Now that both have been cancelled after a long development period, we thought it wouldn’t hurt anybody to shed a bit of light on these phones.

Paris was going to be Sony Ericsson’s first slider in the P-series line-up. While it was partly based on old hardware, Sony Ericsson had made several software enhancements that would significantly speed up the phone. In addition to this, the Paris would have been based on UIQ 3.3. Anyway, what I wanted to show in this blog post was that Sony Ericsson realized that the business segment no longer has to be connected to boring colour schemes. It can be black and grey while still looking like a million bucks! I’ve known about the three colour variants for Paris (black/blue, silver/red, and black/orange) in about two months now, and this was one of the things that I liked about it - they’re trying to break the habit of “one colour variant” business & enterprise phones. Let’s hope they’ll keep it up in upcoming S60-based business phones.

Beibei was the mainstream UIQ 3.3-based smart phone that was never announced either. Beibei would - in my opinion - have been the better of the two. It brought along lots of innovation and new-thinking, one being the way you’d control the device with the scroll wheel. Just like Paris, Beibei would have shown up in three colour variants; black, black/blue and the white/red one. I’m hoping to get my hands on one, and I’ll be sure to tell you all about it if I succeed!

Here we’ve got a rather nice little gallery of the cancelled Sony Ericsson G702, codenamed BeiBei, for you. This is - of course - a prototype, build AP 1.1. This gallery will also teach you a thing or two about how prototype boxes look, and what they contain. Only the most normal stuff, nothing fancy. Enjoy!

By the way… I’ll be taking a small vacation, and won’t be back till Thursday.

[thanks, Phoner]

The G700 is Sony Ericsson’s cheapest smart phone to date, and it’s probably also the nicest one to use. Is it a bargain or a failure? You can read our preview of the G700 to find out

PS. It’s not a failure…

You’ve been waiting, I’ve been writing. And I’ve just finished. This means… the Sony Ericsson G900 review has been published The G900 is in my opinion one of Sony Ericsson’s finest offerings, and its low price and strong feature set makes it a very attractive phone. Here’s the review excerpt;

The G900 and its sibling, G700, represent a new kind of Sony Ericsson smart phone products, that don’t look or feel like a smart phone, yet perform and deliver as one would expect a smart phone to do. These G’s are targeted at the normal everyday consumer, who wants a little extra something from his phone, while still keeping the price low. Both phones can be used almost solely without the use of a stylus, separating them from Sony Ericsson’s previous smart phones. In a very good way, that is.
The G700 and G900 will sell like hot cakes, and in this review, we’ll be focusing on the right-out-of-the-oven hot G900, with a few additional features, such as a better camera and wireless LAN (W-LAN), when compared to the cheaper G700.

You can read the large review here.

PS. With this post, we have officially broke the 500 posts mark

As some may already be aware both Paris and the G702, otherwise known by the codename BeiBei, have both been cancelled. Whilst this might not be news to some of you we have a new twist on the story that might be. There is the suggestion that both of these handsets were cancelled due to a large volume of criticism from reviewers and other industry watchers, including recent articles on Mobile-Review.com

The story doesn’t end there because we are hearing that whilst Paris and the G702 may have been cancelled in Europe, they might still make an appearance in Asia.

Along with the five other phones being announced yesterday (well, six, including the J121) was also the G700 Business Edition, which is basically a G700 in a new grey-ish colour without a camera on the back. Still lacking is W-LAN - why, oh why? A business edition G700 should have W-LAN!

The G700 Business Edition will only hit Asia-Pacific regions, so it’s a no go for European and American companies.

Well, a video unboxing of the Sony Ericsson G900 has been requested, and I thought I’d might as well give in on this one. Here’s a quick 2-minute unboxing of it, shot on the G700, so I apologize in advance, if the quality isn’t exactly top-notch. While we’re at it, don’t forget to check out our new YouTube channel for all the latest videos. It won’t hurt you to subscribe

A photo unboxing can be found here, for those interested.