Sony has filed a trademark application for ‘Xperia Sola’ (meaning ‘alone’ or ‘only’ in English) with the US Patent and Trademark office. The filing alone doesn’t reveal the phone that the name is going to be used on, but there it could mean one of two things. It could either be the US name for the Xperia S smartphone that they introduced at CES 2012, or it could be an entirely new phone.
Samsung has put out the full Super Bowl ad they teased last week, starting with the usual scenes of “bored” Apple fans waiting in line to get an iPhone. Again, someone pulls out a Samsung Galaxy Note, and… things just get weird from here on out. The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins suddenly appears, a guitar drops into his hands and sings the main lick from “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” Galaxy Notes start falling from the sky, and everyone – including the Apple fans in line – joins in an impromptu street party that includes a marching band, the cute girl from their earlier ad, stunt bikers and skateboarders, and a dude who shoots out of a cannon.
It looks like the Motorola Droid 4 – the phone that Moto labeled as “the thinnest and lightest LTE QWERTY phone” – could be available next week. According to this report at Droid Life, sources said that Verizon will be launching the Droid 4 on February 9.
The Nokia Lumia 900 is now available for pre-orders from Microsoft’s retail stores. For those looking to be one of the first to rock Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone-powered flagship, a $25 deposit will let you reserve a black or cyan blue Lumia 900, which you’ll get whenever they decide to ship the phone. Final pricing and release dates haven’t been given out for the Lumia 900, but we might have a clue that we’re in for a good deal though. A previous leak mentioned that AT&T will be aggressively priced, possibly going as low as $100 with a contract when it launches in March.
Samsung will be introducing new products during the Mobile World Congress later this month, except for probably the most-awaited one: the Galaxy S III. The company has confirmed that they won’t be launching their 2012 flagship phone at MWC, and will instead launch it at a separate event “in the first half of the year,” when it’s closer to commercial availability.
