Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo Gets A Video Overview

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Neo has already been given the review treatment by Eldar Murtazin and his team at Mobile Review but that doesn’t mean we aren’t excited to see a video overview of a device that will get an unveiling at this months Mobile World Congress event.

The Xperia Neo’s Gingerbread menus are given a demonstration, as is the camera and the calendar app. Sony Ericsson’s UI is in full effect, as are customisable widgets loaded on the separate homescreens.

The Xperia Neo is most likely to be Sony Ericsson’s new mid-range Android smartphone, coming in a little cheaper than the super-thin Xperia Arc and the gaming powerhouse that is the Xperia Play .

Amazing, rocket-firing, remote-controlled tricopter [video]

What happens when you put together hydrogen balloons and a remote-controlled mini RC tricopter armed with fireworks? Something exceptionally cool.

RC Explorer has posted a DIY tutorial for mounting roman candles on a RC tricopter, a project that’s equally as dangerous as it is righteous. The mod was created by a RC enthusiast in Sweden who strapped two 100 pack rockets coupled with a fan to break-up the smoke. All in all, the project took almost 18 hours to pull off including the editing of the video.

Displayed within the video below, when the fireworks hit the balloons the result is spectacular and as far as we’re concerned, it was completely worth the 18 hours of labour.

In under three weeks, Apple’s iPhone 5 overtakes Samsung’s Galaxy S III in mobile Web traffic

It’s been less than a month, and already the Apple iPhone 5 has been available long enough to overtake the Samsung Galaxy S III in terms of Web traffic volume. The eye-raising results are being attributed to “record-breaking sales numbers” and “new 4G browsing speeds which encourage data usage” but a closer look shows that it’s not that simple.

The latest data comes from Chitika Insights , which conducted a user agent analysis on millions of mobile ad impressions, spanning a 7-day time frame from October 3 through October 9. Notice that by this time the iPhone 5 had not yet been available for a full three weeks. The firm then looked solely at impressions coming from the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S III, and came up with this:

The Galaxy S III was released on May 29, or more than four months ago. The iPhone 5 was released on September 19, or just over three weeks ago.

Both are very popular devices and so I would be really surprised to learn that there are more iPhone 5s than Galaxy S IIIs out there right now. So, how is the iPhone 5 already so ahead in mobile Web traffic?

As I’ve mentioned before , almost every mobile market share study shows that the iOS browser is used significantly more than the Android browser. As Chrome gets on more Android devices, this will likely start to change, but until then, if we use mobile traffic as a metric for device adoption, the iPhone will always look like it’s doing much better than it really is.

Nevertheless Chitika concludes:

I disagree with the first point as the data doesn’t hold much water: Samsung is likely very happy with the sales of the S III. The second point stands though: Web developers will of course want to target the iPhone 5 first, although any sane developer will not disregard the Galaxy S III.

See also: Steve Wozniak wishes Apple was less arrogant and had released two sizes for the iPhone 5

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