Sony Launches Noise-cancelling Headphones

Sony has launched MDR-NC7 noise canceling headphones that feature a foldable and swivel design.

Claiming a battery life of approximately 50 hours, the haedphones have a dual-use capability that gives users the option to listen to music with or without the noise cancellation feature. The 30mm driver (Neodymium magnet), and an on/off switch for noise cancelling will allow someone to use the headphones even if the battery runs dry.
The headphones weigh approximately 134g (including AAA battery) and work on a 30 – 20,000Hz range with a maximum output of 100mW and a sensitivity of 102dB/mW while it is switched on and 100dB/mW in switch off mode. A plug adaptor is also supplied to connect directly to stereo or dual jack of in-flight music services.

Priced at Rs. 4,490, the Sony MDR-NC7 will be available at Sony owned stores, select Sony authorized dealers, as well as national retail partners across the country.

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Sony Ericsson unveils world's first 12MP phone

Sony Ericsson jumped the gun on its competition at Mobile World Congress this year by announcing the world’s first 12MP cameraphone, as well as a new Entertainment Unlimited service.

The Idou, which is currently only a concept but will launch in the second half of 2009 features a 12.1MP sensor, a large 3.5-inch touchscreen with ‘intuitive touch features’ according to Sony Ericsson and a 16:9 widescreen screen ratio.

The Idou will also launch a new interface for Sony Ericsson, based on the work from the Symbian Foundation, so all those who have loved SE’s interface for all these years will possibly weep (though the rest of us will cheer).

United we stand

Sony Ericsson also unveiled Entertainment Unlimited, which it said will be “Uniting best in class entertainment experiences into one offering such as the Walkman music experience, the Cyber-shot imaging experience, Java gaming and messaging integrated with services and applications.”

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Sony Releases New Range of Bass Heavy Headphones

Sony has unleashed a new range of headphones, comprising of five new models. These are designed for listeners who like their bass heavy. The Sony XB Series – the XB standing for “extra bass” – consists of three circumaural style headphones and two in-ear style, with brushed metal accents and exclusive Bass drivers.

The five-model XB range is headed by the closed-type MDR-XB700, with extra-large 50mm dome-type drivers, “king sized” synthetic leather ear cushions and an extra-wide headband to spread out weight. The MDR-XB700, MDR-XB500, MDR-XB300 are wide headband headphones, while the MDR-XB40EX and MDR-XB20EX are in-ear headphones. These latter in-ear models claim to deliver good bass due to ‘direct vibe’ acoustic design that minimizes sound spillage. The vertical driver orientation (with MDR-XB40EX only) claims to deliver extended bass without compromising listening comfort.
The Sony XB Series headphones will go on sale from March 2009. Sony is yet to reveal pricing for the range.

Sony Vaio P VGN-P15G

The Vaio P is not a netbook—or so Sony insists you believe. The company has gone to great pains to stress exactly how and why this new ultraportable is a premium “pocket style PC”, and not just one of the dozen or more models of low-powered low-cost netbooks that every other major computer manufacturer has introduced in the past year, most of which look practically the same.

The Vaio P certainly doesn’t look anything like the raft of dinky plastic pastel-colored devices we’ve seen so far. The emphasis here is clearly on aesthetics and portability, with a super-slim rectangular design and high-quality glossy paint finish, this is one very flauntable computer.

Look and Feel
The unique shape and construction allow you to slip a Vaio P into pretty much any coat or trouser pocket. It’s easy to imagine carrying a Vaio P around anywhere, since it will also fit quite unobtrusively in a handbag or briefcase. It’s less than 2 cm thin, and only slightly wider and deeper than a standard business envelope.

Externally, apart from the glossy paint, you’ll notice the perfectly rounded corners and smooth lines. Even the underside is free of stickers and labels, and not a single screw is visible. Thankfully, the battery is removable. Around the edges you’ll find the power and Wi-Fi switches, two USB ports, an earphones socket, a custom port for expansion, and one slot each for SDHC and Memory Stick

cards—pretty limiting, but manageable.

Opening the lid reveals the biggest advantage of the rectangular design—a large, roomy keyboard. The keys are well placed and spaced, except for the miniscule right [Shift] key that’s quite easy to miss and the cramped arrow key cluster. Unfortunately, they’re a bit too mushy and shallow to type on, and since there’s no room for a wrist rest, the lower lip where the cursor buttons sit slightly obstructs the entire lower row.

The trackpoint device instead of a regular touchpad will take some getting used to, but it’s well positioned and you can tap it lightly to register a click. Above the keyboard lie two slots for the speakers, which quite frankly, are tinny and awful. A mic is embedded in the lower left corner, to go with the integrated VGA webcam.

And at last, we come to the screen. Eight inches is pretty normal for a netbook-class device, but this one throws all the usual rules of size and proportion right out the window, with a crazy resolution of 1600 x 768—over twice as wide as it is tall. That kind of horizontal resolution is greater than most 19-inch desktop monitors! Sure, you can claim the device plays HD video at native resolution, but the tiny screen size means all those pixels are crammed into almost no space at all. Icons and buttons are miniscule, and even regular text on screen is impossibly tiny.

Even worse, a huge portion of the screen is wasted on empty horizontal toolbars and menu bars when windows are maximized. Don’t even try using any Microsoft Office 2007 programs here—we found ourselves crouching over the Vaio P while using it just to read a simple Web page, leaning forward and straining our eyes uncomfortably to make out what was what. This effectively rules out using it for serious work for any extended period of time.