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While the guys from LG are getting ready to release the Prada II, a slider version of the previous one, with full QWERTY keyboard, the Sony Ericsson G910 would make the first generation of handsets branded with the fashion designer’s logo tremble. Still, the company is busy for the moment with the release of Xperia X1, which was showcased on September 18, 2008, at Tent London, during the London Design Week. The event gave Sony Ericsson the opportunity to reveal its innovative and unique style amongst some of the world’s most cutting edge designers and to have the visitors experiencing and exclusively previewing this stunning phone.

In the meantime, the company’s fans are trying to design concept phones according to their needs and desires. Sony Ericsson G910, created by Czech designer J. Havrlant, known for his soulful Sony Ericsson concepts, is both stylish and touch-friendly. Lacking a QWERTY keypad, the phone must have a virtual one. The phone features a navigational pad beneath the screen which seems fairly easy to use and is surrounded by icons that look sensitive to touch. The navigation wheel and the rounded overall aspect make the touchscreen handset to look like an Asus or a HTC device rather than a Sony Ericsson one.



The display is large and seems to be of significant resolution, in order to provide a sharp image display. As the G910 is apparently designed to be the G-series flagship handset, it should come with multimedia and Web-oriented features. You could easily notice the little icon on the down-left corner, which means the G910 should run on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, as the Xperia X1 does. Other compulsory features of the handset should be a wide touchscreen display, a photo camera (as a matter of fact, there is a dedicated button for it on the left side) and a front-facing camera for video calls.

The Sony Ericsson G910 is undoubtedly a pretty nice concept and has what it takes to rival other handsets of reputed brands: it’s stylish, elegant and features not only a smooth metallic finish, but also an advanced operating system.

Although we might never get to see such a device becoming real, concept phones are meant to help better understand which features we’d like our phones to have and how they must look like in order to fulfil our dreams.

(Source concept-phones.com)

The “eco-friendly” or “environmentally friendly” syntagms are synonyms used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment. A widely spread law of economy says that needs are infinite while resources are limited, and therefore scarce. That’s why, each time a certain invention is brought to light, the first thing we should worry about must be the influence its appearance will have on the environment.

Taking care of the world we live in should be an individual task for each and every one of us, but also part of the corporate social responsibility of each company’s politics. We shouldn’t be surprised that more and more companies rely their success on them being involved in crucial issues of the moment.

Given the context, Sony Ericsson joins the team of those who stand for an eco-friendly evolution of the mankind, shaking hands with Samsung who introduced its corn-based E200 Eco cellphone and Nokia who had the idea of an Eco Sensor concept device. The company recently announced the launch of its environmentally friendly handset called the GreenHeart. Unfortunately, the cellphone might not ever reach the mass production and we should be satisfied with all the promises invading the market nowadays. GreenHeart incorporates a bunch of green technologies that people would love to see in the stores over the coming years, especially because the ideas it is based on are totally logical and could be executed today.



The device has a pretty decent life cycle due to its bio-plastic housing and recycled plastic materials keypads, the zero charger with 3.5mW standby power and the HTML-based electronic manuals, in order to diminish the number of cut down trees for paper. In addition, the phone comes in an even “greener” package and features “Ecomate”, an educational application that looks much like a fun game.

The whole point with these types of handsets is to minimize as much as it’s possible the impact a cell phone has on the environment. I’m not sure we’ll get to see the concept becoming reality, but Sony Ericsson has shared it with a few selected partners in the industry and got some extremely positive answers. The next step will consist on initiating a two-way conversation with costumers in order to find out which features they believe should be implemented in future phones and in what priority.

Steps like this one have been made before, but we should pray for a similar concept to finally see the light of the day, so that environmental sustainability wouldn’t be just dust in the wind.

(Source concept-phones.com)

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You know the Sony Ericsson F305 if you had the chance to read the article about the gaming cell phone. There is presented the Zeemote JS1, a new wireless gaming controller compatible with the Sony Ericsson F305 cell phone. It allows you to play motion-based games using one hand.

"Sony Ericsson prides itself on bringing intuitive technologies to its customers. We recently announced the motion gaming F305 and we're delighted to be giving our Netherlands customers the opportunity to be the first to own an award winning Zeemote JS1 controller," said Max Van Den Berg, General Manager at Sony Ericsson Benelux. "Adding a new dimension, such as controllers for mobile gaming, gives us and our customers a competitive edge!"



Sony Ericsson F305 gaming cell phone was announced in June and is expected in stores during this autumn. It is a slider measuring 96 x 47 x 14.6 mm at 97.5 grams that sports a 2-inch TFT LCD display of 256K colors, on which you can control motion games in a fun way by swinging and swiping the handset. In addition to the motion sensor, it also features built-in stereo speakers to enhance both the gaming experience and music listening.



“Gaming is no longer something you do on your own. It’s about having fun with your friends and interacting with the game” says Sven Totté, Head of Product Marketing at Sony Ericsson. “We have used motion sensor technology before in our phones and integrating it into gameplay is a natural progression.”

This gameplay can last an impressive amount of time up to 8 hours, but if you don’t feel it’s enough you can simply connect the Power Pack CPP-100 backup and increase the time significantly.
Games preloaded are Bowling, Bass fishing and Jockey, while from PlayNow you can download other 50 games with 2D and 3Dgraphics.

Other features of the Sony Ericsson F305 gaming cell phone include MP3 player, 10MB internal memory expandable via a Memory Stick Micro memory card, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB connectivity, Internet browsing, email, Instant Messaging, FM radio with RDS, TrackID, picture blogging, as well as a built-in 2MP camera with video recording.



No word on price yet. Stay tuned!

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The Advanced Wireless Services spectrum offers support to cell phones for the 1700/2100 frequency bands, enabling voice, data, video, and messaging services. In the United States T-Mobile is the one who offers this feature for the 3G network.
With support for the AWS, the telecommunication company has released a new cell phone model designed by Sony Ericsson. TM506 is the first model from Sony Ericsson with such feature and will be available next month on the market in a nice clamshell form factor with interesting Chrome with Amber or Emerald accents and an ebony gloss.

"The TM506 not only signifies Sony Ericsson's expanding U.S. portfolio of handsets, but more importantly, that we have forged a strong and promising relationship with T-Mobile," said Najmi Jarwala, president of Sony Ericsson North America. "With the launch of the TM506 with T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson is positioned to offer more choice of mobile handsets for a broader range of U.S. consumer segments at a variety of price points."



Features include a long lasting battery of up to 9.5 hours talk time with 250 hours of standby, a built-in 2MP camera with video recording, Assisted GPS for location tags on pictures, the TeleNav Navigator, RSS feeds, myFaves, Audio Postcard, Mobile Backup of the address book, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP for stereo streaming, games, M2 Memory Stick slot, email, web browsing, and Instant Messaging.



"T-Mobile continues its 3G network deployment across the country, and we're pleased to leverage Sony Ericsson's 3G handset experience to help deliver the benefits of our next-generation network to our customers," said Cole Brodman, chief technology and innovation officer, T-Mobile USA. "The Sony Ericsson TM506 is a compelling, feature-rich phone with a vibrant display that our customers will enjoy using to connect with the important people in their lives."

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The James Bond phone in the image is no other than Sony Ericsson C902 CyberShot used by Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace, the latest James Bond movie, for capturing evidence and help the agent in his missions. The model is available at about $600 unlocked and this is a limited edition that will come out in November with the movie’s themed content on a memory card provided with the model.
It is the result of the collaboration between Sony Ericsson and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures.

The Sony Ericsson C902 Titanium silver edition will bring also a pre-loaded spy-style James Bond game, the movie trailer, behind-the-scenes interviews and lots of James Bond wallpapers and dynamic screensavers.
It has an advanced built-in 5MP digital camera with slide-out lens cover, illuminated dedicated touch icons for instant access to the camera functionality, face detection, image stabilizer, video stabilizer, flash for low light conditions, autofocus, BestPic tool for taking 9 pictures of the moving subject simultaneously, Picture Blogging, and PictBridge to print your creations by connecting to the printer directly.

“We are excited to announce the continuation of our relationship with the James Bond films and unveil James Bond’s new phone for this year - the limited edition version of our C902 Cyber-shot phone,” declared Lennard Hoornik, Corporate Vice President and Global Head of Marketing, Sony Ericsson. “With the rich array of content both on the phone and preloaded on a memory card bundled with the C902 Titanium silver limited edition, fans of the secret agent will only get more James Bond with Sony Ericsson.”

Other cool Sony Ericsson camera phone features include auto-rotate for landscape mode using the accelerometer technology, multimedia player, FM radio, 3D games, video streaming, RSS reader, web browser, email, Instnt Messaging, USB mass storage, Flight Mode, optional card reader, GPS option, and a 2-inch TFT display of 262K colors.

The phone measures 108 x 49 x 10,5 mm at 107 grams and has 160MB internal memory expandable via a Memory Stick Micro card, as well as high-speed connectivity via the 3G HSDPA 2100 standard, offering up to 9 hours of talk time and 400 hours of standby.