These live photos of the black version of the upcoming Sony Ericsson C905 have just been posted at the Arabic Sony Ericsson fan site, SE4M.com. I quite like the look of it, although it seems fairly thick and a bit heavy, at almost 20 millimetres in thickness and 136 grams on the weight scales.

Source: SE4M forums

Sony Ericsson just recently launched a new firmware for the K660, W890, W910, Z750 and Z770. This one is called R1FA030, and is available on Sony Ericsson Update Service.

As of this moment, I’ve only heard feedback from W910 users, but the user feedback so far is quite good, and reports say that the device generally feels faster after the update, especially in the Media menu even with great amounts of files. I’d be surprised if this doesn’t go for the rest of the phones as well. Other than, Sony Ericsson apparently did some fixing on the rather buggy video playing, and the phones should now be a lot better at playing videos. An option to update the media library has also been added to the Media menu.

Let’s hope the rest of the A2 phones will get their firmwares updated soon as well!

[thanks, cliosguy!]

I just saw that Johan from Sony Ericsson’s Developer World has posted a post including this very video of Sony Ericsson at the JavaOne conference a few days ago. The video is basically an interview of Christopher David, who’s responsible for the long-term platform planning Java. Check out the video, where Christopher talks about the new Mobile Services Architecture (MSA), as well as the new Project Capuchin. If you’re not in it for the developer talk, then have a look anyway - most of Sony Ericsson’s upcoming phones, such as C702, C902, G700, G900 and W980, are also featured in this video. If you’re a bit sentimental, you might also want to check out the K850 controlling the classic Sony Ericsson Bluetooth car, CAR-100.

Sony Ericsson today published a new version of its Theme Creator application for creating themes for its features phones and Symbian based smart phones. The new version has hit v. 3.27, and will be adding support for the following phones:

• C702
• C902
• G700
• G900
• R300
• R306
• T303
• W350
• W760
• W980
• Z555
• Z770

There’s still no sign of support for the XPERIA X1, although Sony Ericsson has said it’ll support it in a near future. The newly announced G502 and Z780 are also missing, but I’m sure they’ll work with themes created for i.e. the C902 or W760 (A2 phones).

If you’re on Linux, get it here; Mac, get it here; Windows, get it here.

Maximys over at semcblog has posted a picture of the upcoming design flip phone Z780. My guess that it’ll be the American version of the Z770. Rumoured specifications of the Z780 are very much like the Z770, including a 2 mega pixel fixed focus camera, QVGA display and it is based on the new A2 software platform.

In other news, more pictures of the upcoming BeiBei have been posted by the Chinese website yesky.com. It shows the new & enhanced user interface in UIQ 3.3, which is more finger friendly, and generally looks nicer.

Here is another teaser of the upcoming low-mid-end K-series phone.

The official name could be K111, but is not for sure at the moment.

Just wait for some more pics and infos

‘Emelie’ is the codename of an upcoming low/mid-end feature phone by Sony Ericsson. It is based on the A200 operating system and is one of the first phones in this price range to be based on this system (more will come, though!). The display is of QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels) and is capable of displaying up to 262.144 colours.

Its metal body looks stylish and inside the casing there are 18 silver keys with a curvy sparkling design. The call and end call keys are black and separate the silver trimming. The D-pad looks quite funny and I don’t think Sony Ericsson has used a design like this before. The navigation keys (up, down, left & right) are separated into four different keys and the action key in the middle has a joystick look to it with orange lights around it. There is an activity menu key on the front, but no other short cut keys here.

We can’t reveal many of the specifications yet, but we can tell you that this will feature a 2 mega pixel camera without auto focus. Its weight seems to be ~100 grams, and we expect the price to end up around 150 - 200 euro.

More on this baby later If you haven’t seen one of our teaser pictures of Emelie yet, you can check them out here.