Mobile Phone News

It has been quite a while since the last post appeared on this blog. Unfortunately, Nick is no longer writing for the Sony Ericsson blog, however, I will try to continue his wonderful blog. I have received numerous e-mail from our readers whether the blog would continue or not. So, surprise surprise. This blog will be continued. One of the factors why I decided to contribute to this blog is the rapid change on the market. Let’s quickly touch the base.

Earlier this month, there was confirmed news that TechChrun’s Michael Arrington had abandoned iPhone for an Android phone. Not a big deal you may think. Wait a minute. Michael Arrington is the founder and owner of TechChrunch. Not only is TechChrunch one of the most respected technology sites but Michael Arrington had been one of the greatest proponents of the iPhone.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO had to resign from the board of Apple. Well, the conflict of interests you know. So, there is a tendency of tech leaders abandoning iPhone and moving to… well to Google’s Android. One of the factors influencing tech leaders to abandon iPhone is Apple’s ultimate decision to ban applications in the App Store that enable Google Voice. With this decision, iPhone developers and users were frustrated. As an iPhone proponent and owner I was frustrated as well.

So, what do these facts have to do with Sony Ericsson? Well, as you may be aware, Sony Ericsson has been struggling past couple of months or maybe more. However, the company looks to have finally sorted itself out and I believe will emerge strongly on the market. The company will be lead by a new CEO, Bert Nordberg, from October as well.

Interestingly, this fall we shall see much awaited XPERIA X3 based on Google Android. A while XPERIA X3 was posted to the Expansys USA site and preorder was availbale. Moreover, Celluloco posted a price of $948. So, most likely, we’ll see this wonder phone somewhere by the end of September.

To sum up, Sony Ericsson looks pretty well prepared for the upcoming months and the holiday season. Hopefully, the overall economic situation will get improved in the upcoming months and this will play a positive role in Sony Ericsson’s new wave.

It’s a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 device with a candybar-QWERTY form factor and QVGA resistive touchscreen. But as the below video shows, the device does some interesting tricks in the interface.

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As PR disasters go, having your flagship product pulled from stores in the run up to Christmas is pretty high up there on the list. Just ask Sony Ericsson who suffered this fate several weeks ago when the UK’s main retailers were forced to withdraw the Satio, the companies first 12 Megapixel camera phone, from sale due to a series of software faults. With customers complaints ranging from poor battery life to phones freezing and crashing, it was obvious something needed to be done to remedy the problem. Thankfully for consumers and the manufacturer themselves, Sony Ericsson duly obliged and have pushed out a firmware update.

The firmware update, release R1CA037, brings some much needed stability to the Satio eradicating the afore mentioned problems. Sony Ericsson have also gone on record to state that the new firmware should also bring general performance improvements with some users already commenting online of smoother navigation and faster application launches. The new firmware is shipping as standard with all new Sony Ericsson Satio’s which have returned to stores and are back on sale from today. For those of you with a Satio already, you can update your firmware here.

This new phone of Sony Ericsson, T715 comes with two color options. They are Rouge Pink and Galaxy Silver. The pink color comes with mirror finish and the silver color with piano finish. The phones will be available in market in Q3 2009.

Equipped with 3.2 Mpx camera plus Photo Light without autofocus, the 2.2? TFT screen is scratch resistant and supports 262,144 colors with 240 x 320 pxs resolution. It works fine under sunlight. This phone supports microSD card and GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS/HSDPA 2100. The size is compact, 91.5 x 48 x 14.9 mm with weight 96.5 g.

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