It looks like Sony Ericsson has filed a patent about some sort of clock display. Here’s how it’s explained:
The invention relates to a clock display and particularly a clock display comprising a combined electronic display unit and mechanical clock hands. The clock hand has a visible state for showing the time and a transparent state used when in it is not desired to obscure the underlying display unit. The clock display may be incorporated in a portable device, such as a mobile telephone or a wrist watch.
In addition to this patent, Sony Ericsson has also filed another one - this one being about a self cleaning display. The idea behind this patent - as described in one of SE patent applications - is to add a cleaning slider to the display and connect it to the opening/sliding mechanism of the phone itself. This doesn’t sound that nice in my ears and the concept picture does look a bit silly, too. I hope that’s not the best the R&D team can come up with!
Finally, the winners of the Sony Ericsson Content Awards 2007 have been found. In the category “Gaming” the winning game was “Playman Extreme Running”, in category “Imaging” the winning application was “Pull Face Image”, in “Productive Mobility” the winning application was (of course) “Opera Mini 4.0″. The “Music & Audio” award went to TrackID by Gracenote and the “Themes & Graphics” award finally went to “The geeks” themes and graphics. Furthermore Sony Ericsson felt it necessary to give a Special Recognition Award to “Vringo” for best use of the functionalities available in Sony Ericsson phones. Congratulations to all the winners!
Filed under: Application, Entertainment, Fun, Future, Music, Patent, Technology, Themes, Web
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1. Testing of prototypes. They’ve got a test center in Germany for testing of prototypes. They have fired all “out of house” prototype testers in order to keep everything behind closed doors - however operator testers have still got a limited access to non-announced prototypes.
2. Sony Ericsson leaks informations! Yep, you read that right. Sony Ericsson - again, yes, the mobile manufacturer itself - leaks informations about upcoming phones and plans. But of course the leaks are carefully planned.
3. Sony Ericsson keeps an eye on us. I’d bet you didn’t know that Sony Ericsson are eagerly reading the posts at different mobile phone forums - like Esato - and they also read mobile phone blogs. Sometimes even posting, too!
4. Successor’s successor. The K850 is fairly new, but the successor is already in the works and so is the successor of K850’s successor probably also. Mobile phone manufacturers are always years ahead in terms of successors as it usually takes about three years to create a mobile phone.
5. Extreme amount of ideas. But unfortunately most of the ideas will never become reality. For about every 8 ideas, one will become reality - and even this idea, will end up being changed lots of times before it gets announced and released. Some will even get ditched after the product announcement - one could be the Z700, which was cancelled or the programmable Bluetooth camera ball a few years back.
Filed under: Corporative, Entertainment, Fun
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Just saw this over at JUSTAMP. It’s a metal dice with a Sony Ericsson ball logo replacing the “1″ side of the dice. It looks like the other sides are decorated with diamonds, but highly doubt they are real 
Filed under: Accessories, Fun
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Here’s a really cool cake shaped in the form of a Sony Ericsson K850! I’m guessing it has something to do with Carphone Warehouse has sold 1.000.000 phones as that’s what is said on the display. The cake has been created by Michelle Sugar Art and can be found at the Portfolio page. The amount of details is amazing!
Source: Michelle Sugar Art
Filed under: Fun, K series
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Along with the T650 that arrived here today was also a visiting card from Aldo Liguori (Corporate Vice President of Global Communications & PR). So I thought, why not have some fun out of it? So I opened up Office Publisher and started recreating the visiting card in Sony Ericsson style. I’ve purposely made some minor changes and let out some info so it doesn’t fully match the visiting cards from Sony Ericsson, and before using please note that this is by no means real or can be used in real life situations 
The visiting card template can be found here.
Filed under: Corporative, Entertainment, Fun
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Sony Ericsson has launched a new and exciting site at their Developer website. It’s actually an awards showcase where some of the best Sony Ericsson content in 2007 will be awarded. There are five content focus areas:
- Gaming
- Imaging
- Productive Mobility
- Music and Audio
- Themes and Graphics
Both J2ME and UIQ 3 content is featured and so are themes for both non smartphones and smartphones.
At the Flash website there are also a few videos of Mats Lindoff (Corporate Vice President) and Jens Greve (Senior Manager and Head of Sony Ericsson Developer World) talking about the future of mobile phones and mobile content. Quite interesting, if you ask me.
In my opinion all the nominees have a good chance of winning, but there can only be one in each category - and you can take part of deciding which one!
You’ll find the flash website right here and more information about the Awards here.
Filed under: Application, Corporative, Developer, Entertainment, Fun, Future, Games, Java, Symbian, Themes, UIQ
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The day K660 was announced I spotted something weird in the press pictures - there were no letters on the keypad of the white one! However I quickly threw the thought about it away, thinking that Sony Ericsson would probably fix the mistake soon. But they haven’t done so yet, so if someone working at Sony Ericsson is reading this - please get it fixed! The most peculiar thing, however, is that the letters are there in the reflection, but not on the phone itself. Don’t believe me? Have a look at the full resolution press picture yourself then (but please note that it’s a huge picture!).
Filed under: Fun, K series
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Posted by Michell | December 20th, 2007 
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