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A new video has hit the web and it definitely looks like it will be the first commercial for the upcoming Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the oft-rumored PlayStation Phone. While the device won’t be officially announced for a few weeks at Mobile World Congress, we’ve seen tons of leaked screenshots, videos and the folks at…
Some research by Bernstein has revealed that Nokia has spent upwards of $3.9 billion on research and development, which is close to three times as much as the average spent by competing mobile manufacturers. Okay, sure, Nokia is still the biggest in the world (for the time being), so it’s not entirely surprising. Samsung was…
If you’ve got an Xperia X10 in your pocket, one of the features you likely noticed immediately after firing up Sony Ericsson’s Android flagship is the lack of multi-touch pinch zoom capabilities. Sony Ericsson seemed to go back and forth on the subject, but now it’s official. Starting today, an update will begin to roll…
Sony Ericsson’s sexy new Android 2.3 Gingerbread phone, the XPERIA Arc, uses Sony’s Bravia engine to help makes photos and videos look as good as possible. Today, we’re seeing the fruit of all that image and video processing tech, with sample photos and videos from the Xperia Arc showing off what the handset can do…
We’ve seen plenty of the Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone, or what we’ve now learned is called the Play, that this should come as not much of a surprise. The phone has been given a thorough fondling and it looks pretty impressive. For those of you unfamiliar with it, the Sony Ericsson Play is an Android…
Why Sony Ericsson decided to make the Xperia arc name in lower case letters, I’ll never know. What I do know, however, is that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread handset is now available for pre-order in the UK. That’s right – Sony Ericsson is delivering on its promise that the smartphone will be available some time…
Last week we got a taste of how well Sony Ericsson’s upcoming Xperia Arc would handle taking pictures, but recently some lucky Italians got to dive a little bit deeper. In an 11-minute hands-on video, we get get the full hardware tour, and a deep dive into the software, including a new gallery homescreen widget,…
Following-up on saying that they had an open mind about Windows Phone, rumour has it Sony Ericsson has one in the works for 2011. Google seems to have wooed pretty much every smartphone manufacturer (including Sony Ericsson) with the Android OS, but Microsoft has been equally successful at garnering initial interest for Windows Phone 7,…
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc will be getting a little brother, which may show its face at Mobile World Congress next month: the Vivaz 2. We had caught a glimpse of this phone before, named the Hallon, but combined with the Experia branding, it’s hard to tell what exactly this new phone will be called…
Sony Ericsson has just published their Q4 2010 financial results [PDF file] and while they sold fewer devices than they did this time last year, and also had weaker sales figures, they made more more. The Japanese-Swedish joint venture sold 11.2 million devices, down a whopping 23% from last year. The average selling price for…