One of Sony's engineers has proposed a new "soft watchdog" that will not hard reboot the system and will instead kill the unimportant process(es) responsible for the high memory usage situation.
Sony mobile RSS
The new members of the Xperia family were unveiled at a virtual event by Sony yesterday. Today, the undisclosed prices of the Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III from yesterday's event were revealed.
Alongside its flagship Xperia 1 II, Sony also introduced a new mid-ranger, the Xperia 10 II. It features a 21:9 display, as well as Corning Gorilla Glass 6 and IP65/IP68 water and dust resistance.
After years struggling to remain relevant in the smartphone market, Sony may be ready to stop throwing as much money at its mobile division. The result could be a 50% reduction in its workforce.
Sony has posted positive profits for the quarter, which is largely due to a high number of sales for the PlayStation 4 However, its mobile division continues to stumble, recording a drop in revenue.
Sony Mobile's CEO has put an end to rumours that the company might be looking to sell off the smartphone division and exit the market which has been bringing in losses for the company.
While we're unlikely to see new Windows Phones being launched by Sony anytime soon, an early Sony Ericsson prototype handset running Microsoft's mobile OS is now available to purchase on eBay.
While its rivals vie for superiority in the smartphone space with ever more powerful quad-core processors, Sony says that we shouldn't expect such devices from them until 2013 at the earliest.
Sony today announced the latest range of Xperia NXT series handsets earlier today at the MWC conference in Barcelona. The new additions to the series are the Xperia P and the Xperia U.
