I’ve shot some camera samples with my new K850, and posted them here, so you guys can see the quality. I think it’s pretty good, but there’s room for improvement, that’s for sure. I hope the first firmware release will fix a problem with the flash, that many are experiencing - I’m not, though. Here are the pictures all shot in auto mode. (click for full size).

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YAY! My K850 has just arrived and I am heavily testing it out right now, installing the software and filling up my 6 GB microSD card for it (would you believe how hard that is?!). I’ll return soon with a gallery of it (probably Saturday, as Friday was very cloudy, and not good for taking pictures) - unfortunately there won’t be any unboxing pictures as I was too excited to even think about that.

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Here’s my interview with the former President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Miles Flint. This is the very last interview with Miles as President of SEMC, and was one of the last things, he had to do. In the interview Miles talks about what he thinks the future will look like, what has been positive and negative in the past years, what his first Sony Ericsson phone was and he believes in a bright future ahead of UIQ.

Enjoy the interview, and thanks to Miles Flint for wanting to participate!

• First, tell me a little about yourself
  54 years old, married with two children. Enjoy sailing and photography.

• When did you buy your first Sony Ericsson product and why?
  First Sony Ericsson phone was the T68i which I used for several years. It was really cool at the time and I remember a senior Vodafone person showing me the add-on camera module.

• What are the most important features on a (multimedia) phone, in your opinion?
  For me, music, camera and internet. May be different for others

• What do you think Sony Ericsson has to offer on the mobile scene in the future?
  There’s still so much potential and so many exciting ideas in development.

• What’s your view on Sony Ericsson’s current portfolio?
  It just gets better year by year, building on success and feedback from operators and consumers. Strong consumer propositions with HSDPA coming into the portfolio combined with great features and user experience.

• There have been some problems with UIQ 3 in the past, and some might say, that there still are - what do you think about this?
  We took on UIQ because it was being under-invested in within Symbian. Now Motorola have decided to join. I think there is a real future for a truly Open platform.

• Where do you think Sony Ericsson will be positioned against the world’s biggest phone manufacturers in 2010?
  Still bringing something different to the mobile market. That’s been our focus from day 1. Sony Ericsson wanted to create something that wasn’t there before. I don’t see that philosophy changing.

• What are the biggest challenges in the future for Sony Ericsson?
  Difficult to say. There are new challenges every day but keeping focused on a longer term vision is part of the key to decide on how to prioritize and decide.

• What have been positive and negative on the mobile scene for the past five years?
  Positive: An industry growing at a rate that others can only dream at. Constant innovation and better and better devices for consumers. Negative: 3G demonstrated the tendency to promise technology with too aggressive timelines.

• What are you going to do from now on?
  Nothing yet fixed. Some time off in the new year and then most likely portfolio and part-time roles.

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As I am writing this, the clock on my computer is slowly going towards midnight. This means that Miles Flint (pictured left) - the President of Sony Ericsson for the last 3 years - will no longer be present at this position. Instead of Miles Flint, Hideki ‘Dick’ Komiyama (pictured right) will take over the lead of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. It’ll be exciting to see what will happen while he’s in charge.

I’d like to thanks Miles Flint for his wonderful work the last three years, and I hope him all well. Also, I’d like to welcome Hideki Komiyama to the new position of President at SEMC. Hopefully he’ll do just as good as Miles did.

Oh, one more thing. You didn’t expect me to just the Sony Ericsson’s President leave without having gotten an interview with him first, did you?? In case you did, then you expected wrong. I have already gotten an interview (actually this was some of the last stuff Miles did - I got it back earlier today), and I’ll publish it tomorrow (or is it today??) as a part of a series of interviews, I’ve gotten / am trying to get.

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As promised here’s the first photoshopped picture of the UI by me. I’ll see if I have time to make any of the the other ones! Am not totally sure if this is the right proportions, but if so, then it’s a 240 x 400 pixel screen. Sorry, I had to watermark it and I’ve also resized it a bit down Update! Added two extra ones. Am not sure if I want to do the last only - it looks time consuming

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Here’s some pictures of the new UI for Maria (well, all signs point towards it being the UI for Maria). It looks great in my opinion. Sorry about the poor quality, I’ll try to make some photoshops of the UI later on.

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Here are some pictures of the Japanese Sony Ericsson SO905iCS Cyber-shot phone, that will be announced as a part of DoCoMo’s new 905i lineup of phones.

SO905iCS will feature a 5.1 megapixel CCD camera with auto focus and Cyber-shot branding. Furthermore it’ll have a 3x optical zoom (4.5 - 13.5 mm). It’ll also have a xenon flash, something looking like face recognition and I must say it looks like a real camera!!

It’ll measure 113 x 50 x 24 mm, and will weigh 150 grams. So it’s still pretty big. Furthermore it’ll have a WVGA screen with a diagonal of 2.7 inches! Crazy…. Why don’t Sony Ericsson in Europe ever announce something like this?
It’ll be available in a black/silver variant, a pink variant and a white/beige variant. Read on for more pictures of the phone.

Continue reading “SO905iCS - one smokin’ hot Japanese fella’!”

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