Pre-Order The Sony Tablet S Now – Sony is going to release a new tablet to the market – Sony Tablet S, an Android-based tablet. You can pre-order it now on Sony’s website and there are two models available.

• Sony Tablet S (16GB WiFi) – RM1,499
• Sony Tablet S (32GB WiFi) – RM1,799

The tablet features a 9.4″ screen, runs on dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, 1GB RAM and weighs 598g. The thickness is different at two point of the tablet, the thinnest point at 10.1mm and the thickest point is 20.6mm which is rather thick. It’s running on Android Honeycomb 3.2 and ICS Android 4.0 update will be coming in soon. The back shooter is a 5-megapixel camera and front faced camera is a 0.3-megapixel camera.

With the pre-order of the tablet, you will get an exclusive ST Slip Case that is worth RM139.

Head over to Sony’s website for more information.

My 2 cents: This tablet is quite pretty in term of design as well as the specs, however what I don’t like is the thick design. Although it’s ergonomically nice to hold on hand, but I still prefer something to be flat and thin.

Sony Xperia S – Sleek, Sexy, Powerful Android Phone – Finally, Sony Ericsson is no longer Sony Ericsson as the Sony Xperia S is the first SONY branded phone that is sexy, sleek and powerful. Announced just not long ago at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, the Sony Xperia S is the latest Android device by Sony (re-branded from Sony Ericsson).

The phone is part of the Sony’s Xperia NXT series. The Xperia NXT series is the next generation smartphones from Sony which features high quality design and hardware.

According to Sony,

Xperia S showcases a new design approach referred to as “Iconic Identity”. The design will be replicated across the Xperia NXT series and creates a simple strong look that is instantly recognizable. The transparent element at the base creates an iconic silhouette where the display is emphasized and underlined. In addition, it provides illumination effects and integrates the antenna components.

The user Interface has been redesigned to match the minimalistic design of the hardware. The home screen has a new colorful flow background making full usage of HD Reality Display and dual-core processing power.

This sexy phone sports a 4.3-inch 1290x720p HD Reality Display with Mobile Bravia Engine which is very amaging, 32GB of built-in memory and runs on a 1.5GHZ dual-core Qualcomm MSM8260 processor. Besides that, its connectivity includes DLNA wireless media support, HDMI connection to TV and display, Bravia Sync to Sony Bravia TV series as well as the NFC that use for Google Beam and Google Wallet. Battery juice up to 1,750mAh battery.

The shooter is a 12-megapixel f/2.4 large aperture Exmor R camera with 1080p video recording. Its front camera sports a 1.3-megapixel sensor that can film up to 720p. In order to compete with the Apple iPhone 4S, the Xperia S comes with Sony’s Fast Capture technology which enables the camera to go from standby mode to first shot in just 1.5 seconds.

The phone will be available worldwide including Malaysia in first quarter of 2012, unfortunately the Xperia S will only run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. However, Ice Cream Sandwich update is confirmed to arrive in the phone within the second quarter of 2012.

Well, the design and the specs of the phone so far are not disappointing and very attractive. One thing is that it should runs on Quad-Core processor instead. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to the phone, the sleek squarish design and the camera are just so tempting.

Some people have their PS3 at home, they only use it for games and Bluray movie. But have you think of you are capable of playing HD video via the PS3? I have plenty of MKV format video in my computer (don’t ask me how do I obtain them), but then I only watch it on my PC. Now I realised that PS3 is a actually a media player too but unfortunately, it doesn’t support MKV file format. That’s the suckest thing to me.

Though, things don’t come to an end so fast. I have actually found guide on the net on how to watch MKV video on PS3. It’s pretty simple, convert it to a PS3 compatible format then transfer it to the PS3 then you are ready to go.

Some people are worried of video quality would be downgraded during the conversion but if you use the right software, it won’t. So the software is called mkv2vob, it’s a freeware, download it, convert it, transfer it.

Browse for your MKV file and select your destination directory which is also the output folder.

If your PS3 doesn’t connect to a amplifier via S/PDIF digital cable, you may not hear DTS surround sound, so you have to CHECK “Always Transcode DTS”.

On the other hand, if you want to transfer your file via a flash drive or portable HDD, you need to split your file. Sucks right? It’s because that PS3 only recognizes FAT32 format and the problem is you can’t transfer any file larger than 4GB into a FAT32 formatted HDD.

Unless that you have your PS3 connected into your network, you need not split it, you can just stream directly or just copy from your network.

As for me, my PS3 is not connected into my home network, my house runs wireless and it’s not capable for HD streaming. My method of watching MKV video without splitting is by burning the converted video into a dual layer 8.5GB DVD+/-R.

PSP Go has been release for a few weeks here in Malaysia already, selling for RM1099. I would say the price is expensive and I might go for parallel import if it’s cheaper because my first generation’s PSP is a Japanese parallel import unit, which means, not official from local Sony Malaysia. I still can’t find any demo unit in-store in Penang yet, the one I’ve tried was in Singapore few weeks back.

My first impression on this little gaming machine when it’s first announced was, sucks, smaller screen, weird button placement. However, thought changed after getting my hands on the demo unit in one of the Sony’s store in Singapore. It felts incredibly light, the button were comfortable with my tiny hands and the screen was not really smaller. It’s just like shorter but it’s still a very big screen when having it on hands, near to you. I already have a first generation PSP, but I do want to have this new one in my bag, it’s cool, mine is like so old.

What do you think about the PSP Go?

My brother just came back from Singapore and he bought home all of his gadgets and only left a Dell 22″ in his dorm in Singapore.

A powerful business Vaio SZ. Lightweight, powerful, high performace and beautiful.

An Asian version of PlayStation 3 40GB. I am not really interested with the games, he got Grid, Assassin Creed, Dragonball, Civilization, Tom Clancy:Hawk, Fifa Street 2, Army of 2 and Lumines Supernova and Flower in the hard disk. I like Flower and Luminues Supernova, it’s mini game and simple which = to fun.

The TV is a Samsung 32″ 720p HD TV, unfortunately it’s not full HD.

White 2.4Ghz MacBook. It’s an all time beauty. I love Mac but I am still waiting to get one. Perhaps I will have one when I go into college next year. The clock is a Pixel Saturn II clock what I bought in Guangzhou for 190RMB. Pretty right?

Last weekend, I was walking around Prangin Mall and saw a line of people lining up beside the Sony store. I saw the Sony Cybershot T90 poster and thought that they were one of those who want to be first to get their hands on, I thought they were hardcore fan of the camera so the line up for it. I was wrong, I was wrong, I got everything wrong until I went to Gurney Plaza.

There’s no line then because it’s like a few hours after 3pm. Only I knew that for the first 10 customer that buy the latest Cybershot T90 will also get a Sony Ericsson W595 Walkman mobile phone. That time I was like “wtf, why didn’t I check properly and join in the line?!”. It’s like killing two birds with one stone, a camera and a phone.

I wonder why they knew about it and I don’t. I should have be more informative and check on something out properly instead of just guessing around. I was so silly that I miss a good opportunity. Oh gosh.

By the way, Cybershot T90 is pretty becaus it has HD video recording and it’s slim. I like, but I don’t really know about the picture quality yet. One thing is good about Sony is that they always makes good looking camera with so-so but not superb quality digital camera.

I was window shopping at Prangin Mall last weekend and I walked past the gameshop (Ace Electrical and Electronics) which I used to visit quite often but not now because I am not really into gaming right now.

Just a little glanced around what’s going on in the shop and at the new console, I saw a piece of paper writing “Blu-Ray Disc For Rental”. I didn’t go in to ask about detail because I have no intention of renting a Blu-ray movie right now but perhaps in the future I would.

That’s a good start for Blu-ray renting business here in Penang and hopefully more and more people will go for Blu-ray so in such, more rental shop will be up in town.

I don’t have a Play Station 3, but my brother does and he only owns a Blu-ray title and that is the Spiderman 3 (bought second hand for around RM70/19USD) . Reason of not buying anymore because the price of a single Blu-ray title is freaking expensive.

Do you have or watch Blu-rays?