The phones announced at CES 2012 thread

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Lumia 900 coming to North America, 4.3" screen, little too big for me. Glad I got my 800!

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/nokia-900-is-real/

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We're here at Nokia's CES 2012 press announcement and we've got the confirmation that everyone's been waiting for: the Nokia Lumia 900 is real. It looks like the rumors were true: the AT&T exclusive phone is packing a 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, 512MB RAM and Mango. Camera-wise, there's an 8-megapixel camera 'round back with a 28mm f/2.2 Carl Zeiss lens (likely the same as on the Lumia 800) with a dual-LED flash and a front-facing f/2.4 wide-angle lens that's great for wide angle shots. The polycarbonate-bodied 900 has a single-core 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU inside, but the big surprise is that it's packing an LTE modem for all that high-speed internet goodness. There's a 1840mAH battery rated for seven hours talk and 300 standby. It'll arrive stateside in the next couple of months in those lovely black or cyan colors we've come to love from the 800 and no -- there's no word on pricing yet, but Stephen Elop did say Nokia would be "aggressive," make of that what you will folks. After the break we've got the full press release and the introduction video.
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Very interesting stuff from Samsung. Upgradable TV? Definitely a first for TV's and very cool depending on the price of the upgrade cards.

As usual Samsung will wait until MWC to announce the SGS III
 
How come the new phones are coming with Gingerbread and yet the current Xperia range will be updated in the next few months? Getting memories of the update that took forever with the X10 and their general track record for updating phones, though lessons seem to be have learned recently.

EDIT - I am a bit miffed with people saying 'not bothering as quad core will be out soon'. OK - quad core phones aren't far off but over the next year, how exactly is a quad core phone going to improve my experience?
 
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xibinim said:
How come the new phones are coming with Gingerbread and yet the current Xperia range will be updated in the next few months? Getting memories of the update that took forever with the X10 and their general track record for updating phones, though lessons seem to be have learned recently.
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Sony are working on a ICS update though, as they have released a Alpha release on the Development site. How many other manufacturer do that? I am guessing its running 2.3.7 as that's stable at the moment and they are in the process of migration from 2.3.7 to 4.0.3 at the moment. Sony have really updated the update process coming from the experiences from X10. Even the Sony Tablets are due to ICS from February.
 
HTC/Samsung updates are at least consistent. Samsung are anyway with "leaked" versions that devs work on all the time.

If Sony updates ALL compatible phones and devices with ICS in Feb then that's excellent but somehow I can't see them updating like that going by past events.
 
[RXP]Andy;20994950 said:
Sony are working on a ICS update though, as they have released a Alpha release on the Development site. How many other manufacturer do that? I am guessing its running 2.3.7 as that's stable at the moment and they are in the process of migration from 2.3.7 to 4.0.3 at the moment. Sony have really updated the update process coming from the experiences from X10. Even the Sony Tablets are due to ICS from February.
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Good to know. Andy - that you from the X10 thread? Have you changed your name? I suppose a good litmus test will be the ICS update in Feb for the tablets and the Xperia ICS updates in March/April. Too many choices and decisions! I miss my X10 despite my moaning and countless teething problems :p. Currently 'in between' phones, my clapped out N82 with a 2 minute talk time battery waiting for either the next Sony, GS3 or iP5.
 
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Good to know. Andy - that you from the X10 thread? Have you changed your name? I suppose a good litmus test will be the ICS update in Feb for the tablets and the Xperia ICS updates in March/April. Too many choices and decisions! I miss my X10 despite my moaning and countless teething problems :p. Currently 'in between' phones, my clapped out N82 with a 2 minute talk time battery waiting for either the next Sony, GS3 or iP5.
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Yes it is. :D

I didn't say the phones where due to get ICS in Feb, I said the Sony Tablets are due to get the ICS from Feb. However, I believe Sony have ICS scheduled for Q1 2012, so I believe the new handsets will ether arrive with ICS or be updated very shortly.
 
The CES info says no ICS on release though? Since it's CES, let's assume the phones are still a few months away from release.

That's a bit of a backlog considering other makers will have had ICS for a couple of months already by then.
 
mrk said:
The CES info says no ICS on release though? Since it's CES, let's assume the phones are still a few months away from release.

That's a bit of a backlog considering other makers will have had ICS for a couple of months already by then.
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If last year is anything to go by, the phone was announced at CES and released to buy in March / April. However, this would also tie in with when the ICS update is ready for 2011 devices.

Sony's statement about ICS on 2011 devices: http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/produ...a2-smartphones-from-end-marchearly-april-2012
 
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