Jun 19 2008

W350 presents Sound Snacking

Posted by Michell at 7:14 pm
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On the 17th of June Sony Ericsson invited me for their Sound Snack event. Their goal was to tell us about their new study called Sound Snacking. In short, sound snacking means almost the same as the ordinary food snacking, listening to a piece of music to make you feel better. All of this will be explained later on.

The event
All invited press members were divided in groups with a maximum of four people. I was invited for the shift at ten o’clock, but I was late so I had to go with the next one. At the beginning we were taken to this really big room without any lights, the only thing I could see was a SE truck standing in the corner and the stairs between me and the truck. Continue reading “W350 presents Sound Snacking”


Mar 26 2008

Game, Set & Splash! Williams & Nadal Treads The Waters

Posted by Michell at 8:31 pm
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As a world’s first, Sony Ericsson celebrated the opening of the tennis tournament Sony Ericsson Open (starting today!) by hosting a tennis match on water!

Two of the best tennis players in the world, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal, tried their luck on this challenging court yesterday. The game took place at the top of the Gansevoort South Hotel in the 110 feet swimming pool near Miami’s South Beach.

This special and cool looking court took 7 days to build and consists of two invisible platforms. This is not really a Sony Ericsson related news (well it is, but not that much), but I simply had to post it because of the cool court!


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Feb 25 2008

SSX3 - New Game On W960

Posted by Michell at 8:23 pm
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The new W960 firmware includes a new 3D game called SSX3 by EA Games. It’s the largest and prettiest game I’ve ever seen on a mobile phone, and the best way to describe it would be “impressive”. I’d recommend all W960 users to update the firmware on their phones for the simple fact that this game is now included. I’ve recorded a short video of it, and posted some screenshots after the jump.

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Feb 19 2008

It Has Begun - Fight With Your Phone

Posted by Michell at 10:19 am
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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 :-)

Download it here!


Feb 09 2008

Galleries - New Feature at USEB

Posted by Michell at 11:17 pm
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From this day forward, you will be able to check out cool high quality photo galleries of new and older Sony Ericsson phones right here at USEB. We’ve just finished setting up a gallery page, and are slowly starting to upload photos. At the moment you can find photo galleries of the K850, P1, P990, W910 & W960. Furthermore, we’ve added a sidebar widget to display four random gallery photos.

What’s more is that galleries can now be added directly into posts! This can come in handy in the future - and it looks something like this

We hope you will like this new feature as much as we do! :-)


Jan 28 2008

Sony Ericsson’s New PlayNow Commercial Hits The Top

Posted by Michell at 7:27 pm
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We have already told you about Sony Ericsson’s newly announced PlayNow offerings and additions, and now we bring you a very cool video showing how the new features work. It’s definitely one of the coolest commercials from Sony Ericsson - at least that’s what I think :-)

Via: Esato News


Filed under: Entertainment, Videos

Jan 27 2008

Sony Ericsson Announces Music Deal & Launches PlayNow Uncut

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The glamorous South of France was the setting of Sony Ericsson’s unveiling of a deal with ten major record labels, which will add more than 5 million tracks to its catalog. The announcement was made at the MIDEM conference and it also saw Sony Ericsson launch PlayNow Uncut (formerly M-Buzz), which is a place for unsigned up and coming artists to be promoted.

The partnership with the record labels takes in major global players as well as regional labels: Sony BMG, Warner, EMI, The Orchard, IODA, The PocketGroup, Hungama, X5 Music, Bonnier Amigo and VidZone. The deal adds over 5 million tracks to Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow Arena. More deals with other regional labels are expected, which will further expand the range of music available from PlayNow Arena as well as allowing Sony Ericsson to better reflect local tastes.

Commenting on the PlayNow Arena service Sony Ericsson Executive Vice President Anders Runevad:

- We are delighted to announce deals with such high calibre record labels. This will help realise our vision for PlayNow™ arena as a service that will be developed in collaboration with our partners. Our commitment is to work with the industry to ensure we are building an experience-based and intuitive content delivery platform, enabling the development of an ecosystem that provides a unique experience for the consumer and a business model where everybody prospers.

The Play Now service also saw the addition of 250 new games and Sony Ericsson claim that their customers download more games to their handsets than users of other devices.

Initially PlayNow Arena will be available in Scandinavia and Finland in May this year whilst further European markets being added at the end of Q2. There will be further markets added throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe going into Q3 and Q4 with SOny Ericsson predicting that the service will be active in around thirty markets by the end of the year.

You can see the service at www.playnow-arena.com.

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