courtesy slash gear

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.

Have Fun!

SE-LifeStyle

If you are one of those who hated listening to the price tag of Sony Ericsson Satio shaking your head in disagreement over its disadvantages and undeserving functions, then don’t bother reading this post. And if you are planning to buy or have bought the model or are interested in spending some good amount over a phone from the Sony Ericsson Camp of equal calibre, please read on…

Satio, apparently is or hasn’t been designed in solitude. It had company. Yes. A sequel. Well, interestingly, the photo that we have may not conform to any prior rumours or truth, but as promise, we must bring out the scoop

Named Kurara, the Satio sequel will probably be a device based on the Symbian S60 platform.

Sources confirm a large 3.5 inch touch screen and an 8.1 MP camera.

Regards

Sony Ericsson LifeStyle News

The successor to the Xperia X1,the X2 will run Windows Mobile 6.5, bringing new features such as Flash support in Internet Explorer Mobile and Microsoft’s app store, and the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Sony Ericsson has also added something called the SlideView feature that notifies users to missed calls or new messages and provides quick access to them.

The Xperia panel interface is still there with 14 panels preloaded on the smartphone and 16 others available for download, including those for Skype, CNN, and Google. You also get a 3.2-inch WVGA touch screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, an 8.1-megapixel camera, and TV out capabilities.

The quad-band world phone supports North American 3G bands (specifically, AT&T’s), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

Regards

Sony Ericsson LifeStyle Team

We got leaks from Soy Ericsson’s moderate phone, Susan that sports totally new icons (perhaps keeping in mind the A2 platform phones of the company) both at the top and bottom of the screen.

Regards

SE-L News

Sony Ericsson today unveils the world’s first ever motion activated headphones that sense the user. The clever MH907 headphones mean users simply plug in two earphones to start listening to music and pause by removing one earbud.

To start listening again simply plug it back in. Do exactly the same to answer and end calls – simple as 1,2,3!

Sony Ericsson’s SensMe™ Control technology responds without a single press of a button, and with a Clear Audio experience users encounter superior sound on the move and enjoy their favourite music as it’s meant to be heard.

“Gossip with the girls. Whisper sweet nothings in her ear. Say hi to mum. Want to pocket your phone? Stay connected all day, every day. Get the Motion Activated Headphones MH907!”

Go Shopping!

The Sony Ericsson Motion Activated Headphones MH907 at a glance

via

SE-LIFESTYLE

“Sony Ericsson is a vital part of Ericsson. We have an ambition of turning it around, we have done it before and we will do it again,” Michael Treschow told Reuters in an interview.

“We want Sony Ericsson to return to profitability and make it a successful venture,” he said, adding that he wanted to return the joint venture with Japan’s Sony Corp to return to the “good profitability” levels it had in 2007.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) may not sell any phones, develop any mobile operating systems or develop any consumer applications, but that hasn’t stopped it from creating its own mobile application store. No, it’s not Sony Ericsson’s soon-to-be-launched app store; rather Ericsson has created a hosted app store that allows operators to tap into the hot new retailing craze without starting from scratch.

Ida La Spisa, head of Ericsson’s service delivery platform solutions, said carriers are certainly no strangers to retailing mobile applications—every operator with a data network has had some form of content storefront up since the advent of mobile data networks. But the launch of the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iTunes App Store last year put those browser-based portals to shame, showing the wireless world that a feature-rich, developer-friendly and highly integrated store could generate enormous amounts of traffic.

“There is a huge amount of people and a huge amount of services available on the Apple store,” La Spisa said. “The reason is the usability and the user experience of the App Store has been great.”

La Spisa said Ericsson hopes to help operators replicate Apple’s success by providing an easy-to-implement framework with a much broader range than the iTunes App Store. Instead of being isolated to a single device, Ericsson and an operator customer can tailor the app store for a range of different devices and operating systems, scaling it up to the most sophisticated smart phones and down to the lowliest of feature phones. The key for the operator is to scale the service to have the broadest appeal, she said.

In addition, an operator can add value to an app store that Apple can’t. Though customers can preview, pay for and download applications over the operator’s network, Apple doesn’t have access to critical information that could be used to customize or personalize the service. “Apple can track how often an application is downloaded, but it can’t track often, when and how it is being used,” La Spisa said. Using subscriber data and presence information, an operator can add additional value to an app, such as targeted advertising, she said.

Ericsson isn’t just bringing technology to the table; it proposes taking over as much or as a little of the application ecosystem as an operator requires, La Spisa said. Ericsson can set up the developer community and manage access to an operator’s application programming interfaces, which would let a developer tap into GPS, SMS services or applications resident in the device. Ericsson can also handle the business end of the service, brokering the transactions between consumer, carrier and developer.

The model is very similar to the new approach Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) is taking with its BREW platform. Last month, Qualcomm launched Plaza Retail, a more robust application distribution platform that can be scaled across devices and operating systems.

“I think it is clear that telecommunications, mobile telecommunications in particular, have become such a necessity,” Ericsson ( ERIC – news – people ) CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg told The Associated Press. The wireless equipment maker reported in April a 35 percent drop in first-quarter profit as weak results from its handset unit Sony ( SNE – news – people ) Ericsson and higher restructuring costs took their toll. Still, it posted a net gain of $210 million and Svanberg said at the time that the effects of the global recession on the mobile network market were so far limited.He referred to that guidance Tuesday on the sidelines of a disaster prevention conference in Geneva.On the company’s struggling mobile phone division, Sony Ericsson, he said that both Ericsson and Japan’s Sony were “overall happy with the joint venture” and were working hard to revive it. Sony Ericsson posted a euro293 million loss in the first quarter as demand for its handsets fell by around 35 percent, which the company attributed to the global financial crisis.Now that we’ve had such a dramatic fall in demand, it forces the companies to do dramatic adjustments and that is going on,” Svanberg said. “It’s looking good so far.”He brushed aside as speculation the idea that the joint venture could be dissolved.
“I think there’s always speculation around joint ventures because they aren’t seen as something that will go on for 1,000 years,” Svanberg said.Ericsson will report its second quarter profit on July 24.

Well the next announcement is this coming Wednesday, June 17, 2009. It is in Singapore and will start at 4:30PM Singapore time. This is the 1 year anniversary of the C905 announcement. Hopefully we will see a 8MP candybar successor. And Apparantly its Going to the the Xperia X2 (VULCAN) going to be released!!!. Sooo Stay Tuned with us!! and se-blogger ,