After the exclusive release of Minecraft pocket for XPERIA PLAY the Minecraft and Sony Ericsson fans can be happy again: Sony-Ericsson-Shop.de sells special designed XPERIA PLAY’s with Minecraft covers. Furthermore it includes another fan-toy: Steve’s Minecraft head – popular from gamescom 2011. But there is something that is special, too: Its price. While the cheapest price for a SIM- and branding-free PLAY is around 277€ (in Germany) the Minecraft version costs 299€.
Finally a unboxing video of XPERIA Ray appeared at youtube. It’s generally a ‘little’ Arc – for a few more information look at this older blog entry: XPERIA Ray and Active hit preorder
A new app for XPERIA phone’s is going to be released on August 1st: Qriocity’s video service. It allows you to rent and buy movies or TV-shows from NBC, Universal International Television Distribution, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. You will be able to watch all new released movies including an extensive back catalogue.
It’s a supplement of Sony Ericsson’s announced music service Music Unlimited. At first It will be only available on Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro. The service offers you movies and other content specific to your country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, Japan, Canada and the United States. Later it will be available exclusively for the 2011 released XPERIA’s.
You will get the service through a software-update or through the Android market. Do you think it is a competitor to Google Video service?
We just recognized that se-store.co.uk will offer the new XPERIA Pro in late July (UK). But as you know: SE never knows when they’ll release something or anything
The Sony Ericsson Pro is a full qwerty-keyboard phone with HD-video recording, GreenHeart features (for example charger), WiFi (well, nothing new for Android phones) and with Mobile BRAVIA engine.
At thanko.jp appeared a new accessory for Arc. A 10x zoom lens for Arc. That you can attach it to your XPERIA phone, you need a special shell which is shipped with it. So maybe there will be soon more lenses for the Arc which fit the shell. By the way: It’s focal length is three metres. If you are interested then you can buy it for ¥ 1980 which are around € 17. Here are some pictures of it:
As we already posted there was a competition (you were able to apply to SE and say why you want to review one of the new phones) a few weeks ago. Now the winners were chosen and four of their reviews will be published at SE’s Facebook page.
Above you can see the new Sony Ericsson phones. The one with the keyboard is the txt pro, the other one is the Mix Walkman. The OS of them is SE’s own, like the one from Yendo.
At first a few Mix Walkman details and features:
It’s a touch phone (as you already know) with a Walkman-related feature called Zappin. Let me quote the explanation: “[...] ZappinTM lets you browse through your songs in a fun way by automatically being served the chorus of the songs while skipping through them” It also has a karaoke mode that tries to lower the vocal track of your songs. There is even a way to change its look: The band around the edges is changeable!
Now some txt pro specifications:
It is designed for communication – that’s why it has a full qwerty keyboard. It has social applications pre-installed to stay connected with your friends from facebook and twitter.
They both have Wi-Fi, the four-corner interface and will be launched in Q3.
Do you think the Mix Walkman is the new phone for Walkman fans?
Yesterday Sony Ericsson announced the Experience Pack for XPERIA PLAY. It includes the DK300 Multimedia-Dock with which the PLAY can be used as a desk-clock and can be charged, a USB cable and a music cable to connect the dock to other audio systems. But there is one more thing: If you buy it you’ll get three free games from gameloft. Here is the list from which you can choose the games:
A few days ago new pictures of Sony Ericsson ST18, a XPERIA smartphone probably with Android 2.3.3, were leaked. Unfortunately we don’t have many information about it. Probably it has a 1GHZ Qualcomm CPU and an Adreno 205 GPU like Sony Ericsson Arc. But now the good news – the leaked pictures:
Since today the new update for XPERIA Arc (not PLAY) is available but currently only for Hong Kong. Its release for other regions is expected in the next days. With it you’ll get the version 3.0.1.A.0.145 as mentioned here: Android 2.3.3 soon available for Arc & PLAY.
Unfortunately we still don’t have a changelog but it’ll probably be the facebook update. Some other improvements could be faster scrolling and better battery life. And: The video recording lag issue seems not to be fixed. But this thing seems to be fixed: Gingerbreak root method.
If you can’t wait till the official release in your country then you can download the Flashtool-files here: xda-developers.com If you want a pre-rooted version download this: xda-developers.com
Till now we don’t have any information if it’s available for the XPERIA PLAY.
UPDATE (Product Launch Blog): The main improvements are:
•better Battery performance
•General software stability
•Wi-Fi stability
•HD Video recording performance (Xperia™ arc)
•Touch responsiveness
They also say that the real roll-out started but still no word where.
Maybe many of you thought that the new Mini’s will get multitouch because of bigger screen, etc… But a few days ago someone from Sony Ericsson replied to a comment of a promotion-video:
So what do you think? Is multitouch necessary to buy it? Or do you prefer a cheap price?
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