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.