We’ve heard it many times before. Sony is working on a PSP phone. It’s going to be a PSP and a phone. Can you imagine that? What a high-tech device that could only be achieved through space age technology! Well, the undying rumor resurfaced again this weekend, as the publication Nikkei business daily reports not-so-new details, according to Reuters. According to this weekend’s scoop, Sony is considering working on a “cellphone-game gear hybrid” in order to “better compete with Apple Inc’s highly popular iPod and iPhone.” Sony is reportedly planning on setting up a project team as early as July to work on this new product, which should combine functions of the current PSP and Sony Ericsson phones.

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Now that the pre-order period is over, you can freely purchase Nokia’s flagship N97 at any Nokia store in the country. As you probably already know, it features a host of high-end features including a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, autofocus and LED Flash, up to 48GB of user storage, built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, large resistive touchscreen display and Symbian S60 5th Edition software. Its retail price, as made publicly known a few days earlier, is 34,000 Pesos. Though I’m sure you will be able to find it for much cheaper if you know where to look (and I’m not talking Chinese knockoffs here). It is available in black and white. Expect to read a review of this smartphone here soon.

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I recently got the chance to manhandle both the Acer Aspire One 751 and Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2, and I’ve published hands-on articles over at EeePC.net. Both netbooks are among the newest models available in the Philippine market, and offer quite a number of improvements over their predecessors. The Aspire One 751, for one, features an 11.6-inch screen, Atom Z520 processor, 8+ hour battery life and a slimmer overall profile. Meanwhile, the IdeaPad S10-2 is actually a reworked version of the original IdeaPad S10, and now boasts a glossy 10-inch screen, wider multi-touch trackpad and bundled 6-cell battery. To learn more about these two netbooks navigate towards either of the two Read links below.

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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could wear a dress that alerts you to new messages on your phone when you are in a crowded and very noisy place like a club? Yeah, that’s the question Sony Ericsson and British fashion student Georgie Davies have posed upon themselves and have tried to answer with what can be seen beside Tennis superstar Maria Sharapova in the photo above. The knee-length short-sleeved white dresses being showcased by Sharapova here appeared as part of a quick presentation done in a luxury department store in central London. These dresses are supposedly designed to light up when the wearer’s mobile telephone rings. Eventually, it’s going to be equipped with Bluetooth so that it can connect wirelessly to a user’s handset. Pretty nifty stuff, but for now it’s still a work in progress, and there is no information regarding an exact release date, if they ever plan on releasing it commercially.

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Sony has announced a new 15-inch laptop with a built-in Blu-ray drive and dedicated graphics card called the Sony Vaio NW, and the best thing about it is, it won’t choke your wallet, since it has a somewhat reasonable price tag. Before I reveal how much it is, let me run the standard features over to you first. The Sony Vaio NW boasts a 15.5-inch XBRITE WXGA display, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 with 512MB VRAM, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, built-in webcam, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, a 400GB hard drive and 4x BD-ROM drive. It can get anywhere between 1.5 hours to 5.5 hours on a single charge depending on the capacity of the battery it comes with, and it seems to come with all necessary ports present: HDMI, VGA, Memory Stick Pro, ExpressCard, and SD card slots. Does that sound like a sub-$1000 laptop to you? Well, I don’t know about you, but I was quite surprised to find out that it will cost only $800. Actually, $800 will only get you a version of this laptop without a Blu-ray drive, and the BD-ROM option comes as an $80 premium. Still, I say it’s quite a reasonable price, considering it’s a Vaio with a dedicated graphics card, and all.

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The US may finally get its second Android phone next week when T-Mobile makes an official announcement regarding it, and it could very well be the handset that has already been launched as the Google Ion. A company spokesperson has said in a statement: “Next week, T-Mobile will share more details about its next Android-powered phone, the follow-on device to the T-Mobile G1 with Google.” The company spokesperson wasn’t as generous to provide any detailed information about the handset itself (what specs it’s going to rock, and other relevant info), but as mentioned earlier, it probably is the Google Ion with T-Mobile branding on the back instead of the Google logo. We’ll all find out soon enough.

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Windows 7 is supposed to come out in retail in a few months, but it looks like we still won’t be seeing the last of Windows XP any time soon. While Microsoft has already announced its plans of halting sales of PCs with Windows XP pre-installed six months after Windows 7 officially debuts (in October), the company has announced yet another policy that extends Windows XP’s lifespan for up to a year and a half. Microsoft will even give companies additional options regarding Windows 7 to Windows XP downgrades, saying in an e-mail, “Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate customers will have the option to downgrade to Windows XP Professional from PCs that ship within 18 months following the general availability of Windows 7 or until the release of a Windows 7 service pack, whichever is sooner, and if a service pack is developed.” Personally, I don’t think companies should have any problems with upgrading their computers to Windows 7, but I understand that they may have to take care of sensitive data that they have stored on their PCs, and could really use the benefits of XP’s lifespan extension.

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