Sony Ericsson recently selected Swedish mobile games developer and publisher GlobalFun as one of its two official content acquisition partner for the upcoming PlayNow Arena and Fun & Downloads services.
As of now, there are no official statements from Sony Ericsson, but a few from GlobalFun.
- We have since the beginning of our business aimed to provide our customers, of which Sony Ericsson is a highly valued one, with high quality premium content. This appointment serves for us as a proof that our strategy on content acquisition and account management has been and still is the correct one, says Bertil Krumnack, EVP Sales & Business Development at GlobalFun.
Also commenting on the deal was GlobalFun CEO, Marcus Johansson.
The trust that Sony Ericsson is showing us by appointing us as one of two content acquisition partners is very flattering. We will do our very best to exceed the expectations in this area and to continue to grow our mutual business, says Marcus.
In my opinion, Sony Ericsson could easily have picked a better games developer than GlobalFun. Sure, their games are okay, but there are many other developers out there that publish better games. A 5-year contract has been signed to ensure close cooperations between the two companies.
It’s quite a busy day since first Shiho (C905) got leaked and now we are presenting Alicia.
To say it plain, it’s quite the same thing as the already known W980i with small differences.
With emphasis to the animations that appear on the outer and hidden display it’s another phone that could be seen as an emotional series phone. Depending from your local services the animations on the display will show the current weather or some nice walkman animations.
The display will also show changing themes depending on the time of the day.
Thanks to phoner @ esato for that nice leak 
It’s no secret that music artist Usher has been lucky enough to get a hold of several hot Sony Ericsson phones to use in his music videos months before they were out.
Now, Sony Ericsson has signed Usher to promote a few of their upcoming Walkman music phones in a major music marketing push. The two Walkman phones in question are the W350 and W980. This marketing push will span over 20 European countries (lots of coverage!), and will also include sponsorship rights for his upcoming full European tour later in the year. This is definitely a clear sign that Sony Ericsson will continue their strong focus on music, and especially the Walkman brand.
- Working with an artist such as Usher is an ideal fit for us. Here we are at the start of an electrifying launch campaign, poised to deliver a totally 360 degree experience for all consumers and Usher fans alike, it’s truly an exciting prospect, said John Bernard, who’s responsible for marketing at Sony Ericsson to MobileToday.co.uk.
Via: MobileToday
Japanese Acrodea are known for having developing very cool 3D user interfaces, that’s capable of integrating all sorts of multimedia content. It was today announced that Sony Ericsson and Acrodea has signed a master license agreement, meaning Sony Ericsson can globally release products with both the Acrodea VIVID UI and VIVID Panorama applications pre-loaded.
You can read more about the amazing VIVID UI here, where you can also find a few demos. Information about the VIVID Panorama application can be found here. Now all we can do is await the phones with these applications pre-loaded, and expect to see more of this.
[Press release]
Via: Softpedia
Sony Ericsson today launched its newest (and biggest) flagship store in Taiwan. It seems like its opening day won’t be before tomorrow, but I haven’t got too much trust in Google Translate.
ePrice has posted some really great photos of the new store that looks quite like the one in the UK, and there are lots of cool fan objects to have a look at, such as the exquiste red bike that was displayed.
Have a look at the photos right over here, and if you want to read the text, you can find the Google Translate link here. Have fun
PS. I’m still waiting for other flagship stores to open - when will they come, Sony Ericsson??
Sony Ericsson yesterday announced its brand new technology, codenamed Project Capuchin.
This technology will bridge the Java ME platform and the Adobe Flash Lite platform in a new developer platform for fast & clean user interfaces, both graphically and code-wise. The technology will among other things make it possible to use Java ME in the application codes, while being able to use Adobe’s Flash Lite technology for the application interface.
- Sony Ericsson is excited to introduce our new bridging technology to the global developer community as it further strengthens our relationship with this community and underscores our ongoing commitment to support an open, healthy and thriving mobile ecosystem, said Rikko Sakaguchi, SVP and Head of Portfolio and Proposition at Sony Ericsson in a press release. We are dedicated to exploring opportunities that enable us to provide innovative and energized user experiences. To achieve this, we work with world class partners and technologies, on both platform and product development, Sakaguchi continued.
Sony Ericsson plans to make this technology available in second half 2008 (new phones!!), and will demonstrate the technology at the JavaOne Developer Event in San Francisco, May 6 – 9, booth 718 in the Pavilion.
Go here for the full press release.
[thanks Karun!]
Sony Ericsson today published a new version of its Theme Creator application for creating themes for its features phones and Symbian based smart phones. The new version has hit v. 3.27, and will be adding support for the following phones:
- C702
- C902
- G700
- G900
- R300
- R306
- T303
- W350
- W760
- W980
- Z555
- Z770
There’s still no sign of support for the XPERIA X1, although Sony Ericsson has said it’ll support it in a near future. The newly announced G502 and Z780 are also missing, but I’m sure they’ll work with themes created for i.e. the C902 or W760 (A2 phones).
If you’re on Linux, get it here; Mac, get it here; Windows, get it here.
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