Exclusive: Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform and PSP Go-like smartphone
There's no question that gaming on the Android platform has heretofore been relatively underwhelming, but that looks like it's all about to change. It seems that Sony Ericsson -- a company that has yet to even introduce an Android 2.0 device -- is at work on a project to redefine gaming on Google's mobile platform
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: ecosystem, ericsson, gamechanger, gaming, gaming-platform, mobile, psp, psp2, result, sony, sony-ericsson, sony-ericsson-xperia
Sony Ericsson X10 firmware update introduces wildly annoying WiFi bug
Apparently, the latest firmware update for Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 (which, yes, is still based on Android 1.6 ) does more harm than good -- if you're frequently using WiFi and you find yourself in weak cellular coverage, anyhow. Basically, any time your cellular signal drops to zero then bounces back, WiFi turns itself off, which is particularly brutal considering that a weak signal is probably why you're leaning on WiFi in the first place. We don't have details on what X10s are affected, but R2BA026 sounds like the offending version -- so if you see it, we'd probably stay far away until SE manages to push another update
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, ericsson, mobile, offending, probably-stay, signal, sony, x10
Sony Ericsson posts second consecutive profitable quarter
Sony Ericsson managed to keep the good times rolling in the second quarter of 2010, posting its second consecutive razor-thin net profit -- this time of €12 million (about $15.6 million) on sales of €1.757 billion ($2.284 billion).
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: black, earnings, earningsreport, entry, ericsson, mobile, over-the-past, sonyericsson, time, vivaz, xperia
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has been rooted, all is right with the world
Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 has been out and about for some time, facing off against the competition and predictably getting ripped to shreds . Now it has reached the next natural step of its evolution: receiving the root treatment by a bloke at xda-developers .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: competition, ericsson, phone, root, sat, sonyericssonxperiax10, these-things, world, xperiax10
Sony Ericsson X10 Mini teardown reveals densely packed, tiny hardware
The crew at iFixit were jonesing for something to disassemble recently, and Sony Ericsson's X10 Mini seems to have been the nearest thing they could lay hand and screwdriver upon. We'll admit HTC has us kind of spoiled with the colorful interiors of its phones, so we were a little underwhelmed by the demureness of the X10 Mini. Everything is packed into the utilitarian logic board, and although you get to decouple the screen and antenna assembly, it's still mostly a thick slab of highly integrated technology.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: engadget, ericsson, htc, integrated, Logic, qualcommmsm7227, screen, screwdriver, sony-ericsson, source, teardown, x10 mini, x10mini
Sony Ericsson’s 3-inch Xperia X8 made official, coming in Q3 2010 for €259
While the real Shakira may be busy gallivanting over in South Africa, Sony Ericsson's handset that bore the same (code)name has today been unveiled as the latest member of the Xperia line. Bridging the gap between the fully formed X10 and its Mini siblings, the 3-inch Xperia X8 will run Android 1.6 somewhere deep underneath a comprehensively customized skin.That means you get Sony Ericsson's social (Timescape) and media (Mediascape) aggregators whether you like them or not, and by the looks of the early hands-on pictures, it seems like a straight port of the UI available on the X10 Mini
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: africa, been-unveiled, ericsson, fully-formed, gallivanting, handson, made-official, proposition, sony ericsson x8, sony ericsson xperia x8, x10
Sony Ericsson’s Cedar and Yendo phones leaked, vying for your attention
Oopsie! Looks like Sony Ericsson's become as leaky as BP's oil rig these days , although we can't say we're all that stirred up by this particular expos
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: become-as-leaky, curvature, ericsson, greenheart, greenheart cedar, human-curvature, sonyericssonyendo
Sony Ericsson ‘Shakira’ to be called the Xperia X8?
We hesitate to call these legit press shots -- as we've said before, Sony Ericsson fans are world-renowned for their capacity for high-quality fakery -- but German site mobiFlip.de has posted a bunch of renders of the so-called Shakira that look very possibly real to us. They're also saying that the phone will be dubbed the Xperia X8 at retail, a name that probably makes sense considering that the 3-inch Android phone is clearly designed to slot in below the high-end X10 . Beyond that, we still don't have much to go on -- pricing, availability, target markets, and so on -- so we'll just hang out here on the edge of our seats for a while longer, or until we're distracted once again by the X10 mini pro's mind-numbing cuteness
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: capacity, distracted-once, engadget, ericsson, fakery, quality, result, shakira, sony, target
Sony Ericsson’s Zylo slider earns FCC approval
There's nothing quite like the harsh lighting of an FCC approval lab to call out a phone's true colors -- if a handset can look good here, it can look good pretty much anywhere.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: approval, colors, ericsson, fcc, harsh-lighting, lighting, like-the-harsh, Measurements, slider, sony, time, true, words
Sony Ericsson ‘Shakira’ is a lower-cost X10 alternative?
Call it the Legend to HTC's Desire , if you will, but we're hearing that Sony Ericsson may have another Android device in the works that would slot in beneath the high-end Xperia X10 . The phone -- allegedly codenamed "Shakira" -- is said to have a 3-inch display, but otherwise, we don't have any details; the tipster says that it could be running either Android 1.6 or 2.1, and with Sony Ericsson's custom skin in full effect, it's impossible to tell from this shot. Of course, the SE community has a legendary reputation for creating unbelievably convincing mockups, so we can't rule this real until the day it's announced; then again, it stands to reason that they'd want to make something cheaper than an X10 and less of a novelty gadget than the X10 mini
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: engadget, ericsson, in the wild, inthewild, legendary, reputation, rumor, until-the-day