Sony Ericsson are releasing two phones soon, the Spiro and Zylo. They have been named as ‘walkman phones’ due to their music capabilities. This is a slider phone, so doesn’t have a touch screen like a lot of the new phones out at the moment, although it is incredibly light to carry around. It will be available in carbon black, dusky pink and light green.

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It only weights 90g, with a 2.2 inches screen and 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA). The mobile can store up to 2000 entries and 30 received dialled and missed calls.

This model has a not-so-great built-in camera at 2MP, but does have video capabilities. For all the music lovers, this phone has a Walkman 4.0 player, and instant access to the TrackID feature. This function allows the mobile to ‘hear’ a song that is being played, and will identify the artist and the title of the song, which is then downloadable. This feature seems to have been very popular in 2009, and Sony Ericsson are planning to continue this success.

Bluetooth connectivity, social networking features (facebook and twitter apps), 3.5 mm audio jack, a 2.2 inches display, up to 5 MB of internal memory, a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 16GB of additional storage space, USB mass storage, and support for GSM GPRS/EDGE are all present on this model. This mobile also has other features which you would expect to find on a modern phone and more. Such as, a calendar, alarm clock, FM radio with RDS, SMS, MMS, organiser, speakerphone and flashlight.

This phone possesses a standard Li-lon battery, with a talk time of 4 hours and 30 minutes, and a standby life of 476 hours.

Availability and pricing

This model is not yet available in the UK, although it is predicted to be hitting the market in Q3 2010. Price has also not been specified.

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Background and Look and feel

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro is identical to its sister phone, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, with the exception of a few slight changes. The most obvious difference is that the Vivaz Pro is a slider phone.

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Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro

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The  QUERTY keyboard that slides out is  not only practical, because of the wide spaced keys, but it’s also very good looking. Moreover, despite the addition of the keyboards the phone only gains an extra 2mm in length and depth.

In terms of hardware the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro has the same impressive display as the original Vivaz. The screen is a 360×640 pixel, 216 colour 16:9 nHD touchscreen (TFT). The screen also has an accelerometer which allows you to auto-rotate the screen.

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro

Unfortunately the biggest disappointment of the Vivaz Pro is the removal of the 8 megapixel camera. This has been replaced by a built-in 5 MP, 2560 x 1920 pixels camera which comes with autofocus, LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, plus face and smile detection. The camera is capable of taking HD video (1280×720 pixels)

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro

The Vivaz Pro has push email, instant Messaging, GPS with A-GPS support and Wisepilot navigation. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro also comes with USB v2.0, Bluetooth, WAP and has a HSDPA speed of 10.2 Mbps and a HSUPA speed of 2 Mbps. According to the manufacturer the battery will give you 430 hours on standby and has a talk time of 5h 20m on 3G.

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The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro comes with Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system which will run apps like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. To help deal with the social networking apps and games this phone has a CPU ARM Cortex A8 720 MHz processor, a PowerVR SGX graphics processor, 75 MB RAM and a microSD (TransFlash) that can support up to 16GB, (8GB included).

Availability & Pricing

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro is a nice phone which should be quite successful. As yet it is unclear where it will be sold but it should start to become available in the first quarter of 2010. No guidance has been given on price.

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Background Information & Look n’ Feel

The Sony Ericsson  Vivaz is Sony Ericsson’s first phone of the year and it tries desperately to get away from the flat monolith designs of 2009. Sony Ericsson say they have used their new design philosophy “human curvature” on this phone. What they probably mean is that they have used ergonomics in the design of this device. The phone will be available in “Moon Silver”, “Cosmic Black”, “Galaxy Blue” and “Venus Ruby” colour combinations.

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The Sony Ericsson Vivaz mobile phone comes with an impressive 3.2”, 360 x 640 pixel TFT touchscreen. The display also comes with an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate. The Vivaz has a built-in, 8 MP 3264×2448 pixels camera which has autofocus, LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection.  The camera is capable of video capture of up to at least 1280×720 pixels at 25 frames per second.

This mobile phone has a HSDPA speed of 10.2 Mbps and a HSUPA speed of 2 Mbps. The Vivaz also has push email, instant Messaging, GPS with A-GPS support, Wisepilot navigation, USB v2.0, Bluetooth and WAP.

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The Sony Ericsson Vivaz  runs on the Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system. It will be able to run integrated applications such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube plus a document viewer and a couple of games. To power all this software the Vivaz has 75 MB RAM and a microSD (TransFlash) that can support up to 16GB, (8GB included). The Vivaz comes with a CPU ARM Cortex A8 720 MHz processor and a PowerVR SGX graphics processor.

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Availability & Pricing

In sum this is a nice looking touchscreen with the right amount of power. Whilst the Symbian software is not our ideal, it will certainly do the job for this mobile phone. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz should be available during Q1 2010. Sony Ericsson have not given a price on this device but it is estimated to be around the £400 mark.

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Sony Ericsson are on the verge of launching their first Android mobile phone.

Looks wise this is a large block touch screen smartphone which looks and does the business. This high spec phone will not leave you wanting when it comes to power and versatility.

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The size of this phone will either make you a lover or a hater of XPERIA X10. Many people will buy this device because of its massive 4 inch touch screen, 480 x 854 pixels, display which is capable of delivering 262,000 colours. Others however will complain about the size being too big because it measures 119 x 63 x 13mm. In our opinion the display is the selling point plus it has to be large because everything is done using the touchscreen display. Despite the phones size the EXPERIA is only 135 grams.

Sony Ericsson Experia X10

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 comes with a nice 8.1 megapixel built-in camera. The camera is 3264×2448 pixels and has autofocus, LED flash, touch focus, image stabilization, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, video, secondary videocall camera. Face and smile detection means the camera has the ability to learn who is in the photograph and link them with the contacts stored in the phone. You can also use the mobile phone’s GPS to geo tag images. As yet the info on the video are still vague to comment too much.

Powering this beast of a phone is a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor which ensures rapid loading times and smooth performance and makes it one of the fastest phones in its class.The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 also has 1GB of internal memory and a 8GB microSD card. The XPERIA X10 also has a 3.5 mm audia socket, Bluetooth and an accelerometer.

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This latest smartphone from Sony Ericsson will use Android 1.6 together with the UX Platform which will provide web browsing, email and multimedia functionality. For those more interested in the fun side of the Experia X10 this device has MP4/ H.263/ H.264/ WMV player, MP3/ e-AAC+/ WMA/ RA player, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, as well as YouTube, Calendar, and Google Talk.

Availability & Pricing

The phone is due out in the UK in Q1 of 2010 and will cost about £400

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Background Information & Look n’ Feel

The X10 Mini and the X10 Mini Pro are basically a X10 that has been shrunken down. The X10 Mini Pro differs slightly from its sister phone because it has a slide out QUERTY keyboard. The X10 Mini has a virtual keyboard this is not full QWERTY because the whole point of the phone is that you use it using one hand. Both phones measure 83.0 x 50.0 x 16.0 mm. Owing to the X10 Mini Pro being a slider it weighs 120g compared to the X10 Mini’s 88g. Both phones are available in either black or pearl white.

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To look at both of these devices are very nice looking, particularly the screen. The screen makes use of hot corners for added functionality. Both phones have a 5 megapixel camera rather than a 8.1 camera that you found on the original X10. As with the original these Android phones have a personal organiser, Bluetooth, PC synching, media player, Goggle maps, Google integration with apps.

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The X10 Mini and the X10 Mini Pro come with a 2.55 inch, 240 x320 pixel, 65k colour TFT touchscreen display. The display is scratch resistant and come with an accelerometer sensor so you can auto-rotate the screen.

For such a small device this phone packs a big punch. It has 128Mb of internal memory and it can support MicroSD up to 16GB. This means you can enjoy a whole host of entertainment from 3D games, Facebook, FM radio with RDS, video streaming, Walk Mate and YouTube.

As previously mentioned these phones have a 5 megapixel camera which also includes a flash, geo-tagging, video recording, and video light to improve lighting whilst shooting videos. As for connectivity the phones have A-GPS, Bluetooth, Google Maps, USB Mass storage, Wi-Fi and “Wisepilot” turn by turn navigation.
Talk time up to 4 hours on 3G and up to 285 hours standby time.

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Xperia™ X10 Mini and Mini Pro use the Android™ platform so you can enjoy accessing Google applications such as: Google Search, Google Voice Search, Google Talk, Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and Android Market. The phones also come with social network apps such as Facebook and Twitter.

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All in all these phones are very powerful devices for their size. Unfortunately the keyboard on the X10 Mini is virtual and too small for our liking.

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Status Coming soon
Announced February 2010
Network (2G) GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850
Network (3G) UMTS 2100 / HSDPA 850 / HSDPA 2100 / UMTS 900 / HSDPA 900
Form factor Block
Antenna type Internal

Size
Weight 88.0 g (with battery)
Dimensions 83.0 x 50.0 x 16.0 mm

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Type Graphical
Coloured Yes, TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 2.55 inch
Resolution 240 x 320 pixels
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Timescape UI
- Scratch-resistant surface

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Shared memory 128 MB
- Photocall
- microSD (TransFlash) up to 16GB, 2GB included
- CPU Qualcomm MSM7227 600MHz

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Polyphonic ringtones Yes
Ringtone profiles Yes
- MP3 ringtones
- 3.5 mm audio jack

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HSDPA speed 7.2 Mbps
GPRS Yes, Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Yes, Class 10, 236.8 kbps
WLAN Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
USB Yes, 2.0 microUSB
Bluetooth Yes, 2.1 with A2DP
WAP Yes
Browser Yes, HTML
Email client Yes
- Android OS 1.6
- Push email
- Instant Messaging
- GPS with A-GPS support

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Vibration Yes
SMS Send / Receive
MMS Send / Receive
Camera Builtin, 5 MP, 2560?1920 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, video
Java Yes, via third-party application
Games Yes, (changeable)
Clock Yes
Alarm Yes
Calculator Yes
Calendar Yes
To-do list Yes
Voice memo Yes
T9 Yes
Multiple numbers / contact Yes
Handsfree Yes
Headset jack Yes
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
- YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
- Document viewer

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Type Li-Po
Standby time GSM: 285h / 3G: 360h
Talk time GSM: 4h / 3G: 3h 30m

The Sony Ericsson Aspenis the second ever mobile phone to use Windows Mobile 6.5.3. According to Sony Ericsson the Aspen is a phone with a conscience because it’s greener than many other cell phones. As part of Sony Ericsson’s “GreenHeart” range the Aspen is packaged using recycled materials that use water-based paint. The Aspen also comes with a “GreenHeart panel”, an “Eco mate application” and a “Power Saving Mode”. All these “green” applications are nice but they probably won’t stop the ice caps from melting.

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In terms of hardware the Sony Ericsson has a small 2.4″ 240 x 320 pixel QVGA TFT touchscreen LCD panel, a compact QWERTY keyboard, a basic 3.2 megapixel camera, A-GPS, 3.5G support, WiFi, microSD expandable memory, a USB connector, Bluetooth, and a 3.5mm audio jack. The mobile phone has quad-band GSM/EDGE with either HSPA 900/2100 or 850/900/2100 radios (FM radio). Even though the Sony Ericsson Aspen has a small display it still compares favourably with its competitors because they lack a touchscreen panel.

Battery life is an important factor for business Smartphones as you don’t want your phone to conk out during the business day. Sony Ericsson claim that their Li-Ion mAh battery provides 8 hours of talk time with up to 24 days (600 hours) standby on 3G. It also has a music play time of 12 hours.

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The software used by the Sony Ericsson Aspen is the latest version of Windows mobile. Although Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is an update the latest release has improved the usability by improving navigation. The operating system now supports capacitive touch screens and it enables multi-touch. Browser performance has also been improved with faster download times and improved memory management. Other improvements have included the pan and flick gestures, zoom and rational speeds.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Aspen has the solution to this by including some fun social networking applications such as Skype, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, as well as Google Maps. You also get MP3 (MP3/eAAC+/WAV/WMA player), MP4 (MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player), and Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer) so now you can work hard and play hard.

Availability & Pricing
The Aspen is due to come out in Q2 of 2010 just in time for the Mobile world congress . As for price Sony Ericsson are keeping their cards to their chest and only commented that it would be “affordable”.

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