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2012 Sony Xperia devices to receive Jelly Bean update soon


The Jelly Bean roll-out meant for 2012 Sony Xperia devices is on its way for all those waiting to get a taste of Google’s latest Android OS. Owners of the Xperia T and TX have some good news headed their way too. These handsets will begin receiving the Android 4.1 upgrade from mid-first quarter, next year.
The aforementioned smartphones will not be the only ones to acquire the update, as the soon to be launched Xperia V is also slated to receive the upgrade during the same time. The Jelly Bean update list even includes a few other handsets that were out not so long ago, like the Xperia ion, go, S, P and acro S. But the company hasn’t specified any particulars as to the exact availability and update timings for these devices. So users will just have to wait a little while longer to have these details confirmed.
2012 Sony Xperia Jelly Bean Update
Contradictory to what the company stated earlier, the handsets belonging to last year’s Xperia lineup, will not be upgraded to the Jelly Bean platform. Instead, the IceCream Sandwich update will be sent out across most markets and to a majority of its variants. As a post on the official Sony Xperia Product blog points out, these smartphones will not be upgraded to the Google OS versions following Android 4.0.4, though they will receive firmware maintenance releases.
Xperia V
To cut it short, the Jelly Bean update for the 2012 Sony Xperia devices will be rolled out soon. Its availability and timings of the upgrade will vary depending upon themarket and customer variants.

iOS Maps: 5 Reasons Apple Broke With Google And Built Its Own App

Ios Maps


Recent reports claim that Apple ended its iOS mobile maps contract with Google a year early. But the result, Apple's home-brewed Maps app, has left many users wishing the two companies had stayed on good terms.
Sure, Maps comes with new features that weren't available on the Google-made version for iOS, such as spoken navigation directions and 3D views of cities. But Apple's new Maps app has become infamous for its quirks (misnaming cities and countries, moving famous landmarks, distorting landmasses and manmade structures in 3D mode) and its lack of integrated public transit directions.
Some have called Maps "appalling" and a "huge step backward;" others have been less harsh and have labeled the app "a decent effort for a first pass."
Why would Apple do something like this? To answer this question, we've combed the wisdom of some of the web's top Apple watchers. Flip though our gallery (below) to view opinions from the New York Times, AllThingsD, Daring Fireball, Slate and The Verge. Then, read on to view our gallery of the worst fails spotted in Apple's Maps app.

BlackBerry 10 main priority, will shift focus to mobile computing later: Thorsten Heins, RIM


One of world’s most keenly followed CEOs, Research in Motion’s Thorsten Heins, on the hows and whys of BlackBerry’s resurrection.
One of world’s most keenly followed CEOs, Research in Motion’s Thorsten Heins, on the hows and whys of BlackBerry’s resurrection.
As Thorsten Heins strides into the room, he literally holds BlackBerry's future in his hands. Along with a tablet and a notepad, the President and CEO ofResearch in Motion (RIM), holds the nextin-lineBlackBerry 10 platform powered phone, one of the devices that are supposed to be the company's make-orbreak bet. Just eight months back, the 54 year old Heins, who joined RIM from Seimens in 2007, suddenly found himself thrust in the corner office as co-foundersMike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down after much investor cacophony over rapidly deteriorating results.

The Canadian company, punch drunk on its success, was caught unawares when the troika of Apple, Google (with its Android operating system) and Samsungchanged the rules of the handset business with new innovations. Black-Berry slipped, and how. Within five years, the iconic company , once a Wall Street darling and often cited as a gamechanger, saw its market share slide dramatically and share price plummet from all-time high of $147 to sub- $7.

After taking over, the 6'6" tall soft spoken chief executive has had to take some hard decisions — announce a 5,000 employee layoff, delay the launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform devices, and rationalise the global manufacturing network. Heins even had to oversee what was once unthinkable, a loss-ridden quarter. With the world watching his moves, Heins has been making deliberate choices as he sets RIM on a new course.

While analysts are already writing Blackberry's obituary, the embattled leader has the demeanour of a man who has calmly kept the cards close to his chest and is now awaiting the final show of hands. In India to meet telecom carriers ahead of the big launch, Heins talks candidly about BlackBerry's turnaround plans, making tough choices, and of course his chances of succeeding . Edited excerpts:

Do you think that RIM now has THE product around which the turnaround story can be scripted? 

It's not only about having a product but having the right platform to grow the company profitably. That's why we took the hard way. Everybody advised me to embrace Android . I don't know how many emails I get saying 'why don't you put BlackBerry services on Android?' I am so happy I didn't . Look at the Android camp now. Frankly, this all goes back to Mike Lazaridis' innovation because he built a very successful architecture and platform. RIM is not just a smartphone provider. We have devices, we have networks, we have a management system for these devices. It's all part of BlackBerry solutions. If I provide BlackBerry solutions to my customer base, I can't cut my leg and come up with something that everybody else has. Then there would be no differentiation any more.

At what stage are we today in RIM's turnaround? 

We still have significant regions of growth, like the Asia-Pacific and Latin America. We are leaders in South Africa. So turnaround, I would mostly say, is in North America, which moved very quickly to 4G LTE. It also led the innovation in touch devices. We were busy building our global portfolio. Within five years, we got from $5bn to $20bn revenue. But we were a bit caught in those developments. So marketshare in US was heavily deteriorating and it's likely to deteriorate . This will not change till we get BlackBerry 10 out of our door in North America. From a company perspective, given the financial results, you can make the point that we need to turn around the company from the profitability perspective.

So what's the plan? 

That decision was made 18 months ago when we looked at our current BlackBerry platform and operating system. The question was figuring out where the future lay and what's the next wave of innovation. We truly believe that we are at the next inflection point in the mobile industry. I have been in the mobile industry for 27 years and we have all gone from analog to digital. While GSM was a huge success , we moved on to EDGE. We went to 3G and now we have 4G, already implemented in US. The industry will move from mobile communication, where we are today, to mobile computing. This is not your mobile phone anymore (holding his phone), this is your mobile computing device.

Think about this from an enterprise perspective. I have my device on my hip, no desktop, no laptop and services are being played down from the cloud. The future is mobile computing; smart phones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm. It's fascinating and energizing. That's a decision we took 18 months ago to build a new platform. Our new BlackBerry 10 devices will not have a smartphone platform but a mobile computing platform. That's why we chose the hard way, build Blackberry ground-up . We wanted to innovate for the next 10 years.
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