Recently, Sony Ericsson announced the revolutionary Xperia™ PLAY at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. At next week’s Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the Xperia™ PLAY will also be a hot topic in two special GDC sessions featuring Kim Ahlstrom.
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My name is Jeff Fung and I am a guest blogger from ANT Wireless, where I work as a software developer. I am pleased to announce that the much anticipated ANT API for Android has now been released. The Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X8, Xperia™ X10 mini and Xperia™ X10 mini pro will be among the first commercially available Android phones to support ANT. The good folks at Sony Ericsson have indicated that support will be added to more devices in the near future. Applications will be able to utilize this API in the announced devices as well as in all future devices supporting ANT.
Sony Ericsson and Unity Technologies recently announced a partnership to bring games to the Xperia™ PLAY through its Union content distribution service. Through this partnership, Sony Ericsson will feature Union games on the Xperia™ PLAY through its games recommender application. Unity has created a special API specific to the Xperia™ PLAY to offer developers an easy route to implementing the Xperia™ PLAY’s gaming controls and optimizing their games for them. Together, both companies will work with their developer bases through online, business development and event-based initiatives, such as the upcoming Game Developers Conference 2011 in San Francisco, CA.
Today Sony Ericsson expands Xperia™ family with two new generation Android smartphones, as the Xperia™ neo and the Xperia™ pro was announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. These smartphones feature cutting edge technology from Sony and an exceptional multimedia experience on the latest version of the Android™ platform – Gingerbread.
Check out our brand new video after the jump!
Today sees the announcement of the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ PLAY, the first all-in-one smartphone and game console. XperiaTM PLAY delivers the smartphone functionality that the most serious power users could need, teamed with the immersive gaming experience that any gamer would want.
As a gaming device, the full-featured PlayStation® Certified Android™ smartphone boasts a 4” screen and superb stereo sound combined with real gaming control keys – directional pad, analogue touch pad, trigger buttons, PlayStation® buttons – fine-tuned for sturdiness and tactility.
Want to take a close look and learn about the performance of Xperia™ PLAY? Check out our new video after the jump.
We are happy to announce that a firmware update for LiveView™ micro display is now available, as well as an updated version of LiveView™ application. The updated LiveView™ application is available on Android Market, and the firmware update of LiveView™ micro display is done using the Sony Ericsson Update Service software. Visit the Sony Ericsson Support pages for more information and guidance on how to update your LiveView™ micro display.
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Marcus Hansson explains more about ANT+.
At Sony Ericsson we are very pleased to announce that we will be the first mobile handset manufacturer to have integrated support for ANT+ technology. This means that you will be able to use your Sony Ericsson phone with a large number of commercial health and fitness products. For example, you can use your phone with a heart rate monitor, a pedometer, or both, when you are out running.
Sony Ericsson is pleased to announce that we’re open sourcing the WebSDK Packager, an all-in-one tool for building, simulating and packaging an application’s web components into a single native shell. We’ve used this tool to create several sample web applications, such as Mavericks, Pigeon Twitter and a PhoneGap demo. These demos include location access using the Google location API, as well as PhoneGap APIs for content access. We hope that you’ll find this tool useful for building your own web applications.
On 3-4 November, industry leaders and decision-makers will gather at the Telematics conference in Munich. It’s Europe’s biggest and most focused conference and exhibition for the digital in-car, mobile and web industries. And of course Sony Ericsson will be there.
Troed Sångberg, Director of Research at Sony Ericsson, will participate in the panel “Leverage Wireless Tech to Optimise the In-Car Environment”. He will give his view on how our existing connected mobile environment not only can be brought into the car, but how car-specific use cases can be added to create new experiences from the merger of the car, mobile and social environments. Visit Troed’s personal blog for some elaborated thoughts on this.
More info about the event can be found on the Telematics Munich website. For some hints and tips on how to use your phone in the car, visit www.sonyericsson.com/car.
