With its new generation of 2011 Xperia™ smartphones, Sony Ericsson will allow advanced developers to unlock the boot loader in a secure and legal way. We will enable this opportunity later this spring, although it will only be possible for certain releases of these phones.
Find out the details after the jump.
The early verdict is in. And it’s good according to Jon Mundy, mobile editor for FoneHome, a UK-based mobile phone blog site. Jon recently interviewed leading game developers to ask what they thought of the Xperia™ PLAY controls. He spoke to executives at Trendy Entertainment, Polarbit, and Gameloft – all of which will feature prominently in the Xperia™ PLAY’s early lineup of games. Read Jon’s interview here.
Here is the Sony Ericsson “re-PLAY” from GDC11 on March 4.
The last day of GDC started out as strong as ever for Sony Ericsson. Throughout the morning, the Xperia™ PLAY demo stations continued to attract both GDC attendees and fellow exhibitors alike, all wanting to get their thumbs on the sleek device.
Here is the Sony Ericsson “re-PLAY” from GDC11 on March 3.
Sony Ericsson’s first engagement of the day started at 9am, when Kalle Dahlstrom, Developer Program Manager, spoke at the WebGL News and Technology Updates session presented by Khronos. Kalle showed off a prototype WebGL project, then gave away an Xperia™ PLAY to lucky attendee, Ashraf Hegab, a games developer from the UK.
I recently tweeted that I love working at a big consumer facing company. I’ve been lucky in that in many of the places I’ve worked I’ve been able to interact directly with the people using what I’ve produced, but at the same time I feel that I’ve been unlucky in that I haven’t always been able to receive when they’ve wanted to reciprocate.
The design of the Xperia™ X10 mini is much appreciated by many people, and this year it was also rewarded the Red dot design award. But what thoughts and ideas was put into the design of the Xperia™ X10 mini?
Well, we hooked up with Matthias Kierysch, colour material designer at Sony Ericsson, to find out more:
Read more about this on Sony Ericsson Developer World.
Karl-Johan Dahlström.
Next week Karl-Johan Dahlström from Sony Ericsson’s Developer World will be talking on the topic “Why Android™ is not enough”, at the Apps World conference in London, UK. Certainly an interesting subject, where the point is that Android is important to Sony Ericsson, but it is not enough to only have Android to be the smart phone market leader.
That is why Sony Ericsson has created the Xperia™ brand, which is based on three pillars: Android, Sony and great Sony Ericsson hardware and software design. At Apps World, Karl-Johan will explain more on how this can be turned into a winning formula. Read more about these thoughts in Karl-Johan’s blog post on the Apps World web site.
The event will take place on 30 Nov -1 Dec at Olympia, London, UK. Read more about the event on the Apps World web site.
The Open Mobile Summit, which will be held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in San Francisco on November 8-10, brings together many of the most powerful people in the wireless and internet industries for discussions on how to build and monetize an open mobile ecosystem.
With a wide ranging set of keynotes, panel discussions, and experienced-based presentations, the event is sure to address many of the key issues and opportunities related to open mobile applications and services.
