SE: new interface for selected devices
By Ben Robinson on Saturday, February 16th, 2008 at 9:32 AM PST In 3GSM, Convergence, Mobile World Congress 2008, Research, Services, Sony Ericsson
Ericsson have launched the “Ericsson Multimedia Communication Suite (MCS)”, with the goal of integrating web 2.0 content feeds in to the UI. The UI will be making an appearance on select devices, such as the SE W760i
End users will have access to new services from existing applications – so for example, knowing presence information about friends through the contat listing in their address book.
The research completed by Ericsson prior to product launch, showed that there is strong demand for the mobilisation of communication services on the internet – for example chat, sending files and presence.
The intuitive user interface integrates new MCS applications such as chat and file transfer smoothly with existing voice, video call, SMS and MMS services. In addition, hanging features such as presence off the address book enables a connected device experience.
Ericsson MCS will initially be available for selected Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) feature phones. The MCS is built on IMS architecture, and has been developed with the Rich Communication Suite (RCS) in mind – this aims for broad industry interoperability and acceptance by utilizing standardized IMS service features.
Comment: Obviously this is a platform enabler, which is going to begin to find i’s way in to devices to give the connected experience – and for that it should be commended. Further RCS-compliant solutions will no doubt add features and services, however, Ericsson is likely to see significant first-mover advantage here.
[Via: 3G.co.uk]
This is great news, as SE’s UI is so tired and boring. I hope this is the first step towards totally changing their devices’ software -
chaging of UI is the big deaal. They should do this carefully.