Today, I’m announcing a new theme design here at USEB. This one is meant to be lighter and generally better looking than the other one. This one is supposed to auto-fit according to your screen resolution, but we’d still recommend using a resolution of at least 1024 pixels in width. Personally, I use 1280 pixels, and that looks smashing! I’ve also just noticed a few formatting bugs in Internet Explorer, but I haven’t found any in Firefox, so that’s yet another reason for using Firefox. Anyway, it shouldn’t have an impact on the content, which should still be readable, although the theme won’t look that great.

So, have a look around, and please report back to me on what you think of it and if you’ve found any serious bugs. Thanks

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Sony Ericsson CEO Dick Komiyama today announced the company’s Q1 financial results in the live webcast earlier this morning (press release issued here).

I’m in a bit of a hurry here, so I’ll leave you with the highlights and the link, and hopefully I’ll get round at editing the post later tonight. In short, this quarter of the year wasn’t that good for Sony Ericsson, with a lower amount of sold phones than LG (22 million vs 24 million).

Q1 Highlights:

• Year-on-year volume growth of 2%
• Income before taxes at higher end of forecast
• R&D investment continues to expand portfolio and addressable market
• New sub-brand XPERIA^TM added to portfolio

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Sony Ericsson today announced the two generation web phones, G502 & Z780, as expected. We pretty much already revealed the G502 for Sony Ericsson yesterday, so you can check it out right here and with the first-ever live picture of it here.

The other phone to be announced was the Z780. A clamshell phone similar to the Z770, with similar specifications and design. It features a 2.2 inch TFT display of QVGA resolution, a 2 mega pixel camera with fixed focus, a built-in GPS as well as tri-band HSDPA network support for enhanced Internet browsing speeds. Full press release here.

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Here’s the full live picture of the Brilliant Hazel coloured G502, also known as Emelie.

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Sony Ericsson will be announcing the G502, previously known by the codename Emelie, on Wednesday 23rd April - well, that doesn’t keep us from revealing it already! G502 is a fancy-looking candy bar phone in the style of K530, but with a clean black design, that feels a bit inspired by the land of Japan.

The front of this black jewel plays host to a 2 inch large TFT display of QVGA resolution, capable of showing upto 262.144 colours.

The G502 is a HSDPA-enabled phone targeted at the business & youth segment with support Exchange Activesync and built-in Google Maps for Mobile. The phone is supposedly ready for Web 2.0 with the built-in Access NetFront web browser, and it shall be easy to set up e-mail accounts on it by using the e-mail wizard. RSS feeds can be displayed on the standby screen, as on other A2-based feature phones.

It will feature a 2 mega pixel fixed focus camera on the back with 4x digital zoom and video recording possibilites. Apart from that, G502 features Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR as well as USB 2.0 support.

Its dimensions will be 109 x 46 x 13.5 millimetres, and it’ll weigh in at 83.5 grams. It has 32 MB internal memory, and it can be expanded by Memory Stick Micro cards.

G502, which is a tri-band GSM phone with EDGE support, will hit selected markets in Q2 this year, and will be available in two colour trimmings; Brilliant Hazel & Champagne Black.

We’ve got a question for you, Sony Ericsson. Why not make a change, and put UIQ on this phone instead of the A2 software platform?

Other than that, well, I guess you saw this first on USEB

PS. Pressing the thumbnail, will give you a larger view!

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