Opera Software announced that Opera Mobile 9.5 would be coming soon and would be shown at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. I had a chance to visit the Opera Software booth and spoke with a product manager who ran through this latest mobile browser on a Sony Ericsson UIQ device. You can see some of the features of Opera Mobile 9.5 in action in the following video.
The HTC Advantage I have been using for several months comes with Opera Mobile 8.5 preloaded in the ROM and is actually the selected default browser on the device. Opera Mobile 8.5 makes the device much more useful for me since I find Internet Explorer Mobile to be a weak mobile browser. However, there are still a few websites I need to visit that Opera Mobile 8.5 doesn’t fully support and I am hoping that Opera Mobile 9.5 provides this needed functionality and from the press release and seeing it in action I think this just may be the browser I need.
Opera Mobile 9.5 has been improved with new zooming and panning capabilities, faster page loading, Flash Lite 3 support (up to OEMs and operators), and Opera Widget capable. Other features include tabbed browsing, landscape support, call phone number from a web page, send a link as a text message, and much more. The public beta should be available soon and I can’t wait to try it out.
The Register had a chat with Mats Lindoff at MWC, and the resulting conversation some good points made in it - you can read the full thing here, but below, for brevity, is the bulleted-version:
On why WinMo for the X1: SE need to have a broad portfolio
On X1 sales volumes: not expected to be a high seller; for the techie niche
On UIQ vs WinMo: UIQ is two of the newly announced handsets - G700 and G900
On SE's lack of CDMA: Ericsson is showing LTE at 25Mb/s (good answer!)
Big for next year: DLNA (built on UPnP) to make handset in to universal remotes
On innovation: C902 has R&D led tech inside it e.g. face recognition and tap-to-focus
[Via: The Register]
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I always thought the Sony Ericsson W910 is a special handset. As a matter of fact, I've called it the best non-smart musicphone for couple of times.
So I was not that surprised to learn that GSMA honored it with the Best Handset 2008 award. We're not sure whether judges like the shake control, auto-rotate feature, 3D Java games or HSDPA — or everything that combined — it's just the fact that the Swedish-Japanese handset maker has one of the best on-the-go entertainment devices in its portfolio. Yeah, we also suggest the W910 for those not looking to buy a smartphone, but an easy to use yet powerful music phone… Full release follows after the jump.
PRESS RELEASE - Sony Ericsson is delighted to announce that its W910 Walkman phone has been awarded Best Handset at the GSM Association's 13th Global Mobile Awards 2008.
Launched last year, the W910 Walkman phone is designed for entertainment; whether music, 3D games, video, or high-speed Web access. It's also geared to let consumers choose their music just the way they want it. Applications such as Shake control enable them to flick the phone to control games or skip and shuffle between music tracks while SenseMeTM lets them discover music to match their mood and tempo. With its 1GB Memory Stick Micro provided in box, the W910 Walkman phone can hold over 900 songs* with room for plenty more thanks to its expandable memory.
"We are very proud to receive such a prestigious award for what has proved to be a very popular product," says Dick Komiyama, Sony Ericsson President. "The W910 Walkman makes it quicker and easier to transfer or download music. It's also about thinking beyond music, to games, videos and the Web."
Since the launch of the W800 Walkman phone in August 2005, more than 57 million Walkman phones have been sold worldwide. The Walkman phone range has seen rapid expansion, most recently with the launch of the W980 Walkman phone at this year's Mobile World Congress. This latest Walkman phone promises to get the most out of consumers' music with superior clear audio sound, storage for 8,000 songs, and Walkman on Top experience that allows users to control all of their music from the outside of their phone.
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The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is Sony Ericsson’s first cellular phone that runs on Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system. Comes equipped with a gigantic 3.0-inch LCD Touchscreen, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 slider phone is said to challenge Apple’s iPhone that shake the mobile industry in 2007. Thanks to the Windows Mobile operating system, the XPERIA X1 comes preloaded with Microsoft Applications including Words, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Mobile Media Player Mobile, allowing users to work and relax at anywhere. Other features of the X1 phone includes ultra-fast 3G data connectivity support (UMTS), a built-in 3.2-megapixel digital camera, and built-in GPS navigation system.
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 Features and Specifications
Sony Ericsson announced the release of its new Xperia X1 arc slider phone on February 10, 2008. The handset belongs to the company’s premium class of phones. The device promises to provide users with a unique cell phone convergence experience.
The Xperia beautifully converges mobile web communication technology with multimedia entertainment. It sports a 3 inches wide video graphics array (VGA) touch screen display that shows beautiful images with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.
The Xperia lets the users explore it various functions in a unique manner. The handset’s front panel features a touch sensitive full QWERTY keyboard and a 4-way navigation key with optical joystick. The device has well spaced keys that make it much convenient to type with it. The phone is equipped with a global positioning system (GPS) receiver that lets one locate her or his exact position in a city.
The Xperia is equipped with a 3.2 mega pixel camera with auto focus. The device operates on a Windows Mobile operating system. It comes with 400 MB of built in memory that can be expanded further by using a microSD memory card. It has support for GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850/1700/1900/2100 MHz and UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 900/1700/1900/2100 MHz networks.
The phone is equipped with a Bluetooth stereo (A2DP), Media Player and FM radio. It sports an Internet Explorer Mobile web browser that gives continuous internet access to the users while they are on the move. The device features a predictive text input application and also has support for handwriting recognition.
Dee Dutta, Sony Ericsson’s Head of Marketing said that the launch of Xperia X1 places the company at the forefront of mobile convergence. The company’s Head of Portfolio & Propositions Rikko Sakaguchi said that their aim was to deliver a seamless blend of multimedia entertainment with mobile web technology within a unique design.
The Xperia X1 comes in a quality metal finish. The handset’s arc design provides it a solid feel. The device comes in black and silver colors. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 will be widely available in markets from the last quarter of 2008 onwards.
Sony Ericsson was busy making announcements at Mobile World Congress yesterday and two new smartphones that were announced almost didn’t catch my attention because their model numbers are almost the same as a couple of Cybershot phones they announced.. The upcoming SE C700 and C900 Cybershot phones are actually full UIQ smartphones, but I initially had them confused with the two SE C702 and C902 Cybershot camera phones also announced yesterday. I found out from reading All About Symbian that these other two were actually UIQ devices.
The G700 has a 2.4 inch touch screen display, 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth radio, and Memory Stick Micro expansion card slot. The G900 has all the features found in the G700, with the addition of a 5 megapixel camera and WiFi.
The G700 will launch in Silk Bronze and the G900 will launch in Dark Red and Dark Brown. Both are UMTS 2100 and GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900 phones that will be available in selected markets from Q2 2008.
Opera Software announced that Opera Mobile 9.5 would be coming soon and would be shown at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. I had a chance to visit the Opera Software booth and spoke with a product manager who ran through this latest mobile browser on a Sony Ericsson UIQ device. You can see some of the features of Opera Mobile 9.5 in action in the following video.
