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Mobile Leaders To Unify The Symbian Software Platform

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

It has to be one of the most surprising news these days: The Big 5 coorporate.

Nokia today announced plans to acquire the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own and then contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola will contribute technology from UIQ, DOCOMO has also indicated its willingness to contribute its MOAP(S) assets. From these contributions, the Foundation will provide a unified platform with common UI framework. A full platform will be available for all Foundation members under a royalty-free license, from the Foundation’s first day of operations.

The annual membership fee is a bargain of 1.500$.

Plans are to get the thing rollin’ on the first half of 2009 with an expected complete framework in 2010.

Make sure you tune in to the live webcast here at 11:00 GMT.

While waiting, have a further look at the press release here and the Symbian Foundation website with the whitepaper here.

Posted in announcement, corporative, future, operating-platform, uiq | 34 Comments »

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 »

Preview: Sony Ericsson G900

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

It has been on the market since this Monday: The new touch-and-go UIQ3 smart phone G900, a powerful package of WLAN, 5MP camera with Auto- & Touch-Focus as well as a photo light and a 2.4″ touch screen combined with a regular keypad to bring UIQ to the mass market.

The G900 you can see here is my little precious since Tuesday and it does great so far. The Dark Brown colour really suites it well. The QVGA display is bright and clear and a breeze to handle. I won’t give that much away for now as we’ll post an in-depth review of the G900, once Sony Ericsson sends us the review phone.

I’ll leave you with impressions of the new menu icons, the media menu and the new panels standby.

The G900 is available nearly everywhere now, pricing is set around £275 / 350 € / $525.

Posted in g-series, preview, uiq, upcoming | 90 Comments »

The Transsyberia Rally 2008 Takes C702 On A Bumpy Ride

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Sony Ericsson is one of the official partners of the Transsyberia Rally 2008. Sony Ericsson will be sending out its C702 Cyber-shot phone on the over 4,300-mile long rally from Russia through Siberia into Mongolia.

During this long rally, the rally teams will be blogging from the C702, and every photo they take of the event will be geo-tagged immediately for the world to follow. Apart from that, the C702 is dust and water splash resistant, making it ideal for an event like this.

You can read more about the Transsyberia Rally 2008 at the official website.

Posted in c-series, camera, campaign, cyber-shot | 10 Comments »

New Sony Ericsson Patent

Friday, March 14th, 2008

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One patent surfaced during the last week.

The patent is about a “portable electronic device with multiple input interfaces”. You’ll find pics & the abstract after the jump. (more…)

Posted in future, patent, technology | No Comments »

Hands-On With The T303

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

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Fresh clip & pics coming to you directly (almost) from the SE booth at CeBIT, Hanover:

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Pics in 1024×768px resolution in cooperation with the German community se-world.info:

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Please be sure this is a prototype unit and changes to the theme and menu are likely.

Posted in hands-on, prototype, t-series | 8 Comments »

Sony Ericsson Leaks Episode 2.0

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

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We’ve kept this long enough now.

Some nice hints on this picture, for example a completely white K660 on the bottom left. Oh… and a Cyber-Shot device:

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Check out full size picture of all the devices here.

The slideshow this is taken from shows also a slightly updated Walkman interface, and the improved TrackID service, now with lyrics and album art:

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Posted in exclusive, rumour | 36 Comments »

More Live Pics of the G-Series

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

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Virgile of Planete Nokia did again great work and shows us very nice pictures of the new G700 & G900 in two galleries. You can find the G700 gallery here and the G900 gallery here.

UIQ bunch

Enjoy!

Posted in g-series, gallery, symbian, uiq | 2 Comments »

Leaked G700i Picture

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

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Maximys has just leaked this picture of the soon-to-be announced G700i. Touch screen or not – that’s the question!
Source: SEMCBlog

Posted in g-series, rumour, upcoming | 10 Comments »

Mobile World Congress Mini-site Launched

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

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Sony Ericsson today launched an über-cool mini-site regarding the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (the congress formerly known as 3GSM) with to this point little information that we didn’t know already.

Most interesting part of the site that can be found here is this part:

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… which seems to be a hint about the upcoming smart phone G-series, we’ll tell you more about one on one of the coming days.

It won’t be long now before the leaks will start hitting the world wide web ;-)

Posted in conference, corporative, web | 8 Comments »

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