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Sony PlayStation reaches 15th anniversary

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Dec 3rd 2009 No Comments

sony playstation 15 year anniversary Cake and party-favors all round – it’s the fifteenth anniversary of the Sony PlayStation. Unfortunately, rather than hosting a party for all of the gamers across the globe, Sony Japan have taken the easy route out and merely launched an anniversary site that flags up all the significant milestones along the way.

It’ll help if you can read Japanese, certainly, since the text doesn’t appear to be available in English. We imagine the Sony web beavers are working on a US version that’ll probably go live later on today, but for now you can enjoy yourself nudging around the logo – made up of controllers, cables and other gaming hardware – with your mouse, or looking at the pretty pictures.

Logitech developing UMD drive add-on for PSP Go?

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 2nd 2009 No Comments

Today's PSP Go rumor strikes us a little bizarre, but we'll admit that stranger things have happened. According to a lone source speaking to gaming site CVG, Logitech are apparently developing a UMD drive add-on which could be fitted to the PSP Go, enabling UMD media playback though "it'll make the PSP a little bulky".

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Four Reasons to Buy the Nokia Booklet 3G

By Michael Gartenberg on Wednesday, Dec 2nd 2009 1 Comment

Nokia’s first PC (as opposed to the phones they refer to as multimedia computers) got a lot of hype when it was announced and is getting a lot of mixed reviews from folks who complain mostly about price/performance and that you can get better specs in a netbook for less money. After spending some time with a Booklet 3G, I’m once again reminded that there’s more to a purchase than speeds and feeds, and that value, much like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. So I’m not going to discuss the relatively slow processor or hard drive. We can agree that the Booklet isn’t a speed demon. It is, however, how a good PC experience should be and that’s worth paying for in my opinion.

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DoD orders 2,200 PS3 consoles

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

It used to be when it came time to upgrade a supercomputer we were talking about adding more nodes, processors, and other hardware. At least in one of the supercomputers used by the DoD when it comes time to upgrade it means buying more Sony PS3 game consoles.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 48 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Sunday, Nov 29th 2009 2 Comments

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and weren’t too shopped out yesterday! If you still have shopping to do for Christmas, we have some seen some cool gear over the last week that might be worth a look. The Sony Ericsson Kurara has been reviewed and the verdict is that the device needs to be cheap to succeed. We reviewed the Nokia Booklet 3G this week. The final verdict was that the machine is underpowered and outperformed by first generation netbooks.

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SlashGear Sleek Audio Giveaway!

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 27th 2009 12 Comments

We’re big fans of Sleek Audio here at SlashGear, and with the launch of the SA1 earphones the company’s range is even more accessible than before. To celebrate the new SA1’s Sleek Audio have given us two sets to give away to SlashGear readers, and they’ve also thrown in a grand prize of an SA6 W-1 wireless bundle – comprising a pair of SA6 earphones and the lossless Kleer Audio wireless system – too. Check out how you can win after the cut.

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Sony Walkman X firmware update v1.10 boosts browser

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 27th 2009 1 Comment

Sony have outed a new firmware release for their Walkman X PMP, and the headline feature is an improved browsing experience. The new software tweaks the NetFront browser into rendering pages faster, maintaining layouts more like what you'd see on a desktop, and boosting scrolling speeds.

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 gets video playtime with HD2, Omnia II, iPhone 3GS

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 27th 2009 No Comments

There’s no real new technical data in this latest video of Sony Ericsson’s unreleased XPERIA X10, but it does give us a chance to see the Android smartphone cavorting with HTC’s HD2, Samsung’s Omnia II and that perennial favorite, the iPhone 3GS. Size-wise, if you thought the HD2 was too big then you should probably cancel your XPERIA X10 preorder, as the two look pretty darn similar; in fact, as the video after the cut shows, the X10 is actually a little chubbier than HTC’s WinMo finest.

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iriver Story gets reviewed: intuitive & usable Kindle-alternative

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 25th 2009 No Comments

iriver’s Story has been simmering away in Korea for a few months now, but so far just how good an ebook reader it is has been a mystery. The Register have been playing with the Story and reckon its actually a white slab of alright, actually: they rate its battery life and decent audio player, though they needed a firmware update to get the best out of it.

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Sony VAIO X gets OS X Snow Leopard

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 24th 2009 No Comments

sony vaio x os x 1 375x500 There’s a lot to like about Sony’s VAIO X ultraportable – its indecently-skinny build, the engineering intelligence that went into its design, and its lengthy battery life just to name a few things – but if you’re less than inspired by Windows 7 then how about a Mac OS X version? That’s not one of Sony’s official options, but insanelymac forum member Asama took it upon himself to throw OS X Snow Leopard onto the VAIO X himself.

To do so he used the hacked together build of Snow Leopard that’s been put together for the Sony VAIO P, reasoning that many of the components used in that don’t-call-it-a-netbook machine were the same as used in the VAIO X. Happily it installed quite merrily, though as expected the WiFi doesn’t work. Where fixing that in the VAIO P is a case of taking out the wireless card and swapping in a different one, it’s a more arduous task on the VAIO X since so much has been soldered into place in the name of space-saving.

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