According to Bert Nordberg, president, Sony Ericsson, “The XPERIA X10 and the family of phones launching in the first half of 2010 underpin our commitment to an open and multi-platform strategy that maximises choice for the consumer and delivers the best possible consumer experience. The reaction from our global operator partners to the XPERIA X10 has been extremely positive, and we will be rolling out across the world including Japan from the first half of 2010.”

Introducing signature applications like Mediascape and Timescape, the XPERIA X10 lets consumers organise everything in their phone in an intuitive way. Sony Ericsson Timescape manages all your communication with one person in one place. Browse through your conversations the bright way to check out your Facebook, Twitter, photos, emails and texts all in one go.

Sony Ericsson Mediascape is the smart way to get all the music, photos and videos you want from your favourite friends and artists. It accesses content from everywhere — your phone, YouTube, PlayNow — and presents everything for you.
Intelligence capabilities, integrated into Mediascape and Timescape, can automatically recognise connections between contacts, content and media. By recommending alternative ways to communicate or guiding to new media experiences, consumers can discover more in a truly open way.

With the XPERIA X10, users can download any application that they want direct from a wide variety of stores including PlayNow and the Android Market.

Sony Ericsson is also introducing the new Wireless Stereo Headset with FM Radio – MW600. Featuring advanced Bluetooth technology and a built-in FM radio, MW600 lets you stream music to your headset in high fidelity through sound-enhancing ear-buds. With a crystal clear OLED display, easy access controls and RDS radio station information, you don’t even need to take your phone with you to tune in to your favourite radio station.

The XPERIA X10 supports GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS HSPA 900/1700/2100 and UMTS HSPA 800/850/1900/2100.

Source: EFY Times

The new LG-GW620 features a 3-inch full touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keypad. The LG-GW620 benefits from an operating system that was created from the ground up to take advantage of the many mobile applications and services developed by search leader Google.

In anticipation of strong demand for smartphones that support social networking functions right out-of-the-box, the LG-GW620 also lives up to LG’s consumer-friendly design philosophy by making the smartphone experience more accessible for typical users. At the same time, LG’s messaging phones have traditionally been very popular with young professionals who demand a full QWERTY keypad for a fast mobile computing experience. The LG-GW620 manages to meet the needs of both types of users simultaneously, explains the company.

“The LG-GW620 will appeal to first-time smartphone customers by offering a new and different kind of user experience,” said Dr Skott Ahn, president and CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “Our objective is to provide a wide selection of smartphones to satisfy the diverse preferences of today’s consumers. This Android phone is just one of many smartphone models we plan to introduce worldwide in the years ahead.”

In addition to the Android model, LG announced in early September that it will be introducing a minimum of 13 new smartphones over the next 16 months that utilise Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. The newest release, version 6.5, was announced just last week.

The LG-GW620 will be available in the fourth quarter of this year in select European markets.

Source: EFY Times

Ooh

However, Android is, by definition, a smartphone OS, so basically any phone you put it in is automatically a smartphone, even if it’s a dirt cheap one. That leads on to the intriguing possibility of having entry-level smartphones, phones that do what the top-enders do, but are aimed at the low, mass market end of the spectrum. Smartphones that sell in bulk, basically.

Well according to Slashgear, that may be exactly what we’re seeing here, in the shape of the HTC Click.

And let’s be honest, the fact it looks like the baby brother to the HTC Magic (albeit with a D-pad instead of a trackball, which would tie in with the notion of a cheaper smartphone) only serves to reinforce that idea. Now, of course, this is only a rumour at the minute, but if it’s a hoax, or it’s not the genuine article, than it’s a frighteningly good fake. If I had a reputation, I’d stake it on the HTC Click being the genuine article.

So, what’s the point of the HTC Click? Is it to give people who wouldn’t otherwise have a smartphone the chance to own one? Or is it (and I suspect this is the real reason why Android is Open Source) because Google want in on every market segment, from top-enders to mass market bulk phones?

But anyway, yes, this is a rumour at the moment, but don’t be surprised if it turns out to be true…

Source: Mobileshop

India's First Android Mobile Phones

The HTC Magic is the first Google Android phone that will become available in India through Airtel at around 30k INR. It’s the same phone that’s marketed as Android G2 or myTouch 3G by T-Mobile in America and a unlocked version of this phone was given to all attendees of the Google I/O conference.

The HTC Magic is Wi-Fi enabled and features a 3.2 Megapixel camera (that can record still photos as well as video) but unlike the Nokia N97, it has no physical keyboard. Other models like the HTC Touch and HTC Dream (or G1) feature a keyboard but none of them are in India yet at least through official channels.

The phone features a unique bar coding application so if you are shopping somewhere, you can quickly scan the barcode of any product in the shelf to get more information about that product using your Google phone.

While Airtel is the exclusively selling HTC Magic Android phones in India, the good news is that these are unlocked phones so you can buy a phone from Airtel and use the SIM of other cellular networks like Vodafone, BSNL, Reliance, etc.