When Sony Ericsson announced the Arc, the Arc Neo, and the Play, we though “yeah that’s it”, but it isn’t. Apparently there’s still another undisclosed member of the Xperia. What the heck right? The company has yet to officially announce the phone, but it was spotted in the firm’s PC Companion software in Japan, and it’s called the Acro.
There’s no image of the phone though at this moment, and sites all over the world are starting some very funny rumours of its specifications. XperiaBlog says the Acro sports a 4.2-inch display, an 8.1-megapixel camera, support for NFC, a DTV chip and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
Well, looking at how things go, I can assume that the Acro will most certainly be running on Gingerbread (Android 2.3), but anything can happen really. There’s no launch date, and there’s no pricing, heck there’s not even an image. What’s next, a new model call Afro?
Surprise, five PlayStation One titles to the Android Market: Syphon Filter, MediEvil, Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, and Jumping Flash, and each will be priced at £3.99 in the UK, with the first two games on the list also being available in five languages. But wait, don’t go and get them just yet, because you’ll need to have an Xperia Play in order to play them. Yes, these games are specially ported for the Xperia Play, and Sony Ericsson has just confirmed that over 60 games will be available at launch for the Xperia Play.
Yes the Sony Next Generation Portable (NGP) isn’t out yet, but it’s worth Sony’s mention. Sony’s streaming subscription music service, Music Unlimited, is headed to both the PlayStation Portable and its pair of divergent spiritual successors the Next Generation Portable and Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play.
Eurogamer had a chat with Sony Network Entertainment VP Shawn Layden, who confirmed the news, that the service would be activated (at least in the UK) on PlayStation Portable “in a matter of weeks.”
Meanwhile, Android phones including the infamous PlayStation handset will get Music Unlimited “this year,” and SNE “will make it happen” on the NGP as well, presumably sometime after the company reveals when its beast of a portable game station will actually come out.
So does this mean that we’ll actually see the NGP hitting retail stores within this year?
The Sony Ericsson’s new Android phone that’s oriented for gamers will be arriving in stores on the first day of April for all UK operator partners except for O2. Apparently O2 is facing some software issue with the phone, but we’re not sure which phone, as O2 has exclusivity to the white version while the rest not. This is essentially a software glitch, as other partners don’t seem to face such problem except for O2.
We’ve heard about it for so long, and then we’re previewed by Sony about its awesomeness and the Gingerbread and the new PlayStation feature, and we even see its Havok-engine support. Now, the peeps at UK rejoice and mark your calendar for March 31st. That’s the end of the month and falls in nicely with the “late March” word we’d heard for elsewhere in the world, though that is awfully late. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will hit UK on the last day of March. That is, if you can’t wait for the Sony PlayStation NGP with its awesome quad-core nuclear reactor power.
The news of the PlayStation Phone just won’t stop coming, which shows how real this thing gets. The phone, codenamed Zeus Z1 is getting popped up on the Internet more often now, and we’re getting two more new videos of the phone from Sony. You can clearly see a “PlayStation” icon on the phone’s touchscreen UI, which should hopefully put to rest any doubts that this phone will actually play PlayStation games.
Wow, this sure has taken a very long time for Sony. Sony Ericsson has announced that it’ll begin delivering Android 2.1 upgrades to its X10 line of phones at long last this coming Sunday, October 31st — but odds are pretty good you won’t be in the first batch. In fact, only unbranded X10s, X10 Minis, and X10 Mini Pros in Nordic countries will be getting boosted at first, followed by “more kits” on Monday and throughout November. As a refresher, these updates will bring 720p video capture on the X10 proper (complete with continuous autofocus), a new backup / restore app, and a bunch of other tweaks that should make your classical X10 looks more ‘youthful’ and not so 2009! But I’d prefer if it’s Froyo instead.
You see, back 5 years ago, hardly anyone I know uses Apple’s product, but now every teenager that I know is talking about Apple. Yes, specifically the iPhone. Back then majority is using Nokia, and those that wanted to stay different would be getting an Ericsson. Those that wanted something more special would be getting a Samsung Blue-i and then a Samsung True-I, or the Motorola Razr lineup. Panasonic is making waves with the girls on their tiny G50 phones. There’s no such thing as an Apple iPhone. Read more…
And you thought that Sony Ericsson would sit quietly and let Nokia claim the crown in smartphone’s camera sensor? The Nokia N8’s awesome 12-Megapixel sensor will soon get pawned by Sony’s new 16.4-Megapixel CMOS sensor. This would obviously find its way into their famous camera phone lineup, namely the Cyber-shot S006 smartphone. Read more…
Sony Ericsson is now the official mobile handset of the UEFA Champions League, after signing a sponsorship to partner with UEFA last week. Besides leveraging on Sony Corporation’s existing global marketing partnership with UEFA, Sony Ericsson will be integrating a new application which is jointly developed with UEFA.com. Through this partnership, Sony Ericsson will have exclusive rights to distribute news and info of the league, giving fans around the globe greater access to the ‘best football’ league in the world through this specialized mobile application. What’s no mentioned thought is the platform that is based upon, which we assume to be on Android exclusively for Sony Ericsson handsets.
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