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Gallery: Top 10 Cameraphones
So your converged life needs a decent camera and mobile phone in one? Here are ten of the best cameraphones around, and not an iPhone in sight.
Click on the image below to start the tour.
Sony Ericsson patents theme music technology to match your mood
Here’s some pretty future tech for you. Sony Ericsson has filed a patent for phone technology that’ll recognise your facial expressions and automatically select music for you according to your mood.
Your handset will use the front facing camera to capture your image and, although there may be some initial calibration involved, the system will then pick the next track from your collection that best suits your mood.
If it works, there could be some alarming revelations about your neutral expression. I’d like to think my general demeanour would sound like the poppier end of The Who’s catalogue but I guess I’ll have to wait and see what Sony Ericsson thinks.
What would your theme music be according to your phone? Answers in the comments below
(via USEB)
Sony Ericsson announces W205 and S312 entry-level phones
Are there really many people left entering the mobile phone market these days? Or is “entry-level” just another phrase for “cheap and low-spec”? Sony Ericsson’s just dropped us word of a couple of new “entry-level” phones that it’s bringing out in the middle of this year.
First there’s the W205, which is probably the snazzier of the two. It’s a Walkman phone, which means that it’s got some music-y features (though not a 3.5mm headphone jack). There’s an FM radio, a track identification system, as well as a fully-featured MP3 player with shuffle, loop, album art, playlists, etc.
It’s also got a 1.3-megapixel camera, memory card support – which you’ll need if you want to add music to it – and a 1.8″ screen. It’s 96g and measures 92 x 47 x 16.4 mm. It’ll be available in Q2.
Then there’s the S312, on which the biggest feature seems to just be that it’s got a dedicated video camera button. There’s a 2-megapixel camera, and a few photo uploading tools, but this really isn’t a seriously cameraphone, especially as the claimed 2.5X zoom is entirely digital. Anything taken at that level of zoom is going to look awful.
Again, there’s memory card support, a 2″ screen, and it comes in two colours – dawn and silver. It measures 100 x 46 x 12.5 mm and weighs 80g. It’ll also be available in Q2.
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MWC 2009: In pictures: Sony Ericsson announces Idou "concept" mobile phone
While its new W995 Walkman handset is fairly tangible, Sony Ericsson appears to be working on at least one phone under the “concept name” Idou…
MWC 2009: Sony Ericsson announces new W995 Walkman phone
Just a few days after the fairly basic W395 Walkman phone comes the much feature-laden W995 Walkman phone from Sony Ericsson.
Forget the lacklustre 2-megapixel camera straight away, for this baby comes with an 8.1-megapixel camera (very important, that ‘point one’) with up to 16x digital zoom. Granted, digital zoom — especially on a mobile phone — isn’t much to get excited about (how much grain do you want on that picture of your best mate’s left nostril hair anyway?) and there’s no mention of optical zoom in the preliminary specs, but you do at least get auto focus, face detection, flash, image and video stabilisation, video recording (rate unknown) and video light.
OK, enough on the decent enough camera. This is a Walkman phone, after all, so what about the audio? Well, Sony is debuting its new Media Go application on the W995, letting you “effortlessly and automatically” transfer audio, pics and vids between phone and computer. Yep, something proprietary but then of course you can say the same about iTunes…
Sony Ericsson W395 – a Walkman phone, remember them?
The next in Sony Ericsson’s announcements of the day is the W395 Walkman phone proving that they’ll still churn them out no matter how much more irrelevant the old 80s brand gets with every passing breath.
Now, that’s not to say that the W395 is not a decent phone. It’s perfectly fine. It’s just that the promise of an FM radio, “high quality” stereo speakers and a graphic equaliser doesn’t really get anyone hot any more.
To make matters a little worse…
Sony Ericsson Playstation phone nipped in the bud by… Sony
In the past, we’ve written a few times about the possibilities of a Playstation phone surfacing. For the moment, though, those dreams will have to be dashed on the rocks, as sources suggest that Sony refused to allow Sony Ericsson the use of its Playstation brand.
Sony Ericsson’s done quite well with its Cybershot and Walkman phones, and many assumed that a Playstation gaming phone would be next, but it’s been claimed by Sony Ericsson that Sony would only allow the use of the Playstation brand if the experience on a handset is sufficiently high enough and matches the experience of Sony’s standalone devices.
That kind of tech isn’t quite possible yet, and Sony Ericsson is in the midst of cost-cutting measures, so for the moment, I’m labeling this one “Fail”. Sorry mobile gaming enthusiasts, you’ll have to wait for the perfect gaming phone – we’re not there yet.
(via MobileToday)
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Sony Ericsson announces 'affordable' C510 Cyber-shot, and W508 Walkman mobiles
I always get slightly confused by the way Sony doesn’t group its gadgets by what they are, just by broad product ranges. As a result, there are cameras and phones with the Cyber-shot badge, and MP3 players and mobiles with the Walkman badge. From the product name alone, it’s often impossible to tell what the device is.
Well, to clear up the confusion, both the products here are phones. The first is an ‘affordable’ 3.2 megapixel cameraphone, called the C510. Although there’s a comparative lack of megapixels on the sensor compared to other cameraphones, it’s got plenty of features to make up for it.
Sony Ericsson announces Android ambitions
People tend to either love or hate Sony Ericsson phones. I’m not a fan personally, but Lucy over at our sister site ShinyShiny loves them. My main objection is the software, but that bugbear is about to be stripped away by the announcement that SE will be developing an Android phone.
Having only just joined the Open Handset Alliance, Sony Ericsson won’t be dumping Symbian and Windows Mobile, but claim that Android will “complement” the operating systems that they currently use. Still, whatever you think of Sony Ericsson, more open-source handsets is a great thing.
Open Handset Alliance (via Pocket Gamer)
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Sony Ericsson W705: Telephone and music player in one… and it's portable!
A new Walkman phone has been announced, confirming that Sony is still desperately trying to make its formerly number one brand relevant to the present day (see also: Playstation). The Sony Ericsson W705 sounds pretty swish, and boasts some interesting attributes.
