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Leaked Sony RX1 Fits a DSLR in Your Pocket

Images and specs of a new Sony full frame compact camera have leaked over the weekend. The alleged new camera, called RX1, appears to squeeze DSLR-like specs right into your pocket—for a purported $2,800. PhotoPrice reports that the camera looks to pack a Carl Zeiss 35mm f/2.0 lens and a 24-megapixel full frame sensor into…

Sony’s Monster 4k TV Costs More than a Car

Do you want the gargantuan, gorgeous 84-inch 4k TV Sony recently tempted us with? So do we. But are you willing to sell an organ for it? Official pricing is out now! https://gizmodo.com/sonys-84-inch-4k-tv-is-mammoth-and-beautiful-and-we-wan-5938854 Sony’s mega-high-res beast will set you back a whopping-but-sadly-expected $25,000 when it hits stores in November—and you can pre-order starting tomorrow. Or…

Okay guys, we’re clear of the Sony deluge, back to your regularly scheduled blahging.

Sony MDR-1 Headphones: Big Sound, Premium Design, Sleek Looks

Along with the rest of Sony’s announcements at IFA 2012 come the MDR-1 headphones, which are Sony’s new top of the line headphones for consumers. Along with their big 40mm neodymium drivers, these closed back cans have an impressive response range of 4Hz-80kHZ, designed to handle the lowest bass frequencies and highest treble pings. In…

Sony’s 84-Inch 4k TV Is Mammoth and Beautiful and We Want It Now

Sony just dumped one of the most monstrously gorgeous sets we’ve seen in some time—an 84-inch Bravia LCD with four times the resolution of today’s top HDTV. It could be in your living room by the end of the year. The 4k (3840 x 2160) set, Sony CEO Kaz Hirai explains, will be able to…

Sony’s New Vaio Duo 11 Should Give Surface Plenty of Competition

Sony’s got a new transformer tablet/laptop hybrid, the Vaio Duo 11, which is a sliding converter with a stylus. It looks pretty darn good. The Duo 11 has an 11.6-inch “full HD” touchscreen (16:9, 1080p), and will have current-gen Intel Core Ivy Bridge processors. The screen in particular, just judging by specs, should be pretty…

Sony’s New GoPro Killer Might Be the Most Badass Action Cam We’ve Ever Seen

Sony might just have one-upped every other action camera out there by jamming the best features of all into a three-ounce package including battery. So small. And yet so powerful! https://gizmodo.com/the-best-action-camera-5919942 The new Sony Action Cam’s billboard feature is HD video recording at 1280 x 720, 60 or 120 fps (for slow motion) or 1920×1080…

Sony NEX-5R: Sony’s Touchscreen Mirrorless Monster Gets Improved Autofocus and Wi-Fi Connectivity

Sony has been releasing new, tweaked versions of its NEX cameras every year to impressive results. Today we got our first look at its latest, the Sony NEX-5R—the follow-up to last year’s NEX-5N, which is one beast of a mirrorless camera. The new shooter introduces a new “Fast Hybrid” autofocus system, WI-Fi connectivity and a…

Sony’s Xperia T Serves Up a 4.6-Inch Display, 13-Megapixel Camera and NFC Functionality

Sony’s latest flagship Android Smartphone is the Xperia T: a 4.6-inch, 1280×720 Bravia-powered smartphone equipped with not only a 13-megapixel camera, but also an NFC receiver for quickly connecting the phone to accessories and services at home and away. The flagship Xperia T is the latest phone to be added to Sony’s roster since its…

Sony Xperia Tablet S Hands-On: Still Weird. A Little Better. Let’s Hope Somebody Buys It This Time.

It’s been exactly a year since the original Sony Tablet S debuted. It was unique, and a lot better than the terrible Tablet P, but it never got to be all that popular. This year’s Tablet S returns with the Xperia moniker and a set of improvements that should fix the flaws from the first…

Sony’s Lovely Windows 8 Tablet Should Give Surface Some Competition

Windows 8 is about two months away from release, and Pocket Now has reportedly gotten ahold of some pictures of another convertible tablet—the Sony Vaio Duo 11—to add to this ever-growing list of devices running the new OS. https://gizmodo.com/windows-8-will-be-out-october-26th-5927138 There isn’t a ton of detail available about the Duo 11, save for the fact that…

Sony Wants To Let You Skip Commercials But Only If You’ll Stand Up and Shout Brand Names At Your TV

As technology marches ever forwards, there are companies who will want to make sure advertising can keep up. That’s why Sony filed a patent for next-gen ads that let you skip through them, but only if you yell a brand name at your TV. The patent includes a whole bunch of annoying, but relatively benign…

Sony’s New HDR Video Capable Sensors Could Make Your Next iPhone Picture Perfect

If you think you phone’s camera is pretty good already, your might be in for a treat next time around. Sony just announced its new line of next-gen Exmor RS, stacked CMOS image censors, and they look good. There are three different units in the new line, two of which are eight megapixels, along with…

Sony’s New eReader Is Light, Pleasant, and Massively Late to the Game

Sony’s got a new ereader. It’s actually quite nice. It’s just not as nice as all the other ereaders that are either out or about to be out. And sadly, it’s more expensive than its direct competitors, too. Poor Sony. The PRS-T2 (real catchy, guys) is a 6-inch e-ink reader with a touchscreen. It’s also…

How Sony Could Rule the Tech World Again

We reamed the Sony SmartWatch in a recent review. It was almost mean of us; it was definitely emotional. And while we stand by our opinion, another new Sony product perfectly illustrates why we got all pissed off: The gorgeous, awesome RX100. https://gizmodo.com/sony-smartwatch-review-maybe-the-worst-thing-sony-has-5926728 When we know a company is capable of products like this, we—and…

Sony RX100 Review: This Camera Singlehandedly Makes Point-and-Shoots Relevant Again

When the Sony RX100 was announced, its one-inch sensor and f/1.8 aperture seemed too good to be true. Near-DSLR power packed into a body the size of a compact point-and-shoot camera? What’s the catch? Turns out, this camera is a significant achievement for Sony. In fact, it makes you remember that Sony is still capable…

A Wi-Fi NEX Camera Would Be Fine and All But Sony Needs to Chill Out

A purported leak reported by Sony Alpha Rumors has outed the latest incarnation of its Sony’s mid-range mirroless, interchangeable-lens camera beast, the NEX-5N. Well, it’s two cameras really; the Sony NEX-5R and Sony NEX-6 will supposedly be announced in September. The cameras were discovered on the product listing of an Indonesian company. According to Sony…

Apple Claims This 2005 iPhone Prototype Proves It Didn’t Copy Sony

Last week, it came to light that Samsung was planning to attack Apple based on the fact that its iPhone design copied Sony products—and the evidence was convincing. But now the Verge has uncovered Apple’s response, which suggests there were convincing iPhone prototypes kicking around well before the Sony-esque model was dreamt up. https://gizmodo.com/proof-that-the-iphone-4-could-have-been-a-sony-product-5929630 In…

Proof That the iPhone 4 Could Have Been a Sony Product—According to Apple Itself

FWD highlights an early iPhone 4 concept design created by Apple’s designer Shin Nishibori. It unequivocally confirms what I’ve repeatedly said since the introduction of the iPhone 4: it feels like an old school Sony product. Just like the iPhone 5 design or my custom wooden iPhone 4, which feels like a 70s Betamax VCR.…

Sony’s New 55-300mm Lens Zooms Closer Without a Magnified Price

Sony’s New SAL55300 zoom lens is an all-purpose telephoto lens for Sony’s line of A-Mount cameras. It zooms considerably further than the existing 200mm SAL55200 for just $100 more. For a $300 lens, 5.5 times magnification is impressive zoom. As for other specs, the lens opens all the way up to f/4.5 when it’s zoomed…