Introducing the Sony Ericsson Xperia active, the ultimate smartphone for your active life. Featuring a 1Ghz processor and running Android Gingerbeard, the Xperia active is dust-proof and water resistant meaning it's perfect for outdoor activities and people who love the great outdoors.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Sony Ericsson Xperia ray demo videos
Want to get the lowdown on the sleek and stylish Sony Ericsson Xperia Xperia ray. Featuring HD video recording, Reality display with mobile BRAVIA Engine and Exmor R camera technology all running on the latest version of Google Android Gingerbread.
Check out the video to learn more about these fantastic features and more!
Introducing the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray.
Hear lead designer Shigeaki Suzuki sharing his inspirations and Linda Lissola shows us the similarities between beetles, a sunrise and the new Sony Ericsson Xperia ray.
We go hands on with the just announced Xperia Ray. See it compared against the Xperia arc & the Xperia mini. Then we take you on a tour through the different features. More live pics etc. can be found on http://se-first.com
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Check out the video to learn more about these fantastic features and more!
Introducing the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray.
Hear lead designer Shigeaki Suzuki sharing his inspirations and Linda Lissola shows us the similarities between beetles, a sunrise and the new Sony Ericsson Xperia ray.
We go hands on with the just announced Xperia Ray. See it compared against the Xperia arc & the Xperia mini. Then we take you on a tour through the different features. More live pics etc. can be found on http://se-first.com
New Xperia™ active video
Check out our latest video, where Marcus shows the new Xperia™ active. It supports ANT+ wireless technology for connecting sport and fitness equipment, and it is classed as IP67, which means that it can be under 1 meter (3 feet) of water for 30 minutes. A truly unique feature of the Xperia™ active lies in its pressure sensor for barometric measuring. As a developer, you can use this sensor in applications, which can be accessed through the Android sensor API.
Stay tuned to Developer World for more information about the pressure sensor in Xperia™ active going forward!
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Stay tuned to Developer World for more information about the pressure sensor in Xperia™ active going forward!
Myriad Alien Dalvik
Myriad Alien Dalvik brings Android applications to non-Android devices, allowing OEMs, operators and application stores to leverage the Android eco-system across a much wider range of mobile devices. Android applications run unmodified and with no loss of performance on non- Android platforms.
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Maria Sharapova and Xperia™ active
As you might have heard the big tennis tournament Wimbledon is ongoing right now.
We’re a proud sponsor of the WTA and some of my colleagues got to meet our ambassador Maria Sharapova after she’d tried out the Xperia™ active.
They recorded this video where she really puts Xperia™ active to the test
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We’re a proud sponsor of the WTA and some of my colleagues got to meet our ambassador Maria Sharapova after she’d tried out the Xperia™ active.
They recorded this video where she really puts Xperia™ active to the test
Pavan – The Review Competition Winner
A while ago we ran a competition on Facebook where our fans got to compete on being the first to review on of our two upcoming feature phones Sony Ericsson txt pro and Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman phone. Some of them got phones for review and finally four was selected as the finalists. The video reviews from these four finalists where put on Facebook where the other fans could select the winner by using the like button.
The assignment was a tricky one, record a video review that should show the phone in a creative and informative way – all this in only 45 seconds!
The one with the most likes was Pavan from India. Congratulations Pavan!
Here’s his review of the Sony Ericsson txt pro:
Some of my colleagues made a short interview with Pavan to get to know a bit more about him, why he entered this competetion and what he’s going to do with the prize:
Can you tell us a bit about yourself? – I am from Bangalore studying 3rd year Engineering course in Don Bosco Institute Of Technology.
Why did you enter the reviewer competition? – When I came across the review competition, I felt like this is something different, something unique, asking customers to make a review of a brand new phone. So I just had my 50 words submitted in seconds.
What did you think of the competition? – It’s the first time I have taken part in such a huge competition. Right from making the review video to the voting part I enjoyed every bit of it.
Have you always been a fan of Sony Ericsson? – Yes! I have always been a fan of Sony Ericsson. I love the walkman phones you make.
What do you usually look for in a phone? – Apps! A phone which supports a lot of apps would be an ideal phone for me.
What was your favourite feature of the Sony Ericsson txt pro phone? – I liked the Friends App and the threaded way of displaying messages. Both features make texting fun and easy!
Will you recommend the txt pro to your friends? – My friends are already excited to receive the phones!!!!!
What is your favourite Sony Ericsson phone? – My fav is the Xperia X10. One because it’s sleek and second I love the Timespace app it has.
Did you expect to get so many votes and great comments? – Initially I wished the judges selected the final winner, but as the voting went on I was happy to see my LIKES going up by 100 each day.
Now you have won the prize how are you going to decide on how to share the phones? – This is harder than winning the competition. I am waiting for the phones to decide on sharing.
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The assignment was a tricky one, record a video review that should show the phone in a creative and informative way – all this in only 45 seconds!
The one with the most likes was Pavan from India. Congratulations Pavan!
Here’s his review of the Sony Ericsson txt pro:
Some of my colleagues made a short interview with Pavan to get to know a bit more about him, why he entered this competetion and what he’s going to do with the prize:
Can you tell us a bit about yourself? – I am from Bangalore studying 3rd year Engineering course in Don Bosco Institute Of Technology.
Why did you enter the reviewer competition? – When I came across the review competition, I felt like this is something different, something unique, asking customers to make a review of a brand new phone. So I just had my 50 words submitted in seconds.
What did you think of the competition? – It’s the first time I have taken part in such a huge competition. Right from making the review video to the voting part I enjoyed every bit of it.
Have you always been a fan of Sony Ericsson? – Yes! I have always been a fan of Sony Ericsson. I love the walkman phones you make.
What do you usually look for in a phone? – Apps! A phone which supports a lot of apps would be an ideal phone for me.
What was your favourite feature of the Sony Ericsson txt pro phone? – I liked the Friends App and the threaded way of displaying messages. Both features make texting fun and easy!
Will you recommend the txt pro to your friends? – My friends are already excited to receive the phones!!!!!
What is your favourite Sony Ericsson phone? – My fav is the Xperia X10. One because it’s sleek and second I love the Timespace app it has.
Did you expect to get so many votes and great comments? – Initially I wished the judges selected the final winner, but as the voting went on I was happy to see my LIKES going up by 100 each day.
Now you have won the prize how are you going to decide on how to share the phones? – This is harder than winning the competition. I am waiting for the phones to decide on sharing.
CNN App for Nokia in Action
The power of CNN now on your Nokia smartphone. See the app in action. And download now to your Nokia smartphone from the Ovi Store: http://nokia.ly/kXp7Wz
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Nokia Sea Ray: first smartphone based on Windows Phone
The first Nokia smartphone based on her new operating system Windows Phone was observed during a performance of Stephen Elop (Stephen Elop). President, Nokia kept it in his hands and, although not shown in detail, video and screenshots of it, where you somehow see this pattern, already scattered over the global network. Based on them, the model is very similar to Nokia N9 - just introduced a smartphone operating system MeeGo: this is too candy bar with a touchscreen and an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash. It is reported that the code name for the device - Sea Ray, but it is not clear under what name the novelty will be sold. While not reported, and other characteristics of the device. It is likely that they will be very similar to the functionality of the Nokia N9, however, it is possible that there will be differences. Already know that Nokia has planned its annual conference at the Nokia World 2011 October 26-27, there is expected to announce its first models based on Windows Phone, and the issue could take place later.
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In the cinema there were Russian-language films YouTube
Google has announced that it has launched a section on YouTube, "Cinema", which is now available in more than 400 legal full length movies in Russian. They can watch for free.
To draft YouTube «Cinema» Cinema Concern joined the "Mosfilm" film studio "Lenfilm" and "Odessa Film Studio", a film studio to them. Gorky Film Star Media, and others.
More than 400 new bands, both classic and modern, is now available for free at http://www.youtube.ru/movies . As promised the company, find the picture is not difficult - all the films distributed in 13 categories, among which we find comedies, dramas, animation and documentary films. Right now you can watch "12 Chairs", "Guest from the Future", "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession" and other classics of Soviet cinema. In addition to our film, under the best available classic films and new Hollywood, Bollywood, etc.
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To draft YouTube «Cinema» Cinema Concern joined the "Mosfilm" film studio "Lenfilm" and "Odessa Film Studio", a film studio to them. Gorky Film Star Media, and others.
More than 400 new bands, both classic and modern, is now available for free at http://www.youtube.ru/movies . As promised the company, find the picture is not difficult - all the films distributed in 13 categories, among which we find comedies, dramas, animation and documentary films. Right now you can watch "12 Chairs", "Guest from the Future", "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession" and other classics of Soviet cinema. In addition to our film, under the best available classic films and new Hollywood, Bollywood, etc.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Adapt your apps for the new LiveSound™ hi-fi headset and the LiveDock™ multimedia station
Today Sony Ericsson is announcing two new smart accessories: the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset and the LiveDock™ multimedia station. These phone accessories are designed to extend and enhance your phone experience in new innovative ways. The LiveSound™ hi-fi headset is also the first headset to support the new LiveKey™ feature, which is a button on the headset to get direct access to phone functions or applications.
For example, you can set it to start recording a voice message as a note, while listening to radio in the headset you can set the LiveKey™ button to identify the song you are listening by using the TrackID application or it can start and stop your fitness application while out exercising. The possibilities are endless! As a developer, you are able to configure your application to make use of the LiveKey™ feature on the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset, as we are releasing code examples and documentation to guide you in this.
The LiveDock™ multimedia station is a smart, new docking station for your phone, which will launch any application you have set in the LiveWare™ manager application. Maybe you want to launch the music player when you dock in the kitchen, or the alarm clock when you dock in the bedroom? LiveDock™ multimedia station is also the first accessory to support ConnectLaunch. This is a new feature in LiveWare™ manager that notifies a preselected Android™ application when an accessory is connected to or detached from a device. Developers will have the ability to configure apps to work with ConnectLaunch, and therefore the LiveDock™ multimedia station. We will also release code examples and documentation for this.
LiveSound™ hi-fi headset and Xperia™ ray.
Introducing LiveSound™ hi-fi headset
The Sony Ericsson LiveSound™ hi-fi headset delivers premium sound, premium design and a smart remote control. Constructed from solid metal housing, it features minute 6mm driver units with powerful neodymium magnets, flat tangle free cables, and an intelligent, full remote with mic. The LiveSound™ hi-fi headset is designed with meticulous precision to captivate your eyes and ears, making it THE Android™ headphones for your Sony Ericsson smartphone.
Adapt your apps for LiveKey™
Along with the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset, we are also releasing the LiveKey™ concept. LiveKey™ is a new feature that extends the capabilities of Android™ phones connected to a LiveKey™ headset and running the latest version of the LiveWare™ manager. When a user presses the LiveKey™ button, it communicates with the LiveKey™ framework. The framework then invokes a LiveKey™ Handler to handle the button press. A LiveKey™ Handler is any application that is developed or adapted to handle LiveKey™ events.
As a developer, you have extensive freedom in how your LiveKey™ Handler interprets and handles LiveKey™ events. As inspiration and examples, when a user presses a LiveKey™ button, a LiveKey™ Handler could perform actions such as these:
Read an SMS message in the headphone’s ear speaker.
Toggle for media playback effects, such as bass boost.
Read the current time in the headphone’s ear speaker.
Start the user’s favourite application.
Send an SMS message as a reply to a incoming phone call.
Trigger a remote camera.
Start a recorder or similar sound-recording device.
The code example for LiveKey™ consists of two projects, one that creates sample LiveKey™ Handlers, and the other that creates various tests of the sample LiveKey™ Handlers. You can download these projects into Eclipse or any other build environment and use them as reference resources. Download the LiveKey™ Handler code example and documentation to learn more.
LiveSound™ and LiveKey™ compatibility
The LiveKey™ feature itself is developed for Android™ phones connected to a LiveKey™ headset and running the latest version of the LiveWare™ manager available on Android™ Market. LiveKey™ is an important element featured in the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset for SonyEricsson phones.
The LiveSound™ hi-fi headset will be fully supported by Xperia™ ray, Xperia™ active, Xperia™ pro, Xperia™ mini and Xperia™ mini pro from launch. Other 2011 Sony Ericsson Xperia™ phones will support LiveSound™ through software updates later this year. Visit www.sonyericsson.com/LiveSound to find out if your phone works with the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset.
LiveDock™ multimedia station and Xperia™ arc.
Introducing the LiveDock™ multimedia station
The Sony Ericsson LiveDock™ multimedia station is an elegant Android dock for smartphones that launches apps. For example, you can get news updates in your kitchen, enjoy your mobile music in your living room, or use LiveDock™ as an alarm clock. Just choose the app you want LiveWare™ manager to launch when you dock your Android phone.
LiveDock™ will also have the possibility to be connected to a USB device such as keyboard, mouse and gamepad if the phone has support for USB OTG. Visit www.sonyericsson.com/LiveDock for detailed information about compatibility.
Adapt your apps for ConnectLaunch
As the LiveDock™ multimedia station is announced, we also introduce the ConnectLaunch concept. ConnectLaunch is a new feature in LiveWare™ manager that notifies a preselected Android™ application when an accessory is connected to or detached from a device.
The notification can be used to launch or stop the application associated with the accessory. For example, ConnectLaunch can be used to start a media player when a pair of Bluetooth™ headphones is wirelessly connected to a device, or to start a clock when a charger is connected to a device through a USB port.
The code example for ConnectLaunch also consists of two projects – one that creates a sample ConnectLaunch Handler, and the other that tests the sample ConnectLaunch Handler. You can download these projects into Eclipse or any other build environment and use them as reference resources. Download the ConnectLaunch Handler code example and documentation to learn more.
LiveDock™ and ConnectLaunch compatibility
The LiveDock™ will work with Android™ phones running the latest version of the LiveWare™ manager, available on Android™ Market. The LiveDock™multimedia station with ConnectLaunch feature will be fully supported in Xperia™ ray, Xperia™ active, Xperia™ pro, Xperia™ mini and Xperia™ mini pro from launch.
Other 2011 Sony Ericsson Xperia™ phones, including Xperia™ neo and Xperia™ arc, will support LiveDock™ through software updates later this year. Visit www.sonyericsson.com/LiveDock for detailed information about compatibility and USB OTG support (phone software dependent).
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For example, you can set it to start recording a voice message as a note, while listening to radio in the headset you can set the LiveKey™ button to identify the song you are listening by using the TrackID application or it can start and stop your fitness application while out exercising. The possibilities are endless! As a developer, you are able to configure your application to make use of the LiveKey™ feature on the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset, as we are releasing code examples and documentation to guide you in this.
The LiveDock™ multimedia station is a smart, new docking station for your phone, which will launch any application you have set in the LiveWare™ manager application. Maybe you want to launch the music player when you dock in the kitchen, or the alarm clock when you dock in the bedroom? LiveDock™ multimedia station is also the first accessory to support ConnectLaunch. This is a new feature in LiveWare™ manager that notifies a preselected Android™ application when an accessory is connected to or detached from a device. Developers will have the ability to configure apps to work with ConnectLaunch, and therefore the LiveDock™ multimedia station. We will also release code examples and documentation for this.
LiveSound™ hi-fi headset and Xperia™ ray.
Introducing LiveSound™ hi-fi headset
The Sony Ericsson LiveSound™ hi-fi headset delivers premium sound, premium design and a smart remote control. Constructed from solid metal housing, it features minute 6mm driver units with powerful neodymium magnets, flat tangle free cables, and an intelligent, full remote with mic. The LiveSound™ hi-fi headset is designed with meticulous precision to captivate your eyes and ears, making it THE Android™ headphones for your Sony Ericsson smartphone.
Adapt your apps for LiveKey™
Along with the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset, we are also releasing the LiveKey™ concept. LiveKey™ is a new feature that extends the capabilities of Android™ phones connected to a LiveKey™ headset and running the latest version of the LiveWare™ manager. When a user presses the LiveKey™ button, it communicates with the LiveKey™ framework. The framework then invokes a LiveKey™ Handler to handle the button press. A LiveKey™ Handler is any application that is developed or adapted to handle LiveKey™ events.
As a developer, you have extensive freedom in how your LiveKey™ Handler interprets and handles LiveKey™ events. As inspiration and examples, when a user presses a LiveKey™ button, a LiveKey™ Handler could perform actions such as these:
Read an SMS message in the headphone’s ear speaker.
Toggle for media playback effects, such as bass boost.
Read the current time in the headphone’s ear speaker.
Start the user’s favourite application.
Send an SMS message as a reply to a incoming phone call.
Trigger a remote camera.
Start a recorder or similar sound-recording device.
The code example for LiveKey™ consists of two projects, one that creates sample LiveKey™ Handlers, and the other that creates various tests of the sample LiveKey™ Handlers. You can download these projects into Eclipse or any other build environment and use them as reference resources. Download the LiveKey™ Handler code example and documentation to learn more.
LiveSound™ and LiveKey™ compatibility
The LiveKey™ feature itself is developed for Android™ phones connected to a LiveKey™ headset and running the latest version of the LiveWare™ manager available on Android™ Market. LiveKey™ is an important element featured in the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset for SonyEricsson phones.
The LiveSound™ hi-fi headset will be fully supported by Xperia™ ray, Xperia™ active, Xperia™ pro, Xperia™ mini and Xperia™ mini pro from launch. Other 2011 Sony Ericsson Xperia™ phones will support LiveSound™ through software updates later this year. Visit www.sonyericsson.com/LiveSound to find out if your phone works with the LiveSound™ hi-fi headset.
LiveDock™ multimedia station and Xperia™ arc.
Introducing the LiveDock™ multimedia station
The Sony Ericsson LiveDock™ multimedia station is an elegant Android dock for smartphones that launches apps. For example, you can get news updates in your kitchen, enjoy your mobile music in your living room, or use LiveDock™ as an alarm clock. Just choose the app you want LiveWare™ manager to launch when you dock your Android phone.
LiveDock™ will also have the possibility to be connected to a USB device such as keyboard, mouse and gamepad if the phone has support for USB OTG. Visit www.sonyericsson.com/LiveDock for detailed information about compatibility.
Adapt your apps for ConnectLaunch
As the LiveDock™ multimedia station is announced, we also introduce the ConnectLaunch concept. ConnectLaunch is a new feature in LiveWare™ manager that notifies a preselected Android™ application when an accessory is connected to or detached from a device.
The notification can be used to launch or stop the application associated with the accessory. For example, ConnectLaunch can be used to start a media player when a pair of Bluetooth™ headphones is wirelessly connected to a device, or to start a clock when a charger is connected to a device through a USB port.
The code example for ConnectLaunch also consists of two projects – one that creates a sample ConnectLaunch Handler, and the other that tests the sample ConnectLaunch Handler. You can download these projects into Eclipse or any other build environment and use them as reference resources. Download the ConnectLaunch Handler code example and documentation to learn more.
LiveDock™ and ConnectLaunch compatibility
The LiveDock™ will work with Android™ phones running the latest version of the LiveWare™ manager, available on Android™ Market. The LiveDock™multimedia station with ConnectLaunch feature will be fully supported in Xperia™ ray, Xperia™ active, Xperia™ pro, Xperia™ mini and Xperia™ mini pro from launch.
Other 2011 Sony Ericsson Xperia™ phones, including Xperia™ neo and Xperia™ arc, will support LiveDock™ through software updates later this year. Visit www.sonyericsson.com/LiveDock for detailed information about compatibility and USB OTG support (phone software dependent).
Ericsson and partners take refugee reconnection mobile on World Refugee Day
On World Refugee Day on June 20, in support of UNHCR, a coalition of Ericsson, Refugees United and the mobile operators 3, Safaricom and MTN launched a multi-country mobile initiative to reconnect refugees with their loved ones through Refugees United’s anonymous, worldwide database.
In a world of rapidly multiplying mobile connections, millions of refugees are displaced as a result of disaster or political conflict. Not only driven out of their homes, children are separated from their parents, husbands from their wives, and brothers and sisters are scattered to the far corners of the globe.
How to bring them back together? Perhaps with the help of the most connected device: the mobile phone.
Refugees United is a Danish non-profit organization that developed a web platform to help displaced people search for family members around the world using an anonymous database capable of matching profiles. Ericsson and its partners have now unveiled a Refugees United mobile app for Android smartphones.
But mobile registration is not limited to smartphones, with other tools supporting everything from the lowest- to highest-end mobiles. The goal is to register 120,000 people by the end of 2011. By early June, 41,000 refugees had already signed up.
“There are more than 43 million refugees and 5 billion people with access to mobile phones,” Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, says. “We want to leverage the ubiquity of mobile connectivity and phones to reach out to this isolated population, and help to bring them back into the Networked Society. This is the start of a journey to profile how the use of technology can be a force of good.”
Events organized to mark the launch included a June 19 concert held in Nairobi, Kenya by Sudanese rapper and former child soldier Emmanuel Jal, as well as other activities in Johannesburg, South Africa, Copenhagen, Denmark and Stockholm, Sweden. Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom and multinational South-Africa-based operator MTN both committed to helping take the Refugees United service to their broader subscriber bases in Africa, while the mobile operator 3 will serve as a partner in Denmark and Sweden.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also used the day to highlight its “Do 1 Thing” campaign, a six-month worldwide effort aimed at promoting the stories of individual refugees, with everything from a public service spot by actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie to photo exhibitions illustrating refugees’ lives. The campaign urges people to get involved and do just one thing to help refugees, from donating money to “liking” UNHCR on Facebook.
“More than 43 million people have fled a war or conflict,” Henne Mathisen, a UNHCR spokesperson, says. “That big a number does not make an impact on people. It is almost too impressive. We want to focus on the one.”
World Refugee Day was marked around the globe in hundreds of gatherings of all sizes. Iconic landmarks like New York’s Empire State Building in the US, the Tokyo Tower in Japans’ capital city and the Ericsson Globe arena in Stockholm were all bathed in blue light at night in solidarity with the tens of millions of refugees.
Also in Stockholm, UNHCR erected a white 16sq m refugee tent meant for a family of five in the middle of Stockholm’s central train station. The inside of the tent was dark and quiet, filled with blankets, water jugs, pots and pans, all symbols of involuntary flight in the midst of bustling, voluntary Stockholm travelers. Passers-by could sample the high-protein food that sustains malnourished children in refugee camps and leave notes saying what they personally would take with them if they were forced to flee. These included:
“Mobile phone and cat”
“Water”
“Friends”
“Memory”
Danish film star and Refugees United goodwill ambassador Mads Mikkelsen visited the tent along with his friend David Mikkelsen, one of two brothers who founded Refugees United after trying to help an Afghan refugee find his family after years of separation.
“This is not something we could dream of having the chance to do 20 years ago,” Mads Mikkelsen says “It opens a new door. All of a sudden, people have a tool that allows them to find their loved ones.”
Ericsson employees were also on hand in Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb with a large refugee community, mainly from East Africa, in order to promote and help with the registration process.
The Ericsson van pulled up near Rinkeby Torg, the bustling heart of the neighborhood filled with fruit and vegetable stands, children playing and men laughing in the rain.
Charlotta Mantell, a Creative Director at Ericsson in Stockholm, who spent the afternoon in Rinkeby doing outreach work, said that local residents were intrigued by both the mobile app and the Refugees United database. Several people registered on the database, and Mantell and her Ericsson co-worker Sandra Galan, a business builder in experience marketing, helped one man use the database to try to find family members.
He did not find anyone. But Mantell said they urged him to keep checking.
“Our message was to sign up, and maybe your family or friends will be able to find you. They may not be in the database today, but they might be tomorrow.”
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In a world of rapidly multiplying mobile connections, millions of refugees are displaced as a result of disaster or political conflict. Not only driven out of their homes, children are separated from their parents, husbands from their wives, and brothers and sisters are scattered to the far corners of the globe.
How to bring them back together? Perhaps with the help of the most connected device: the mobile phone.
Refugees United is a Danish non-profit organization that developed a web platform to help displaced people search for family members around the world using an anonymous database capable of matching profiles. Ericsson and its partners have now unveiled a Refugees United mobile app for Android smartphones.
But mobile registration is not limited to smartphones, with other tools supporting everything from the lowest- to highest-end mobiles. The goal is to register 120,000 people by the end of 2011. By early June, 41,000 refugees had already signed up.
“There are more than 43 million refugees and 5 billion people with access to mobile phones,” Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, says. “We want to leverage the ubiquity of mobile connectivity and phones to reach out to this isolated population, and help to bring them back into the Networked Society. This is the start of a journey to profile how the use of technology can be a force of good.”
Events organized to mark the launch included a June 19 concert held in Nairobi, Kenya by Sudanese rapper and former child soldier Emmanuel Jal, as well as other activities in Johannesburg, South Africa, Copenhagen, Denmark and Stockholm, Sweden. Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom and multinational South-Africa-based operator MTN both committed to helping take the Refugees United service to their broader subscriber bases in Africa, while the mobile operator 3 will serve as a partner in Denmark and Sweden.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also used the day to highlight its “Do 1 Thing” campaign, a six-month worldwide effort aimed at promoting the stories of individual refugees, with everything from a public service spot by actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie to photo exhibitions illustrating refugees’ lives. The campaign urges people to get involved and do just one thing to help refugees, from donating money to “liking” UNHCR on Facebook.
“More than 43 million people have fled a war or conflict,” Henne Mathisen, a UNHCR spokesperson, says. “That big a number does not make an impact on people. It is almost too impressive. We want to focus on the one.”
World Refugee Day was marked around the globe in hundreds of gatherings of all sizes. Iconic landmarks like New York’s Empire State Building in the US, the Tokyo Tower in Japans’ capital city and the Ericsson Globe arena in Stockholm were all bathed in blue light at night in solidarity with the tens of millions of refugees.
Also in Stockholm, UNHCR erected a white 16sq m refugee tent meant for a family of five in the middle of Stockholm’s central train station. The inside of the tent was dark and quiet, filled with blankets, water jugs, pots and pans, all symbols of involuntary flight in the midst of bustling, voluntary Stockholm travelers. Passers-by could sample the high-protein food that sustains malnourished children in refugee camps and leave notes saying what they personally would take with them if they were forced to flee. These included:
“Mobile phone and cat”
“Water”
“Friends”
“Memory”
Danish film star and Refugees United goodwill ambassador Mads Mikkelsen visited the tent along with his friend David Mikkelsen, one of two brothers who founded Refugees United after trying to help an Afghan refugee find his family after years of separation.
“This is not something we could dream of having the chance to do 20 years ago,” Mads Mikkelsen says “It opens a new door. All of a sudden, people have a tool that allows them to find their loved ones.”
Ericsson employees were also on hand in Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb with a large refugee community, mainly from East Africa, in order to promote and help with the registration process.
The Ericsson van pulled up near Rinkeby Torg, the bustling heart of the neighborhood filled with fruit and vegetable stands, children playing and men laughing in the rain.
Charlotta Mantell, a Creative Director at Ericsson in Stockholm, who spent the afternoon in Rinkeby doing outreach work, said that local residents were intrigued by both the mobile app and the Refugees United database. Several people registered on the database, and Mantell and her Ericsson co-worker Sandra Galan, a business builder in experience marketing, helped one man use the database to try to find family members.
He did not find anyone. But Mantell said they urged him to keep checking.
“Our message was to sign up, and maybe your family or friends will be able to find you. They may not be in the database today, but they might be tomorrow.”
The Nokia N9 Announcement by Marko Ahtisaari at Nokia Connection 2011
In this video, Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia's SVP of Design, announces Nokia N9 http://nokia.ly/iGrtvJ
It only takes a swipe to get to what you want with the Nokia N9, and it all floats beautifully on the large, curved display. Stay in touch with people, news and events. And browse the web. Quickly. Get around with free maps and navigation. And take great pictures with the 8MP camera. The Nokia N9 makes it all smooth, effortless and gorgeously stylish.
Learn more about the new Nokia N9, visit: http://nokia.ly/jUnOCP
Nokia Connection 2011 is an annual event held in conjunction with CommunicAsia 2011. The event is an exciting platform for Nokia to showcase the latest and newest devices and services to customers, operators, media and analysts from the region: http://bit.ly/NokiaCnxn
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It only takes a swipe to get to what you want with the Nokia N9, and it all floats beautifully on the large, curved display. Stay in touch with people, news and events. And browse the web. Quickly. Get around with free maps and navigation. And take great pictures with the 8MP camera. The Nokia N9 makes it all smooth, effortless and gorgeously stylish.
Learn more about the new Nokia N9, visit: http://nokia.ly/jUnOCP
Nokia Connection 2011 is an annual event held in conjunction with CommunicAsia 2011. The event is an exciting platform for Nokia to showcase the latest and newest devices and services to customers, operators, media and analysts from the region: http://bit.ly/NokiaCnxn
Huawei Sonic - budget Android-smartphone with NFC
Using technology Near Field Communication (TAC) in smartphones becomes a kind of trend of last time. At the same time such functionality is usually equipped with highly functional devices, which cost is quite high. But smartphone Sonic Huawei's even equipped with a module and NFC, in expensive machines do not apply. It is based on the Android operating system and should be on the market in the near future with the cost of 150 euros. However, as you would expect from a smartphone budget level, it is no specification of any particular impression not produce. It may be noted only that that Huawei Sonic running Android 2.3, the user interface which has been modified considerably and includes a three-dimensional simulation of switching between desktops and screens. Other features include a smartphone Huawei Sonic 3.5-inch touch screen with a VGA- resolution, 256 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM memory. Increased onboard memory is possible with the help of microSD memory card format. Camera in a smartphone is the simplest with the 3.2 megapixel without autofocus and flash. The device weighs 120 grams. In the market initially it appears as a model for the operator's Turkish company Turkcell, called T20. Officially reported that Huawei Sonic will be released in other markets, but the usual practice of the company implies that a market is not limited.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Introducing the Nokia N9: all it takes is a swipe!
SINGAPORE – At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today, Nokia introduced the Nokia N9, the first-ever pure touch smartphone that is all about making things simpler. Nokia N9 focuses on the most important things that people do: use apps, get notifications and switch between different activities. Navigating the UI is done with a simple gesture, a swipe of a finger. Let’s have a closer look at what the Nokia N9 is bringing to the game.
SWIPE
The team behind the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 brought together elements of industrial design, software development and user interface advancements, as well as a developer platform to create a better way to use a phone. All that’s needed to use the Nokia N9 is a simple gesture, a swipe of the finger. It is an intuitive way to use all the different features and functions. Whenever you are in an application, you just swipe from the edge of the screen to go back home.
UNIBODY DESIGN
The Nokia N9 has a beautiful one-piece, unibody design where the hardware and software fit together seamlessly. The large, 3.9 inch curved glass AMOLED display lets the applications shine and take full benefit of the user interface. Thanks to the innovative laminated display technology, it looks like applications are literally floating on top of the screen. The body of the Nokia N9 is made from the best in polycarbonate material engineering today, enabling superior antenna performance over most other competitors’ smartphones. This means better reception, better voice quality and fewer dropped calls. The Nokia N9 comes in three colours: black, cyan and magenta and with large storage capacities of 16GB and 64GB on the two variants to be made available.
NO BUTTONS
The Nokia N9 is the world’s first pure touch screen phone without any front-facing buttons at all. You unlock the phone by just double-tapping the screen.
THREE HOME VIEWS
The user interface in Nokia N9 is designed around the things people typically use the most. This is why there are three recognizable home views arranged in a carousel: 1) Applications for launching and organizing your apps. 2) Events for social networking feeds and notifications for calls, texts, calendar events, etc. 3) Open applications for switching between all live apps you have used recently. You can pinch and zoom the screen to see either four or nine open app icons. In fact, the Nokia N9 delivers the best multitasking experience on any phone!
POWERFUL CAMERA
The 8MP auto focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and super wide 28mm lens works faster from start to capture than any other manufacturer’s smartphone camera in the market. HD video and true 16:9 resolution photos are supported. You can share your photos via MMS, email, NFC and many online services including Flickr and Facebook.
FAST WEB BROWSER
The fast web browser is built on the latest Webkit 2 technology. Even while loading a web page, the screen remains responsive. You can have several browser windows open in the open applications view and switching between them is, again, fast and easy. Favourite websites are shown as visual thumbnails, supported by a full browsing history. Wide HTML5 support offers access to rich web applications and fast video playback.
LATEST MAPS
The Nokia N9 has the latest Nokia Maps with free, voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation for walking and driving. There is also a dedicated Drive app for in-car navigation, which lets you start navigating to your destination instantly after entering your destination. Public transport routing in 85 cities means you can find the quickest route on foot or by tram, metro or train. You can also discover nearby places with cafés, shops, hotels and more, all marked along the way.
DOLBY SOUND
Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus support on the Nokia N9 turns regular stereo audio into personal surround sound on any headphones – first on any mobile phone.
NFC-ENABLED
Pairing between NFC-enabled accessories is easier than ever before – you do Bluetooth pairing only once and after that you can connect to them just by touching. You can also share content like photos or business cards via NFC.
The things that make the Nokia N9 unique – the industrial design, developments in software and user interface, and the ease of developer experience with Qt – will live on in a variety of ways in Nokia. You can go and experience the Nokia N9 for yourself at swipe.nokia.com. The site is full of interactive videos that show how the product works in real life – it is the second best thing to actually having the product in your hand! The Nokia N9 will be in stores later this year, with availability and local pricing to be announced closer to the sales start date.
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SWIPE
The team behind the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 brought together elements of industrial design, software development and user interface advancements, as well as a developer platform to create a better way to use a phone. All that’s needed to use the Nokia N9 is a simple gesture, a swipe of the finger. It is an intuitive way to use all the different features and functions. Whenever you are in an application, you just swipe from the edge of the screen to go back home.
UNIBODY DESIGN
The Nokia N9 has a beautiful one-piece, unibody design where the hardware and software fit together seamlessly. The large, 3.9 inch curved glass AMOLED display lets the applications shine and take full benefit of the user interface. Thanks to the innovative laminated display technology, it looks like applications are literally floating on top of the screen. The body of the Nokia N9 is made from the best in polycarbonate material engineering today, enabling superior antenna performance over most other competitors’ smartphones. This means better reception, better voice quality and fewer dropped calls. The Nokia N9 comes in three colours: black, cyan and magenta and with large storage capacities of 16GB and 64GB on the two variants to be made available.
NO BUTTONS
The Nokia N9 is the world’s first pure touch screen phone without any front-facing buttons at all. You unlock the phone by just double-tapping the screen.
THREE HOME VIEWS
The user interface in Nokia N9 is designed around the things people typically use the most. This is why there are three recognizable home views arranged in a carousel: 1) Applications for launching and organizing your apps. 2) Events for social networking feeds and notifications for calls, texts, calendar events, etc. 3) Open applications for switching between all live apps you have used recently. You can pinch and zoom the screen to see either four or nine open app icons. In fact, the Nokia N9 delivers the best multitasking experience on any phone!
POWERFUL CAMERA
The 8MP auto focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and super wide 28mm lens works faster from start to capture than any other manufacturer’s smartphone camera in the market. HD video and true 16:9 resolution photos are supported. You can share your photos via MMS, email, NFC and many online services including Flickr and Facebook.
FAST WEB BROWSER
The fast web browser is built on the latest Webkit 2 technology. Even while loading a web page, the screen remains responsive. You can have several browser windows open in the open applications view and switching between them is, again, fast and easy. Favourite websites are shown as visual thumbnails, supported by a full browsing history. Wide HTML5 support offers access to rich web applications and fast video playback.
LATEST MAPS
The Nokia N9 has the latest Nokia Maps with free, voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation for walking and driving. There is also a dedicated Drive app for in-car navigation, which lets you start navigating to your destination instantly after entering your destination. Public transport routing in 85 cities means you can find the quickest route on foot or by tram, metro or train. You can also discover nearby places with cafés, shops, hotels and more, all marked along the way.
DOLBY SOUND
Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus support on the Nokia N9 turns regular stereo audio into personal surround sound on any headphones – first on any mobile phone.
NFC-ENABLED
Pairing between NFC-enabled accessories is easier than ever before – you do Bluetooth pairing only once and after that you can connect to them just by touching. You can also share content like photos or business cards via NFC.
The things that make the Nokia N9 unique – the industrial design, developments in software and user interface, and the ease of developer experience with Qt – will live on in a variety of ways in Nokia. You can go and experience the Nokia N9 for yourself at swipe.nokia.com. The site is full of interactive videos that show how the product works in real life – it is the second best thing to actually having the product in your hand! The Nokia N9 will be in stores later this year, with availability and local pricing to be announced closer to the sales start date.
Launch: Nokia C2-03 – Dual SIM and Touch and Type, together
GLOBAL – Today we see the launch of a new Series 40-powered feature phone, the Nokia C2-03. Combining Dual-SIM functionality with Touch and Type technology, this new phone is perfect for people who want to combine their separate needs into one single device.
The Nokia C2-03 is Nokia’s third Touch and Type phone and first such form factor to feature Dual-SIM. Up until now, Dual-SIM phones needed to be switched off and the battery removed, so that the SIM card could be inserted. Not now. The Easy Swap feature allows you to open the slot on the side of the phone and simply insert your new SIM, with no need to reboot.
Should you have more than two SIM cards, the Nokia C2-03 is capable of remembering the settings for up to five separate cards. So once you’ve personalised your SIM by giving it its own name and calling settings, you’ll never have to do it again.
Measuring 103 x 51.4 x 17mm (L x W x H) and weighing 118g, it fits perfectly in your pocket, or hand. The standby time is quoted as lasting up to 400 hours, with a talk time of up to five hours, while the music playback time last up to 35 hours. The screen is measured at 240 x 320 with up to 65K colours.
For people waiting for a low-cost feature phone with Nokia Maps, the wait is over. The Nokia C2-03 comes preloaded with the brand new Nokia Maps for Series 40, making this great service accessible to a much wider range of phone users. As you’d expect from Nokia Maps for Series 40, you can search for a location and plan a route while completely offline, costing you absolutely nothing.
As for Internet browsing, the newly released Nokia Browser for Series 40 is now installed as standard on all future Series 40 devices. This compresses all the data before it reaches your phone in order to give you a much faster, richer and more cost-efficient web experience.
Mary McDowell, the head of Nokia’s Mobile Phones business unit, explains why all these features have been included in the Nokia C2-03:
The Nokia C2-03 makes managing multiple SIMs simpler, without compromising on any other features. Why should consumers have to choose between touch and keypad, or forego a great web, map, entertainment or email experience? With the Nokia C2-03 we have made it all available on one affordable device.
If it’s storage you’re after, then this phone has 10MB in memory which is expandable up to huge 32GB. Plenty of room for all those photos, videos and music files you might have. If you’ve not yet got thousands of photos, you can always get snapping with the 2-megapixel camera.
The Nokia C2-03 sees the return of the slide phone, with the touchscreen covering the keypad. Because this phone is a Touch and Type device, you can perform certain actions on the screen then slide the screen up to reveal the keypad underneath, all with one hand.
Liu Hang, Industrial Designer at Nokia explains some of the thinking behind the design:
The upper and lower parts of the phone create harmony with each other due to their smooth, rounded edges. We’ve kept the design as simple and as clean as possible while still producing an elegant look.
The Nokia C2-03 will be available in Q3 2011 in India, China, SEAP, Eurasia and MEA, costing €77 (the price may vary from market to market) – excluding taxes and subsidies.
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The Nokia C2-03 is Nokia’s third Touch and Type phone and first such form factor to feature Dual-SIM. Up until now, Dual-SIM phones needed to be switched off and the battery removed, so that the SIM card could be inserted. Not now. The Easy Swap feature allows you to open the slot on the side of the phone and simply insert your new SIM, with no need to reboot.
Should you have more than two SIM cards, the Nokia C2-03 is capable of remembering the settings for up to five separate cards. So once you’ve personalised your SIM by giving it its own name and calling settings, you’ll never have to do it again.
Measuring 103 x 51.4 x 17mm (L x W x H) and weighing 118g, it fits perfectly in your pocket, or hand. The standby time is quoted as lasting up to 400 hours, with a talk time of up to five hours, while the music playback time last up to 35 hours. The screen is measured at 240 x 320 with up to 65K colours.
For people waiting for a low-cost feature phone with Nokia Maps, the wait is over. The Nokia C2-03 comes preloaded with the brand new Nokia Maps for Series 40, making this great service accessible to a much wider range of phone users. As you’d expect from Nokia Maps for Series 40, you can search for a location and plan a route while completely offline, costing you absolutely nothing.
As for Internet browsing, the newly released Nokia Browser for Series 40 is now installed as standard on all future Series 40 devices. This compresses all the data before it reaches your phone in order to give you a much faster, richer and more cost-efficient web experience.
Mary McDowell, the head of Nokia’s Mobile Phones business unit, explains why all these features have been included in the Nokia C2-03:
The Nokia C2-03 makes managing multiple SIMs simpler, without compromising on any other features. Why should consumers have to choose between touch and keypad, or forego a great web, map, entertainment or email experience? With the Nokia C2-03 we have made it all available on one affordable device.
If it’s storage you’re after, then this phone has 10MB in memory which is expandable up to huge 32GB. Plenty of room for all those photos, videos and music files you might have. If you’ve not yet got thousands of photos, you can always get snapping with the 2-megapixel camera.
The Nokia C2-03 sees the return of the slide phone, with the touchscreen covering the keypad. Because this phone is a Touch and Type device, you can perform certain actions on the screen then slide the screen up to reveal the keypad underneath, all with one hand.
Liu Hang, Industrial Designer at Nokia explains some of the thinking behind the design:
The upper and lower parts of the phone create harmony with each other due to their smooth, rounded edges. We’ve kept the design as simple and as clean as possible while still producing an elegant look.
The Nokia C2-03 will be available in Q3 2011 in India, China, SEAP, Eurasia and MEA, costing €77 (the price may vary from market to market) – excluding taxes and subsidies.
Symbian Anna on Nokia X7
Symbian Anna, the new software release for Nokia's Symbian operating system, is renewing Nokia smartphones. Previously known as PR2, Symbian Anna will first be available on Nokia E6 and X7.
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Nokia N9 Design Story
In this video, Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia's SVP of Design, talks about the design of the Nokia N9 http://nokia.ly/iGrtvJ
It only takes a swipe to get to what you want with the Nokia N9, and it all floats beautifully on the large, curved display. Stay in touch with people, news and events. And browse the web. Quickly. Get around with free maps and navigation. And take great pictures with the 8MP camera. The Nokia N9 makes it all smooth, effortless and gorgeously stylish.
Learn more about the new Nokia N9, visit: http://nokia.ly/jUnOCP
Read More >>
It only takes a swipe to get to what you want with the Nokia N9, and it all floats beautifully on the large, curved display. Stay in touch with people, news and events. And browse the web. Quickly. Get around with free maps and navigation. And take great pictures with the 8MP camera. The Nokia N9 makes it all smooth, effortless and gorgeously stylish.
Learn more about the new Nokia N9, visit: http://nokia.ly/jUnOCP
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