• Phones those Got Introduced in the Sony Ericsson Family-

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, SE’s flagship phone, sports a huge 4 inch capacitive AMOLED screen( 480 x 854 pixels) , an 8 MP camera with flash (3264×2448 pixels), autofocus, strong LED flash with touch focus, image stabilization, geo-tagging, face and smile detection.

Connectivity includes GPRS, EDGE,3G, Wi-Fi (802.11b) Bluetooth (v2.1 with A2DP) and v2.0 microUSB. It comes with internal memory of 1 GB storage, 384 MB RAM and extendable up to 32GB (8GB card included). It doesn’t have radio included but A-GPS is supported.

Comes in the Sensuous Black, Luster White colors.

X10 Mini Pro

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini and Xperia X10 mini pro

There’s not much difference between mini and mini pro except the fact that mini pro has a Qwerty keypad for faster typing. And X10 mini pro weights 120 g whereas X10 mini weighs only 88 g.  Common features features include the following-

Both phones run on Android 1.6 and has a processor of Qualcomm MSM7227 600MHz. A 2.55 inches TFT touchscreen, 16 M colors, and

x10 mini

240*320 display which is scratch resistant, has Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate andTimescape UI. Both phones include a 5 MP with image capture of 2560х1920 pixels, autofocus and LED flash.

Standard Wifi, 3G, GPRS, EDGE, A-GPS v2.0 A2DP Bluetooth, v2.0 microUSB are connectivity features. None of the phones include an Infrared port. A 3.5 mm jack is added to both the phones.

Internal memory includes 128 MB with a card slot expandable upto 16 GB (2 GB included).

X10 mini pro is available in black and red. X10 mini has more shades available, namely, pearl white, black, pink, lime, red, silver.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 looks like Xperia X10. It runs on Android 1.6 OS with Timescape (SE promises to update it to 2.2 by the third quarter of this year); sports a 3 inch capacitive touchscreen display with 320×480 HVGA resolution; supports both 2G and 3G networks and includes a 3.2 MP camera with no flash but video recording(@30f/s), Facebook picture upload support and Geo-tagging are possible.

Other features include the 3.5 mm headphone port, 128 MB internal memory, extendable upto 16 GB, v2.0 Bluetooth, Stereo FM and WiFi. The phone is light (104g)compared to other phones in this range . It also includes A-GPS.

Sony EricssonYendo is a non 3G 2.6 inches TFT resistive touchscreen (256K colors) phone with 240 x 320 pixels and 2 MP (image capture of 1600×1200 pixels), without flash and a CPU of 156 MHz. It supports GPRS and EDGE. Wifi, GPS and Infrared Port are not included in the model. Java MIDP 2.0 is supported.

A standard walkman player with shake control, facebook and twitter apps are included.

It has a bizarre internal memory, only 5 MB and is extendable upto 16 GB. It comes in the following colors -black, blue, green, orange, pink, purple, red, silver, white and yellow.

Sony Ericsson Cedar Greenheart is a non-touchscreen phone with 2.2 inches screen (240*320 pixels) with a 2 MP camera (1600*1200 pixels). Video recording is possible at VGA 30f/s.

GPRS, EDGE and 3G are available. Data can be transferred via bluetooth (v2.0 A2DP) and microUSB (v2.0)

Other features include the addition of YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter apps and an intelligent Widget manager.

This model is available in black/silver and black/red.

Sony Ericsson Spiro has a 240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches display. It has a 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels wide, a 5 MB internal memory extendable up to 16 GB. Stereo FM, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth, USB all are included in this model.

Its available in Contrast Black, Sunset Pink, Spring Green and  Stealth Black.

Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman,  similar to Spiro has a TFT screen with 2 MP camera( 1600*1200 pixels) The phone measures 103 x 52 x 11.5 mm. SE Zylo weight compiles 115 g. The Sony Ericsson Zylo’s QVGA display measures 2.6 inches.

Other features include 3D gaming, Google Maps, stereo Bluetooth, Google Search, NetFront browser. The Sony Ericsson Zylo’s camera sports a 3.2 megapixels with video recording.

• Existing phone upgrades

Sony Ericsson Vivaz in Pink!

features Symbian OS S60 5th Edition, a 16.9 nHD wide 3.2″ 640×360 pixels (WVGA) 16,777,216 colour touchscreen display,an 8.1 megapixel camera with autofocus and image stabilization, face detection.

It runs on a 720MHz processor, 720p video capture and includes the standard 3.5 mm audio jack. Data connectivity includes a Micro USB connector, TV-out (VGA resolution), aGPS and Wi-Fi™.

Sony Ericsson Vivaz™ sizes 107 x 51.7 x 12.5 mm and weights only 97 grams.

• Vivaz got a new version- Vivaz Pro. This new model differs from Vivaz very slightly, having a 5 MP camera (2560х1920 pixels)  autofocus, LED flash instead of 8 MP and a Qwerty keypad.

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Sony Ericsson Entertainment Unlimited Phones Aino and Satio get firmware upgrades making them less buggy and more effiicient and user-friendly. As we know, the two phones were going headlong down all thanks to Aino’s buggy touchscreen and Satio’s irredeemable software bugs.

Sony Ericsson, in a bid to save the phones from swooshing down the alleys, has gone a step further and upgraded the firmwares. The new firmware for Aino™, version – R7AA071 is already available for updating in SEUS.

Satio too, gets an update.

The new firmware gets version R1CA037 as opposed to R1BB041, a prior version. Once again, we must remember that SEUS is the application you wanna use in order to upgrade your firmware.

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“Because of visual voicemail’s global appeal, it has become a high priority to make the service available on new handsets,” said Chief Marketing Officer John Bunyan at Comverse, the world’s leading supplier of software and systems enabling value-added messaging and content services, converged billing and active customer management, and IP communications.

“Our strategic cooperation with handset leaders like Sony Ericsson,” Bunyan said, “helps ensure that new handsets can offer the most attractive and user-friendly visual voicemail experience to the broadest number of people.”

Visual voicemail is an enhancement of the traditional voicemail and is quite an user-friendly and popular mailing system. The voicemail is received  by the user in the regular inbox. “Visual voicemail’s success comes from providing users a richer array of capabilities and choice,” said Bunyan.

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It makes us wonder what it would take from the Japanese consumer electronics giant to offer one version that comes with the features you’d expect to find on an iPhone and more.

Sony could enlist the help of Sony Ericsson to build what become that elusive Playstation Phone. Adding 3G capabilities and a capable mobile operating system to the phone shouldn’t be a problem; from LiMo to Android, the choice is vast.

The PSP Go already comes with a 3.8-inch, 480×272 pixels, LCD screen, swapping it for a touchscreen version should neither be complicated nor expensive and would offer a much bigger viewing screen than most of its rivals

In a similar way, the rest of the configuration would possibly need to be changed as well. The 333MHz processor from MIPS is significantly underpowered compared to say, the 1GHz Qualcomm ARM-based Snapdragon processor.

The PSP Go already comes with WiFi (albeit the slow type) and offers M2 memory storage rather than the traditional microSD. Sony already has in the Playstation Network, a potent rival to Apple’s iTunes and App Store.

Even if the phone cost $500 without subsidies (roughly half the price of the iPhone), it would surely become a hit even if it cost twice that of the new PS3 Slim console.

But most importantly, the Playstation brand is ingrained in the minds of millions of gamers and is synonymous with “great” gaming experience for many. 

The PSP Go was build first and foremost for gamers, with fantastic controls and great games to kick off. Therefore, a PSP Go Phone is likely to benefit from a massive goodwill capital that could match the iPhone.

Japanese-Swedish phone maker Sony Ericsson will pack its future handsets with the Flexion technology from Accumulate UK, according to a global licensing deal the two companies signed and announced recently. According to Accumulate UK, Sony Ericsson becomes this way the first handset vendor around the world to include mobile games with Flexion on new mobile phones, based on the success Hutchison 3G UK has had.

As many of you might already know, it was only recently that mobile phones started to come to the market with pre-loaded games. Games are now seen as a necessary component of any mobile phone, yet they were only considered a means of cheering oneself up before. Full versions of games were present on handsets previously only after phone makers paid publishers license fees for them.

However, Accumulate UK’s Flexion technology is meant to transform the costs handset makers register for having full game versions pre-loaded on their devices into a revenue stream. What it is meant to do is to make users curious about the content on their devices and allow them to try out games before they purchase them, while also offering them ‘rent for the day’ or ‘have-a-go for 25p’ options, the company states.

“We are delighted that Sony Ericsson has taken this step together with us. We have been preloading Flexion enabled games with operators for a while now with very good results. With the help of Sony Ericsson we will extend our reach significantly,” Accumulate’s MD Jens Lauritzson commented on the agreement between the two companies.

The Flexion technology has been also designed so as to promote games similar to the ones pre-loaded on the handset, something that should end up in new trials and sales. According to Accumulate, this move is called ‘on-device retailing.’ The technology is to be included first on Sony Ericsson’s Yari device, due for release before the end of the year.

According to Colin Williamson, marketing manager for Sony Ericsson SA, the company has made its accessories offerings in the local market more of a priority for the future. It recently gathered a number of resellers to introduce its latest accessories, in an effort to increase consumer sales.

Williamson says the company is working hard at upping its accessories game and getting more dealers and resellers involved, which includes keeping them informed of its latest technologies.

Sonja Shear, head of marketing at Sony Ericsson SA, says: “We have had challenges selling accessories through third parties and the channel, and we did not focus on distributors in the past, but things are changing now.”

The company has also started bundling speakers with phones, especially the company’s Walkman range of handsets, to boost accessory sales.

Sony Ericsson accessories were rather absent from dealers’ shelves in the past, and mostly only available from the Sony Ericsson store at Vodaworld in Midrand.

Shear says adding accessories to phones presents dealers with an up-sell opportunity, and believes dealers will take favourably to this opportunity. It will create an environment where they can give consumers a kind of ‘supersize me’ option when buying Sony Ericsson phones, she adds.

The company recently underwent a major rebranding exercise to move closer to the Sony brand and to target the emotional aspect of consumers’ lives, more than simply appealing to their communication needs.

This, says Shear, will add to the company’s marketing strategy of ‘entertainment unlimited’, providing a complete mobile multimedia experience to users.

Apart from accessory sales, which Shear and Williamson concede were not a priority before, Shear says the past year’s sales of handsets locally were relatively stable for the company; SA remains one of the top performers in its region.

We’ve seen some blurry shots of the upcoming Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2, and now we are treated to a blurry shot of an inventory screen which shows something that has been missing with the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2, the release date.

The guys over at wmexperts managed to get hold of the Vodafone inventory listing and it shows that the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 has been set for release on the 6th of November.

There isn’t much more to go on the shot, and we still have no word on the Vodafone Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 price or plans, but no doubt that info will come soon.

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