Android Gingerbread - Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo Pre-order In Germany

With the Android faithful in Germany, and particularly the Sony Ericsson faithful, you recently might prefer to realize that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo smart phone in red is currently up for pre-order on Amazon . com although with no availability date with you.
Based on a short article over on Ubergizmo and also by means of GSMareana, the German edition of Amazon has taken pre-orders to the Android 2.3 Gingerbread Sony Ericsson handset by having an price tag of 345.81 Euros, roughly $480.

Spec wise the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo provides a 3.7-inch capacitive LED backlit touchscreen display, Sony Mobile Bravia engine, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8 megapixel suto-focus camera with LED flash and 720p video, WiFi, AGPS, Bluetooth, 320MB of memory space, microSD expansion as much as 32Gband 3.5mm jack.

There’s still no real confirmation with regards to once the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo could see release; even so the word is always that Sony Ericsson has stated previously that this Android device might actually launch in March or Q2.

So any one of our readers looking to snap in the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo when it hits or are you currently awaiting the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play?

Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread gives full NFC capabilties

While Android 2.3 Gingerbread had NFC among its main features, it only had the read functionality but Google recently pushed out a “small feature release” that enhances the NFC capabilities. Based on the search giant’s developer blog, Android 2.3.3 now includes: - A comprehensive NFC reader/writer API that lets apps read to any kind of standard NFC tag usedtoday. - Advanced Intent dispatching that provides apps more control over how/whenthey're launched when an NFC tag comes into range. - Some limited support for peer-to-peer experience of other NFC devices. The company said that it expects all Gingerbread phones that enter the market to perform Android 2.3.3. Right now, we only know that the Xperia Arc will land with Android Gingerbread but let’s hope a plethora of devices hit the market using the latest version on thelittle, green roboto. Android 2.3.3. Gingerbread is currently intended for developers and you’ll be capable of check it out with theSDK manager. It also provides a new API level for developers to make richer apps. So, when will Google android 2.3.3 Gingerbread hit the Nexus S and other devices? I wouldthink that the Samsung Google-blessed phone will getit in just a few weeks but I wouldn’t hold my breath for other phones. I realize many Google nexus one owners are still awaiting 2.3 hitting their Google experience device too and you haveto wonder why this is taking so long. If you’re using an Epic 4G, you’re still waiting for Froyo – Cliq XT owners won’t feel sorry for you, as they may be forever stuck on 1.5. So, this shouldlead to some cool NFC apps in the future but what’s the pointif it’s only available to Nexus S users? The Xperia Arc won’thave evenan NFC chip in it, so we still have to wait for a mass-market device that maytake advantage of the features in Google android 2.3.3.