Did you like the look of those new Sony Honeycomb powered tablets, the S1 and S2? Want to know when you can get your grubby Australian fingers on one? Looks like you’ll have to wait.
Sony Australia today sent out the global announcement from earlier this week announcing the tablets for Fall 2011. When questioned whether that meant we’d be seeing them in Spring this year down under, the response was a predictable “Unfortunately we don’t have any details as yet around an Australian release.”
Most likely, this is a case of the Australian arm of Sony just not being informed yet about when it will be able to sell the sexy new tablets, but given that the company wants to be number two in tablets by the end of the year, Sony’s strategy in both announcing and releasing the Android-powered devices is baffling.
That said, I still want one…
Daniel
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 2:18 PMSony’s already number two.
Rod
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 2:36 PMThis probably isn’t a good time for Sony to be announcing anything that doesn’t involve the words “security upgrade”. No one wants their pretty new products repeatedly associated with a major system fubar.
Gregory Opera
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 6:50 PMJust because a bunch of criminals was able to steal data from a secure computer network doesn’t make the host company a “bad” or untrustworthy company (unless of course, it is proven that the company was negligent in protecting said data)… After all, cyber-criminals target major companies and organizations all the time (as I understand it, the Australian Defense Force is targeted THOUSANDS of times a MONTH!).
A while back, I had a friend demonstrate the ability to access the most sensitive areas of a major financial firm’s computer network, a financial institute that is supposedly one of the most secure in the world, and he did this with minimal effort!
My friend didn’t do anything illegal whilst within this computer network of course, but this just proves that if one has the skills, anything is possible…
Yeah it sucks that the PlayStation Network (PSN) has been offline for 6+ days, especially for “premium” customers like myself (I pay for both PlayStation Plus AND Qriocity), but these things happen and if Sony play their cards right, the upgrades that are occurring as I type this will minimize the possibility of a security issue in the future.