Sony Xperia Z is the flagship smartphone of Sony in year 2013 with amazing specifications and features. The water and dustproof Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean powered device comes with a quad core 1.5GHz Krait mighty processor. With Adreno 320 GPU, 2 GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, Xperia Z has made news for its incresible specifications.

But to get the most of such a powerful Android smartphone, you get to have it rooted. Root access of Android devices enable you install applications requiring Super User access. You can then install all the popular custom ROMs and MODs. Usually rooting process is considered very geeky and users tend to avoid it in case they get it bricked or something. Here’s a good news if you are a Sony Xperia Z user. One click tool, no more technical stuff and very user friendly: it is going to make you to root your Xperia Z! This tool would be useful for Xperia Z with locked and unlocked bootloader.

Though Sony has released the official Jelly Bean OTA update for the Xperia J, but many who have flashed the stock firmware report finding some bugs and issues in the system. For those who want to update Sony Xperia J to Android 4.1.2 stable firmware then ParanoidAndroid custom ROM based on 4.1.2 JB is one the best options. The PA 4.1.2 custom ROM build for Xperia J comes with the latest features and apps and also has no bugs.

If you want to flash your Xperia J to one the most popular custom ROMs

PACman ROM is popular among the jungle of custom ROMs since it combines the best features from three best and most successful ROMs. PACROM covers tweaks and functions from CyanogenMod, AOKP and ParanoidAndroid. Get PACROM from PACman on your Sony Xperia Z and have one easy phone life!

Prerequisites to check before you install PACman custom ROM for Sony Xperia Z:

Sony hasn’t yet officially got the latest Android Jelly Bean updates but thanks to XDA developers, you can now upgrade your Sony devices to the Jelly Bean flavors using one of the most popular custom ROMs out there, the ParanoidAndroid!

The ParanoidAndroid firmware is based on CM10 and brings the latest Jelly Bean Android 4.2.2 OS to your handset. No bugs or issues have been found in this firmware file so we expect you would be having a full-on experience of the Jelly Bean and ParanoidAndroid features, functions and capabilities making your Xperia S more powerful, customized and optimized.

New version of Experience custom ROM has been released based on the stock ICS but bringing all the looks, features, functions and apps of the latest Jelly Bean 4.1 variant. We would be updating our Sony Xperia U to this latest version of Experience custom ROM to upgrade the device to  the capabilities of Android JB 4.1.

ROM is quite stable and fast so you don’t have worry about that point. Experience firmware has already gained too much popularity among Xperia users who report a stable, fast and powerful experience with the ROM. Read this tutorial and follow all the guidelines carefully to learn to upgrade your Sony Xperia U to Android 4.1 JB OS.

Since the Sony Xperia Play is a relatively older smartphone hence it is not receiving any official Android updates. Its specs are a bit outdated which means you can update and get the new features now by flashing a custom ROM on your Xperia Play. The latest Xperia NXT gaming custom ROM has been developed by xda-developers and provides optimized and customized experience for gaming mode.

This ROM will give you more power to enjoy latest games that are available via Google Play. Firmware is based on Gingerbread so you shouldn’t expect anything from ICS or Jelly Bean. But the custom Gaming ROM is pretty optimized to increase Play’s batter life and use the RAM in a better way.

Sony Xperia X8 hasn’t been receiving any more official updates due to hardware limitations, getting released in 2010. But that is no reason to get worried for Sony Xperia owners as now you can upgrade your device to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean using the custom CM10 firmware.

In this post we will show you a step by step guide to update Sony Xperia X8 to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean using custom CM10 ROM. It should be considered here that the custom CM10 ROM for Sony Xperia has been developed by the third party developers so it cannot be OTA installed. The CM10 custom ROM for Sony Xperia X8 will not be having all the features of CM10 but it would improve the performance, upgrade the battery life and add some new apps, features and user interfaces to your device.

Prerequisites to root Sony Xperia X8 to CM10 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean:

Sony has unveiled the specifications of their upcoming PlayStation 4 with which would start a new generation of console gaming. The specifications sheet shown by Sony reveals some rather interesting specs but how do they compare against a similar cost PC, let’s perform an analysis.

PlayStation 4 – Jaguar Cores, Good Enough For Compute?

AMD’s Jaguar (x64/x86) core is an upcoming 28nm architecture that arrives on the PC platforms in Q2 2013. The Jaguar core itself is a low power APU aimed for notebooks and tablets. If you aren’t aware of an APU, than know that its the combination of CPU/GPU and most of the port controllers on the same die.

The PlayStation 4 comes with a custom built chip with eight Jaguar cores. Hence the PS4 features an 8-Core AMD Jaguar APU which compared to an older generation Bobcat architecture offers 15% IPC improvement. The AMD chip allocated to PlayStation 4 runs at 1.8 GHz with 2 MB of L2 cache shared across each core and includes new instruction sets such as SSE 4.1/4.2, AES, CLMUL, MOVB, AVE6, F16C and BMI1.

The downside of these low-power APUs is that they don’t compare to AMD’s desktop APU lineup which currently includes the Piledriver based Trinity chips. Hence even with eight cores, the CPU performance of the PlayStation 4 would remain medicore at best since its based on a chip that is suited for netbook and tablet use, not the actual desktop computing or gaming.

This just might be it, folks! The first entry in the next generation of consoles just might be unveiled in three weeks.  On February 20th, Sony will hold a “special event,” and it’s not confirmed what it will be about. Although, one could speculate that it is indeed about the PlayStation 4.

Can’t wait, can you?

I have no idea if I want the next generation to be here or not. On one hand, there is a wealth of juice left in the current generation of consoles. If Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs can somehow run on the Xbox 360 and the PS4 even remotely like the demo shown at last year’s E3, then I’m content. On the other hand, technology advances fairly quickly in this day and age, and that means that the next-gen will be quite powerful. How powerful? The rumors making the rounds say that it will be pretty powerful.

Probably not like this, but it’s the innards that matter, right?