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The W890 Scirocco Limited Edition Blows You Away

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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It’s limited. It’s expensive. And boy, it does look sooooooo good.

Volkswagen Germany sells a limited edition of the W890i that suits the new Scirocco.

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The white edition features some bonus content that is:

  • customized Scirocco wallpapers, animations & theme.
  • a JAVA racing game from Mission Scirocco

You also get a Scirocco silhouette sticker on the bottom of the front that is, and that is the most special, white.

The W890i Scirocco Limited Edition is available at the German Volkswagen Accessoires Shop
 for a not-that-limited price of 469€ (which means about 375£ / 725$).

Posted in new-colour, w-series | 14 Comments »

Review: Sony Ericsson G900

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

You’ve been waiting, I’ve been writing. And I’ve just finished. This means… the Sony Ericsson G900 review has been published :) The G900 is in my opinion one of Sony Ericsson’s finest offerings, and its low price and strong feature set makes it a very attractive phone. Here’s the review excerpt;

The G900 and its sibling, G700, represent a new kind of Sony Ericsson smart phone products, that don’t look or feel like a smart phone, yet perform and deliver as one would expect a smart phone to do. These G’s are targeted at the normal everyday consumer, who wants a little extra something from his phone, while still keeping the price low. Both phones can be used almost solely without the use of a stylus, separating them from Sony Ericsson’s previous smart phones. In a very good way, that is.
The G700 and G900 will sell like hot cakes, and in this review, we’ll be focusing on the right-out-of-the-oven hot G900, with a few additional features, such as a better camera and wireless LAN (W-LAN), when compared to the cheaper G700.

You can read the large review here.

PS. With this post, we have officially broke the 500 posts mark :)

Posted in g-series, review | 26 Comments »

The newly announced products

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

On the 17th of June Sony Ericsson invited me for their press event in Amsterdam. The day started as usual with a slide show by the head of Sony Ericsson in Benelux. At first he wanted to remind us of the fact that Sony Ericsson has already sold 66.5 million Walkman phones and 22 million Cyber-shot phones. Here some more numbers about Sony Ericsson as a brand;

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Posted in announcement, article, c-series, camera, conference, corporative, cyber-shot, f-series, games, j-series, k-series, prototype, rants, s-series, upcoming | 19 Comments »

Paris & BeiBei Cancelled

Friday, June 20th, 2008

As some may already be aware both Paris and the G702, otherwise known by the codename BeiBei, have both been cancelled. Whilst this might not be news to some of you we have a new twist on the story that might be. There is the suggestion that both of these handsets were cancelled due to a large volume of criticism from reviewers and other industry watchers, including recent articles on Mobile-Review.com

The story doesn’t end there because we are hearing that whilst Paris and the G702 may have been cancelled in Europe, they might still make an appearance in Asia.

Posted in g-series, p-series, prototype, rumour | 114 Comments »

Sony Ericsson announces Maria Sharapova Design Collection

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The world-known tennis player Maria Sharapova signed a 4-year contract with Sony Ericsson back in January about working with Sony Ericsson and being Sony Ericsson’s first global brand ambassador.

Today we’re seeing some of the first results by this partnership, as Sony Ericsson today announced the Maria Sharapova Design Collection, which basically consists of four accessories for your mobile phone. The accessories are called IDC-31, IDC-32, IDC-33 and surprisingly IDC-34. You can check out the photos of the accessories below in the same order.

They’ll hit the market in Q3. Oh yes! The press release also reveals that Maria Sharapova’s handset is a Sony Ericsson T303 – how exciting and very unexpected!

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Posted in accessories, announcement | 12 Comments »

W350 presents Sound Snacking

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

On the 17th of June Sony Ericsson invited me for their Sound Snack event. Their goal was to tell us about their new study called Sound Snacking. In short, sound snacking means almost the same as the ordinary food snacking, listening to a piece of music to make you feel better. All of this will be explained later on.

The event
All invited press members were divided in groups with a maximum of four people. I was invited for the shift at ten o’clock, but I was late so I had to go with the next one. At the beginning we were taken to this really big room without any lights, the only thing I could see was a SE truck standing in the corner and the stairs between me and the truck. (more…)

Posted in article, corporative, entertainment, fun, music, w-series, walkman | 20 Comments »

Sony Ericsson’s TM506 spied at FCC

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

A new Sony Ericsson handset called the TM506 has been spotted at FCC. Besides 3G, it also features Bluetooth, aGPS, a memory card slot and a camera of unknown quality, Web browser, Web feed, Instant Messaging, Picture and video blogging, Music and Video players, MusicDJ, USB, Voice command, embedded games, file manager, organizer, calendar and expandable memory. The draft document also suggest that the TM506 can access TV and streaming videos. The TM506 has dual-band GSM/EDGE 850/1900. The user manual notes that it also has WCDMA 1700/2100 and one can’t overlook the T-Mobile branding which earmarks it for T-Mobile USA.

When available, the TM506 will be the only Sony Ericsson phone from T-Mobile’s line-up, and one of the few to come with 3G connectivity.

Via: Softpedia

Posted in fcc, prototype, t-series | 28 Comments »

Sony Ericsson World View 2008

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Following the great success of Sony Ericsson’s World View 2007 camera phone competitions with over 70,000 entries, Sony Ericsson recently announced the launch of the new World View 2008 competition, now bigger and better!

The goal of the competition is quite clear; simply snap a “picture perfect” photo, and upload it at the World View 2008 website. I don’t think the website has fully launched yet – at least not here – but it is said to be a stunning, interactive website making it possible to share photos and getting started with social networking.

So… prizes. This year’s prizes are really amazing. The person with the most votes from the people will get The People’s Choice prize, which is a £5,000 (€6,250) trip! If I enter, promise me you’ll vote for me!
The Experts’ Choice winner is chosen by Sony Ericsson’s panel of photography judges, and will be sent on a once-in-a-lifetime trip worth £10,000 (€12,500).

You can read more about the competition in the press release or at the official website once it’s launched.

Posted in camera, competition | 18 Comments »

GSMArena previews the C905

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

The guys at GSMArena have already had their hands on the new Sony Ericsson C905, and have today published a rather large preview of this camera king. In the review, you’ll find tons of beautiful photos as well as loads of well-written paragraphs about the phone. It’s most definitely worth a look.

Check it out yourself over here :-)

Posted in c-series, preview | 66 Comments »

G700 Business Edition – without a camera!

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Along with the five other phones being announced yesterday (well, six, including the J121) was also the G700 Business Edition, which is basically a G700 in a new grey-ish colour without a camera on the back. Still lacking is W-LAN – why, oh why? A business edition G700 should have W-LAN!

The G700 Business Edition will only hit Asia-Pacific regions, so it’s a no go for European and American companies.

Posted in announcement, corporative, g-series, special-edition | 18 Comments »

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