Even without Ericsson, Sony has quite the plans for its smartphones in 2012. According to a leaked sales report in India, Sony has plans to release eleven additional smartphones this year. The leaked document has quite the info, including names, release dates, and price. These most likely won’t be set in stone but here they are:

One day we’ll all look back and say “Hey, remember when we used to have 3G phones?” Of course our kids won’t have any idea of what we’re talking about, in fact, they’ll probably be calling them communicators by then. It seems Verizon is set in making 4G LTE the future of their network, so much, that they have announced from here on out, 4G LTE connectivity is a “hard requirement” for any manufacturer looking to have their phone on Big Red’s network. Of course for now, they will be making a few exceptions for “dumb” phones and phone’s that work on their push-to-talk network.

Christmas is over, the gifts are opened, and now many of you out there are holding brand spanking new Android devices. Android continues to grow tremendously and boasts over 700,000 device activations every day, and so we ask: “Did you get an Android device for Christmas?” Whether is was that Samsung Galaxy Nexus you asked for, or the quad-core ASUS Transformer Prime that has been appearing and disappearing, we want to hear about it. Maybe you have a question about using a particular feature of your device, or perhaps you just want to share how “bad” your experience has been so far. We’re here to help, and we love hearing your opinions and feedback.