PSP SmartPhones as iPad Rival?

Years ago, Sony Entertainment made a breakthrough with Sony Playstation gaming console, which then invite one major software manufacturer to dwell into the same market (Microsoft with XBOX). Which then started the gaming console war, with their upgrades and everything else. But now, Sony seems like getting more aggressive with their move. Instead of waiting for a new competitor, they jump into a new competition.

This time they headed to mobile devices market which accompanied with software services (remind you of Android, right?). And what are they going after? Apple's iPad if I may say.

Rumors on the internet says that (Wall Street Journal report) Sony had made a strategy called Sony Online Service, which revolves around mobile technology and gaming service. The products will be new smartphone and tablet-like devices.

Sony has clearly seen the runaway success of Apple's iTunes Store, particularly the booming market for mobile iPhone and iPod touch apps, and wants in on a piece of the action.

Sony Online Service

Sony Online Service is expected to offer a similar range of music and video content, and the jewel in Sony Computer Entertainment's crown – it's massive back-catalogue of PlayStation games.

Sony is planning to make a smartphone that can play those downloadable games made for the PSP Go— the much rumoured "PSP phone."

A project is also underway to make a new device which "blurs distinctions among a netbook, an e-reader and a PSP," according to the Journal.

"It's still not quite clear what specific steps Sony will take to achieve that, especially when iPad and other highly capable mobile devices are crowding the market," Nobuo Kurahashi, a consumer-electronics analyst at Japanese brokerage Mizuho Investors Securities, told the WSJ.

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Definitive Guide of Apple iPad

By now you've probably read more on Apple's iPad then you ever dreamed possible. In the last few days Engadget covered a lot of angles on the tablet and compiled a lot of data. Still, They felt that they hadn't given readers clear hands-on impressions and collected the myriad details about the device in one, easy-to-reach place. So they've decided to bundle all of that info into a single feature, joining the first-hand encounters with the iPad together with all of the data and details you should be aware of -- including specs, plans, release schedules, pics, and video.

So read on for everything they know (so far) about Cupertino's first tablet!

Full review over @Engadget

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iPad a Failure?

First of all, I have to say, that I'm not a gadget freak. It took me a while just to realize that my friend ain't typo when I read he mentioned something about iPad.

This is a very creative movie about what people expect from iPad, and what they see..

You see, even I know Hitler wasn't talking about iPad in that video, but the subtitle is neatly arranged to make me laugh.

The iPad Review from me:
I am astoundingly disappointed that this product can't even do multi-tasking.

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