Lund eagerly awaits the response to Mindstorms NXT, an overhaul and upgrade due this month.
Incorporating the best of Sony technology and premium entertainment, the Xperia NXT series provide easy connectivity.
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Microsoft is building robotics software for NXT, and new books are in the works.
Which brings us to another point: this phone's lack of the NXT line's distinctive transparent element.
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Lego unveiled Mindstorms nxt in February, and in two weeks 432, 000 references to the product had popped up online.
But NXT say their technology could be built into other products such as flat-screen televisions or even mobile phones.
Incorporating the best of Sony technology and premium entertainment, the Xperia NXT series is a cornerstone of Sony's connected experience.
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With the next generation of smartphone design from Sony, the Xperia NXT series has a look that is instantly recognisable.
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The NXT's dim blue-on-gray LCD panel seems a throwback to a distant era, and creating graphics for it is awkward.
But the NXT's predecessor has already become a cult favorite, and it's hard to imagine that this one won't have similar success.
Lund eagerly awaits the response to Mindstorms NXT, an overhaul and upgrade due this month ( click here for a review).
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is building robotics software for NXT, and new books are in the works.
Although this is labeled with the ever-trendy "universal" tagline, it's clear this NXT-powered device was created with Apple's cash cow and Sirius subscribers in mind.
They have a robot that competes in a two and a half minute game and then they start building with other materials, keeping the computer brick, the NXT Brick.
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"If people are going to adopt our technology instead of conventional speakers then they will want to know that they are getting high-quality audio, " said Andrew Williams, NXT Group Marketing Director.
So, we really would like to be able to check out the Clio NXT, the next-gen model being developed by Data Evolution, which bought the rights to the product from original maker Vadem.
Darren Humphries of SmartMobileAssets wonders where the NXT is, and points out that he's spoken with Data Evolution CEO Robert Sowah, who promised him a review unit to check out, but has recently stopped returning his calls.
We're hoping that Sowah is just too busy working on the NXT launch (it's not supposed to be out until April, so they've still got time to roll it out on schedule) to get back to Darren, and that the NXT will be out on time.
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