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.
Play.com has delayed the release of the device which was previously decided to be on 30 January and the new date is scheduled to be 13 February. Another retailer, Clove confirms their release date to be in the first week of March with the stocks arriving on 6th or 7th March; that is just after the MWC 2012.
Xperia S
The new flagship of Sony Mobile Communications with a 1.5GHz dual core processor, 12MP camera capable or shooting at 1080p, 720 x 1280 HD display (4.3 inches) with Mobile Bravia Engine, NFC enabled and is PlayStation™ certified. The phone will run on Android 2.3 initially and will be upgraded to ICS later.
It’s great to know that Sony Ericsson is really working hard to make its customers pleased with the company! A week back they scribbled on their blog about how hard developing a ROM is.
Now, they’re giving an option for the public to taste the ICS for the first time. But it won’t be a good news for a lot many because:
1. The ROM is available only for arc S, ray and neo V.
2. It’s just the alpha version and a couple of options are unavailable which includes basic telephony, bluetooth and wifi.
I know what you’re thinking now! “So, what’s the use of such a release?!” Good question. SE has the answer:
“Another ambition with this release is to work with all of the talented developers in the open community to get feedback on this alpha ROM. If you download and install the alpha ROM, please try out the software and go to our Ice Cream Sandwich alpha ROM survey for Xperia™ phones, to send us your feedback. It is very much appreciated – the summary of this survey will be used for future product and software strategies short term and long term. Your voice counts!”
If you want to discuss this alpha ROM initiative, please check out the Ice Cream Sandwich alpha ROM for Xperia thread on the XDA forum. Here you can discuss with other developers, and ask questions to us. We will monitor this thread and reply to any questions as soon as we can.”
This clearly sheds light to the fact that Sony Ericsson has prepared itself to take into account what the users need from their Xperias. Last year the company had a bad time; the decision to not update the 2010 Xperia handsets beyond android 2.1 resulted in a flood of criticizing comments in their blog and the facebook page. Now, this year it seems the company has made up it’s mind to give the 2011 Xperias what ever it can take. (or even more!).
Here is what they have included in ICS ROM (things are subjected to change in the final release which is rumoured to be in February or March 2012):
New “Roboto” font.
New “Holo” theme is supported (you are able to test apps written to make use of the Holo theme).
Music player control from lock screen.
Updated UI in the Settings menu.
Updated UI in the web browser.
Updated UI and interaction with the new messaging action bar.
Updated UI for improved multitasking.
Swipe to dismiss notifications, tasks and browser tabs in the Notification menu.
These are the features which are not working or either turned off:
Google Mobile Services (GMS) apps are not included (for example, Gmail, Google Maps, etc.).
Modem is turned off and SIM card will therefore not be recognised (this also means you can’t make any phone calls)
Bluetooth™ is turned off.
Wi-Fi® is turned off.
ANT+ is turned off.
FM-radio is turned off.
About how to install (For advanced users and those who really like to play with their phones.)
A while ago we reported that the bootloader of the Xperia X10 got unlocked because of a security hole in the Qualcomm security encryption. Since then it was quite quiet about it and the users were happy to have the bootloader bypassed since April thanks to the dev zdzihu.
But now the real bootloader unlock came true for everyone and you can go ahead and unlock your Xperia X10! It’ll permanently unlock the bootloader, but to do that you need to be running on Android 2.1.
If you want to do it, here is everything you need for it and a tutorial. Thanks to the_laser for his hard work.
Source: xda-developers.com and unofficial Xperia X10 Blog
Do you remember that dancing Android from Sony Ericsson? Sony Ericsson’s Android Dancing Robot showed it’s performance previously on a few events in Taiwan, Malaysia and last time it was at the Google I/O 2011 in San Francisco. Two days ago the dancing Android got competitor – the Zombie from Plants vs Zombies. They have celebrated the launch of Plants vs. Zombies on the Xperia PLAY. Sony Ericsson organised a little Zombie dance off for the launch! That was a party at the Sony Ericsson stand at Gamescom!
If you want to see the competition watch the video below:
A lot of us can’t wait for the 2.3.3 update to arrive and now it seems like Sony Ericsson will push it to the X10 before August – this week! Sony Ericsson posted on Facebook that they planed to roll out the update in W30, that means it should start between the 25th July and 31st July. But don’t forget that the exact date can vary for each region. Maybe we in Germany get it before the guys in the UK or the other way round.
Here’s the official post from SE:
The launch of the 2.3 software for X10 is getting closer, and the planned release date is approx. w30. The date could still be changed, since the launch is depending on operators approval”
Sony Ericsson released a new app called “Panorama beta” that is available for free in the Market. The app is very easy to use. You have 4 arrows, on for each direction. To make a panorama you just have to click on an arrow and move the X10 in that direction and it will make a nice panorama. I already tested the app myself and I have to say it works fine. Even if you shake the X10 a bit while making the panorame the pic will be fine.
For now the app is only available for the X10 with Android 2.1.
We just recognized that se-store.co.uk will offer the new XPERIA Pro in late July (UK). But as you know: SE never knows when they’ll release something or anything
The Sony Ericsson Pro is a full qwerty-keyboard phone with HD-video recording, GreenHeart features (for example charger), WiFi (well, nothing new for Android phones) and with Mobile BRAVIA engine.
As we already posted there was a competition (you were able to apply to SE and say why you want to review one of the new phones) a few weeks ago. Now the winners were chosen and four of their reviews will be published at SE’s Facebook page.
Above you can see the new Sony Ericsson phones. The one with the keyboard is the txt pro, the other one is the Mix Walkman. The OS of them is SE’s own, like the one from Yendo.
At first a few Mix Walkman details and features:
It’s a touch phone (as you already know) with a Walkman-related feature called Zappin. Let me quote the explanation: “[...] ZappinTM lets you browse through your songs in a fun way by automatically being served the chorus of the songs while skipping through them” It also has a karaoke mode that tries to lower the vocal track of your songs. There is even a way to change its look: The band around the edges is changeable!
Now some txt pro specifications:
It is designed for communication – that’s why it has a full qwerty keyboard. It has social applications pre-installed to stay connected with your friends from facebook and twitter.
They both have Wi-Fi, the four-corner interface and will be launched in Q3.
Do you think the Mix Walkman is the new phone for Walkman fans?
As the E3 starts soon, Sony Ericsson released a list with new games for Android. You can try many of them (including Minecraft) at their stand next week. The release dates and more details about them will be released at E3 and later. With the new games they probably want to raise their sales because they are even worse at the moment. (For more information read this)
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