14 DAY TRIAL // Back in March, VAIO, the company that resulted from Sony selling its laptop brand, unveiled its first smartphone product to date. The device came with moderate specs and wasn’t something out of the ordinary.
Even so, the producing company chose to price it quite expensively, but given the fact that all electronics are pretty costly, we guess we shouldn’t find it so odd.
Anyway, the company is back in the news with a little announcement: VAIO has just released its first “Intrusion Detection System” (IDS), which will be available in Japan starting September 18 (as reported by G for Games).
Naturally, the first smartphone to take advantage of the new system will be the company’s own handset. What is an “Intrusion Detection System,” you might be wondering? Well, it’s an application designed to monitor a network or system in order to determine whether some violations, malicious activities or suspicious traffic has been going on.
VAIO aims the new security feat at enterprises
The information will be recorded and swiftly sent to a security administrator or “management station” for managing. Still, not everyone will be able to take advantage of the new service. VAIO will be offering the feature to corporate customers, as a subscription-based system.
For those of you who don’t remember what the VAIO phone is all about, we’re taking the opportunity to remind you that the handset arrives with a 5-inch display with an unimpressive 720p resolution and a quad-core 1.2GHz chipset under the hood (possibly a Snapdragon 410) in combination with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD card slot up to 32GB).
On the back, the smartphone packs a 13-megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and full HD (1080p) video recording, while in the front there's a 5-megapixel camera for video calls and selfies.
Shortly after the VAIO smartphone made it out, it was revealed that it was actually a re-branded version of the Panasonic Eluga U2, a device that had been released a month prior. What’s more, the Panasonic model was actually a lot cheaper than VAIO’s. We wonder if the addition of the new security system will actually entice users to pay good cash for an overpriced mid-ranger.
