Sony Ericsson announced a new accessory for music lovers called Music Lover’s Kit MK200. The company claims that its Sony Monitor Headphones MH830 deliver powerful, high quality sound and are now enhanced with a handy call-handling remote. It’s also possible to share the music with friends by simply connecting the Sony Ericsson Music Cable MC100 to the stereo. The headphone is Closed-type supra-aural and have a 30mm driver. It’s compatible with almost all Sony Ericsson Androids and also works with most 3.5mm phones and devices.
It’s available in two colours; Black and Army Gray. No information about the price and availability.
Sony announced its next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor. With this new image sensor they promise further enhancement in image quality, superior functionalities and a more compact size that will lead to an enhanced camera. This development is aimed at the highly complicated smartphone market. With the advent of this new sensors Sony hopes to boost their smartphone sales and there is no doubt they will achieve it.
As the first step, Sony has developed a model with built-in signal processing functionality. Samples will be shipped from March, 2012. Models have been developed with Sony’s unique RGBW Coding function, which facilitates low noise, high quality image capture even in low light condition, and HDR (High Dynamic Range) Movie function, for excellent color management in extremely bright light conditions.
What’s new:
Large-scale signal processing circuits required for higher image quality and better functionality are built-in.
More compact image sensor chip size.
Even higher image quality of the pixel section by adopting manufacturing processes specialized for superior image quality.
Faster speeds and lower power consumption by adopting the leading process for the circuit section.
Conceptual diagram of the sensor:
RGBW Codingfunction
“RGBW Coding” function which adds W (White) pixels to the conventional range of RGB (Red-Green-Blue) pixels has realized higher sensitivity, enabling high-quality shooting with low noise even in dark indoor or night settings.
Comparison in low light conditions
HDR (High Dynamic Range) Movie
“HDR Movie” function enables brilliant colors to be captured even in settings with a wide range of light including bright light.
Back in Septmember the first Xperia Mini Pro users were facing an electrostatic noise problem on their devices. That means when you recorded a video, an electrostatic crackling could be heard in the background when played back at loud volumes.
Sony Ericsson acknowledged the problem and said that the issue would be solved with the roll out of the 4.0.2.A.X.X firmware in October. But unfortunately that didn’t fix the issue, it just reduced the electrostatic crackling. The problem still exists but not in a way to detract the user experience according to SE
Since end of September the hardware is fixed and the electrostatic crackling is not there anymore.
It’s pretty amazing what this LiveDock thing can do. Besides charging and doing various things with LiveWare Manager, you can connect wireless keyboard and mouse and use it like you would do on a PC! This brings whole new range of use to your Sony Ericsson smartphone.Let me not bother you more, just watch the video:
We’ve already posted about a leaked handset with 1.4GHz CPU and a 720p display with the codename Nozomi which is said to be released in Japan only. The LT18i with codenamed Ayame is more likely a global handset but it has only a FWVGA display with 480×854 resolution.
The proof came from NenaMark1 benchmark where an anonymous user posted up a score of 46.8fps and revealed the processor speed as 1.4GHz and GPU as the Adreno 205. That means it scores 2fps more than the Xperia Arc (44.8fps) and has the same GPU as the Xperia Arc and just a more powerfull CPU. 1.4GHz on the LT18i compared to 1GHz on the LT15i (Arc). This could even be the same single-core Snapdragon S2 chipset (MSM8655T) that is rumoured to be used in the Nozomi.
We believe that the LT18i Ayame will be quite similar to the Xperia Arc. Question to you folks, would you upgrade from your Xperia Arc?
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:
Even if the Xperia PLAY is a very good Android smartphone there is one bad thing: You can’t connect it to your TV through HDMI. But now pictures which are showing a PLAY-handset connected through HDMI to a TV appeared. Maybe it’s a USB -> HDMI cable? Oh, stop it! The PLAY don’t have a port on the postion showed in the image below:
So there is only one possibility left: It’s a new generation XPERIA PLAY! To be honest it doesn’t look very different to the current PLAY. Maybe it’s a upgrade like the Vivaz Pro was? Anyways we’ll keep you updated about this thing!
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!
Now the information can probably no longer be held back, so here it goes.
The hardware changes, that we talked about yesterday, consist of two hardware components.
Processor. Instead of a TI OMAP 2420 @ 332 MHz it will be an unknown TI @ 520 MHz processor.
GPS module
The new UI with all its features will probably also need a stronger processor. This processor will also be compatible with Windows Mobile 6. This is an essential step in regard of the ability to construct new hardware.
Therefore this very late decision means the FP1 again will be discarded, and a new hardware platform created. Maria is said to be running the same platform. The main reason for the CPU swap is the simultaneous announcement of new ARM-chipsets at the Smartphone Show 2007. The new chipsets are significantly more efficient in terms of its graphics features than any previous versions.
As most of you have probably read here at the blog according to Sony Ericsson themselves there won’t be any announcement on the 15th, where the P5 was supposed to be announced.
And I know why. There’ll be some ‘major hardware changes’ (sorry, I can’t and won’t go into details – yet!) in the P5 causing a delay of both announcement as well as release, which should now be later than earlier expected.
Other than that I’ve received some informations about the design as well, and it sounds very nice (won’t be able to post this either, but the materials can be found in earlier SE phones). The keyboard, however, still remains a mystery – will it be a sliding QWERTY, as some have said or will it be completely different? Well, am not so sure, because both are being used in prototypes, but nevertheless it will be something new (for Sony Ericsson at least).
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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.
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