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Sony Ericsson have announced the new Sony Ericsson F305, a mobile phone with what the company calls “Motion Gaming.” This feature is basically an accelerometer inside the phone, which lets you control the characters in your game by moving the phone around. For example, you can play bowling by making the appropriate bowling movements with the phone in your hand. Remind you of anything?!

Yes, despite rumours of a Sony Ericsson PSP phone, the company seems instead to have created its own Wii phone! The difference, though, is that with a Wii you get direct feedback from your actions by seeing your character respond to your movements on the screen in real time. With the Sony Ericsson F305, you can’t see your character move, as of course the screen is attached to the phone. So you have to make the movement in isolation, and then look at the screen afterwards to see if your character did what it was meant to. Should make for an interesting set of games!

More details of the Sony Ericsson F305 game phone after the jump.

The Sony Ericsson C905 CyberShot phone has at last been made official. Sony Ericsson’s latest super camera phone is a technological tour de force, designed to take on and beat the best that Nokia’s N-Series can throw at it. Not for Sony Ericsson a measly 5 megapixels – the C905 comes with 8.1 megapixels. Connectivity? While the average Nokia N-Series can manage Wi-Fi, HSDPA, USB and Bluetooth 2.0, the C905 features all that and throws DLNA into the mix too, enabling your phone’s pictures to be beamed directly to your (DLNA-compatible) TV wirelessly at the touch of a button.

You also get a-GPS, built-in Google Maps, and a tonne of fancy-ass camera-specific features, too, making any N-Series phone look like an iPhone (well, at least in the features stakes anyway!)

Full specification and many more pictures of the Sony Ericsson C905 camera phone after the jump.

Rumours that Sony Ericsson have been working on a PSP phone have been rife for some time now, but despite the company dismissing the rumours, they never actually said they weren’t working on a game phone. So when these leaked pictures of a new game phone by Sony Ericsson emerged, the mobile phone world collectively held its breath. A game phone from Sony Ericsson? Could it be a real PSP phone?

Er, no! It’s a Sony Ericsson F305, which is actually quite a low end phone, but which comes with an accelerometer for motion-controlled games, a few game-oriented buttons on the front keypad, and, well, that’s about your lot! No HSDPA or even standard 3G – just slow old EDGE connectivity, plus a few other features such as an MP3 player.

The new phone is set to be announced on June 17th, if you can contain your excitement. A Sony Ericsson game phone the F305 clearly is; a PSP phone it most certainly is not. Shame.

[Source: EngadgetMobile]

Just in case you didn’t believe that Sony Ericsson were serious about releasing an 8 megapixel camera phone, here are a few more pics that just might make you change your mind. The first thing to note is that these pics aren’t Photoshopped – they’re the genuine article. Then look at the detail – not only is “8 megapixel” clearly written on the side, but also Wi-Fi and GPS.

Make no mistake, the Sony Ericsson C905 is going to be one monster of a camera phone, but only as far as features are concerned. As you can see from the pic below, although bigger than a Motorola RAZR, it’s not vastly so, meaning it’ll be a large camera phone, but not an enormous one.

Update: Check out our initial impressions with our early Sony Ericsson C905 review

More pics of the Sony Ericsson C905 camera phone after the jump.

There’s another Sony Ericsson phone on its way, currently codenamed the Sony Ericsson Alicia, and as you can see from the pics, it looks like something straight from the age of LED watches. Those of you under 35 may not be aware that there was such a thing as LED watches, but it’s true. Before LCD there was LED, with big bright red numerals set against a black backgroud – which, if you look at the Alicia, is exactly what Sony Ericsson’s new phone offers.

It also offers a few other tips of the hat to certain other style icons, such as what looks like an iPod-esque scroll wheel. Other than that, details are a bit sketchy, but there will apparently be animations on the screens (both internal and external) that change according to the time of day, or some other event such as the weather.

More pics of the Sony Ericsson Alicia after the jump.

Forgive the alliteration of the title, but new crystal clear pictures of the Sony Ericsson P5i (currently codenamed Paris) have been posted on the mobile-review forum. The launch date for the P5i isn’t known yet, but given the amount of leaks coming out of Sony Ericsson at the moment (for which I truly thank them for ;) and the finished looking quality of the phone, my guess would be…tomorrow!

There’s been a mixed reception to the P5i so far. On the one hand, its specification looks rather tasty. aGPS, 5 megapixel camera, and a boatload of other stuff as well (full spec after the jump). However, Gliatiotis, the mystery poster whose username sounds like a lethal version of bad breath, is not exactly raving about it:

“To be honest after seeing that there has been almost no changes at the hardware level, I am not that interested to play around with it and it will probably end up next to G700 and G900,” he says in his post, somewhat sullenly!

We’ll reserve judgment until the P5i is finally released. Meanwhile, check out the specs and more pics of the Sony Ericsson P5i after the jump.

Heading this way real soon is the Sony Ericsson P5i, the latest in a long line of glorious Sony Ericsson smartphones. Still codenamed Paris, the P5i hasn’t yet been officially announced, but as these new pics show, it certainly won’t be long before it’s launched in blaze of hype.

It looks superb, despite the fact it’s got one of those annoying rocker-style keypads first seen on the M600i. It’s features aren’t too shabby, either, with touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WayFinder 7.0 software, and a weather application as well.

More pics of the Sony Ericsson P5i after the jump.

Sony Ericsson have launched two new phones, and for once, they’re not CyberShot or Walkman phones! The Sony Ericsson G502 (above) and Z780 are low to mid-range phones that are similar to the Nokia 5320 and 5220 in that they bring super-fast HSDPA connectivity down to an affordable level. Although both phones are different in appearance, they’re very similar underneath, offering 2 megapixel camera, MP3 player, HSDPA and Google maps already installed.

The Z780 is the slightly more advanced model, though, in that it comes with aGPS, letting you navigate easily across Google Maps (either road view or satellite view). It also comes with a weather application that takes advantage of the high speed Internet connectivity and built-in GPS to tell you what the weather will be like in your area for the next three days.

Neither model will set the world on fire, but in terms of good quality phones with a good range of quality features, all for an affordable price, they’ll be hard to beat. With the addition of HSDPA, they’re also another indication of how the mobile Web is steadily coming of age.

More details and pictures of the Sony Ericsson G502 and Z780 after the jump.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is one of the most-anticipated new smartphones to come from Sony Ericsson in years. Previous smartphones from the company focused on their P-range, with the P900 and its successors perhaps the most well-known. Although these have always been well-regarded, I’ve also found them a bit too fiddly to use. You either had to rely on stylus-based hand-writing recognition, which only recognized a single character at a time, or a keyboard so small only a 5 year old child could use.

The Xperia X1 changes all that, as it comes with a slide out keyboard similar to other manufacturers’ smartphones (such as HTC’s range or the Nokia E90). Better still, Sony Ericsson have had the good sense of stuffing the X1 with every conceivable feature they could think of!

Read on for a sneak preview of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 in action.

The Sony Ericsson K850i is one of the best camera phones on the market today. Not only does it offer 5 megapixel resolution, it also offers auto-focus, all manner of automatic and manual aids for capturing the perfect picture, and comes complete with Sony’s seal of approval courtesy of its highly-respected CyberShhot brand.

At the end of the day, though, it is still just a camera phone, which begs the question: just how well does a camera phone compare with a dedicated digital camera?