MobiFrance Concept Phone, the Perfect French Gift on July 14th

MobiFrance celebrated the French Independence Day on July 14th by showing the world a neat concept phone shaped like the Eiffel Tower. The concept bears the name of FL (French Luxury) and it’s a touchscreen handset with a 7.2 megapixel camera.

If you hold the phone vertically it looks just like the famous French monument, the Eiffel Tower and you’ll also notice that it features speakers on its sides. The FL supports multimedia playback, features a vibration mode and that neat touchscreen is an OLED display. No news about the price of this beauty, but it’s pretty interesting to see the Sony Ericsson branding on it.

New Sony Ericsson W707 Alicia

Sony Ericsson W707 Alicia is the new clamshell phone from sony ericsson.Sony Ericsson W707 Alicia is another walkman phone.but no much word about the features but I can says for the feature are displays screen, external speaker, and a 3.2Mpix camera with no auto focus.

Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 gets more details

The buzz and hype over Sony Ericsson’s upcoming XPERIA X1 smartphone continues to build up as Sony Ericsson’s developer site posted an updated white paper about the mobile phone. The white paper is still a long read and might bore you to death so if you don’t have the time to check it out, the paper contained two bits of new and welcomed information.


So now, aside from the details that we already know as well as some pre-order pricing from some wireless carriers, we were also able to learn that the XPERIA would have 256MB of SDRAM and a 1500mAh lithium polymer battery which can give out a good 10 hours of talk time via GSM or 6.5 hours via UMTS.

Sony Ericsson W580i in Jungle Green And LG Shine Black Comes To AT&T

AT&T has announced that Sony Ericsson W580i in Jungle Green And LG Shine Black is available at AT&T at the moment.
Sony Ericsson W580i in Jungle Green will be sale for $79.99 with 2 years contract and $149.99 with 2 years contract for LG Shine Black

Sony Ericsson sees red with new handset

Sony Ericsson’s new W910i Walkman music phone was all shook up with the Shake Control action that changes tracks, but now it is seeing red with a new scarlet version, which has won Best Handset at the Global Mobile Awards.

Head of PR for 3, Rachel Channing, said: “Today’s mobile generation look for both functionality and form, and the W910i in red delivers both. It’s a talented entertainer and offers mobile music, TV, news and sport on the go.”

The W910i is the latest in Sony Ericsson’s all-rounder lifestyle phone with an emphasis on music downloads and listening experience, as well as Gracenotes’s Music ID service for recognising album tracks.Apple’s iPhone may get its edge from touch screen technology but Sony Ericsson has opted for a Wii-type experience where the user can change tracks while holding the phone, all with the flick of a wrist.

This slider phone also promises a 3D-gaming experience and user-friendly mobile web.

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Of course, this being a Sony Ericsson mobile it plays music. While it lacks the Walkman branding it still has a decent enough music player built in, and there is an FM radio too. There is 32MB of internal memory and a 256MB Memory Stick Micro card provided. That's rather measly in my view, and Sony Ericsson should have considered going the whole gig with the card.


As ever, the problem with music playback is Sony Ericsson's insistence on using a proprietary headset connector, and this time round there is no 3.5mm jack past the microphone for you to switch over to your favourite headphones. At least the connector is in a pocket-friendly location on the bottom end of the phone rather than being on one of the long edges.

As for battery life, I can tell you that it lasted for a couple of days between charges with a bit of music playback and some web browsing as part of my usage pattern.

There is a camera which shoots stills at 2-megapixels and lacks auto focus or flash. It is definitely not one of Sony Ericsson's better offerings and produced nothing I'd really be happy to do much with apart from look at on the phone itself or upload to the Internet.

The coloured dish, photographed under normal household lighting conditions has good colour tones though its background is not the uniform white it is in reality. Outdoors the detail on the chair is fuzzy, and the white is not uniformly reproduced.

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With so many handsets doing the rounds at the moment Sony Ericsson has to find a differentiator for each one, and colour is not enough on its own. In this case the differentiator is all about the web and this is where I get onto the backlights.


There are four of them, to the right of the 3, 6, 9 and # keys. They are lit up when they can be used, which means you are in the web browser. Hit the relevant one and you can enter text into a Google search bar, slip quickly over to your bookmarks, go back to the 3 home page, or use the zoom and pan feature.

If you hit the zoom and pan button you can then use the navigation button to pan around a thumbnail of a web page, and zoom in by clicking the central select button.

Another web browsing plus is what Sony Ericsson calls ‘horizontal web browsing'. This doesn't refer to browsing the Web when you are lying down, though that is absolutely doable. No, it means you can turn the screen into landscape format. Hardly a novel idea, but it does make browsing through more complex page that bit easier with a few more pixels of width to play with.

If you are really into the online stuff, you get your own Blogger site with the phone and can upload pics and vids to it direct from the handset. The upload process is available as soon as you've captured an image or some footage.

To make the most of all this web browsing you are going to need reasonable data speeds. And you get them. The K660i is an HSDPA handset. When you can't get that kind of connection it'll drop through the spectrum till you hit GSM, at which it supports quad-band access. There is a front-facing camera for two-way video calling too.

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Sony Ericsson's K660i is available in several places. However only 3 has the lime white version I have here.

I rather like the look of this mobile. With the exception of pink, which I won't go on about again, and brown, which I just don't think is a good colour for a mobile phone, I'm pretty hospitable to a flash of colour on a handset.


Some might say that the lime green and white does look a bit ‘sweet-shop', but others might call it ‘spring-like'. Either way, if it is to your taste, it is certainly different.

Most of this candybar phone is actually white with silver borders, with the lime green coming into play as a band all around the edge as well as the background to the buttons which sit between screen and number pad. The lime green is also used in the various backlights, which I'll come to later, and as the colour scheme for 3's theme. All in all, then, this is a bright and happy handset for bright and happy people.

There is a little haptic response when you move around in the main menu. It is so subtle you could almost not notice it, but actually I rather liked it. I can't say the same for the number pad buttons which are small and round. They are easier to use than some I've seen on Sony Ericsson handsets, but more difficult to use than others, and I found it challenging to get text into the handset at my usual speed.

It is hard to fault the screen with its 240 x 320 pixels, 262 thousand colours, 2 diagonal inches of display area, and bright and crisp rendition of information.

The size and weight of this mobile meet with my approval too. At 95g the K660i is light to tote, and its 104mm of height, 47mm of width and 15m of thickness shouldn't challenge many pockets

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