomm's MSM8660 Snapdragon platform featuring a 1.5GHz dual-core Scorpion processor, Adreno 220 graphics and 1GB RAM. For a comparison, the international Note is running on Samsung's own Exynos chipset (1.4GHz dual-core Cortex-A9, Mali-400MP GPU, 1GB RAM).