Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review has written an article about the changes in the new A200 operating platform in Sony Ericsson phones such as K850 and W910. Here he compares the old A100 with the new one, and shows lots of examples of the new stuff. It’s only available in Russian, so I used Google Translate to translate it. You can find it here! Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!
Update! It’s now available in English, too! Check it out here
Well, I guess this was all the press conference later today was about. A bit sad, I think. They’ve almost just bought it, and then decides to sell half of it. After thinking about it, I still think that it’s sad, but I do see why they’ve decided to do so. This way they won’t be alone with developing UIQ and they can also give more money into developing. I’m sure this will make the Americans (since Motorola is American) know more about UIQ and this way, they’ll also be possible buyers of Sony Ericsson smartphones running UIQ. Smooth…
Yeah, I know that it isn’t news that you can flash your K800 into a K810. However, I just wanted to share a few thoughts on the process. Everything went quite easily and fast. It took about 15 - 20 minutes in total, which I think is quite acceptable. You get everything from the K810 (software wise) and with a simple “custom pack”, you can also keep the K800’s keypad light settings, which is a problem without on a K800 flashed into a K810.
I had - of course - modded my K800 before flashing, and now all these modifications are gone. It really doesn’t matter that much, as it takes a few seconds to apply them again.
If anybody feels like flashing their K800, but are a bit afraid of what will happen, then my advice to you is to read the instructions carefully and have everything ready (firmware and custom pack) before beginning. It’s really not hard to do, and I’d recommend everyone to do it! I’ll upload some pictures of my new “K810″ and add them to this post later (added now!). Will also do a post about PhotoFix - what are the real differences?
There have been a lot of rumors about the Sony Ericsson smartphone by the codename “Lizy”. Now, I can with tell you, that it’s going to be called M610i for sure. It’s a triband GSM phone (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with UMTS (2100 MHz). It’s got WLAN, too, as well as Bluetooth 2.0 and a FM radio with TrackID support.
The phone will come bundled with a charger, stereo headset, battery, USB cable, extra stylus, documentation package and the usual Sony Ericsson software CD. It will support M2 memory cards.
If anybody’s interested in the user manual, then it can be downloaded as an exclusive from The Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blogright here. Read on for 8 (high resolution) pictures of the phone.