Sony’s Qriocity Video Service Headed To Xperia Smartphones

Sony has announced that its Qriocity video service will be available on a range of Sony Ericsson branded smartphones form August the 1st and users of the service will be able to buy and rent movies on their Xperia smartphones.
The Qriocity service will be available on a range of Sony Xperia devices at first which include the Xperia Arc, the Xperia Neo, Xperia Play, Xperia Pro and other devices and it will be released as a software update to the devices.

The service will provide you with an intuitive and user friendly way to buy or rent movies and TV shows from NBC, Universal International Television Distribution, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution as well as local studios. All the latest releases will be available along with an extensive back catalogue.
It isn’t clear as yet on which Xperia devices will get the update first, Sony has said that it will depend on the country and also the carrier.
Source Sony

BlackBerry Bold 9930 Turns Up On Verizon Website

RIM are expected to announce a range of new BlackBerry smartphones later today, one of those is the BlackBerry Bold 9930, which has been appeared on the Verizon Wireless website.
Verizon posted a walk through video on the BlackBerry Bold 9930, which you can see in the video below, and it features a new slimmer design, a QWERTY keyboard and a 2.8 inch touchscreen display.

HTC Omega Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Details Revealed

It looks like HTC has a new Windows Phone 7 smartphone in the works, the HTC Omega which could be one of HTC’s first Windows Phone 7 Mango smartphones, and according to a recent report it will feature a 3.8 inch Super LCD touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.
Other reported specifications on the new HTC Omega include a single core 1.5GHz MSM 8255 processor plus 512MB of RAM, and an 8 megapixel camera with an LED flash and auto-focus.

HTC Want To Negotiate Patent Dispute With Apple

By Roland Hutchinson

Recently an ITC judge ruled in Apple’s favor in the patent case between Apple and HTC, the last thing we heard from HTC was that they were going to appeal the ITC ruling.
Now HTC has been talking to Bloomberg, and the company has said that they are prepared to enter discussions with Apple over the possible patent infringements on Apple’s iOS devices.

“We are open to all sorts of solutions, as long as the solution and the terms are fair and reasonable,” Yung said. “On and off we’ve had discussions with Apple, even before the initial determination came out.”
Whether Apple will be prepared to enter discussions with HTC remains to be seen, and it Apple and HTC do come to some sort of agreement or deal this could have wider implications for Google’s Android OS and other Android smartphone manufacturers.
Source Bloomberg