{"id":445,"date":"2011-07-13T08:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2011-07-10T23:37:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T05:37:26","slug":"sony-to-launch-android-tablets-to-take-on-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/sony-to-launch-android-tablets-to-take-on-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to launch Android tablets to take on Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110426\/ST_19900584.jpg\" alt=\"Sony\" \/><\/p>\n<p>JAPANESE electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp on Tuesday announced plans for two tablet computers, codenamed S1 and S2, in a direct challenge to Apple&#8217;s iPad.<\/p>\n<p>The S1 has a single screen and is for home use while the portable S2 has two screens, Sony said at a news conference to unveil the devices.<\/p>\n<p>The tablet devices will have access to online content to buy and download videos, music and other entertainment and be compatible with existing PlayStation games, Sony official Kunimasa Suzuki said.<\/p>\n<p>Digital books can also be downloaded and read on the multimedia computers. The S1 has a 25cm screen, two cameras and Wi-Fi access for surfing the Internet while the folding clamshell S2 has dual 5.5 inch colour touchscreens and fits into a pocket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This design is particularly relevant for reading digital books whose content is displayed on screen as two pages side-by side,&#8217; Mr Suzuki said. Both devices use the Google Android 3.0 operating system.<\/p>\n<p>They are expected to go on sale from autumn around the world. Sony is a late entrant into the tablet computer market dominated by Apple. <\/p>\n<p>Photo By Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAPANESE electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp on Tuesday announced plans for two tablet computers, codenamed S1 and S2, in a direct challenge to Apple&#8217;s iPad. The S1 has a single screen and is for home use while the portable S2 has two screens, Sony said at a news conference to unveil the devices. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}