Sony Ericsson CEO Teases February Announcement, Could Be PlayStation Phone


By Jack Loftus on November 22, 2010 at 8:00 AM at Gizmodo

“There’s a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere,” Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg told the Wall Street Journal the other day. He was talking about a phone! But not just any phone…

A “games-oriented” phone, to be precise, and that sounds a heck of a lot like something tentatively named the PlayStation Phone, which we saw last month.

I say “tentatively” because there are indications the gaming phone, should it arrive next year, would be branded under the Sony Ericsson’s Xper line, and not PlayStation.

Whatever the case may be, we’ll see what they have to say in February at the Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona. It’s at this prestigious event that Nordberg says his company expects to make a lot of “noise” with a new gaming handset. [Wall Street Journal]

Carrier Threats Lead Apple To Abandon Integrated iPhone SIM Plan


By Jack Loftus on November 22, 2010 at 6:00 AM at Gizmodo

The Telegraph reports today that Apple has scrapped plans for its own brand of SIM card after carriers threatened to stop selling the iPhone. Theoretically, the integrated SIM could have removed carriers from the purchasing process. Sorry consumers!

The carriers were unsurprisingly pleased with themselves following the news:

A senior source at a mobile operator said: “Apple has long been trying to build closer and closer relationships and cut out the operators. But this time they have been sent back to the drawing board with their tails between their legs.”

Nevertheless, rumour has it Apple is still going forward with an integrated SIM card in its next gen iPad. According to an anonymous Telegraph source, these iPads will sport subtle tweaks, like the aforementioned SIM and a redesigned mute button that replaces the locking slider on the side of the tablet.

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