Posts filed under XPERIA

Sony Ericsson have announced the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 smartphone, and it looks stunning! The X10 features a number of first: it’s Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone, and it’s Android’s first phone with a high-end feature-set!

The combination is simply stunning. In one phone, you get

• an 8 megapixel camera, aGPS, WiFi, HSDPA, 1GHz processor and stunning 4″ touchscreen display
• Android 1.6 smartphone operating system, complete with Google Search, Maps, browser, YouTube and access ot the Google the Android Market
• a stunning new user interface developed by Sony Ericsson that shows what interfaces will be like in the new decade.

And that’s just scratching the surface! Read on for our extended Xperia X10 preview, and more glorious pics and videos!

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is shaping up to be the killer Android device of 2009 (although the Motorola Droid would argue with that!). Knowing how hungry the world is for more details of the X10, Sony Ericsson has decided to tease us with a video showing off bits of it.

And I do mean bits – the video’s infuriating as it tantalises us with the odd glimpse of the X10 without showing use the whole.

Fortunately, we won’t have to wait to too long, as the release date of the X10 has just been announced.

Check the video out after the jump.

Sony Ericsson have been rumoured to be working on the new Sony Ericsson X2 for some time now, and these leaked pics show that it’s development is progressing nicely. Seemingly based on Windows Mobile (presumably version 6.5), the X2 comes with a large touchscreen display and a good-looking full QWERTY keyboard.

Seems like it’s smartphone season at the moment. The Nokia N97 is due for release in two weeks’ time, the Palm Pre is just around the corner, rumours of a new iPhone doing the rounds, a plethora of HTC smartphones and Android phones that are imminent, and now this from Sony Ericsson.

I think it likely that come a year or two’s time, the term smartphone will become meaningless in the same way that cameraphone is now. Every phone will be a smartphone, just like every phone now has a camera.

Glorious!

[Source: Engadget]

If you’ve got a shiny new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 smartphone and want to create your own panel, you’ll find that it’s not the easiest process in the world.

You can currently create either code-based panels, written in a language such as C++, or HTML-based panels, which are obviously written using HTML.

However, both types require you to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environment, which is not exactly for the faint-hearted!

Fortunately, the guys at MySonyEricssonBlog have created an easy-to-use online panel creator, which lets you create the HTML panels you want and then upload them onto your XPERIA.

Best of all, it’s free, too,and doesn’t require the 4GB that Visual Studio does!

[Source: MySonyEricssonBlog]

PDA phone, smartphone, smart PDA phone – whatever you call it, PDA phones have been the talk of the mobile phone world throughout 2008. There are now tonnes of different PDA phones on the market, and with a bewildering array of phones to choose from, finding the right one has become a nightmare!

To help you through the PDA phone maze, we’ve compiled a little guide to the best smartphones to buy for Christmas 2008.

Sony Ericsson have been a bit promiscuous with their smartphones. They started off using the Symbian platform, moved over UIQ (which is a user interface layer on top of Symbian), and then recently moved again to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile with the forthcoming XPERIA X1, which they’ve also created a brand new user interface for.

Now it seems that they’re actively looking at the brand new Google Android platform for their future smartphones.

If you take a look at the mobile phone news these past few months, there’s one thing that’s been dominating global coverage: smartphones, and in particular, a confusing plethora of new models, applications and features that have suddenly swarmed onto the market.

Traditionally seen as ugly phones for business, smartphones are set to become the big thing in the mobile phone market for 2009, with no fewer than five key smartphone platforms (all of which, of course, are incompatible with each other!)

There’s fierce competition between smartphone manufacturers, not just to attract users, but also developers, as the more applications a platform has, the more likely it is that other developers will develop applications for that platform: success breeds success.

Which reminds me of another, similarly competitive market: games consoles, which has seen some spectacular winners and losers over the years. What’s more, if you compare the different strategies of the different console platforms, you’ll find them remarkably similar to the strategies currently being employed by the different smartphone platforms.

So is Nokia really following Nintendo’s strategy? It certainly is, while Android is set for nothing less than world domination.

Read on after the jump to see why.

All the news seems to be Mobile Web-related today! Sony Ericsson have hinted that their new user interface for the XPERIA X1 smartphone could be made open to any developer who wants to use it, meaning we’ll no longer have to put up with the lousy Windows Mobile user interface that comes as standard on so many me-too Windows Mobile smarpthones.

When Sony Ericsson announced that their new smartphone, the XPERIA X1, would use Windows Mobile, the world was somewhat shocked, as Windows Mobile is, well, frankly appalling! Looking like a dinosaur in a 21st Century world of super-tech phones, Windows Mobile phones all use the same boring user interface that reminds you of Windows 95! The thought of a high-end Sony Ericsson smartphone featuring the same user interface was nothing short of horrific.

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.

Sony Ericsson stole the show on the first day of the MWC 2008 with the launch of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 smartphone. The Xperia X1 is one of those phones we were all dying to see last year – a new Sony Ericsson phone that has so much wow factor, you really don’t know where to begin!

Crammed full of features, with fantastic styling, and a superb user interface, the XPERIA X1 even makes me wonder whether I should replace my Nokia E90 for it.

More details and pictures of the XPERIA X1 after the jump.