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Sony Ericsson to bring Facebook application to its feature phones

Monday, February 9th, 2009

I was just watching this Swedish video over at Mobil.se about Facebook and Sony Ericsson launching a Facebook application together that integrates with the phone. Apparently, the application will be pre-loaded on many upcoming products, with the C510 being the first.

I sincerely hope they’ll offer it as a free download, so most users can play around with it. It just looks so cool! It seems like the language of the application will be localized, so that’s pretty cool as well!

Here are a few screenshots from the video. If you’re Swedish or would simply like to watch the video, you can check it out here.

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Posted in c-series, fun, news, upcoming | 17 Comments »

Live picture of the Sony Ericsson W395

Monday, February 9th, 2009

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Here’s a live picture of the upcoming Sony Ericsson W395, posted over at ePrice. This beige variant is my favourite colour variant for the W395.

Source: ePrice

A set of live pictures where above pic is included can be found here, make sure you hit the links to the pages 2 to 5 at the bottom!

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Posted in rumour, upcoming, w-series, walkman | 2 Comments »

Winners of the 2008 Content Awards

Monday, February 9th, 2009

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Sony Ericsson has just announced the winners of its 2008 Content Awards. They’ve put together quite a cool web awards show in 3D that you can watch over here!

The winners are:

  • Being Productive – Upvise, by Unyverse Pte Ltd, Singapore
  • In-Car Applications – GPSed, by Shape Services GmbH
  • It’s all about the Entertainment - Bubble Boom Challenge, by ZED
  • Lifestyle Choice – Mobiles’ Republic Media Explorer, by Mobiles’ Republic
  • Themes & Graphics – Flash Lite Wallpapers, by ustwo
  • Special Recognition – EcoMate, by Instituto Atlantico & UFC
  • XperiaTM Panels - Spb Traveller, by Spb Software

Congratulations from here! :)

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Posted in application, customization, fun, games, news | 2 Comments »

Here’s the new Walkman flagship – Hikaru

Monday, February 9th, 2009

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Here’s a semi-bad mock-up of ‘Hikaru’ – Sony Ericsson’s new Walkman flagship phone. I’m afraid we cannot tell you what’s wrong with the picture, but we promise it’s nothing too serious.

According to the poster, the Hikaru will feature 8 gigs of storage, an 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, 3.5 mm audio jack built-in, stereo speakers, music keys on the right side, etc. It’ll feature the Walkman v4 player and a large 2.6 inch display.

I personally think its other colour variant looks better than the black one, but I guess it’s all about personal taste :)

Hikaru is rumoured to be announced on Sunday at Sony Ericsson’s press conference in Barcelona. I’m really pumped about Hikaru, and I think everyone ought to be! :)

Source: SEMC Blog

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Posted in rumour, w-series, walkman | 18 Comments »

New C510 colour variant spotted

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

It seems there’ll be another choice of colour if you’re planning on getting a Sony Ericsson C510. In a review of the Nokia 6303, Mobile-review editor-in-chief Eldar Murtazin posted two comparison pictures with the 6303 and the C510 in white/red trim. This colour variant looks rather smashing, if I might add, and I sure wouldn’t mind getting one (my address is available upon request, if anyone feels generous)!

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You can find the original pictures in the review right over here. They’re located somewhat close to the bottom of the review. Eldar will have a few things to say about the C510, I’m sure, and whatever it is, it’s written in Russian – haven’t bothered translating it yet, so I can’t say what it is exactly, although, following his trends, I’m fairly sure it won’t be jolly good.

By the way, the picture above consists of parts of the two mentioned pictures. Since this is a blog about Sony Ericsson and all, I thought you wouldn’t be interested in viewing pictures of other devices, so I took liberty of merging the two pictures. As said, you’ll find the original pictures at the link above.

[thanks, hgautam!]

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Posted in c-series, new-colour | 10 Comments »

Update on the X1 UK Generic firmware

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

As promised, here’s a little something about the UK Generic version of the new R2A firmware for the X1. It was supposed to have been released along with the other firmware versions, but has been delayed for unknown reasons. As of now, there is no release date for the UK Generic firmware, but according to Sony Ericsson it should be due shortly.

I wonder what caused the delay, considering the other versions have been released already.

Update! The UK Generic version is now on EMMA, which means it’ll hit SEUS (Sony Ericsson Update Service) soon!

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Posted in exclusive, firmware, windows-mobile, x-series, xperia | 12 Comments »

IBM and Sony Ericsson signs 5-year outsourcing agreement

Friday, January 30th, 2009

According to Cellular News, IBM has signed a 5-year outsourcing agreement with Sony Ericsson. The agreement will be regarding the management of Application Maintainence and Development of Sony Ericsson’s systems, applications and products globally. This agreement is part of Sony Ericsson’s plans of improving the company operations and the business in general.

- This relationship with Sony Ericsson is a good example of IBM’s commitment to deliver high value services that enable customers to be more efficient and focused on their core business, says John Blackburn, Vice President IBM Global Business Services to Cellular News.

Source: Cellular News via Esato forums

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Live X1 webinar starts in 3 hours!

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

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Sony Ericsson will host a live X1 webinar in about three hours (at 5 PM CET / GMT +1). The webinar will be about the pre-loaded panels and how you can personalize your XPERIA X1 by downloading new panels.

Sony Ericsson also recently released a new firmware update for the X1, dubbed R2, which speeds up the device and fixed bugs here and there. I wonder if the webinar will mention anything about this update. As of now, there’s still no UK Generic firmware. We’ll keep you updated when it gets released!

Register for the webinar here!

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Posted in x-series, xperia | 16 Comments »

Video: Sony Ericsson phones durability test

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Having read some of the comments about my rather cool (and totally copyrighted!) way of handling the F305, T700 and W302 in the unboxing videos (read: tossing them around a bit), I’ve decided to go all in with a large durability test, and – naturally – caught it all on tape, err, memory card! The durability test included no less than thirty Sony Ericsson phones that all received some TLC before being airborne. To my great surprise, none of the phones received any scratches from this test – great job, Sony Ericsson!

All right… My time is up, and I’ll leave you with the video and a question just below it…

So, have I got too much time on my hands or too many phones to be in my hands? That’s the question!

The phones in the video are:

C902, C905, G900, K530, K660, K700, K750, 2x K770, K800, K850, M600, P990, S500, T68i, T230, T610, W550, 2x W595, 2x W760, W800, 2x W890, W900, W950, W960, X1, and Z320.

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Posted in c-series, entertainment, exclusive, fun, g-series, hands-on, k-series, m-series, p-series, problems, s-series, t-series, tips-tricks, useb, videos, w-series, x-series, z-series | 26 Comments »

C510 and W508 demo tour videos

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Here are the demo tour videos of the Sony Ericsson C510 and W508.

C510:

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W508:

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Source: SE-society via SE-NSE forums

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Posted in c-series, demo-tour, videos, w-series, walkman | 4 Comments »

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