Xperia X1 Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 12:25 AM, in

Thursday witnessed the launch of touch-screen smartphone, ‘Xperia X1’, by Sony Ericson, a 50:50 joint venture between Sony and Ericsson. Carrying a price tag of Rs 44,500, the latest smartphone is equipped with lots of multimedia features. It is basically aimed to serve the needs of the users related to converged entertainment and mobile web communication experience.

Anil Sethi, Sony Ericsson India President, said, “Xperia, aimed to offer energizing communication and premium mobile experience, with the promise of quality and functionality.”

SonyEricsson Walkman Player ESeries Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , at 12:22 AM, in

We’ve been talking about retro Walkman players now Sony Ericsson Launches its new E Series of Walkman in the market. If OLED is too rich for your blood, the WALKMAN E Series Video MP3 players comes with the following features:

* Slim, light Digital Media Player in choice of Black or Red
* Clear Stereo and Clear Bass technologies for superb sound quality
* High resolution QVGA 2″ Color LCD screen
* Support for video file format conversion (If You have decoder software, other video formats can be converted)
* Long battery life up to 30 hrs (Music : MP3 128kbps) audio / 6 hrs (Video : MPEG-4 Simple Profile 384kbps) video

sony-ericsson-r300-radio-phone Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , at 12:09 AM, in

Sony Ericsson has rolled out two new mobile phones in the Indian market. The biggest USP of the new phones is the unbelievable radio-experience they offer.

Dubbed R300 Radio and R306 Radio, users can easily tune-in to their favorite music shows or sports reports, across both AM and FM broadcasts on these devices. The choice is totally yours’, you can either keep the music to yourself by attaching the phones to stereo headphones or alternatively can ‘play it loud’ with the high performance speaker that is built-into the device. A 3D sound enhancement or volume boost that comes with the dedicated Audio Enhancer key on the phones only makes things better.

Whilst the R300 features an integrated VGA camera, R306 comes with a 1.3MP camera. The handsets also include Bluetooth. An optional Bluetooth Headset HBH-PV703 can be bought to accentuate the radio-listening experience further.

R306 Radio opens up into a clamshell with two built-in stereo speakers that face the listener.

Slated for a launch in Q2 of 2008, the Sony Ericsson mobile phones will be available in the price range of Rs 3,500-5,000.

The newly announced phones seem to be best suited for those consumers who do not want to go in for additional media players or get bored of the music stored in their phone’s memory. Moreover, the price surely also seems to be second most attractive factor in these devices.

New Touch From Nokia Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , at 12:03 AM, in

Competition for the touch screen phone segment is set to tighten with the Finnish phone maker Nokia opened its latest XpressMusic phones to 19999 rupees.

"Nokia 5800 Xpress Music will be presented either in late December or January next year and will be at a price of 19,999 rupees," Nokia MD India D Shivakumar told reporters here. The company also began a beta version of Nokia Music Store on December 18 this year, while the consumer version will be available in the first quarter of next year.

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"Mobile music will remain a key priority areas for Nokia in 2009 and our strategy is aimed at developing the market for mobile music to the next initiative, a partnership model that enriches the consumer experience with innovative devices, accessories and local content,Nokia Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki said.Nokia Music Store, part of OVI, is a music service that will deliver more than a million tracks from global hits to local artists and works with a single user interface. There are 11Nokia Music Store in operation worldwide.

Music Store Nokia, part of OVI, is a music service that will deliver more than a million tracks from global hits to local artists and works with a single user interface. There are 11Nokia Music Store in operation globally.The company is also linked with international and Indian music companies as Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI, Warner, Tseries, Great Music and Yashraj to the source of the content of the various regional and local music labels.Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.2-inch widescreen display and virtual alphanumeric keyboard, along with a pen stylus to enter.

new nokia N87 Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , Friday, November 6, 2009 at 11:57 PM, in

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia on Tuesday announced the launch of Nokia N86 8MP in Indian market.

The Nokia N86 8MP features an 8-megapixel camera with a 28 mm wide angle Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, which is especially designed to excel in both light and low light conditions.

The handset comprises a large and very bright 2.6 inch OLED scratch resistant display with screen resolutions of 240 x 320 pixels, and with 8 GB of internal memory that can hold up to 4000 images. In addition it comes with dedicated gaming keys and 17 pre-loaded N-Gage game out of which customers can choose one licensed game for free.

Further, the device also supports full sync capability with a PC through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and TV-out support for slideshows.

The company has fixed a price tag of Rs 27,359 for this latest launch

sony-greenheart-phone Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , at 11:53 PM, in

Leading mobile equipment manufacturer, Sony, has added more products in its portfolio, launching new digital Cyber-shot camera models - DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1 - in the Indian market. The highly-sensitive devices are equipped with illuminated CMOS sensor technology and are capable of capturing very clear views in even low light surroundings.

The cameras, having anti-motion blur multi-shot modes, can capture six separate images in less than a second which indicates its high sensitivity. It is also provided with Sweep Panorama, which uses the Exmor R CMOS sensor and the BIONZ processor to offer high quality imaginary.

The Sony Cyber-shot TX1 cameras, measuring16.5mm, are capable of recording 10 frames per second, given the high quality burst shooting mode. The 10.2 megapixel camera has 3-inch Clear Photo LCD Plus touch panel, making it very comfortable to capture images through its various menu options.

The other worth-noting features of the cameras include Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, 4x telescopic zoom and Optical Steady Shot image stabilization technology. The TX1 is expected to be available in the market from mid-September at a price tag of AU$649.

NOKIA N97 Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , at 11:50 PM, in

The world's largest handset maker, Nokia, would introduce its smartphone N97 in Indian market by Diwali, in an attempt to cash in on people's buying sentiments in the festival season.

Nokia India Managing Director D Shivakumar, while launching two music devices and a new version of N97, said: "Though the music devices will be available in India by Q4 (2009-10), we plan to bring the N97 Mini by October in the Indian market."

Mr. Shivakumar, allying with the criticism about Nokia's poor performance in the high end phone segment, said that Nokia is doing better than expected in the smartphone segment, reporting adequate sales growth despite stiff completion across the segment.

Nokia N97 is equipped with all modern and user friendly features such as a 3.5 inch touch screen with 640x360 (16:9) resolution and haptic feedback, a slide out QWERTY keyboard, 4× digital zoom, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, HSDPA, 32GB of built in flash memory, a microSD card slot, a 3.5mm headphone jack and many more.

The smartphone by Nokia, having about 40 per cent market share worldwide, is priced at about Rs 31,000.

Sony Ericsson W61S Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , at 11:27 PM, in

The two handsets are the W61S (slider) and the W62S (flip). The W61S is loaded with a 5.1 megapixel autofocus camera and falls under the Cyber-shot umbrella. It’s equipped with a CMOS sensor and aside from 3x optical zoom it uses Sony’s ‘Exmor’ technology from the Pro Alpha DSLR. The camera boasts Kaokime Lite (auto-adjusts brightness on face detection for ideal facial tones), Smile Shutter Lite (auto-releases shutter on detecting smiles) and anti-shake abilities.

As if that weren't enough, the W61S has a large 2.8 inch WVGA display with a resolution of 400 x 800 pixels that apparently uses Reality MAX technology as in Sony’s Bravia HD TVs. WOW!! Aside from all that (as if all that’s not enough to make you want to fly to Japan), it has other usual features such as Bluetooth, GPS, TV-out and external memory support via microSD cards (Not M2?)

Sony Ericsson W62S Posted by V.NARASIMHA RAJU , at 11:22 PM, in

Next up is the W62S flip phone equipped with a 2.7 inch WQVGA display that sports a resolution of 240 x 432 pixels. There doesn’t seem to be too much information provided about this particular phone other than the display size and the fact that it will also support external memory up to 2GB via microSD cards, and that it will have a 2 megapixel camera.

Prices haven't been announced as yet, but the W61S will be out this April in Spectrum Pink, Shadow Black and Prism White, while the W62S should be out a bit earlier, in March, in Silver/Leather, Black/Rose and White/Lime.