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Announced at MWC this year along other interesting gadgets(Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy S II), Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro is a QWERTY smartphone that is expected to hit the market later this year. It’s one of that phones that when it’s announced it doesn’t make a huge buzz, but after a period of time it proves to be an interesting device that has quality features and a great design. If you can’t wait until this phone will be released you can buy one cheaper by using one of the discount vouchers available.

From the beginning we have to say the phone looks awesome and it comes with a 3.7-inches TFT display which is capable of having a 854 x 480 pixel resolution. Above this screen there is a front face VGA camera that is made primary for video-chat apps, but it can also help you if you want to shot a self-portrait.

The interesting part of this phone comes when you slide it in the right side because this will unveil a beautiful QWERTY keyboard. This QWERTY keyboard come with a set of smart functions such as Type & Send and Smart Keyboard which are designed to make your mobile life easier then ever.

The wait is over gadget lovers as just few minutes ago Sony Ericsson leave every rumour away and officially announced Xperia Play at Barcelona. What a way to begin MWC 2011 !!!

There were doubts that any mobile phone manufacturer in the world would produce a phone that is optimized both as telephony and as a gaming gadget. Sony Ericsson teased these doubts as far as October 2010 by leaking a prototype of such phone, which stirred many enthusiasts. However, until January 2011, people saw only one full-playstation handset offered by the mother company of the teaser (PSP2).

The official announcement was teased last week by a Super Bowl ad where the green Android was attached with human fingers symbolizing that “Android is ready to Play”(two thumbs at each shiny green hand, exactly).

LiveView is all about saving your precious time especially when you are not willing to search for your phone in an important moment. It’s a Bluetooth wristwatch with a 1.2 inch OLED display, but it is not defined properly if we call it a watch. Rather it’s a very smart accessory for all the devices running Android 2.1 or higher versions. In addition it’s also another screen to be used by the plugins which makes it more usable for different purposes.

It’s 11mm thick and it has to be attached with a strap if you want to put it on your wrist. At the bottom of the device there is a microUSB port for charging.

The basic out of the box functions of this device are: incoming call notification, SMS, Twitter and Facebook updates, displaying date and time, RSS feeds and the android stock media player control.

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz knows what it is, and doesn’t try to be anything more. A touch screen smartphone running the Symbian(Series 60) operating system, it’s already in dangerous waters. Both Sony Ericsson and Symbian are thought of as unreliable, as a mobile phone manufacturer and an operating system, so the combination makes the idea of the Vivaz doubly ominous. However, the phone itself isn’t too much of a disappointment and partially redeems itself in its most amazing feature.

It is the camera features on the Vivaz that save it from being just an average unreliable model. It records in HD video, super sharp at 720p resolution. The video recordings include continuous auto focus with an additional light and image stabiliser. This is extremely impressive capacity for a mobile phone, and you can then upload your videos straight to YouTube to show them off. The Vivaz also boasts video calling, certain to become quite in demand over the next couple of years. The still camera on the phone is equally impressive boasting a massive 8.1 megapixel resolution. It also includes face and smile detection, auto-focus, an LED flash and geo-tagging due to the phone’s built in GPS.

It seams this year will be a crowded one for Sony Ericsson because they announced a lot of mobile phones and some of them will be available soon(Q1 of 2010).
We will take them in order and try to write a brief for you.
XPERIA X10, a model we previewed long time ago and whom will be available soon in stores, has 2 little brothers now called: XPERIA X10 Mini and XPERIA X10 Mini Pro. The two little models have same internal characteristics, but contain small design differences, with the pro model being a QWERTY version of the mini version.

The camera has 5 megapixel, autofocus, LED flash and Geo-tagging, the processor is a Qualcomm MSM7227 having 600MHz. Both phones come with Android 1.6 as running operating system and .

It’s hard to notice, but Mini Pro version is 0.7 cm longer, 0.2 cm thinner than Mini one and the QWERTY keyboard doesn’t make the phone look too big. Gps, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Radio FM, Wisepilot turn by turn or Timescape application are some of the features you’ll discover if you plan to buy one of this two phones.

Next models: Vivaz and Vivaz Pro.

It’s been quite a time since we last saw a Sony Ericsson review and last model, Xperia X10was a name that took us by surprise.

The name of today’s model is Hazel, has been announced in December 2009 and will contain some interesting features.

As you probably observe in the left picture, the display screen is quite bit having 2.6-inches and supports 16M colors. The surface is scratch resistant and supports accelerometer sensor for UI rotate.

Under the display are the navigation keys which are centered by a D-pad and above is the earpiece and a secondary camera.Sliding the phone down will unveil it’s alphanumeric keypad with very solid and ergonomic buttons.

On the left side of the phone we find the standard Sony Ericsson connecting port which is the same thing with a microUSB and 3.5mm jack ones we find on other phones. The other side features the volume rockers and the camera shutter key.

Sony Ericsson announced during a press release this week their new mobile phone model: Xperia X10. In their statement they gave us some features and specifications so we can compile and make a preview of what we expect to see from this new phone.

The new phone comes with a 4-inches TFT touchscreen(scratch-resistant) with 262.000 colors and supports 480 x 854 pixels (WVGA). It’s not a small model, weighting 135 grams and having 13mm thickness. Battery is a standard one,  Li-Po 1500 mAh.

The camera is great, as we expected Sony put an 8.1 megapixel camera device with autofocus and LED flash. Other features available here: 16x digital zoom, intelligent face recognition, geo-tagging, smile detection, video recording.

Sony claims the phone will come with 1Gb internal memory and will support as operating system, Google™ Android Donut, version 1.6. For further extension of the internal memory, microSD card is supported. The processor is powerful having 1GHz-Qualcomm Snapdragon™ QSD8250.