Sandy Gold’s the name. This is the 6th recolour of the phone, excluding 2 of the carrier-branded versions.
Sony Ericsson seem to be planning on releasing a multitude of colour versions for the W595, much like its predecessor – the W580.
Just hit the Source link for more pictures.
Some of you may remember that SE are to release a pink verion (Peachy Pink) of the phone as well.
Source: Daily Mobile
We got our hands on SE’s dedicated gaming handset, the F305. It’s a low-endish slider with a 2 inch large screen. Its resolution is 176×220 pixels and it shows up to 262.144 colours.
Other features include a 2 megapixel camera (unfortunately said camera lacks both auto focus and any light) and an accelerometer for motion based gaming.
Take the jump for more information and pictures.
It’s that time of the year again… On behalf of the entire team here at USEB, I’d like to wish you and your family a merry Christmas and a happy new year! May you have a wonderful day with friends and loved ones, and spread love and joy with the ones around you. It has almost been a year since USEB moved to its current location, and in light of that, I’d like to share a few statistics with you about USEB.
All in all, 2008 has been a fantastic year for us, and we hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have. I think it’s safe to say that 2009 will be even better, and I simply can’t wait to unveil some of the stuff we’ve got planned for you! You will be able to win great prizes in our upcoming competitions, check out our exclusive prototype previews and videos, and so much more in 2009 
We hope you’re ready to take the plunge into 2009 with us!
So, last year we gave you a present in the shape of a product review. This year I’ve decided to do something a bit different. As said, we’ll be holding some competitions next year, and I’d like to double your chance of winning the first competition we’ll hold next year. How? Simple. Just answer the following question, and we’ll keep everyone in mind when we select a winner for the first competition by adding an extra entry. Got it? Great! The question is…
Think you can answer that one? Well, feel free to post your answer in a comment to this blog post.
Sony Ericsson has just sent out a press release saying that it will announce its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008. It will be rather exciting to see how they turn out, not only because of the Christmas season, but also because Sony Ericsson’s President Hideki Komiyama has stated that the results should turn from negatives figures to positive figures during Q4. I guess we’ll see how it turns out fairly soon though, as Sony Ericsson will announce the results on January 16, 2009 at 07:30 UK time / 08:30 CET, and has scheduled the usual analyst and media conference call just two hours after.
It’s the 21st December, only 3 days to go until the big day and I’ve still not finished shopping and even the Christmas tree is still in the garage. It’s been a busy year!
Not only is it nearly Christmas but it’s almost the end of the year. Here’s a couple of the best SE themes of 2008.
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Here we’ve got a set of camera samples from the Sony Ericsson C905. Most of the pictures have been shot on auto settings, but the duplicates have been shot using different settings, including Smart Contrast, which proves useful sometimes. Enjoy the samples after the break! (more…)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you’ll know that Sony Ericsson joined the Open Handset Alliance on Tuesday along with thirteen other new members. The Open Handset Alliance is a project committed to deploy both handsets and services based on the open-source Android platform, so naturally technology journalists around the globe were interested to find out what Sony Ericsson is up to with regards to developing one or more handsets based on Android. A few days after the initial buzz and interviews, it seems the interest has brought along a false rumour.
Countless blogs and websites are now reporting that Sony Ericsson is ready with an Android-based handset in summer 2009, and even say it’s an official statement from the manufacturer. Well… Had they been paying attention to what was said in the press release rather than anything else, they should have known that this is literally impossible. One site even refers to Sony Ericsson’s Swedish PR-contact Gustaf Brusewitz as “Garfield Brusewitz” – you’ve got to give them credit for paying attention and getting the facts right!
As it is, Sony Ericsson started work on one Android-based handset not too long ago, and that’s it. Sony Ericsson’s press release even stated that they can now “confirm its [Sony Ericsson's] intention to develop a handset based on the Android platform”. Did you get that? Intention. Last time I checked, intention doesn’t mean that you can be ready with a product based on a platform that is new to the manufacturer in just a matter of months. Heck, it wouldn’t even be possible if we were talking OSE, which is also known as Sony Ericsson’s proprietary operating system for feature phones!
I basically wanted to make it loud and clear that the rumour is false, but now we’re at it, I guess we could have a look at some facts about Sony Ericsson’s Android venture:
Over at MySonyEricssonBlog.com they’ve got an excellent online tool for those of us with an XPERIA X1 or intentions of buying one. This tool is an online XPERIA panel creator that is capable of creating and compiling HTML panels that will work on the X1.
On the site is a rather extensive guide to how the panels are created and what you’ll need to create one yourself. Having created a few HTML panels with the XPERIA panel SDK myself, I can say that this is basically the same thing – only free.
Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Here’s the link, if you feel like giving it a shot.
[thanks, angela!]
It’s been rumoured for a while that Sony’s ‘Smile Shutter’ technology will be implemented in Sony Ericsson’s future line of European Cyber-shot phones. Among these are three phones, codenamed Filippa, Frances and Kate.
Now, SEMC Blog has a bit of an update on the technology as well as a logo of it. As most of you had already guessed by now, Smile Shutter will automatically take a picture of people in focus when they smile. You can override the Smile Shutter function by pressing the shutter key a second time, if that’s what you want.
Contrary to what SEMC Blog states, Smile Shutter is not a new feature to Cyber-shot devices though, as the Japanese 5.11-megapixel W61S has had this feature since its announcement almost a year ago. The aforementioned phones will however be the first Cyber-shot branded handsets to feature it in Europe.
Source: SEMC Blog
As you might have noticed already, the theme of the blog has been updated a bit. Quite frankly, I was getting a bit sick of the dark grey colours, so I went for something that is not only lighter on the eyes, but also on your Internet connection. I’ve done some comparisons of this theme and the old one on a 1 Mbps broadband connection, and the new theme loaded more than 60 % faster than the old one, due to code optimizations and fewer database queries. Admittedly, this place has not been the fastest to load, but hopefully this theme update will provide a significant boost in speed for most of you.
I’ve also updated WordPress to version 2.7, which should hopefully do a thing or two with regards to speeding up the blog. In due time, I’ll probably update the source codes to match the new functionality of WordPress 2.7, which should result in even faster loading speeds and fewer database queries.
Secondly, the new theme is a lot cleaner and generally looks better – at least, that’s what I think, but hopefully you’ll agree with me on this.
There are still a few bugs I need to fix and code that should be rewritten, but 95% of the theme codes are xHTML valid. Also, please note that we’ve dropped support for Internet Explorer 6 with this theme update. I’d recommend using either Firefox 3 or the latest version of Safari to get the best experience, as these browsers support CSS level 3, but Internet Explorer 7 / 8, Opera, etc., should work just fine as well.
As always, I’m dying to hear what you think, so please leave some of feedback in the comments below, and don’t hesitate to report any possible bugs as well.
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