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Sony Ericsson, Handango partner to bring mobile content, apps to consumers

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, July 11th, 2008 at 4:39 AM

Sony Ericsson, Handango partnerSony Ericsson and Handango announced a worldwide partnership to bring mobile content direct to consumers on all Sony Ericsson smartphones — the XPERIA X1 and devices running Symbian UIQ.

Under the agreement, future Sony Ericsson’s smartphones (XPERIA X1 included) will come preloaded with Handango’s InHand client, using which customers will be able to easily browse and buy smartphone applications.

As for the existing Symbian UIQ smartphone device owners, they will be able to access Handango’s catalog via their handset’s browser (http://mobile.handango.com/se-ota) from July 25, 2008.

Commenting on the announcement, Handango’s CEO, Bill Stone, said: “The global content and application market is experiencing tremendous growth as more and more mainstream customers enter the marketplace, and with nine years gathering experience and knowledge in the mobile content industry, no one can touch Handango’s expertise.”

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • Jason Tay

    I am using SE P1i at the moment, this is my first Sony Ericsson PDA (Symbian UIQ), previously I am the Motorola supporter, especially the Linux OS powered device, it has a rich colour resolution QVGA touch screen and extremely clear multimedia video playback powered by Real Player and user friendly interface. But nevertheless it doesn’t support many usefull 3rd party software that suit for my business lifestyle, so when I noticed the P1i last year Aug, I was attractived by its beautiful design, after a few comparison, I was decided to buy it, I am very satisfied with its built-in business applications and multifunction keypad and email functions, so that I started to do more survey on the symbian software, I found that it is a very secure OS comparing with Window Mobile OS. Currently I am doing at lot of Internet browsing that requied by my works activities, so I started to looking my next PDA that suitable my needs, now I am targeting few devices like Nokia N810 WiMAX, SE Xperia and iPhone 3G, but this is very disappointing because these all are still not available in Malaysia.