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mercredi 28 septembre 2011

Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro to launch next week

Par Bruno le mercredi 28 septembre 2011, 11:05

It seems that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro will finally be arriving with us next week.

The Xperia Pro was revealed at the start of the year, and initially Sony Ericsson had it down for a July release.

However, July came and went, with the expected availability date being pushed right back to October – something to do with component shortages after the Japanese quake disaster, the rumour mill speculated.

So now October is imminent, and it does indeed seem to be the case that the Xperia Pro will finally hit the shelves, at least according to online retailer Clove.

The company announced on its blog page: “We have been informed today that we will be receiving stock of the Xperia Pro on the 6th October. This will please a lot of you I am sure as we have had many enquiries about the ETA of this device.”

So there you have it, a week tomorrow is the date to mark in your calendar. Clove will be flogging the handset for £323 sim-free.

In terms of tech spec, the Xperia pro comes with a 3.7 inch display driven by the Bravia engine (with a resolution of 854×480) and a slide-out Qwerty keyboard.

There’s also an 8 megapixel HD-capable camera and a 1GHz processor, plus an HDMI output. The OS will be Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Given the price, that’s some pretty nifty technology on board, although the 1GHz processor is looking a little slower these days, compared to some of the 1.5GHz beasts flying around.

vendredi 10 juin 2011

Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman and txt pro handsets revealed

Par Bruno le vendredi 10 juin 2011, 11:31

Sony Ericsson has announced a pair of new smartphones, the Mix Walkman and txt pro.

The Mix Walkman is, unsurprisingly, a music-focused handset with features that include a karaoke function which when activated automatically lowers the vocal on any track so you can sing along (Lord preserve us).

There’s also a “Zappin” key (as seen on other Sony music players) which unfortunately doesn’t pulse out a laser beam to strike down friends making a very bad job of karaoke, but rather plays a preview of the chorus of the next song up when pressed.

You can then decide whether you want to listen to it. Not exactly revolutionary, but we guess you might find a use for it.

The Mix Walkman’s specs comprise of a 3 inch 400×240 display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a microSD slot, bluetooth and wi-fi, plus of course a media player and other integrated apps such as Facebook.

The Sony Ericsson txt pro, as the name suggests, is just the right handset for avid texters who can’t be bothered with capital letters.

Basically, it’s got the same specification as the Mix Walkman, more or less, but with a full slide-out Qwerty keyboard for nippy messaging.

Sony Ericsson’s Global Product Marketing Manager, Quentin Cordier, commented: “We wanted to take advantage of our extensive Facebook fan base when announcing these phones, bringing the fans closer to both our products and brand.”

“We are really pleased that consumers liked them for their music and social media functionality and expect them to become great additions to our overall portfolio of entertaining phones.”

Both handsets are set for a third quarter launch, although there are no pricing details as yet. We’d expect they’ll be competitively pitched.

jeudi 2 juin 2011

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has 20+ new games incoming

Par Bruno le jeudi 2 juin 2011, 18:47

The Xperia Play hasn’t exactly flown off the shelves since its launch, part of the reason for that being the rather lacklustre nature of the games available for the smartphone with a slide-out gamepad.

However, Sony Ericsson is hoping that over twenty new games will increase the allure of the gaming handset, the biggest of which will be a mobile exclusive on Minecraft, the free-form construction game and indie PC hit.

We can’t imagine that the Android exclusive on Minecraft will be a lengthy one, but who knows. It’ll certainly annoy a lot of Android gamers if it is.

Other new games which will be coming out exclusively on the Xperia Play include Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Shadow Vanguard. A new batch of PS1 classics is also promised, no names have been named yet, but hopefully these will be juicer than the existing library.

Massively multiplayer online games are also coming to the handset courtesy of Spacetime Studios with Pocket Legends and sci-fi MMOG Star Legends.

Tempted at all? At least the sim-free Xperia Play is now a bit cheaper than it was at launch, generally priced at around the £450 mark (Orange has it on PAYG for £430 for the exclusive white version).

samedi 28 mai 2011

O2′s white Sony Ericsson Xperia Play finally on sale

Par Bruno le samedi 28 mai 2011, 08:29

O2 has finally ironed out the problems it was having with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, and the exclusive white version of the gaming phone is now available from the network.

The so-called PlayStation phone launched on April 1st (at some retail outlets anyway), so O2 has fallen two months behind thanks to the software issues it encountered.

However, with these solved PAYG customers can now pick up the Xperia Play in white for £430. If you want the handset for free on a two year contract, you’ll have to stump up £37 per month for 900 minutes and unlimited texts.

However, the bad news is that no data allowance is included, so if you want the standard 500MB per month which would go with this sort of contract normally, that’ll be £6 extra, making for a total of £43 a month.

Which seems a bit out-of-whack given that the handset will cost you over a grand at the end of that fairly standard two year deal.

On top of that, the Xperia Play has rather fizzled since its launch, with some folks certainly not convinced that it makes a great gaming device. The PS1 classics available for the handset have been disappointing, too.

Still, if you were waiting for the white version, now’s your chance to bag it. At least the PAYG price tag on O2 is more competitive (it’s £470 sim-free on Play.com, for example).