Sony Ericsson CyberShot concept phone

This is amazing that Sony Ericsson egineers let their imagination run with this new concept cellphone. This concept handset clearly takes a leaf from Sony's range of CyberShot digital cameras in terms of design, and should it ever make it to the production line, cellphone aficionados will be pleased to note it comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera and an OLED touch sensitive keypad. It'll be probably released the next few years.

Sony Ericsson Black Diamond

Singaporean industrial designer Jaren Goh designed a new hot looking concept phone called "Sony Ericsson Black Diamond". This new phone will have Quad band with Wi-Fi an Intel 400Mhz processor running windows mobile 5 a 262k TFT colour screen,Touch Sensitive 2"screen,it will also feature an internal memory of 128mb and will come with a 2Gb SD card for external storage and to top it all of a 4 Megapixel camera. The materials used for the build are incredibly impressive aswell featuring Titane with Polycarbonate with mirror-finish cladding and Diamonds. And the Sony Ericsson Black Diamond will be available in 2007 by a company named VIPM not by Sony Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone

Sony Ericsson were rumoured to be working on a Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone last September, ready for release later this year. The PSP is considered a success, and there has been a measured increase in support of the mobile gaming platform. Already, Sony's Cybershot and Walkman phones pack a lot of media features, boasting of a PSP-like interface. The next big move might be an all-out PSP phone. Some very excited sources say that after the Cybershot and the Walkman phone, which do take after Sony's great ideas, a PSP phone will come out eventually - sort of like being part of the line. People wonder, though if a gaming mobile unit is ever going to take off or not, like the not-so-successful Nokia N-Gage. Then again, if this comes out, it'll be a PSP - and a phone!

Sony Ericsson W580 with Pedometer

Sony Ericsson announced a new slider in Sony Ericsson’s line of Walkman phones. The W580 comes in two colors, Style White and Urban Grey. Specially, the new Sony Ericsson W580 has the built-in pedometer, which allows you to track your steps, calories, and monitor your running speed/distance/time. Other features: . 2.0-megapixel camera . 2.0″ QVGA 262K TFT screen . Network: EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 . Stunning light effects along the sides . Comes with a 512 MB Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) . Weight: 94g (3.31oz) . Size: 99 x 47 x 14 mm (3.89 x 1.85 x 0.55 in).

Sony Ericsson HCB-120 Bluetooth Speakerphone

The Sony Ericsson HCB-120 is actually a Bluetooth speakerphone designed to sit on a desk or clip onto a sunvisor. There's a sensor that detects its orientation and sets the callerID text right side up, depending if you're at your desk or driving. It will automatically connect to your mobile phone wirelessly while the Colour ID feature can handle six different handset connections. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) with digital noise cancellation and echo reduction ensures you can be heard loud and clear. Using Bluetooth 1.2, the HCB-120 is compatible with Bluetooth phones from Sony Ericsson and other brands, allowing multiple connections to the HCB-120 inside or outside the car.

Sony Ericsson M610i's leak pics

The M610i is a 3G phone support GPRS/EDGE/UTMS/WiFi/Bluetooth connection according to the site. It has an internal codename Lizzy which will be the successor to Sony Ericsson's M600i, and should come with 3.2 megapixel camera and Wi-Fi, too. Rumours suggest Sony Ericsson will announce the M610i around April 14th, so not much longer to wait to find out exactly what Sony Ericsson have in store for us.

Sony Ericsson's First HSDPA Phone

Sony Ericsson's mobiles usually don't make it to this side of the Atlantic, but that trend changed today with the Z750, SE's first HSDPA phone for the States. Essentially what that means is the phone will stream video and let you surf the Web at superfast speeds (for a mobile at least).

Like the Z310, it'll have a mirrored finish that flashes with incoming calls or text messages. You also get a 2-megapixel cam, VGA video camera, Bluetooth, and a Memory Stick slot.

Sony Ericsson W660i

The boys at Sony Ericsson expanded their Walkman phone line up this morning with the W660i. Available in black or rose, the phone will have an optional speaker stand that clamps on to the bottom of the phone. A bundled 512MB Memory Stick Micro card will get you started with your music collection, as well as save those incriminating photos you'll be able to take thanks to the phone's 2-megapixel camera. The 3G phone will also have an optional camera phone kit, basically a 3-inch high tripod that steadies the phone for quaky shutterbugs. All this goodness will be available this spring.

Sony Ericsson K810i

The K810i CyberShot phone represents everything you'd dream a camera phone would feature just a couple of years ago. A 3G phone with a 3.2 megapixel camera coupled with Xenon flash, auto-focus, red-eye reduction, and the ability to optimise brightness and contrast of a pic at the touch of a button, are all camera-specific features that people who wanted to take proper pics with their camera-phone were crying out for. The K810 will appeal to those using their mobile phone on a regular basis to capture quality shots while on the move. Its slender good looks belie its high specification; it's not only a UMTS device for high-speed Picture blogging, but also one of the most advanced camera phones available. When in camera mode, the Xenon flash with red eye reduction will help to achieve great picture results in low-light conditions. Equally, the new illuminated Camera Icons will allow the user to select advanced camera settings (such as picture size & self timer) by simply clicking on one of the hardkeys; so no need to navigate into the full camera menu and risk missing that special shot.

Sony Ericsson K850i

Sony Ericsson has been making headlines these past few weeks and the latest SE leak exposes the company's new Cyber-shot K850i. Despite the phone's buff 5-megapixel lens, the 3G phone will have a slim .5-inch waist line along with mobile broadband via UMTS. No word on storage or expandability, though from the looks of it, the phone shouldn't disappoint any SE fans. It's expected to make its debut at CeBit.

Sony Ericsson K618

Sony Ericsson just kicked out the K618, a new UMTS handset that they're touting as being as "light and slim as a typical 2.5G phone". Which probably makes tons of sense to the average consumer. Anyway, besides UMTS the K618 has a 1.9-inch, 176 x 220 pixel LCD screen, a 2.0 megapixel digital camera, and Bluetooth EDR (and support for A2DP, which means you can use it with stereo Bluetooth headphones). Should hit "selected markets" sometime in Q3 of this year, and no price is listed.

Sony Ericsson coporates with UIQ

When a single manufacturer accounts for an overwhelming majority of your license revenue, it stands to reason that said manufacturer might save a little dough in the long haul by acquiring you outright. And so it goes for the long, passionate relationship between UIQ and licensee Sony Ericsson; of the 13 handsets running the Symbian-based platform, nearly half -- six in all -- have been designed and produced by Sony Ericsson, with the remainder split between Motorola and Arima units that haven't seen been met with nearly as much publicity. The Swedish company, currently owned by Symbian itself, will be transferred to Sony Ericsson (pending clearance of the typical bureaucratic stuff, of course) for an undisclosed sum but will continue to operate as an independent entity with the current management team in place. Though UIQ promises that its platform will continue to be available "on equal terms to all its licensees," the move makes official what's been known for years: that UIQ is to Sony Ericsson what S60 is to Nokia, an interpretation of the Symbian smartphone operating system to call its own. Will UIQ ever match S60's popularity, particularly in the Symbian-friendly European market? Probably not, but with a committed partner now laying out the requisite cash, it does seem more likely than ever that UIQ's here to stay -- and as always, we're all about choice.

Sony Ericsson's P990i gains FCC approval

Announced way back in October, that Sony Ericcson P990i just got tagged with the FCC's good housekeeping seal of approval. With that out of the way, we might actually see this tri-band GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 with UMTS (2100) handset with Symbian OS 9.1 / UIQ 3 Stateside sometime in Q1, Q2 , Q3 after the 2100MHz spectrum comes off the auction block and into the greedy little hands of your fave (or not so fave) wireless provider. And with a 2.8-inch touchscreen, 802.11b WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, 2 megapixel cam, media player, QWERTY keypad, and suite of corporate email connectivity options, well, we're guessing that even with all the delays, you might still care.

Sony Ericsson is going to double Remote Control

Sony Ericsson is going to make a blueprint for a cell phone/universal remote combo. The mobile will have a touch-screen display and come with pre-programmed interfaces for various components. To add extra functionality, you'd simply download additional interfaces.

Sony Ericsson announces HBV-100 Bluetooth VoIP kit

Sony Ericsson has ventured into VoIP territory before with its Bluetooth headsets, but in that case the headset had the slight drawback of only being compatible with Sony's own VAIO BX Laptops . Now the company's finally seen fit to give other PC users a break with its latest Bluetooth VoIP kit, although Mac users are, unfortunately, still out of luck. The headset in the kit is Sony Ericsson's existing HBH-PV705 model, available in blue only, and promising the same 12 hours of talk time and 300 hours standby time as before. It gets paired with a USB Bluetooth adapter, which means that you don't have to worry about having a PC or laptop with built-in Bluetooth, although its not clear if you can take advantage of that if you do -- probably not, since there's apparently no software or drivers involved here. Sony Ericsson hasn't announced how much it'll cost just yet, though it should be available before the end of the year.

Sony Ericsson is going to make PSP phone

As far as rumors go, this one is about as thin on the deets as they come, but Cnet Asia is reporting that Sony Ericsson senior VP of Product and Application Planning, Rikko Sakaguchi, actually alluded to plans for a game-playing phone at a recent press event in Sweden. During what was presumably the Q&A portion of a media conference in honor of the merged company's fifth anniversary, Sakaguchi reportedly answered a question about a theoretica PSP phone (most decidedly NOT pictured above) by saying simply that Sony Ericsson "is working on something," but that "the surprise must be kept for the future." Yeah, we know, not too much meat here -- Sakaguchi did mention that the objective was to integrate gaming and communications functions, not to create a dedicated gaming device (whatever that means) -- however, after the relative success of its Walkman and Cybershot lineup of handsets, it certainly makes sense for the company to leverage the PlayStation brand in this market as well. Sony Ericsson would be wise, though, to learn from Nokia's experience with the N-Gage, which is that, well, people don't like the N-Gage. So, here's to hoping that the Ericsson side of the equation can knock some sense into the Sony side of the equation, or else we may end up with a bulky, side-talkin' handset which uses even more proprietary formats that no one is interested in.

Sony Ericsson P990 gets LocationFree support

It looks like the Symbian Smartphone Show is shaping up to be a bit of a showdown betwixt placeshifters today, with both Sling and Sony announcing Symbian support for their respective products' players. Unlike Sling, which announced both UIQ and S60 versions of its SlingPlayer Mobile, Sony is only going as far as UIQ support for its LocationFree on the wings of its fresh P990 smartphone -- a very Sony-like (read: proprietary) move, considering Sony Ericsson isn't down with the Nokia-backed S60 platform. Odds are Sony would've liked to have cut a version for its smartphones a year or two back, but the P990 is the first phone in the P series to rock data fast enough (via UMTS and WiFi) to handle the heavy-duty bandwidth requirements LocationFree -- or most any other placeshifting tech, for that matter -- requires. Sony Ericsson's claiming immediate availability of the Symbian client, though it's not yet live on the P990's download site. Of course, a LocationFree player doesn't do much good without the device itself, and a US version of the P990 is nowhere in sight, so just keep on toolin' around with these PSPs until further notice.

MapQuest's Send to Cell Makes Mobile Mapping Slightly More Convenient

MapQuest's newest feature in their quest to maintian what's left of the public mindshare that Yahoo, Microsoft Live, and Google Maps haven't already eaten away is called "Send to Cell." You first find map a location or set of driving directions on MapQuest, then click the "Send to Cell" button and type in your phone number, and the correct link/details will get sent to your mobile. If you've got MapQuest's java app installed, the embedded link in the SMS will open up the corresponding view in your mobile. If not, you're sent to an HTML page.

In this day and age of mobile Google Maps and Windows Live Maps already on smartphones and dumbphones, only a few people would really need to plan out their directions beforehand and send them to their cellphones. One of which could be our buddy, who seems to think that just because we're sitting in front of a computer all day makes us their personal map guide.

Undressing Sony Ericsson's W880i

We all knew Sony Ericsson had a winner with their new Walkman phone, the W880i. It's thin, it's got an awesome interface, expandable memory, and did we mention it's thin? The Boy Genius himself seems to have a crush on the phone, claiming he'll never settle for another Nokia or HTC fattie again.

Sony Ericsson patents cellphone docking station

Laptop docking stations are so early-2000s, as Sony Ericsson has already patented what is essentially a docking station for your cellphone, dubbing it a Mobile Phone Multimedia Cradle. As predicted, the envisioned device would function much like standard lappie docking stations do today, as it would dock one's cellphone for charging / syncing, feature a numeric keypad and QWERTY keyboard for dialing and typing, a built-in LCD screen for video out capabilities, and a variety of ports for peripheral connections. The device would allow users to surf the web, manage contacts / photos, transfer files, and basically do anything a highly-spec'd smartphone can do, but in your lap (and in place of a laptop). Of course, managing to play nice with every single powerful handset in the world would be a monumental challenge, and we're still a ways off from having a true laptop-replacing cellphone, but we'd wager that this here invention is certainly not a bad one to have on the drawing board. Click on through for a side-angle conception.

Sony Ericsson's Next Touchscreen-based Smartphone?

The Sony Ericsson's next smartphone will be a touchscreen-based mobile codenamed "Sneff". It's either a touchscreen or a slider, although those "buttons" up front lead me to believe it's the former.