Sony Ericsson’s Android-powered XPERIA X3 launching in January?



We’ve barely gotten used to the possibility that Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE)’s upcoming XPERIA X2 will command a whopping $850+ dollars at retail, and now we’re hearing that the X2’s sequential successor, the XPERIA X3, will be going live in January of 2010. Mobile Crunch is reporting on an as-yet unconfirmed rumor that Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X3 will make its debut as the company’s first Android smartphone in time to usher in the new year.

The XPERIA X3 packs a 4-inch 800 x 400 touchscreen, 8.0-megapixel camera, 3G data, WiFi, GPS and a whole bunch of Androidy-goodness. If previous leaks pan out, the XPERIA X3 Rachel will also sport a slick, custom Android UI (custom user interfaces are coming left and right these days).

There’s talk that Sony Ericsson is thinking of ditching Windows Mobile altogether, which just might have something to do with SE’s expedited X3 launch window. But, keep in mind, this is all speculation. We’ll know more about the X3 in due time.

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ovo ce biti "llaunched" za tri godine

u januaru 2010 pise.
I SE krece sa androidom

Sony Ericsson Kurara suffers leakage, reveals HD label?



Boy, we sure do love our early glimpses of pre-release hardware, and today we have not one, but two sources of purported pictures of the Sony Ericsson Kurara. Touted as a sibling to the Satio, the Kurara is mooted to have a 3.5-inch AMOLED touch-sensitive screen, 8.1 megapixel camera and, wait for it, 720p video recording. The image above seems to confirm this with a big "HD" inscription next to the camera lens, but that label is missing in the gallery below. We'll just put that inconsistency down to the extremely early samples on show, and start getting all frothed up in excitement over the possible UX inclusion on this Symbian S60 device when it starts selling in the first half of 2010.

Gallery: Sony Ericsson Kurara leaks out

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A tipster sent us a photo of a Sony Ericsson phone we haven't seen before. It looks like a Sony Ericsson Kurara, it quacks like a Kurara, but has a QWERTY keyboard. Yep, this just might be a new entry into Sony Ericsson's U series.

We don't know how much this unknown phone and the Sony Ericsson Kurara have in common, besides the obvious similarities in looks. From the screen it's clear enough that it runs Symbian S60 5th edition.

The touch-enabled Sony Ericsson phone with QWERTY keyboard we expected to hear from this month was the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2, which got delayed till January this year and should be getting an official announcement soon.

So, what exactly is Sony Ericsson doing here - will the yet unnamed Kurara look-alike share its 8MP camera and its 720p video recording? The XPERIA X2 does have an 8MP camera, but it only captures WVGA video at 30fps. Then again the QWERTY-enabled Kurara will most likely have nHD screen resolution instead of the WVGA resolution of the X2 (360x640 vs. 480x800, both on a 3.2" screen).

Along with the OS - Symbian instead of the Windows Mobile of the XPERIA X2 - the CPU is another major difference between the QWERTY-wielding Kurara and the X2 (600Mhz Cortex A8 vs. 528MHz Qualcomm MSM 7200).

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Sony Ericsson Roby


We just got tipped with a new shot of an unannounced Sony Ericsson phone. We don’t mind getting images of unknown phones and actually we love taking quick peeks at what's cooking right now. Especially when it's phones as cute as the Robyn - an Android smartphone that rightfully deserves a name along the lines of XPERIA X10 mini.

After the QWERTY-equipped Kanna that we told you a few days back, the Robyn is the second Sony Ericsson device that surfaces this year.

The Sony Ericsson Robyn looks exactly like the already announced Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, but only… twice as small. The cutie still packs a touchscreen and runs the Android OS.

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Pictures: Sony Ericsson Faith



Martin from DailyiPhoneBlog.com just published new pictures of a new unannounced Sony Ericsson phone called “Faith”.  The phone will run on Windows Mobile 6.5 and be a part of the Green Heart devices. Head over to this post to view the gallery.

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Sony Ericsson is working on Android 3.0 PSP phone
The Sony Ericsson PSP phone is probably the only mobile product in history to have been rumored for a longer period of time than the Apple iPad. That’s no small feat to accomplish.

And while the PSP phone of 2007 is clearly a dead project, the rumors have started again. This time, there are many details, so this actually has a good chance of being true.

It goes like this. Sony Ericsson are hard at work developing a gaming platform on top of Android 3.0. This will come with its own ecosystem and, apparently, a device.

The phone is described as being a cross between the Samsung Captivate and the PSP Go.



The above image is obviously a crude mockup, but you get the idea. A side-slider that reveals dedicated gaming controls instead of a QWERTY keyboard. The d-pad is present, as well as the PSP buttons and shoulder buttons, but a “long touchpad” will replace the traditional joystick.

The phone will have a touchscreen display between 3.7″ and 4.1″ in size, diagonally, with at least WVGA (480×800) resolution. The camera is probably going to be 5 megapixels, but that is subject to change before release. The most likely SoC to power the thing will be none other than Qualcomm’s now-famous Snapdragon solution, clocked at 1 GHz.

Design-wise, there’s a lot of black, some silver highlights, and the gamepad area will be mostly white.

Right now it carries Xperia branding, but when it launches it might also have PlayStation written on it. That certainly wouldn’t be surprising, given Sony Ericsson’s recent history of loving very long names (see Xperia X10 Mini Pro, for example).

The PSP phone will run Android 3.0 Gingerbread with a phone-specific skin and the Android Market on it will have a special category of compatible games. These games may be made available for other Android smartphones as well, if they meet the minimum hardware requirements and have the needed button placement.

Graphically, the games will be in PSP or PSX territory, meaning that full 3D gaming is coming to Android. Future plans for games even include augmented reality features built in.

The phone and games ecosystem may be introduced as early as October, but that’s not confirmed yet, and frankly seems a bit hard to believe. It’s unclear at this point if Google will have finalized Android 3.0 by then, and let’s not forget that Sony Ericsson Android smartphones are currently all stuck on Android 1.6 even if there are already two newer versions available. So Sony Ericsson aren’t really the fastest when it comes to software.

This strategy does make sense, for both Google and Sony Ericsson. Google need a great gaming experience on Android to finally be able to match Apple’s last big platform advantage, and Sony Ericsson need, well, anything that could possibly gain a lot of traction. After their experiences with smartphones in the past year, if they do this right, it may be a much needed breath of fresh air.

However, no matter how good the source, I still find this hard to believe. After more than three years of PSP phone-related speculation, it seemed like such a thing would never exist. And now it turns out it may, and even this year?

Interesting, yes. Can Sony Ericsson pull off the hardware side? Sure. No one really understands why they haven’t tried something like this before. But software… I’ll believe it when their current flagship smartphone, the Xperia X10, gets at least Android 2.2 on board. Because as of now, they’ve scheduled the update to Android 2.1 in Q4.

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Pictures: Sony Ericsson Playstation Phone




The rumors were true! A while ago we reported that Sony Ericsson had plans to release a Playstation Phone and today the guys at Engadget managed to get their hands on a few pics of the device. The phone is supposed to run on Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) and have its own Sony Marketplace.

Specs:

    * Gingerbread
    * Sony Marketplace
    * 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655
    * 512MB RAM
    * 1GB ROM

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