Sony Ericsson just recently launched an entirely new website called “Life Captured”. It’s a Cyber-shot campaign / contest that can make it possible for you to star in a movie or make a movie in a new film project, called “Life Captured”.
Sony Ericsson has hooked up with Mike Figgis, known for directing a large number of movies, and is giving you the chance to tell your life story with your camera phone, and create a film from these snapshots.
Five winners will win a C902, and will be invited on a VIP trip to the the film’s premiere at London’s Raindance Film Festival in October this year. Finally, one winner will be revealed at the premiere to win a grand prize, also to be revealed at this premiere.
You can find the website here, with lots of information on this contest. It all sounds very exciting, so do let us know if you sign up!
Filed under: Camera, Campaign, Competition, Cyber-shot, Fun, News
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Last night I got the crazy idea of upgrading our review grade system. Crazy because it meant I had to stay up till 3.00 - 3.30 AM in the morning to write most of the codes used, and make sure everything was working just fine in all browsers.
I know that our previous grade system wasn’t exactly the best, and the scores may have been a bit unfair or unexplained because of that. Hopefully, this shouldn’t be the case any more with the new one. The new system consists of no less than 43 factors, that will all have an influence on the final grade, now dubbed USEB Score, which will be given in percent, and displayed with a very brief comment below. Each grade category represents a set of factors, that will be displayed, if you press the category title. If you don’t need the additional info about the grades, everything is nicely hidden.
To make things a bit more interesting, we’ve also added space for SPMark 06 Java benchmark scores, so everyone can see how the phones perform. This is where we need your help! For rather obvious reasons, it’s impossible for us to add SPMark 06 Java scores for all of the reviewed phones. If you can run a full benchmark on one of the below listed phones, please post your results in a comment below, and we’ll add your scores to our review. The phones are;
- C702
- C902
- G700
- K660
- P1
- W380
- W760
- W890
- Z770
If you want to help us out, but haven’t got the application installed, it can be downloaded for free, right here. Thanks in advance.
We will start updating the previous large-scaled reviews today, starting with the W760 review.
Filed under: Review, USEB
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Our review of the Sony Ericsson W760 is finally here! I’ve put in quite a lot of time on this review, and the result is a 5,000+ word review of one of Sony Ericsson’s strongest offerings to date. Although it’s hard to dislike W760, there are a few disadvantages that can’t be overlooked, as discussed in detail in the review.
We hope to have a translated version of the review available shortly over at our newly launched German website.
Update! The German review is now available over here!
Read the review here - enjoy!
Filed under: Review, W series, Walkman
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USEB has become one of the best - if not the best - blogs dedicated to Sony Ericsson, offering news, rumours & reviews.
Unfortunately, not everyone in the SE community is good enough in English to enjoy all aspects the USEB offers. That’s why we launch our first local site to test the waters for such a service. Being German myself, it’s the most obvious step to start with a localized German blog offering the same content we have here, but translated like no online tool is able to.
You can find useb|de at blogde.se-nse.net to get an impression of it.
Do you have ideas for other localized versions? Feel free to comment.
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Filed under: USEB
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Now that both have been cancelled after a long development period, we thought it wouldn’t hurt anybody to shed a bit of light on these phones.
Paris was going to be Sony Ericsson’s first slider in the P-series line-up. While it was partly based on old hardware, Sony Ericsson had made several software enhancements that would significantly speed up the phone. In addition to this, the Paris would have been based on UIQ 3.3. Anyway, what I wanted to show in this blog post was that Sony Ericsson realized that the business segment no longer has to be connected to boring colour schemes. It can be black and grey while still looking like a million bucks! I’ve known about the three colour variants for Paris (black/blue, silver/red, and black/orange) in about two months now, and this was one of the things that I liked about it - they’re trying to break the habit of “one colour variant” business & enterprise phones. Let’s hope they’ll keep it up in upcoming S60-based business phones. Continue reading “Taking a look back at Paris (and a bit on Beibei)”
Filed under: Exclusive, G series, P series, Prototype, Rants, UIQ
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