QuickBlock – extremely cool freeware game for UIQ 3!

January 18th, 2008 by Michell

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QuickBlock is an extremely cool freeware game for Sony Ericsson smart phones running UIQ 3. It makes use of the touch screen on the phone and will seriously put your reaction skills to a test!

In this game it’s all about moving and staying alive. You have to move around your orange block and avoid the green block, which will continuously morph into more – smaller – blocks.

As said, it’s freeware so give it a try. My best time is 57 now 59 seconds – see if you can beat it!

Extremely Cool Holographic SE Interactive Campaign

January 18th, 2008 by Michell

Check out the really cool holographic interactive campaign from Sony Ericsson. What do you think?

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Via: Sony Ericsson Fanboy

Sony Ericsson Xperia Series

January 18th, 2008 by Michell

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Rumour has it that Sony Ericsson is planning a new series of ultra high-end multimedia mobile phones / smart phones. This series is to be called “Xperia”, and will without doubt be a direct hit back at some of the other manufacturers’ high-end smart phones.

Well, actually it’s not a rumour, as Sony Ericsson has indeed actually filed the patent for this XPERIA brand (filed on the 10th of January 2008).

This is definitely exciting and I have of course already contacted Sony Ericsson about this (I want to know!), but I’m not sure I’ll get a reply regarding this :-(

You’ll find the patent filing right here.

Looking Back At Year 2007

January 17th, 2008 by Michell

 

In this article we will take a look back at the year that just passed by our noses. 2007 was indeed a fabulous year for the mobile phone world, and so it was for our favourite manufacturer – Sony Ericsson.

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Q4 results & 2007 highlights (bonus: Announcement sheet)

January 16th, 2008 by xell

Sony Ericsson today released their results for the fourth quarter and whole year 2007.

The most impressive number first: Sony Ericsson sold over 100 million handsets in 2007 and have an expected market share of a little over 9 percent!

Other highlights as they follow:

Q4 Highlights:

  • 18% increase in volume year-on-year
  • Continued market share gains and profitable growth
  • Continued investment for the future

2007 Highlights:

  • Margins remain strong as company shifts to broader portfolio
  • Unit growth underpinned by increased sales of lower priced phones
  • 145 million music enabled phones sold to date, of which 57 million were Walkman® phones – maintaining leadership in music

You can find all interesting and not-sooo-interesting facts in the Press Release.

The bonus picture from this morning’s webcast can be seen after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Life’s colourful (and dark): New K770i colours

January 15th, 2008 by xell

Tonight, new pics were uploaded to the Sony Ericsson Media Library. These pics (and later on, a product page) revealed to us two new variants of the up to this point uncommonly coloured K770i, namely Henna Bronze & Soft Black.

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See the bigger pictures after the jump.
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SE appoints Maria Sharapova global brand ambassador

January 11th, 2008 by Michell

sharapova_lng_tee-012-hr.jpgIt has today been announced that the young Russian tennis player, Maria Sharapova – who played part in the “Never Miss A Shot”-campaign – is now Sony Ericsson’s first global brand ambassador, and has signed an exclusive 4-year contract with Sony Ericsson.

Maria will help Sony Ericsson in approaching its core target, and she will also be working with Sony Ericsson’s design team on a large variety of upcoming mobile phones and accessories.

- Now in our seventh year as a company, the brand has evolved significantly and securing a global brand ambassador is a natural progression to take our brand to the next level in an increasingly competitive market place, said Dee Dutta, Corporate Vice President and Head of Marketing at Sony Ericsson.
Maria’s iconic status, determination, dynamism, success and charm match strongly with the Sony Ericsson brand, which prides itself on innovative and cool design with substance.
Our alignment with Maria’s global iconic status, combined with our brand expertise and innovative thinking aims to provide something new and something different to our customers around the world.

- It is really exciting to be working with a cool brand like Sony Ericsson which has such a strong reputation in the entertainment industry, Maria Sharapova added.
Even though most people know me as a tennis player, I have so many passions beyond the sport like fashion, music, film and design; which Sony Ericsson and I are going to be exploring together through our partnership, she ends.

To me this looks like just one of many upcoming steps from Mr Hideki Komiyama to enhance and improve the way consumers look at Sony Ericsson. Well done!

SonyEricsson.com is the most popular

January 11th, 2008 by Michell

It appears that sonyericsson.com has many more page views than nokia.com has. Furthermore, Sony Ericsson’s “web rank” is higher than Nokia’s. Looking at the daily reach, though, Nokia is in front by a tiny bit, but it looks like Sony Ericsson will soon be in front here as well.

The ranking of sonyericsson.com is 376, while nokia.com is 449. In comparison, samsungmobile.com is ranked at 3.152, while motorola.com is at 1.361 :-)

Well done, don’t you think? :-)

Sony Ericsson to publish Q4 results the 16th

January 10th, 2008 by Michell

I’m in a bit of a rush, so here goes parts of the press release.

The Sony Ericsson 4th Quarter 2007 and Full Year 2007 financial results will be announced on Wednesday, 16 January, 07.30am UK time (GMT). This announcement will be followed by a conference call with the media and analysts at 08:30am UK time (GMT). Please find below a more detailed breakdown of the corresponding times in other regions and numbers to call.

A live webcast of the conference call will be available at: http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/investors/
Or please click here to join the webcast directly: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=181700&eventID=1737508
The archived webcast will be available approximately one hour after the completion of the conference call.

Exclusive: 4 new codenames

January 10th, 2008 by m-one

USEB has yet again gotten its fingers dirty with some exclusive news for you guys. This time it’s about codenames – four of them, to be exact.

Angelina, Emilie, Josephine and Tyra are new codenames for upcoming Sony Ericsson phones. The last three are set to be launched in Q3 this year.

So far no word on any specifications on any of these, but stay tuned for more updates on this!

We’ve also got another exclusive for you, and this one is regarding the K850 facelift :-) Its design will be more like the Japanese Cyber-shot phone, SO905iCS. In terms of camera design and look of course, not form factor, etc.