Yao: Frances: Athena: Filippa: Kate: Rika: Let’s start betting on how many of the phones above are going to be canceled at some point next year.
Below you will find the phones which are to be released next year by Sony Ericsson. Like always there are Cybershots and Walkmans but there’s no interesting 
o Walkman branded phone named W305
o Entry slider phone
o Walkman-version of F305
o Release date: the end of Q1
Yue:
o Cyber-shot branded
o Compact stick phone
o 3.2-Mp camera
o One of the K550’s successors
o Release date: the end of Q1
o Cyber-shot branded
o Slider design
o GPS
o Active lens cover
o PhotoFix, Face Detection, Smile Shutter
o Looks very pretty
o Snapshot branded
o Mid-range stick phone
o Can be successor of S302
o Release date: Q1, 2009
o Cyber-shot branded stick phone with Cybershot UI 2.0
o 5MP camera with AF and Xenon flash
o Active Lens cover
o 2.2 inch QVGA scratch resistant, mineral glass display
o HSUPA
o 140 Mb of memory
o SnapFish, YouTube upload & download
o QVGA video
o TV-Out
o BestPic, PhotoFix, Face Detection, Smile Shutter, PictBridge
o Colours: Noble Black, Precious Peach, Sincere Silver
o Cyber-shot branded stick phone
o Active lens cover
o 3.2-Mp camera with AF
o EDGE 900/1800/1900 and HSDPA 2100
o Auto Rotation, dedicated camera and video keys
o 120 Mb of memory
o PhotoFix, Face Detection, Smile Shutter, SnapFish
o Available in 2 different colors
o Named W705
o Walkman-version of G705
o 2.4 inch display (320×240)
o Wi-Fi with aGPS
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o In the box: 4 Gb M2 and HPM-77
o Available in 3 colors
Sony Ericsson 2009 Phones Uncovered
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T-Mobile to Launch Samsung’s Google Phone
|Samsung Behold II, the first an Android phone sold by the South Korean handset giant, is coming to the U.S. via T-Mobile USA, the two companies announced today. The new device will carry Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface and will work with T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G network. It is currently scheduled to launch before the start of the holidays. The phone has a 3.2-inch OLED screen, a 5-megapixel camera, visual voicemail, a music player with up to 16GB of external memory, and GPS.
T-Mobile is quickly becoming the house of Android; the company currently offers two versions of HTC’s Android-powered smartphones and will soon start selling the Motorola Cliq. Behold II is the latest among its lineup of phones. Earlier this year, T-Mobile CTO Cole Broadman told me about his company’s intentions to launch many Android phones in 2009 and 2010.
CES 2009: Nokia N97 hands-on: Facebook, widgets and Video Demo
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With all the furore over the Palm Pre this past week, many have forgotten that it will come up against another QWERTY-equipped, sliding touchscreen smartphone when it launches in the first half of 2009. The Nokia N97 made a discrete showing at CES, bearing a newer (though still nowhere near final) software build than the version we last saw, and SlashGear sat down with the handset to find out some more details. After the cut, we talk Facebook, widgets and design decisions.
Nokia were clear that the device we’ve been seeing is nowhere near finalized. Not only is the software still to be changed, but the physical design, including plastics colors and other detailing, isn’t as it will be in-store. One side-effect is that the N97 you see in this demo – and in fact any other video demo – is not running at the final speed, which in the eventual release will be “much faster”; nonetheless, we found the handset to be relatively quick to respond.
A purposefully finalized hardware decision, though, is the touchscreen technology. While many would have liked to have seen Nokia use a capacitive panel, such as on the iPhone, the company claim the resistive screen was a conscious choice. That’s primarily for the range of input options resistive allows: gloved use, for instance, or handwriting recognition. For the end-user, what it means is that you lose the zero-pressure control capacitive offers, but we didn’t find the N97’s touchscreen to be particularly difficult or unresponsive.
One seemingly must-have app on any new smartphone is Facebook access; Nokia couldn’t discuss with us how much input Facebook themselves had made in developing their app, which is expected to be available at launch. As with other software for the N97, it consists of two aspects: the main app, and a widget that can be embedded into the homescreen and that gives at-a-glance updates. Nokia’s Victor Brilon, senior manager of N-series technology collaboration, was keen to clarify that the homescreen widgets are not merely “tickers” that take you straight to the main program, but interactive in their own right. It will take advantage of the always-on network connection to give real-time updates of status, comments and other details.
Multiple programs are expected to be available by the time the N97 launches, together with the ability for users to create their own. These can range from simple widgets to full apps, although it was unclear exactly how complex the coding environment for that would be. Nokia will be able to distribute software via their Ovi service; they’re also pushing developers to consider network good-practice, so that battery life doesn’t suffer due to over-use of the data connection.
The N97 is expected to first go on sale as an unlocked device, with Nokia suggesting US pricing in-line with a high-end current N-series handset such as the N96. They couldn’t discuss any possible carrier partnerships or subsidies.
Are you a cell phone freak looking out for that is providing you the best value for money? Should you go in for the stylish yet reliable Nokia N97 that has hit the market and is already making waves or not, you’ll need to read on to know more. In this feature we bring to you why you should go in for the Nokia N97 and what makes it stand out amongst the others – for a simple comparison we tell you why this is better and far more superior when we compare it with the Apple 3G iphone.
The keyboard on the N97 is an outright differentiator. All you have on the3G iphone is a virtual keyboard that you can see on the screen and use the touch screen option to key in. This is a definite problem especially if you are not comfortable typing – you’ll see that you will take a whole lot of time on that. That is not the case with your N97. All you have to do is slide your phone and you’ll have a full fledged keyboard – the QWERTY type one on your phone. So that you make messaging hassle free compared to the iphone.
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The look, display, features, and other provisions like camera and other sound provisions are all pretty much advanced on the N97, for the price that is charged for the phone, I would only say that they’ve done good justice. That’s what we mean by the Nokia advantage – giving the customer the best at a nominal rate. In fact, if you just want to look at one aspect, you will find that while the iphone has a 2 Mega Pixel Camera, our very own N97 boasts of a 5 MP camera –if you are intelligent enough we are sure you will bet on the N97 now!
The memory of the N97 is far more extended than any other phone in the market today. You can even call this the second to none phone in terms of memory comparison. Thanks to the 32GB memory that the phone has, there is absolutely no comparison in the near vicinity. This vast memory that the N97 possesses is definitely something that it has to its advantage, all the more the reason that no other phone is thinking of this facility. A good niche in the market, this memory factor of the N97 turns out to be- and we might have to wait and see if this works wonders for the N97.
Aino - sony ericcson
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General & Hardware
Date Announced 2009, 2Q
Network Technology GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 Aino (a) for Americ
Dimensions (mm) 104 x 50 x 15.5
Weight (g) 134
Screen Size 240 x 432 3.0 inch
Screen Color TFT 16M colors
Type Slider
Soft Keys Limited touchscreen functionality
Other Keys Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate,
Antenna Fixed Internal
Phonebook 1000 x 20 fields
Internal(MB) 55 MB
Memory Slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, 8GB included
Battery Type NULL
Stand-by (hrs) 380 h (2G) / 367 h (3G)
TalkTime(min) 780 m (2G) / 270 m (3G)
Entertainment
Polyphonic
MP3 Yes
FM Radio Yes
TV Receiver Null
Video Record Yes
Audio Support MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
Messaging
SMS Yes
MMS Yes
EMS No
Email Yes
Connectivity
HSDPA Yes
WIFI/WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
3G Yes
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots)
Bluetooth Yes, V2 (A2DP)
USB Port Yes
Infrared (IrDA) No
Data Cable Yes
Software
Platform / OS Proprietary
Java (J2ME) Yes
WAP Yes Ver 2.0
Browser HTML (NetFront), RSS reader
Predictive Text Entry T9
PIM Application Organizer, Voice memo
Other Application Remote play for Playstation 3, Google Maps, Picture editor/blogging, YouTube & Facebook applications, SensMe
Personals
Themes No Info.
Caller ID Photocall
Camera Specifications
Lens Type CMOS, 8.1 Megapixel
Digital zoom
Max. Resolution 3264 x 2448
Flash Yes
Night Mode Yes
Extra Features Touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection, image stabilizer, smart contrast, red-eye reduction, videocalling, autofocus
Photo Format
Video Yes
Video Format