May 21
Walkman+Cybershot = Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson denies it will remove the popular ranges from its handset portfolio but says it will now aim them at prepay users
Sony Ericsson has hit out at press reports saying it would drop its Walkman and Cyber-shot handset brands in favour of the “entertainment unlimited” concept headed up by the ‘Idou’, which features a 12MP camera.
It denied that it would discontinue the popular ranges after a report titled “Sony Ericsson axes Walkman mobiles” appeared on Marketing Magazine’s website this week.
It said, however, that future Walkman and Cyber-shot devices would be aimed at prepay users, as “entertainment unlimited” would become the manufacturer’s flagship handsets.
A Sony Ericsson spokesperson confirmed: “We do not plan to drop Walkman and Cyber-shot branded devices from our portfolio in the UK.
“At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February we announced our intention to combine the best of experiences from Walkman and Cyber-shot into more entertainment focused handsets. The first of these is a handset announced as Idou. Continue reading »
Tagged with: cybershot • joint • News • Sony Ericsson • split • splitting • together • venture • walkman
Mar 29
Xbox Or PSP?
Hmmm. That’s a dilemma hard core gamers face when choosing between the two giants of the gaming world 
Now, what if I tell you that you get an Xbox feature in your Sony Ericsson phone or let us say, I give you the opportunity to spend as little as possible on a phone of suitable platform and present to you a phone that booms and bangs your life with games based on real 3D, read again, REAL 3D graphical interface? Eh? Interesting?
Yea, that’s exactly what I felt when I got this little piece of news that Remi Pedersen, the Graphics Product Manager at ARM, has promised the possibility of Xbox 360 graphical Interface, implemented, yea you heard right, implemented, in phones supporting the celestial higher-end Mali-200 and Mali-400 processors! 
Now, Mr. Remi completely refused to divulge information on such chip prices or ratings, Mali mobile GPUs are already showing up in some phones. The 65nm Mali-55 is a first generation core in LG Electronics’ Renoir phone. Partnered with an Arm CPU, that phone runs Flash, but unfortunately has no shader capabilities. But phew, it still has some advantage for being a tiny OpenGL ES GPU – good for 3D gaming. Hey, did you know that Apple iPhone supports OpenGL ES 1.1 as well?
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Tagged with: game • joint • phone • PSP • Sony Ericsson • venture • xbox
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