XPERIA X5 Android Phone, a Shane A. Bygrave Design With Great Specs on Board

15/08/2009 14:17 par slaytane

After the XPERIA X2 got somewhat official, since tons of leaks have revealed its looks and specs, it’s time to move on to the future of Sony Ericsson’s smartphone series. This is why we’ve been seeing so many XPERIA X5 concepts on the Esato board, the latest being Shane A. Bygrave’s design, you can check out below.

This time we’re dealing with an Android version of the X5, one that weighs 138 grams, measures 110 x 55 x 17mm an comes in 2 colours: Oceanic Blue and Vinyls Red. As far as specs are concerned, the device comes with a primary 4 inch multi-touch OLED display with 1280 x 800 pixels resolution, dual speakers, Android OS, a QWERTY slide out keyboard and portable screen.

4G connectivity is also supported, together with quad-band, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, DLNA, USB, aGPS and there’s also built-in GPS among the features. An AMD Mobile Technology 1GHZ processor is running the show from underneath the case, accompanied by an Nvidia 3D graphic chipset, 1GB RAM, 2GB ROM and SD/MMC/MC card slot (external memory max 1TB).

There’s also an 8.1 megapixel camera on board with Photo Fix, touch focus, video recording and a VGA videocall cam, plus music features like MegaBass and TrackID. The best feature of this phone has got to be the X5’s wireless detachable screen, that’ll provide many hours of multimedia entertainment.

Sony Ericsson Yanq, Windows Mobile 6.5 Smartphone, Designed by a 16 Year Old

15/08/2009 14:09 par slaytane

board user JOJO2531 created some very cool Sony Ericsson concept phones and now we learn an incredible fact about him: his name is Jozef Kocúr (as shown on the concepts) and he’s only 16 years old. Knowing all of these, his latest work, the Sony Ericsson Yanq smartphone becomes even more incredible.

We’re dealing with a Windows Mobile 6.5 device, with a 3.5 inch OLED display, an 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, aGPS, 16:9 screen ratio, WiFi, Bluetooth and HSDPA. The handset’s body is very slim and there are lots of colourful covers to have fun with.

Clear Audio Experience is also supported and you can have a look at more pics of the side, front and back of the Sony Ericsson Yanq concept in the images below.

jalou d&g edition

15/08/2009 14:07 par slaytane

Sony Ericsson s'est associé avec Dolce&Gabbana pour lancer le téléphone à clapet Jalou*, qui est censé apporter du style. Il est petit, mais a un APN 3 Mégapixels, la radio FM, un pédomètre et A-GPS. Les caractéristiques les plus visibles comprennent la couleur rose et le plaquage or. Nous ne savons pas combien il va coûter et qui va le vendre.

Je trouve personnellement que la couleur du téléphone n'est pas terrible, et je pense que le "design" existera en d'autres couleurs, car le téléphone en lui-même est assez simple. *Jalou vient probablement de Jaloux, en français.

Sony Ericsson Jalou : mobile clapet et tendance

15/08/2009 13:59 par slaytane

Le Sony Ericsson Jalou mise sur le style avec un format clapet et riche en facettes donnant un aspect de bijou. Une édition Dolce & Gabbana est au programme.

Au coeur de l'été, Sony Ericsson dévoile le téléphone portable de type clapet Sony Ericsson Jalou qui mise sur un design à facettes, voulant lui donner l'aspect d'un joyau et destiné aux amateurs ( -trices, surtout ) de style et de mode...de l'an prochain.

C'est un téléphone de dimensions 73 x 45 x 18,2 mm pour 84 g avec un affichage interne 2" QVGA ( 240 x 320 pixels ) 262.000 couleurs, avec effet miroir pour se repoudrer le nez, et un écran externe LCD monochrome 1,3" 128 x 36 pixels.

L'interface présente également un podomètre et varie en fonction de la période zodiacale du moment. Les coloris choisis rappellent également les belles pierreries : Deep Amethyst, Aquamarine Blue ou Onyx Black.


Caractéristiques
Du côté des fonctionnalités, le Sony Ericsson Jalou est un téléphone portable quadribande GSM / GPRS / EDGE et UMTS / HSDPA 2100, doté d'un APN 3,2 megapixels, d'un module A-GPS pour géotagguer les clichés, de la Radio FM et de la connectivité sans fil Bluetooth, avec profil A2DP ( pour y relier un casque sans fil ).

Le téléphone intègre 100 Mo de mémoire interne, extensible par port microSD, et dispose d'une autonomie de 7 heures en communication GSM, ou 4h30 en UMTS, et jusqu'à 350 heures en veille. Il possède enfin un navigateur NetFront d'Access pour la navigation Internet, peut faire office de client de messagerie et embarque une application Youtube.

Le Sony Ericsson Jalou sera disponible à partir du dernier trimestre 2009 pour un prix non encore communiqué.

Sony Ericsson Jalou T650i Cameraphone… Hah! They Fell for it…

08/08/2009 20:20 par slaytane

Excuse the ironic title, but it’s funny to see major sites like Engadget taking the Sony Ericsson Jalou T650i concept for a real device. Congrats to the folks of Esato (user LEFTHORSE, if I’m not mistaking) for making such a believable Photoshop render, based on Sony Ericsson W995.

This cameraphone will seemingly run Symbian and support WiFi, plus it packs a GPS chipset and also supports HSDPA connectivity. This is probably the second time that I can spot both the Cyber-shot and Walkman brands on a single device and I’m really wondering what the megapixel count on this phone is… 8MP? Maybe 10?

What do you think? Would you mistake Sony Ericson T650i for a real product?

Sony Ericsson Phones of 2010 Get Pictured; Concepts of Course, From the White Touch Series

08/08/2009 00:02 par slaytane

Esato board user JOJO2531 (or J&K, as he signs the designs) created two pretty interesting Sony Ericsson concepts, that we’ve shown you previously. I’m talking about SE W907 and SE C907 and there’s a new handset to have a look at, T907.

Also, Sony Ericsson C907 had only its picture published, no specs, so here they are: a 3.5 inch multitouch display, Android 2.0, a 12.1 megapixel camera with autofocus and HD video recording, aGPS, WiFi, HSDPA and Wayfinger navigation 9.0.

It seems that the 3 concept phones mentioned above are part of the White Touch Series, that the designer sees as 2010 devices.

The newcomer of the day is certainly Sony Ericsson T907, a touchscreen slider, with a 3 inch multitouch display, Symbian S60 5th edition, a 8.1 megapixel camera with autofocus, aGPS, WiFi, HSDPA and stylish accessories.

Below you can see the phone pictured in white and pink. Its design is timple and stylish, but a bit too square-ish for my taste.  What do you think?

Sony Ericsson K890 Design, Looks Like a Spaceship, Interfaces like a HTC

06/08/2009 17:37 par slaytane

Matthias Kolb from Pulse Design has shown us a pretty interesting Sony Ericsson concept phone, the K890. The phone reminds me of a spaceship, as far as design is concerned and from what I can see, it borrows  HTC’s TouchFLO interface and some Windows Mobile flavor.

Can’t really tell is the device is a slider or not, but I’m betting that there’s a keypad underneath the case, although it can be a mere numeric keyboard. Windows Mobile 6.5? Stylus? What’s your opinion?

A887 Solstice

03/08/2009 11:18 par slaytane

Bien que ce ne soit pas le smartphone le plus intéressant de la gamme d’AT&T, Samsung et l’opérateur américain ont rendu officielle la sortie du nouveau téléphone de Samsung, le Solstice A887.

En ce qui concerne ses caractéristiques techniques, on en sait encore bien peu. Il devrait être équipé d’un écran 3 pouces entièrement tactile, l’interface utilisée sera l’interface Samsung “TouchWiz”. Le Solstice sera quadri-bandes GSM et un bi-bandes 3G, et sera équipé d’un capteur de 2 mégapixels mais sans flash. Il aura aussi un GPS, un accéléromètre ainsi qu’une série de fonctionnalités standard pour ce type de gamme.

D’après ce qui s’est dit mardi, le Solstice devrait sortir aux Etats-Unis le 2 août pour 99.99 USD pour un engagement de 24 mois.

Nokia 5800i XM - better camera, but no Wi-Fi

03/08/2009 10:11 par slaytane

The US FCC website leaked a new version of the popular Nokia 5800. It's called 5800i, but contrary to what the name suggests, it's not a pure upgrade over the regular 5800 XpressMusic. There are no detailed specs yet, but as evident from the photos and the concluded tests, there are at least two differences.

Just by looking at the shots of the Nokia 5800i XpressMusic, there don't seem to be any visual clues to what is different. A closer look at the 3 megapixel camera specs written on the back reveal a longer focus distance - 4.6mm as opposed to 3.7mm in the original model.

Now that may mean one of two things - either the camera has a more narrower field of view (it's more zoomed-in in layman's terms) or there's a larger sensor hiding behind the Carl Zeiss optics there. The first suggestion doesn't make any sense for a cameraphone, so the right answer is probably B). The Nokia 5800i XM has a bigger sensor and that's here to fix one of the major disadvantages of the original - the poor camera results.

However for some reason, Wi-Fi has been left out of the new 5800i equation. Quite strangely, as we're not really sure whether users would prefer better image quality over Wi-Fi.

The Nokia 5800i XpressMusic, of course, is probably far from its official announcement so we'd just have to wait a little bit longer to get all the juicy details. In the end things might take a turn for the better.

Nokia N97 Mini, a Fake or a Genuine Leak

03/08/2009 10:02 par slaytane

After seeing the iPhone nano, it seems only logical that we get to have a look at another “miniature” version of a famous smartphone, this time Nokia N97. Nokia N97 Mini seems to be the slimmed-down version of its bigger brother and I bet that its specs are also less impressive.

N97 Mini lacks the sliding cover of the bigger handset, but its keypad looks very decent and comfortable to use. We’ll see if Nokia announces this beauty of we have to sigh again and accept the fact that we’re dealing with a beautiful render.

The available info doesn't get any further than a spy shot or two, but we're talking the real deal here. The most popular handset in our database for several weeks in a row - Nokia N97 is to have a baby brother soon.

Rumors of a more compact version of the Nokia N97 have been around for quite a while now but that does look rather more believable. The possibility that this might be a nicely done fake unit still remains of course.

With the entry-level 5530 XpressMusic just around the corner, Nokia needs an upper-midrange model to fill the gap between the N97 and the 5800 XpressMusic so it can have a complete range of touchscreen devices. We aren't quite sure if a QWERTY side-slider is the best choice, but the N97 was pretty well received so what do we know. A more affordable version of the Symbian-fans dream device might be just what's needed to have them make the switch to the Symbian touchscreen world.