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Leaks concerning Sony‘s smartphone codenamed Yuga have been fairly regular, with a progressively larger array of images and specs appearing online over the least few months. Now another rumor has entered the fray, this one concerning the Yuga’s official name: Xperia Z. So says one source who has provided accurate information in the past.


On November 7, several images said to be the Sony Yuga appeared on the German website Android Schweiz, showing off different angles of the phone’s display and body. Then, on December 18, the Yuga appeared again, this time on the Russian website Mobile Review, which claimed to have a prototype of the handset, which it reviewed in detail.
The latest rumor surfaced over on Xperia Blog via the source UnknownX, who is known to have posted accurate leaks in the past on the XDA forums. According to the source, the Yuga will be officially called the Xperia Z, and will feature a chassis that is both dust and water resistant. The handset’s final size is said to be 139mm x 71mm x 7.9mm.
The handset is said to feature a 5-inch 1080p display at 443ppi, which the source says utilizes OptiContrast technology, something found in both the Xperia V and Xperia Tablet S. The Yuga/Xperia Z is said to feature a 1.5GHz quad-core processor and Adreno 320 GPU, as well as a 12-megapixel camera and Bluetooth 4.0. It runs Android 4.2.
via:slashgear

A few days ago, one of Qualcomm‘s roadmaps leaked all over the Internet before getting pulled after Android Police, which first reported on it, got a nastygram over copyright infringement. While the original leak showed some sensitive information about Qualcomm, new information from the leaked slides has appeared, pointing to a spring release of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.


Both sources familiar with the matter and multiple reports have stated that the leaked Qualcomm slides contain information about it and Google’s plans over the coming months. Among the plans is a spring 2013 K-release of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie. The mobile operating system itself is also detailed in the leaks.
Of course, while it is nice to get confirmation, this isn’t the most surprising batch of information to ever leak. Google’s upcoming I/O event is when new iterations of Android are announced, and nothing had suggested that wouldn’t be the case for Key Lime Pie. The event will take place on May 15 through 17.
Whether the leaked information was taken down because of the Google materials it contained, or because of the Qualcomm data (or perhaps both) is unknown. If the quick suppression of the leaks indicate anything, though, it is that the information they contained is true – companies don’t often go to such efforts to eradicate leaks that contain false info, after all.

When the first touch-only OS debuts on one of the hottest pieces of hardware this year, you can bet we want a piece of the action. Windows Phone is where Nokia want your attention, but it might turn out that MeeGo is the place you want to be.

Nokia N9 official photos
Not shown much love by its own maker, the Nokia N9 is embraced by the consumers. You won’t see Stephen Elop getting all too fired up about MeeGo and spending hours explaining how it’s the best thing since Santa, sauna and the N95. But if you care to look, youll notice thousands of people hitting our site each day to just check out the Nokia N9.
And when a smartphone’s popularity is off the charts without it being all over TV, it must really be something special.

Key features

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
Penta-band 3G with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.7 Mbps HSUPA support
3.9" 16M-color AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 480 x 854 pixel resolution
Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display with anti-glare polarizer
8 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash, 720p@27fps video recording and fast f/2.2 lens
Meego v1.2 Harmattan OS
1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP 3630 chipset, 1GB of RAM
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Non-painted color polycarbonate unibody, curved screen
GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation
Digital compass
16/64GB on-board storage
Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
microUSB port
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and EDR
Nice audio reproduction quality
Impressively deep and coherent SNS integration throughout the interface
DivX and Xvid support

Main disadvantages

No Flash support in browser
Limited set of apps
No office document editing
Non-user-replaceable battery
No memory card slot
microSIM card slot
No FM radio
The Nokia N9s list of features is worthy of a flagship, but the pinnacle is undoubtedly the MeeGo platform. It’s what makes all the remaining bits work together to create a seamless user experience. The light and agile MeeGo does well without a massively overclocked multiple-core CPU too.

We were amazed by the silky smooth handling when we first met the N9 back in June. If you can pull off that kind of performance, it doesn’t really matter what kind of chip is doing the math inside. The question is though how well the Nokia R&D team used the time since our first encounter. For all its potential, the N9 was but an early thing back then. It should by now be ready to deliver the novel and compelling experience we were promised.