Sony VAIO had its own Android móvil inteligente: this is one of the prototypes of the model that never saw the light of day.
There was a moment in history when Sony was on the verge of launching an Android móvil inteligente under its VAIO computer brand. Which didn’t happen, for better or for worse.
Now, almost ten years later, since XDA developer Have access to a unit of one of the prototypes of this móvil inteligente that a terminal that never saw the light of day.
“SE123”, a Sony VAIO móvil with a QWERTY keyboard and a 5.5-inch screen
For those who don’t remember, this is worth mentioning VAIO was founded as a PC sub-brand of Japanese Sony, and has been one of the references in its segment for years. But in 2014, VAIO became an independent company in which Sony owns only 5%.
And although in 2015 the VAIO brand, already in the hands of the company Japan Industrial Partners, decided to entrar the world of teléfonos inteligentes, until then Sony decided not to cross the paths of its VAIO and Xperia brands. Although, as we now know, The Japanese were about to do it.
It was early 2010 when the company – then known as Sony Ericsson – began developing a terminal that would stand out through a 5.5 inch screen sizeand be that Slide out the physical QWERTY keyboard, like other Sony Xperia models of the time. Also, integrate the keypad and the face of the phone classic three navigation keys androidwhich was replaced a few years later by a virtual keyboard and eventually by the gesture navigation system used today.
Not many other details are known about this device, except that it runs Android 2.1 Eclair copia de seguridad camera and four rubber stops on the bottom that would make typing easier with the keyboard when the terminal is resting on a flat surface. Without a doubt it would be a more interesting addition to the Sony VAIO computers of the time.