Sony heads for the heart of the home with Xperia Tablet Z: Kitchen Edition

Looks like Sony’s coming after a specific niche with its new Xperia Tablet Z: Kitchen Edition. This US$649 cooking mate is a water-resistant 10.1-inch tablet with a wireless cooking thermometer, tablet stand, and a slew of exclusive content.

The Xperia Tablet Z is made with durable glass and carbon fiber-reinforced back panel making it easy to clean if you get spaghetti sauce on it or something. It can be submerged under fresh water with covers and ports closed for up to 3 feet in under 30 minutes. It uses Mobile Bravia Engine 2 for its display and runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The 32GB tablet (expansion options via microSD slot) also comes with accessories like iGrill, an app-enabled Bluetooth meat thermometer that can monitor food up to 200 feet away; lightweight, foldable stand; and pre-loaded food and cooking apps, such as Evernote Food, BigOVen, Food Planner Pro, etc.

Google+ for Chrome gets Snapseed photo-editing tools

Google integrated Snapseed into Google+’s mobile apps for a while already. Now, Google’s bringing Snapseed’s features into the desktop Chrome browser with new tools like Auto Enhance, selective adjust editing, filters and frames. Google has slowly started rolling out the new options that can be accessed by clicking the “edit” link of a selected photo.

If you aren’t using Chrome, you’re going to have to make do with basic crop and rotate editing tools. 

The Apple Beat: Apple's 2013 iPhone strategy

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Cupertino, CA - Apple released the new iPhones here this week at an intimate media event in their Apple Campus auditorium.

Apple CEO Tim Cook set things up by announcing that there were now over 700 million iOS devices in the market today and then passed the stage to senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi, who ran through iOS 7.

iOS 7 is expected to be available for free to users on September 18 and will work for iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini and iPod touch (fifth generation). Some features may not be available on all products.

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September 27 is the day for LG G2 to launch in Canada

LG has let us know that starting September 27, Canadians can get their hands on the much anticipated LG G2, the first smartphone introduced under the new LG series “G” slated for premium devices and the successor to the Optimus G.

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