Going to try to Cover the Sony Ericsson press conference Live today for all you Sunday morning S-E lovers. Stay tuned.
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First Announcement: sony ericsson W980
8gb of memory
built-in FM transmitter
Next: Cybershots
C702 and
3.2 megapixel cybershot with face detection
GPS built-in
Grit resistant
Google Maps
1st half of this year
C902 - Slide out, intuitive camera.
Both available 1st half of this year
New user groups - productivity phones. Focusing on the “soccer mom”
Two new phones
G700
G900
Using a half-assed Feist remix to make people think of the iPhone.
G700 - Canybar with touchscreen and stylus
Hand written “sticky notes” you stuff onto the top of the screen.
G900 has WiFi and 5 megapixel camera
Both are Symbian
Web 2.0 ready phones.
Z770 - HSDPA clamshell.
New “drive” at S-E: UX. User experience i.e. make things look and work better.
Showing some crazy video of a kid sending colored emails playing “Magical Mystery Tour” by a girl band.
XPERIA - a new sub-brand along with Walkman and Cybershot.
New XPERIA product…
XPERIA X1 - curved design - experiencers
Candy bar with slide out keyboard. 3-inch VGA touchscreen. Optical mouse-type device with stylus
Windows mobile with the panel concept. It’s basically nine little desktops on your screen.
Available 2nd half 2008
Show is over.
these phones seems to have an overwhelming meh quotient compared to the one phone from the 800lb gorilla in the other corner… y’know the one that begins with A?
Sony Ericsson continues to come out with innovative handsets!
VGA screen? MS’s WinMob VGA is just 320×240 pixel doubled. Yawn. Next!
Bring on the iPod Air!
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/rumored-apple-event-ipod-air/
Where it matters, such as internet browsing and watching video, or in PIM apps like pocketinformant, you get to use all that sweet added resolution. Even on 480×800 (which is what this phone has) the today screen is much longer and lists show more.