Sony unveils Xperia E1 and T2 Ultra smartphones

On Tuesday Sony has announced the launch of Xperia E1, and Xperia T2 Ultra smartphones.

"In Xperia E1 Sony combines the best of Sony's audio technologies with a premium exquisite design and great hardware to create a smartphone for the people who wants to express themselves out loud," said Calum MacDougall, Director of Xperia marketing at Sony Mobile Communications.

Now lets talk about  Experia E1 which is an android phone supports a 4 inch WVGA (800 x 480) display. This device is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual core processor with 512 MB RAM and 4GB storage.

This device comes with marvellous features such as walkman TM key, shake to shuffle and hardware controls for easy music control, fast data speeds with Cat 14 HSPA+. The new phone is available in white, black and purple colours.

Apart from this, Xperia T2 Ultra has 6 inch HD display (720p). It has 13 megapixel camera. Additionally, the device has 1.1 Mp front facing camera. The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra is built on Snapdragon Quad-core 1.4 GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of on board storage. And a Micro SD slot expandable up to 32GB. This device is powered by a huge 3000 mAh embedded battery. It runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.

The latest Sony smartphone will come in two variants--the single SIM T2 Ultra and the dual-SIM T2 Ultra dual.

However, the company has not announced the price of the new phones.

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Sony Ericsson to launch Its New Handsets in Feb 2011

Sony Ericsson seems to be working very hard to announce some new handsets in the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) that is going to be held in Barcelona in February 2011. As from the various online reports that have come into picture, we can expect that Sony Ericsson will be going to expand its Xperia handsets category by adding some new models to it.

The models, which are going to be expected to line-up Xperia handsets portfolio, are Xperia Arc, Xperia Duo, and Xperia Neo models. We also came to know that Sony Ericsson would be also going to launch Xperia X12 and PlayStation phone. Sony Ericsson Xperia 12 is a hybrid version of Xperia X10 handset,  X12 will be powered by 1 GHz of processor and will be running on Google’s newest Android Operating System, Gingerbread.

The device is also supposed to have 8.1 Megapixel of camera that is capable of recording HD videos at 720p resolution and it also going to support a HDMI port. The detail of Xperia Arc, Xperia Duo, and Xperia Neo models handsets has not yet been announced but it is going to be released very soon.

Sony Ericsson has already trademarked Xperia Arc, Xperia Duo, and Xperia Neo models and they might be going to announce in MWC event.

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Android 2.1 for Xperia X10 family due tomorrow

Finally, Sony Ericsson has announced to release Google Android 2.1 Eclair update for its Xperia X10 family handsets. Tomorrow on Sunday, the Android 2.1 update would start rolling out phase wise for Xperia X10, X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro. But still there s no guarantee that all Xperia X10 family handset owners will get the update immediately. Only the non-branded Xperia X10 series handsets will get notification for Android 2.1 update.

Last month we reported about Sony Ericsson fixing last minute issues in the Xperia X10 series range through Android 2.1 update. Now since the update is due on Sunday, not all Xperia X10 series handsets owners would receive update notifications.

Richard Skogberg at Sony Ericsson Product blog noted that generic kits for the Nordic countries would be pushed out tomorrow evening European time. More kits would be rolled out on Monday and then the roll out has been spread out for next month - Nov. 
The key changes coming with Android 2.1 update are:

Xperia X10:
- HD video recording with continuous auto-focus for high quality videos
- Upgrade of the Android platform to Android 2.1
- New back up and restore application, with extended content back up
- 5 homescreens for apps, widgets, shortcuts and folders
- Social phonebook which automatically syncs contact pictures from Facebook and shows when your friends are online

Xperia X10 mini and X10 mini pro:
- Improved Bluetooth functionality with support for sending and receiving pictures, contacts and more
- New backup and restore application with extended content back up
- Automatic synchronization of your contact pictures between Facebook and your phone book
- Improved ways of handling pictures, audio, text and numbers in your messages

Generic unbranded Xperia X10, X10 Mini or X10 Mini Pro handset owners will get notification of Android 2.1 update which can be downloaded Over-the-Air using Wi-Fi or mobile GPRS. Alternatively, users can also take help of PC Companion software to download and install the Android 2.1 update on their Xperia X10 series phone. We d suggest you to download via PC Companion software to be on safer side. 

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