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.