After collectively bidding on Nortel’s 6000 wireless patents, Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson and EMC have been cleared by US courts and allowed to buy them for $US4.5 billion. [Reuters]
Sony Ericsson’s image has been given a lift with the Aspen smartphone – which they’re billing as the “latest addition to Sony Ericsson’s Greenheart portfolio”. But that’s now piqued our interests – this baby’s packin’ Windows Mobile 6.5.3.
Electricpig got word that a second gen Xperia Pureness is in the works. But believe it or not, the designers actually want to cut down on the phone’s functionality, even referencing “removing the keys”. [Electricpig]
The current buzz regarding the Sony Ericsson Xperia is mostly related to the rumoured, Android-running Xperia X3. But what about the X2? Oh, well here’s what looks to be a video of its UI in action.
It’s just a patent app (so the phone may never see the light of day), but this Sony Ericsson Bracelet Phone should be put into production, if only for the novelty factor.
It may or may not be wishful thinking on the part of a struggling company, but Sony Ericsson president Hideki Komiyama claims that a PlayStation phone, similar to the existing Walkman and Cybershot phones, “could happen”. [FT via Kotaku]
