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The only major consumer electronics company with no announced tablet so far has been Sony. But this is about to change soon. A drawing of Sony’s tablet appeared on Engadget. The tablet, dubbed Sony S1, is claimed to be a Playstation branded tablet which would allow Playstation integration and comes with some PS1 titles preloaded.

The S1 would be a 9.4″ tablet running Android Honeycomb having a new “wrap” design. The design as seen in the drawings shifts the weight of the tablet towards the curved edge making it easier to hold while using with one hand. The UI would rotate allowing both left-handed and right-handed use, along with the landscape mode when the curved edge would be held at top. The tablet would be powered by a dual-core Tegra 2 processor. It would have dual cameras and a screen resolution of 1280 x 800. The connectivity options include the usual WiFi and Bluetooth along with IR and USB.

The Sony S1 would be running a custom UI built over Honeycomb. The UI is rumored to be developed by a team of top designers from VAIO, Reader, PlayStation and Sony Ericsson. Although the tablet would be Playstation branded its primary focus would be Qriocity, Sony’s recently launched music, games, ebooks, and videos on demand service.

Like all other Sony products, this one too would be priced on a higher side. The WiFi only version is rumored to carry a price tag of $599 and expected to start shipping in Sep’11. Given the accuracy Engadget has had with Sony Playstation phone, this is surely very believable for us!

We have been hearing about the Optimus 3D Android smartphone from LG for a couple of weeks now, and LG has finally officially announced the Optimus 3D.

The LG Optimus 3D features a dual core 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor, there is also a 4.3 inch WVGA display and it comes with 8GB of memory and 4Gb LP DDR2, there is also a dual 5 lens 5 megapixel camera on the rear which can record 3D video.

The LG Optimus 3D is capable of recording and playing back Full HD video in 1080p in 2D and HD video in 720p in 3D, ti also comes with DLNA, HDMI, and HSPA.

LG have not given any pricing details as yet, all we know is that it will go on sale in Europe early in quarter 2, and it will come with Android 2.2 Froyo at launch and will get updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread shortly after.

According to the guys over at Android And Me, HTC are working on a new dual core smartphone, which is rumored to be called the HTC Pyramid, and it looks like it will feature a dual core Qualcomm MSM8260 1.2GHz processor.

Other rumored specifications on the HTC Pyramid include a 4.3 inch display with a possible resolution of 860 x 540 pixels, and it is also reported to run Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

It looks like the HTC Pyramid will be available on T-Mobile some time in May 2011 and it is expected to run on T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network.

no doubt we will hear some more information about the HTC Pyramid at Mobile World Congress 2011 later this month