Coinciding with its 5th anniversary celebration, Sony Ericsson today unveils a new look for its global mobile phone brand. The brand identity includes a new range of vibrant colours, deliberately selected to stand out from the white, grey, black and blue tones used by most technology brands today. In addition to the new colours, there…
Happy birthday Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson reaches its 5th anniversary today and the company has much to celebrate. From a start-up position five years ago, Sony Ericsson has become one of the world’s most appealing mobile communications brands. The company, which is a 50:50 joint venture between Sony and Ericsson, was created in October 2001 and is now the…
Sony Ericsson W958c announced
The W958c Walkman phone is a GSM/GPRS variant of the stylish W950, and has been developed specifically for Chinese market. It is equipped with a large 2.6″ touch screen for simple navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs or music albums. The W958c is Sony Ericsson’s second Symbian v9.1, UIQ 3.0 based handset for the…
Sony Ericsson's Developer Pub @ Symbian Smartphone Show
Take this chance to meet other prominent developers, down a beer or two and have a good time celebrating UIQ 3’s first birthday. As space is limited, only the first 100 members to register can attend. You’ll also be able to listen and talk to some of the driving people behind Sony Ericsson’s position in…
Sony Ericsson builds M-BUZZ
Sony Ericsson today announced a new service called “M-BUZZ” for breaking new and developing artists. Complementing the company’s unique music offering of Walkman branded phones, services and accessories, M-BUZZ is yet another building block in Sony Ericsson’s extensive mobile music offering to music fans worldwide.
Sony Ericsson W950i, W958c approved by FCC
Sony Ericsson’s long-waited Walkman-branded smartphones has been approved by the FCC. It’s been a while from their announcement, and I hope that two smartphones will hit the US stores soon. The W950i brings 4 GB of storage, the Symbian OS UIQ 3 user interface, high-speed connectivity options (3G), music control keys and Sony Ericsson’s famous…
Sony Ericsson to extend its PlayNow service
Everyone wants a piece of the digital music market, currently dominated by Apple’s iTunes. Nokia recently acquired Loudeye and I believe we can expect to see Nokia’s fingers entering this (very) lucrative market. Also, by being one of the major labels company, Sony is certainly an important “player” in this market. They’ve already had some…
Sony Ericsson joins the Eclipse community
Sony Ericsson today announced that it is joining the Eclipse community as Add-in Provider Member, where it aims to contribute by creating Eclipse plug-ins of benefit to the global mobile application developer community. Eclipse is an open-source community bringing together a number of leading organizations to create the Eclipse Platform. The platform is designed for…
Sony Ericsson P990 WLAN API released
The P990 Extension Package for UIQ 3 SDK has been updated and now includes the WLAN header files and necessary binaries to allow you to expose WLAN functionality in your applications. Using the new WLAN API, you can enumerate available WLAN profiles, retrieve information for a given profile and use active and passive scan to…
The first Sony Ericsson smartphone firmware update
Sony Ericsson has released the first public firmware update for its smartphones range. The update affects the Organizer to R3A04 version and also brings several fixes and improvements. The number one improvement is deffinetly a better multitasking, which now allows many huge applications to work at the same time. Mentioned feature had some problems before…