Sony Ericsson has recently unveiled their latest accessory – the HCB-108 Bluetooth car speakerphone. The device prides itself with the great battery that supposedly should deliver up to 25 hours of talk time and a standby time of up to one month. Additionally, the Swedish-Japanese handset maker wows for crystal clear conversations and “superior true…
Video: Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki promotes Sony Ericsson W760
This isn’t the first time we’re seeing the teenaged Danish tennis player promoting a mobile phone for Sony Ericsson. Last time we saw Caroline Wozniacki playing against a transformer robot which was actually the W580 model. Now, the Swedish-Japanese handset maker has invited Caroline to make a video for their W760 Walkman phone, which is…
Sony Ericsson will use Zi Corp’s user input technology on the majority of its phones
Zi Corporation, which is also known as the T9 competitor in the text-input business, has announced that its long-time client, Sony Ericsson, has agreed to “significantly expand its existing licensing relationship” with them. This is good news for the Canada-based Zi Corp, as the new arrangement will increase their revenues up to 33% per year.…
Sony Ericsson Rika Looks Not So Bad
The Unofficial Sony Ericsson blog made a post earlier today to ‘guess the unannounced device’. The only hint they gave was that it was a walkman phone. After scratching my head for about 10 seconds I gave up. But thankfully they posted the answer. As pictured above, the device is the Rika… (or G705). No…
Xperia X1 – is the touch UI actually not great….?
OK so just throwing this out there … but … is the touch UI of the Xperia actually not very good at all? I say this based on watching the video that Will posted about the other day – from what I saw, the demonstrator had to catch the screen square-on with his finger, with…
Xperia brand might not stick with Windows Mobile
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia continues to draw lusty looks of many a gadget geek, but that doesn’t mean the creators aren’t willing to screw around with a winning formula. “The brand is not tied into any specific technical platform,” said Magnus Andersson, product manager for the X1. Given the problems the Xperia has been having with…
Sony Ericsson demos Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 and Panel UI
HTC isn’t the only game in town when it comes to making Windows Mobile-based smartphones with amazingly high-resolution WVGA touchscreen displays. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 (ironically, made by HTC), has been at the top of our short-list of gotta-have smartphones sporting WVGA touchscreens. But, what good is that widescreen pixel-count if you can’t actually…
Quantum of Solace – guess the devices…
So, here’s the Friday Quiz, kinda courtesy of Sony, of who emailed me to let me know the trailer of Quantum of Solace is now available for viewing…. I say kinda, because it’s actually my question, based on Mobile Devices. So, in Casino Royale the device of the day was a Silver Sony Ericsson K800i.…
Sony Ericsson announces its first photo frame – IDP-100
Guess we all waited this to happen. After all when you have a full line of camera phones, adding a photo frame seems like a next logical move. Sony Ericsson did just that and few days ago they’ve unveiled their first digital photo frame IDP-100, touting it as the “ideal accessory to your Cyber-Shot phone.”…
Sony Ericsson G705 has WiFi, 3.2MP camera, GPS and more
Just in time for the CTIA in San Francisco, Sony Ericsson announced a new phone – G705. The device is very interesting, packing such things as 2.4-inch QVGA screen, WiFi, 3.2 megapixel camera and GPS. In addition, the 3G-enabled, “YouTube-compatible” handset also boasts stereo Bluetooth support, FM radio and a Memory Stick Micro (M2) slot.…