Well, if you want to use Skype without your computer, you're in the right place :)
Today I've reinstalled Skype's official Java application for mobile phones and find out that after my last post about it, the Beta version has been updated and the number of supported handsets has been increased.
If you remember, last time to run Skype's new application on my Sony Ericsson P1i, I had to install the version for Sony Ericsson W850i, because there was no P1i or other UIQ3 devices in the list of compatible phones. Well, in this update, there is still no compatible version for my smartphone, but now at least we have it for a couple UIQ3 devices, for Sony Ericsson G700 and G900 and it's the most approximate version for me.
So I've installed one for G900 and it works very well, unfortunately this version for touchscreen phone has no touchscreen capabilities on my P1i (Or maybe it's not working on G900 too? G900 or G700 owners, can you please comment about this?) except of the touch softkays, which is quite enough for me :)
The software is still free and now it works on almost 100 handsets.
Skype Limited offers its application for Sony Ericsson users who has: C702, C902, G502, G700, G900, K550, K610, K660, K750i, K770, K800i, K810, S500, T650, T700, TM506, W200, W300i, W350, W380, W550, W580, W610, W660i, W710, W760, W810i, W830i, W850i, W880i, W890, W902, W910, W980, Z310a, Z525a, Z550a, Z610, Z750a, Z770.
So, who wants to use Skype without its computer, please hit the link and download Skype.
But looks like it was the first and last Windows Mobile based smartphone made by HTC for Sony Ericsson.
According to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report, Sony Ericsson's partnership with HTC will come to an end when the current production of Xperia X1 handsets completes its business circle. But of course that doesn't mean that there isn't going to be the next Windows Mobile based smartphone from Sony Ericsson, looks like Sony Ericsson plans to outsource it to Taiwan-based Mobinnova, a handset maker under Foxconn Electronics.
Well, for now this information is not confirmed officially, but in a fact, this situation was pretty possible, after the release of the HTC HD (BTW, brilliant smartphone), HTC has become primary competitor of the Sony Ericsson on a market...
Indian developers are offered an exclusive award and recognition program through Sony Ericsson Developer World activities in India. Winners qualify for a 100-day mentorship to be groomed to work closely with Sony Ericsson and become a Sony Ericsson Certified Developer.
There are two award categories: "Best Application" and "Best Application Idea", with entry open for 45 days until January 10, 2009.
The winners from the two categories, six in total, will qualify for the 100-day mentor program and move onwards to becoming a Sony Ericsson Certified Developer.
Submitting entries also means Indian developers become registered Community members of global Sony Ericsson Developer World, enabling you to enjoy the benefits of free technical support by participating in the discussion forums and wikis.
Submissions are open through a new web site until January 10, 2009.
Do you remember Sony Ericsson's old accessory Camera Phone Kit IPK-100? Well, looks like Sony Ericsson just has updated it...
The name of the new phone tripod is Sony Ericsson IM502 and actually, there is not so much to talk about, more interesting thing is its naming, nomenclature... If we'll be based on SEMC Blog, its naming is a good example of the new nomenclature of upcoming Sony Ericsson accessories.
Well, looks like IM502 will be the first accessory for 2009 with new nomenclature...
KDDI au's CDMA based lineup has been expanded with Sony Ericsson's cute little creature from Walkman family - Sony Ericsson Xmini.
Membership of the Open Handset Alliance will complement the company’s existing Open OS strategy which is based on the Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms.“Sony Ericsson is excited to announce its membership of the Open Handset Alliance and confirm its intention to develop a handset based on the Android platform,” said Rikko Sakaguchi, CVP and head of Creation and Development at Sony Ericsson. “We believe Sony Ericsson can bring a wealth of experience in making consumer focused multimedia handsets with new user experience to the Alliance drawing on the successes of the Walkman and Cyber-shot sub-brands. Sony Ericsson is a strong supporter of open operating systems and we believe the Open Handset Alliance offers an exciting opportunity for a new and unique user experience only Sony Ericsson can deliver.”
Recently, new touch-friendly web browser for UIQ3 devices Ozone has been unveiled.
Despite of its 0.9 version and Alfa state, Ozone already works pretty good and it easily can compete with Opera or other browsers.
In my opinion, the best thing in this browser is its User Interface, It is a touch-friendly as much as possible and pretty convenient for surfing, but besides of the UI, Ozone's features make it one of the best in its class. From the open-source WebKit engine, it not only delivers advanced features such as client-side database support, zooming, tapping and multiple windows, but Ozone also provides the best web-standards compliant experience that's available.
Features:
- Touch screen control
- Zooming and panning by finger
- Multiple windows
- Pop-up blocking
- Auto-comple URL editing
- Desktop/mobile mode switch
- Netscape scriptable plugin
- HTML5 client-side database support
- High performance disk caching
- Fast image decoding
- Favorite icons
- Bookmark management and advanced HTML
- CSS and JavaScript (SquirrelFish) support.
jQuery test: 99.8% pass rate (2 tests of 1271 failed)
3x faster. engadget.com, Ozone: 40 seconds, @Web: 117 seconds, Opera Mobile: 123 seconds
Tested with Sony Ericsson G900
To try Ozone browser, you can download it from here, or if you have any questions or feedback, you can visit its official website.
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Sony Ericsson today announced the winners from its global mobile camera phone photography competition, World View 2008. Now in its third successful year, World View has once again brought together the global mobile imaging community by enabling anyone with a camera phone, to capture and submit their best images – with the chance to win one of two holidays of a lifetime.
The Expert’s Choice Award
The camera phone photo entitled “Peace” has won the ‘Expert’s Choice Award’ for Sony Ericsson’s World View 2008 competition. Taken by Marriane Nill from the Philippines, her photo impressed the international panel of photography experts, and was chosen as the winner from over 64,905 photos submitted from 27 countries.
The world-renowned judging panel felt the photo demonstrated success on all levels and that it captured the essence of mobile photography as it was spontaneous, humorous, memorable and communicated to a universal audience. The judges also thought the use of natural light was excellent and they believed people from all over the world would be able to relate to this photo because it taps into people’s emotions.
Marriane will receive a once in a life time photography trip for two, worth £10,000, to really test out her camera phone skills.
David Viggers, leading UK based press photographer and World View judge, commented: “This year, the best was even better. World View shows what camera phones are made for; they have the unique capability to capture spur-of-the-moment situations.”The two experts’ runners-up photos include: “Switching a Bulb” by Minghui Li from China and “Going Upstairs” by Riemer Dekker from the Netherlands. They will both receive the latest stunning Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot 8.1 mega-pixel front sliding mobile phone, enabling them to continue capturing spontaneous moments in life.
The judges felt the other runner-up image, “Going Upstairs”, had the texture, rhythm and composition to make it a beautiful photo with a classic feel. Liu Heung Shing, international photographer based in Beijing and World View judge, commented: “It would be difficult to achieve a result like this if the photographer tried too hard to compose the photo. It is an excellent image taken in one frame, at an unplanned moment.”
Runner-up Minghui Li comments: “The reason it is better to take photos with a mobile handset is that it is convenient. You can take a photo no matter where you are. Also, the megapixel quality has become better and better, and by using a mobile camera phone I can record my life – it is something that has became part of my life."
The People’s Choice Award
Tony Briggs, a UK based photographer and World View judge, commented on the overall World View entries by adding: “No one takes pictures of things they want to forget. This is the essence of mobile phone photography.”
This year Sony Ericsson introduced a new award, “The People’s Choice Award”, which enabled the public to vote for their favourite camera phone image entered into World View 2008. Gisela Cañete from Argentina received the most votes with “My best memories”, and has won a once in a life time photography trip worth £5,000.
Gisela Cañete comments: “This is absolutely fantastic that people from across the world took the time to look at my photo and then vote for it. It is such a great privilege to have won such a phenomenal prize and I would like to encourage everyone to pick up a camera phone and take pictures; it ensures you never miss an opportunity.”The two runner-ups will also receive Sony Ericsson’s newest C905 Cyber-shot 8.1 mega-pixel camera phone. The runners-up are:
- Fan Lin’s submitted “the scent of Wuzhizhou island” to showcase the beauty of this island.
- Fredy Aguilar’s submitted “Colombian Butterfly” because he thought the transparent wings on this butterfly were extremely beautiful and unique.
Merran Wrigley, VP, Head of External Communications at Sony Ericsson, said: “We expected a high level of participation for World View 2008 and have been extremely pleased with the calibre and number of outstanding photos that were entered. The age of instant content sharing has arrived and Sony Ericsson, with its Cyber-shot range of camera phones, has been at the forefront of this camera phone photography evolution. It is fantastic that people around the world can use high-quality camera phones to spontaneously capture and share their life experiences. Not only that, World View offers an exciting prize incentive to encourage people to test out their camera phones and show-off their best images to the world.”
World View Background
- The competition was first launched in 2006 with 15 countries taking part and a total 30,837 entries
- Now in its third year, the 2008 competition has seen more than double the entries since its first year with 27 countries activating the competition and over 64,905 entries received
- Seven markets also partnered with local media publications and online websites to raise awareness of the competition
The panel consists of four international judges, including:
- David Viggers – UK based Press Photographer
- Tony Briggs – UK based Photographer/Director
- Martin Wezowski – Senior Designer, Sony Ericsson, Sweden
- Liu Heung Shing– International photographer based in Beijing
To see the two winning images along with the four runners up and winning pictures from each of the participating countries, and for further information about World View, log on to www.sonyericsson.com/worldview
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If you don't remember, Sony Ericsson's Project Capuchin technology is a Java ME API that defines a bridge between the Java ME and Adobe Flash Lite programming environments and is currently available for mobile phones that are largely developed on Java ME with Flash Lite on board. (Read more here...)
In order to spread the use of Project Capuchin technology, Sony Ericsson announced the intention to develop another set of Project Capuchin tools for Symbian Foundation-based phones at the Symbian Smartphone Show (October 21-22, 2008 in London, UK).
In his keynote presentation, Patrik Olsson, Head of Software at Sony Ericsson, illustrated the possibilities of Project Capuchin by showcasing some of innovative applications where Flash Lite uses the intelligence from Java applications.
It is Sony Ericsson’s intention to make Project Capuchin more widely available in a shared and collaborative manner to the industry. The terms and conditions under which Project Capuchin will be made available is still work in progress.
Sony Ericsson will base phones on the upcoming Symbian Foundation platform in the future but as the Symbian Foundation is not a reality yet, Sony Ericsson suggests us to use the Symbian/S60 5th edition SDK for application development as this will be compatible with the upcoming Symbian Foundation platform.
The most popular mobile web browser Opera Mini has been updated to version 4.2 ... It's a beta version at the moment, but works perfectly for me.
So what we got in the new version:
Skins
Personalize Opera Mini by choosing a new colorful skin. We have reintroduced the popular skinning feature from Opera Mini 3.
PerformanceOpera Mini 4.2 can use our newly established server park in the US. This means significantly faster page downloads for our users in the Americas and Asia-Pacific region. Users in the rest of the world will also experience faster page downloads since we’ve reduced the load on our other servers.
Video
We are working to make video content available on more phones through Opera Mini. If you have a new Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone, the chance is high that you can take Opera Mini for a spin on m.youtube.com.
Sync your Notes
The handy Notes functionality from the Opera Desktop Web browser just got more portable through Opera Link. All of your notes are available in Opera Mini directly from the Bookmarks menu.
To download the beta version of Opera Mini 4.2 Point your phone’s browser to mini.opera.com/beta or alternatively, you may download Opera Mini to your computer for a manual installation.
Standard Opera Mini 4.2 beta JAR (124 KB)
Standard Opera Mini 4.2 beta JAD (4 KB)
BlackBerry Opera Mini 4.2 beta ZIP archive (104 KB)
Palm (requires JVM installed) Opera Mini 4.2 beta PRC (316 KB)
Note that: Opera Mini 4.2 beta installs next to any existing stable Opera Mini version on your device and will not overwrite any of your data.
Speaking on the occasion, Dick Komiyama said, “We put special emphasis on India and are committed to further investment and expansion in this country as we strengthen our market presence. India is one of the three most important markets for us.”In line with its strategy for the region, Sony Ericsson has established integrated operations in India Region which include product development, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and after sales service.
Anil Sethi, President of India operations added that Sony Ericsson will tap the vast pool of very talented young engineers in the Chennai area to create India specific products and services. He added that the center will also serve as a global resource to augment Sony Ericsson’s technical capabilities around the world. It will also create opportunities for the young engineers coming out of the Indian educational system to get exposed to the latest technological practices around the world for which closer interaction with the Indian technical institutes is planned.
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