It looks like Satio is to be pulled from sale at the Carphone Warehouse in the UK. The reason for the pull is being cited as software issues, an all too familiar problem for Sony Ericsson handsets. Interestingly enough the silver version of the handset is still available for sale, just not the black version. There’s also no word on whether or not this recall will affect other retailers in the UK or in other countries. It’s an embarrassing move for Sony Ericsson given that they will want to put the past year or two’s seemingly endless parade of bug prone handsets behind them, only to have their current flagship handset yanked from sale.
ustwo.co.uk have produced promotional videos for Sony Ericsson’s high end devices: Satio, XPERIA X2 and XPERIA X10.
The videos are called “emotive ‘in-phone’ videos” and are…
“…designed to show off the awesome screen quality and video experience of these Sony Ericsson phones, plus be engaging, innovative and have a “wow” factor that makes people want to show them to their friends!”…
The Saygus V1 VPhone is the first Android handset from Saygus and has been developed under the Open Development Initiative. The device features a 3.5″ 800 x 480px screen, 5MP camera and a 624MHz processor and will ship with Android 1.6 Donut (Eclair update is in the pipeline) with UI customisations looking suspiciously similar to HTC’s “Sense UI”.
The guys over at PhoneScoop.com have posted a hands on video, check it out below and head over there to see more of their thoughts about the device.
If the device is well received we may see an increased number of handsets from smaller manufacturers under the ODI.
Bump™ by Bump Technologies, Inc is an application you’ve probably heard of already on the iPhone, especially seeing as Apple highlighted in in one of their recent advertising campaigns. In case you haven’t heard though…
“Bump™ makes swapping contact information and photos as simple as bumping two phones together. No typing, no searching a list for the right person, no mistakes.”
It’s a cool app that takes advantage of modern hardware and now it’s available for Android devices too. So what another port from one platform to another you might ask…well it is but this time there’s something more. This is the first app I know of that works cross-platform, yes you can share between iPhone and Android and vice-versa and best of all, it’s free.
For more info head to bumptechnologies.com or just download the app to try for yourself.
Since the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 was announced there has been quite a lot of confusion over the number of colours supported by the screen. Sony Ericsson then tried to clarify the matter by answering some frequently asked questions but caused widespread discontent when they confirmed that the screen was a mere 65,536.
Now though, it seems there’s a little more to it. According to posts from SE support on their Developer Forum, it is Android 1.6 which is limiting the colours to 65k. The hardware in the device will support more, much more in fact as it is apparently capable of displaying the 16M colours everyone wanted.
So, there you go. Is that a clear answer at last or just more fuel for the fire of confusion, it’s up to you how much faith you put in those comments. We’ll likely have to wait and see to be absolutely sure!
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