Sony Ericsson’s three top models have just received an update to fix some of the problems and bugs in the firmwares. While I have not noticed many bugs in W960, the K850 and W910 does indeed pack quite a few, especially because they were among the first A200 offerings. I have just updated my K850, and Sony Ericsson has definitely been working on this firmware release, that’s for sure! It’s much faster in general, no more lagging in Media, new effects and much faster working in Media, 3D games in particular run much more smoothly now. The camera has been much improved as well, and same goes for video recordings. Another fine new feature is that you can set the phone to vibrate when using the touch sensitive buttons - this works quite well.
Now for some technical stuff. The K850 firmware is called R1EA031, and is not a major release. The W910 firmware is called R1EA030, and has pretty much the same improvements as with the K850. The W960 firmware CDA is called R6G02, and I have yet to decide whether I’ll update my W960 or not. I am liking it as it is now, so there’ll have to be either new features or improvements for me to update
I usually don’t rant much about Nokia phones here at USEB, but for long there has been a rather interesting application for these called LightSabre, which turned phones with a built-in accelerometer into a deadly light saber with both sound and visual effects.
Now, the fantastic Steve Oldmeadow has created an application for Sony Ericsson phones with a built-in accelerometer running the A200 platform - it’s called Saber ME, and works brilliantly! Check his video demo of the application below.
The application will run on C902, K850, W760, W910 & W980 (and any future SE phone with an accelerometer and running A200 software platform). And best of all - it’s freeware! I am VERY interested in seeing what applications will come from Steve in the future
The A200 platform supports WLAN connection, however there are no devices with built-in WLAN. Sony Ericsson is now trying to make up for this by soon announcing a WiFi Enabler accessory, that is most likely to look at work like the FM transmitters, MMR-60 and MMR-70, and make use of the Fast Port connector.
Furthermore, Sony Ericsson is working on a follow-up GPS Enabler, called GPS Enabler 2 (Helmer Fingal II) and also a sport GPS accessory. G900 is reportedly going to come with the GPS Enabler as a part of the consumer package.
How can we be sure of it all? Well, it was leaked in the G700/G900 white papers, which you can at Sony Ericsson’s Developer World.
PS. The WiFi accessory image is of course just a mock-up - the K850 screenshot isn’t, though!
An upcoming service is to be launched in upcoming Sony Ericsson phones, starting with the W760. This new feature has been developed by Ericsson, and is somewhat of an enhancement of the phone book application on Sony Ericsson’s feature phones. It makes it possible to send instant messages to your contacts from within the phone book. Users will be able to store messages, small notes about self and also avatars in these chat discussions. To me this sounds like an enhanced sort of SMS texting, so let’s wait and see how it’ll work. Ericsson claims that this will bring a more interactive phone book, and could replace the ancient way of getting in contact with people.
As said, this service is to be launched in the upcoming W760, set to be released in June.
Some might remember that my precious K850 baby boy was by accident completely locked a few weeks ago. Well, now I can proudly say that it is no longer locked!
The guys at totalgsm.org has done a terrific job on it and it is now fully working again. So, if you’re in my situation - these guys are highly recommended. Same goes for flashing / debranding and such
Thanks a lot guys!
From the second K850 and W910 were announced, I knew that there would be a way to customize the media player look of these. Even bigger did my gut feeling get when I got both phones and realized that the look changed accordingly to the themes. But even though I had found out that it had something to do with the themes, I didn’t investigate more into that. Now it seems that some people at Esato have found a way, and there is a discussion thread about it here. So if you want to change the look of the media player on your K850 or W910, take a look at the discussion going on.
By the way, I am pretty sure that this also goes for other A200 phones (K630, K660, v640, Z750, etc.)
Posted by Michell | February 21st, 2008 
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The A200 platform supports WLAN connection, however there are no devices with built-in WLAN. Sony Ericsson is now trying to make up for this by soon announcing a WiFi Enabler accessory, that is most likely to look at work like the FM transmitters, MMR-60 and MMR-70, and make use of the Fast Port connector.
An upcoming service is to be launched in upcoming Sony Ericsson phones, starting with the W760. This new feature has been developed by Ericsson, and is somewhat of an enhancement of the phone book application on Sony Ericsson’s feature phones. It makes it possible to send instant messages to your contacts from within the phone book. Users will be able to store messages, small notes about self and also avatars in these chat discussions. To me this sounds like an enhanced sort of SMS texting, so let’s wait and see how it’ll work. Ericsson claims that this will bring a more interactive phone book, and could replace the ancient way of getting in contact with people.
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i want it when my plan ends hehe but how much is it gonna cost? o.o i dont think my parents...