Archive for February, 2008

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GSMArena Previews G700 & G900

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

G700 & G900 are Sony Ericsson’s newest UIQ 3 based smart phones. They were announced just recently at MWC, and will be in shops in a matter of months (Summer time!). In the mean time, GSMArena have had their hands on these new compact smart phones, and have done some pretty thorough previews of each phone. You’ll find the G700 preview here, and the G900 preview here.

Furthermore, we’ve just uploaded a small gallery of G900 photos. You can check out the photos below. More photos will come of both G700, G900 and BeiBei – we promise!

Posted in g-series, gallery, preview | 4 Comments »

Sony Ericsson Patents Projector Technology In Mobiles

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

A Sony Ericsson patent reveals how the company intends to use projectors inside cellphones. According to the patent, when the projector beams the desired image on to a surface, the on-board camera will take an image of the projected image to analyse if any adjustments are to be made. If required, the projector application will change the intensity of the projector to project the ideal image. Now, if the patent could have revealed when we’ll see a phone with an inbuilt projector…

In partnership with www.cellpassion.com

Posted in concept, patent | 6 Comments »

Sony Ericsson Patents Shock, Water & Dust Resistant Cover

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Sony Ericsson today patented a cellphone cover that renders the phone resistant to dust, water and shock arising when the phone is dropped. The cover will be made of two different materials – soft and rigid – to make the cover sturdy and at the same time enabling the user to use the cellphone without taking it out. Nothing earth shattering, we’d say, but newsworthy nevertheless.
(Note from Michell; C702, anyone??)

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Posted in c-series, news, patent | 4 Comments »

New Firmwares Out For K850, W910 & W960

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Sony Ericsson’s three top models have just received an update to fix some of the problems and bugs in the firmwares. While I have not noticed many bugs in W960, the K850 and W910 does indeed pack quite a few, especially because they were among the first A200 offerings. I have just updated my K850, and Sony Ericsson has definitely been working on this firmware release, that’s for sure! It’s much faster in general, no more lagging in Media, new effects and much faster working in Media, 3D games in particular run much more smoothly now. The camera has been much improved as well, and same goes for video recordings. Another fine new feature is that you can set the phone to vibrate when using the touch sensitive buttons – this works quite well.

Now for some technical stuff. The K850 firmware is called R1EA031, and is not a major release. The W910 firmware is called R1EA030, and has pretty much the same improvements as with the K850. The W960 firmware CDA is called R6G02, and I have yet to decide whether I’ll update my W960 or not. I am liking it as it is now, so there’ll have to be either new features or improvements for me to update :-)

Posted in a200, firmware, k-series, w-series | 91 Comments »

Unboxing – SO905iCS

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

JUSTAMP are showing some rather smashing looking SO905iCS unboxing pictures. The SO905i is the first Cybershot branded handset to be released in Japan, and true to form has some impressive features such as a 5 MP AF camera with 3x optical zoom, and a rather impressive WVGA screen (hint for SE: your European customers wouldn’t mind seeing these sort of specs in their Cybershot handsets!).

See the rest of the pictures after the jump.

Posted in japanese, s-series, unboxing | 12 Comments »

It Has Begun – Fight With Your Phone

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

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I usually don’t rant much about Nokia phones here at USEB, but for long there has been a rather interesting application for these called LightSabre, which turned phones with a built-in accelerometer into a deadly light saber with both sound and visual effects.

Now, the fantastic Steve Oldmeadow has created an application for Sony Ericsson phones with a built-in accelerometer running the A200 platform – it’s called Saber ME, and works brilliantly! Check his video demo of the application below.

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The application will run on C902, K850, W760, W910 & W980 (and any future SE phone with an accelerometer and running A200 software platform). And best of all – it’s freeware! I am VERY interested in seeing what applications will come from Steve in the future :-)

Download it here!

Posted in a200, application, entertainment, fun, games | 14 Comments »

New Clamshell Leaked

Monday, February 18th, 2008

The chaps over at se4m.com have got their hands on a picture of what appears to be an as yet unknown Sony Ericsson clamshell handset. As yet specifications are unknown, but rather interestingly the picture includes a blurb about always knowing your location. That might suggest GPS …

se4m.com via SEFanatics

Posted in rumour, uncategorized | 12 Comments »

New fresh codenames

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Time for new codenames to be leaked :D

• Linda
• Alicia
• Shiho (also mentioned long ago) also mentioned by prudent
• Paris
• Ying (Yang)
• Oceania

Those are 100% sure to come

There’s a high possibilty that we’ll see an UIQ-powered Cybershot phone. It’s also likely to have some more megapixels than current devices . A lot of new innovations are waiting for us – more to come later.

P1i will stop shipping from September. You can imagine what its replacement will be

Posted in exclusive, rumour | 20 Comments »

Sony Ericsson Leaks Episode 2.0

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

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We’ve kept this long enough now.

Some nice hints on this picture, for example a completely white K660 on the bottom left. Oh… and a Cyber-Shot device:

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Check out full size picture of all the devices here.

The slideshow this is taken from shows also a slightly updated Walkman interface, and the improved TrackID service, now with lyrics and album art:

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Posted in exclusive, rumour | 36 Comments »

X1 Runs WM 6.1 – Microsoft Will Not Be Happy!

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

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Check out these photos of the XPERIA X1. It clearly shows that it’s running Windows Mobile 6.1, which is not announced yet. This was why the Sony Ericsson representatives would not show any more of the operating system or demo anything but the XPERIA panels on the X1. Furthermore it shows that X1 is running a 528 MHz CPU with the Qualcomm 7200A chipset. Somebody is going to be fired… Read on for more photos.

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Posted in windows-mobile, x-series | 26 Comments »

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