A new picture of earlier shown Susan appeared on the net, if you look on the statusbar it looks alot like the Android statusbar. If Susan runs Android or not isn’t known, it could be a new Sony Ericsson platform or a new Symbian phone perhaps?
Source: Semcblog
Japanese network AU KDDI have just announced their winter range of handsets and Sony Ericsson have contributed a few models to that range (as an aside I wish European networks had ‘winter’ and ’summer’ ranges, there is something sort of cool about that, but I digress). As you can see from the previous post they released a handset apparently aimed at older customers, but they also announced AU’s first Bravia handset, the U1.
Bravia handsets have appeared in Japan before of course, on NTT DoCoMo, but this is a first for AU. The handset packs in a 3″ WVGA screen based on Sony’s Bravia technology and Sony Blu-ray forwarding technology. Basically what that means is that the handset can be hooked up to a Blue-ray player. Memory expansion is through microSD cards with capacities of up to 16 GB supported. There’s all the other usual goodies too e.g. 5.14 MP camera, Bluetooth, WiFi GPS, Felica, 1Seg TV, etc. Check out the pictures below!
P.S. If you’re wondering why there is a shot of a woman in a bath it’s because the U1 is waterproof!
As part of their Winter line-up for the Japanese AU KDDI network Sony Ericsson have released a handset targeted at the 40-50 age group, or what it apparently terms ‘the elderly’ in Japan. The question of 40-50 year olds being ‘elderly’ aside this phone actually packs some pretty serious heat for a product apparently aimed at a non-techie demographic. The handset, the Urbano Barone, is supposedly designed with older folks in mind e.g. high contrast keys, etc. It also packs in a 5.14 MP camera, microSD support up to 16 GB, a 3″ WVGA screen and WiFi and GPS. It’s certainly a far cry from the sort of handset Sony Ericsson releases for older customers in the rest of the world!
Our man in London is now inside the Sony Ericsson event ready to snap away and report back on today’s announcements. He’s just arrived at the venue so we’re waiting to hear back from him on what Sony Ericsson are going to announce today. We’ll keep you updated as we get the information and of course post the pictures as soon as we get them! Stay tuned …
Just when you thought that they couldn’t go cheaper than the W395, Sony Ericsson did it again! The W205, ladies and gentlemen, is the result. A Walkman phone for the preschoolers. T303’s Walkman version, if you will.
It has an amazing 1.8″ TFT screen, supporting 65k colours and with a resolution of 128×160 pixels. So that rules out people with poor eyesight. The phone itself is 16mm thick, which makes it rather chunky. The height and the width compensate for that, being 92×47mm respectively.
Soo, what makes the W205 so special? Nothing. Well, apart from its relatively small size. It’s got Walkman v2, the dreadful Sagem interface (no themes!), Java games, FM radio, a 1.3MP camera on its back, allowing up to 2.2x digital zoom and video recording. Bluetooth is also there. Oh, also, unlike the T303, the W205 features a Memory Stick Micro M2 card slot.
In our opinion, this phone is awfully redundant. By the time of its release there will be much better last-gen phones selling for the same price (most probably). One could always buy it as a backup phone, I guess, or for their child. The expected release will be somewhere in Q2 this year, when the phone will ship in Ambient Black.
Also announced today is the MS410 Snap-on speaker. It supports all Walkman phones.
Another day, another handset. That phrase largely sums up the S312. Cynical? Read on and find out …
Let’s start with the good. It’s a basic wee handset that will appeal to those looking for a no frills, no nonsense handset. The 2 MP camera isn’t rock bottom spec and should be fine for random Facebook photography fun. There’s a couple of additional photo features, such as photo blogging, and a photo fix feature to enhance shots. There is also a dedicated video camera key, which is a nice touch I suppose. A photo light is also a nice addition although probably of little use for anything more than basic photography. An M2 memory card slot is also nice to have, whether for pictures/videos or music.
The fact that the handset supports EDGE is good too although realistically you probably won’t be doing much browsing on the small screen.
It is nice to see TrackID featured though. This is a great wee feature that I’ve long sung the praises of and it’s especially nice to see Sony Ericsson include it in their low-end handsets. A2DP support is also a welcome inclusion. Kudos chaps!
Ok let’s turn our attention to the bad. Generic. That one word sums this handset up in its entirety. I’m not being overly harsh when I say that because in all honesty the S312 doesn’t offer anything that we haven’t seen before. What can they include in a low-end handset I hear you ask? It’s not so much the feature set, although that is part of it, but rather the relatively unimagintive design; it’s basically a cookie cutter handset that we’ve seen countless times before from various manufacturers.
If Sony Ericsson are sensible they will price this handset very cheaply although given their track record I have feeling that probably won’t happen. A low price would be the S312’s saving grace because if it were very cheap then its feature set could really compete with the products from other manufacturers in the generic low-end category.
Also announced today is the VH300 – a small and simple Bluetooth headset.
In short it isn’t a bad handset, but it’s nothing to get excited about either. Those who want a basic handset with the odd extra might like it, but for the rest of us it’s not much more than a quick mention in a blog. Move along people, nothing to see here.
… hardly anything interesting though. It’s a pretty standard clamshell phone with a female design. The T707 was designed alongside with Sony Ericsson’s brand ambassador, Maria Sharapova (go figure). The special features, so to speak, of this phone are the ‘eye-catching light effects’, changing themes, and gesture control.
Other than that, it’s a pretty standard A2 feature phone. It features a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, PlayNow, YouTube, Media, Google Maps, geo-tagging, a 2.2-inch TFT display, quad-band GSM/EDGE and single-band UMTS/HSDPA (tri-band for the T707a).
It will be available in three colours – Mysterious Black, Spring Rose and Lucid Blue (what happened to the rest??). It weighs 95 grams and measures 93 x 50 x 14.1 millimetres. The battery is good for 400 hours of standby life or up to 10 hours of talk time.
Word has it that Sony Ericsson will soon be releasing an upgraded version of the C905, which will include 8 gigabytes of internal memory, so that you may store even more of your photos right on the phone.
Is it true? Not sure. We’ll see into that…
Source: Bloggers Base
Here are the official press pictures of the Idou. Looks brilliant! We’ll continue to update this post with more pictures as they become available.
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