You might remember that we covered the Push N8 project a few weeks back – so we wanted to let you know that the Push team have just announced that they’ve extended the submission deadline by an extra week to Friday October 22nd due to popular demand.
That means you have a whopping 168 hours…
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Nokia Push N8 competition: Deadline extended to Friday 22nd October!
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Site maintenance break on Monday starting at 10:30 EEST
Hi folks,On Monday starting at 10:30 EEST we’ll have a maintenance break at Nokia Beta Labs, finishing by 12:00 EEST. During that time the site content, forum, and blog will be unavailable. Our apologies for any inconvenience this causes.You can follow our Twitter feed for an alert when things are…
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Nokia Push N8 competition: Submit your creative ideas for a chance to win a Push prototype, Nokia N8 devices & $1,000
On this blog we cover all ways to entertain yourself with Nokia devices, but we’ve never talked about pulling them apart for entertainment. That’s something that our friends over at Push have been focusing on.
Push began in September 2009 when the Push team asked hackers and modders what…
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Ovi enhances App Wizard to distribute better apps
Hi, my name is Sophie-Charlotte Moatti, I work in the Mobile Computing team here at Nokia. I’m a news freak and have used the App Wizard (OAW) to create my own RSS feed reader. It took me less than 10 minutes and I love the sleek look of my app!
The app wizard has been launched earlier this year to…
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No Plans For Symbian Phones
Looks like Sony Ericsson have just narrowed down some of its future options. Jan Uddenfeldt, Sony Ericsson’s CTO recently announced in an interview with Swedish newspaper NyTeknik that Sony Ericsson have no plans for a Symbian phone for the time being.
This makes Sony Ericsson the 2nd company to drop Symbian after Samsung. To be honest, it doesn’t look like anyone will miss Symbian either judging by the number of problems the platform faced and the fact that no one really wanted it. On the bright side, this should leave the Sony Ericsson Development Team with one less thing to worry about and hopefully work more on the Eclair Update (so that they hit the October deadline atleast) or on a neat Windows Phone 7 Phone or on their “big surprise”.
Related Post:
Sony Ericsson’s OS Choice: Just Pick One
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NY Teknik (Original Article – Translated)
From Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog: http://blog.se-nse.n…symbian-phones/
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Sony Ericssons Announces LiveView™ Bluetooth Accessory
If you’ve been seriously disappointed in Sony Ericsson due to the delay in the Eclair Update for its Android range, then Sony Ericsson has just announced an accessory that might just cheer you up.
First things first, it is NOT an Ipod Nano; infact it seems quite similar (once attached to the watch kit) to the OLED bluetooth watchs which Sony Ericsson still produce.
As far as hardware goes, there are two buttons on the top of the screen and 4 soft keys at each end of its 128×128 1.3″ screen. Software wise, the phone only supports Android phones with Sony Ericsson LiveWare™ Manager App installed. No, not your old K850 or your cute pink Vivaz ….
There is one other catch – Android phone compatible (Android OS 2.0 and above) . So it appears we aren’t going to see this in retail shops until the Eclair update rolls out for most of the Android range, which should be around Q4. However, the accessory doesn’t seem to be limited to Sony Ericsson phones only. Oh and by the way, the X10 in the video seems to be running Eclair … 
Sony Ericsson LiveView – Product Launch Blog
Sony Ericsson LiveView – Press Release
EDIT [MikLSP]:
seems we posted this at the same time so I’ve edited a couple of bits into this post from the one I made mainly I’d like to add….this may be the coolest accessory since the brilliant CAR-100.
Sony Ericsson LiveView™ – at a glance
Music player control
Track title display
Social Networking Services
Display incoming texts
Display RSS feeds
Show phone number for incoming calls
Mute ringer for incoming phone calls
List of missed calls
Calendar reminders
Find your phone
Display time and date
Bluetooth™ technology (10m)
Micro USB connector
1,3”colour OLED display, 128×128 pixels
Size:3.5 x 3.5×1.1cm
Typical consumer battery usage time: 4 days
Compatible with the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X10, Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X10 mini and Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X10 mini pro and most other brands on Android 2.0 and above.
Available in selected markets from Q4 2010
Colour: Black
Kit content
Sony Ericsson LiveView™
Clip
Wristband
MicroUSB charger
From Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog: http://blog.se-nse.n…ooth-accessory/
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Sony Ericsson Working On Win Phone 7 Device
The head of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 UK division has confirmed that Sony Ericsson are working on a Windows Phone 7 handset. Oded Ran, the Microsoft executive in question, made the comment in an interview with mymicrosoftlife.com and he actually went a little farther than that. His actual comment was:
Sony Ericsson is working on at least one Windows Phone 7 device
So it looks like there is not one, but perhaps more Windows Phone 7 handsets on the way from Sony Ericsson. Annoyingly there is no word on when this device will likely come to market, but we can hope that it is amongst the first wave of devices or at the very least appears before the end of the year. Of course this comes not long after Sony Ericsson announced that they were effectively ditching Symbian (huzzah!) so some may wonder if they are over stretching themselves again. To be fair though Windows Phone 7 has been gaining a lot of traction and getting a handset out early could allow Sony Ericsson to gain some traction with the nascent platform. Here’s hoping anyway!
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X10 Mini Pro Review
Having owned an X10 at one point I approached the X10 Mini Pro with some hesitation, would this be another Android handset from Sony Ericsson that didn’t live up to its promise or would it manage to break out of that mould?
Read the full review here.
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X8 Coming To O2 UK
O2 looks to be landing itself an exclusive on the forthcoming Sony Ericsson X8 in the UK. O2’s October product catalogue lists the handset at £129.99 for PAYG and it’s branded as ‘Only on O2′. The price point is actually pretty good considering that the X8 is broadly comparable to the X10 Mini. The screen is bigger than the X10 Mini’s of course, but the camera is a bit weaker at 3.2 MP compared with the X10 Mini’s 5 MP sensor.
The downside tot his, and you knew there had to be a downside, is that it’s an exclusive on O2. Why is that a downside? Well O2 are not exactly the bets network in the UK. Not that any networks is perfect of course, but the frequent data outages and network failures don’t help their image any. Maybe the exclusivity won’t last … here’s hoping.
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AmbientTime Brings Live Wallpaper To X10
One of the things I really enjoy about my HTC Desire is live wallpapers(Mario ftw!). Sadly this isn’t something that Sony Ericsson’s flagship Android device, the X10, can support at the moment. My X10 would sit there looking pretty with its static wallpaper sure, but live is where it’s at these days. Well hold onto your hats folks because the boys at Sony Ericsson Japan have released something called ‘AmbientTime Home Launcher’, which will let you use live wallpaper on your X10.
‘AmbientTime’ is basically a fancy pants new home launcher for the X10 and it doesn’t just give you live wallpaper, it also bumps your homescreens up to 5 and introduces a rather swanky looking lockscreen too. At this point you will be wondering what the catch is …
… well, for starters the smart new lockscreen is pretty laggy and maddeningly the default lockscreen will show up if you receive a call. That’s not all though because customisation isn’t a word AmbientTime understands, the wallpapers it comes with cannot be changed.
If you still want to give it a whirl download the apk.
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