If you live in Taiwan, you should know that, Sony Ericsson is opening a new flagship store in Taiwan (Grand opening will be tomorrow, on the 10th of May).

Besides of this beautiful store, the interesting thing is the board with a list of the Sony Ericsson device prefix explanation.

From this listing we can learn the meaning of the several prefixes. It looks like that a prefix "G" (If you remember, it's a recently announced line-up of the Sony Ericsson's new devices. The G series were opened with couple of UIQ smartphones: Sony Ericsson G700 and Sony Ericsson G900) means "Generation Web" and as you already know, it contains not only smartphones, but usual phones with enhanced capabilities for Internet usage (Like, recently announced Sony Ericsson G502). The explanation of the "P" is "Pro" (Frankly, I always thought that the meaning of the "P" was PDA :D looks like it's a new meaning) and good news is that there gonna be new devices from P series and it will not be replaced with X series.

What means prefix "X", I guess everybody already knows, it's a high-end "XPERIA" branded line-up with most awaited, Windows Mobile based - Sony Ericsson X1. Prefix "R" means Radio line-up with enhanced Radio capabilities, "W" means old and kind "Walkman" branded line-up and "C" is a new line-up of the famous "Cyber-Shot", C series were opened with couple of new handsets - Sony Ericsson C702 and C905. Prefix "S" has a new meaning "Snapshot" (Old was "Slider"). "T" is a "Style" line, and at last the new prefix "F".

Depending on this list, unannounced prefix "F" means "FUN" and looks like its opening expected in June on the Singapore event, but what exactly means FUN for Sony Ericsson I don't know. Maybe it's a combination of the music, photo shooting/video recording and web browsing, or maybe it's even gaming? Maybe it's an upcoming gaming platform like Nokia's "N-gage" or even long awaited PSP Phone (Or PSPhone)... Hmmm, I don't know :) I guess we need to wait and see...

Anyway, for me, new brand names and new series are only welcome (especially from Sony Ericsson), because it brings some novelties and the novelties is what we always need.

Sony Ericsson Store:

Those pictures, which were posted by mhg2000 over at My-Symbian.com,
are showing the live look of the long awaited Symbian UIQ smartphone from Sony Ericsson codenamed "Paris" (Also known as Sony Ericsson P5).

SEMC Blog has published new live pics of the upcoming smartphone from Sony Ericsson known as "Bei-Bei"...

As you can see, unlike the recently leaked pictures, this prototype has a different color scheme, this time "Bei-Bei" is in White+Red colors...

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Sony Ericsson has expanded the ranges of the color variants for Sony Ericsson K660, Sony Ericsson W580 and Sony Ericsson S500.

The new colors of the Sony Ericsson K660 are "Cyan on Black" and "Silver on Black".
What about Walkman branded Sony Ericsson W580, except of the "Style White", "Boulevard Black", "Urban Grey", "Metro Pink" and "Jungle Green", it will be available in "Velvet Red" color variant and the luxurious Sony Ericsson S500i will now be offered in "Steel Silver"...

Chinese mobile web site Yesky.com has published more live pictures of the long awaited upcoming UIQ 3.3 smartphone from the Sony Ericsson known as "Bei-Bei"...

Those picture is showing a device which is still in a testing phase and the model name is not determined yet...

Do you remember the rumors about one more upcoming smartphone from Sony Ericsson with a codename "Bei-Bei"? Of course you do... :) So the pictures of the prototype of the Bei-Bei have been leaked in the internet...

Those pictures are showing some part of the User Interface of the upcoming Symbian UIQ, which should be pre-installed on the Bei-Bei...

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Here we got some pictures of the upcoming Symbian UIQ 3.3 user interface...


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I am speechless. This is one of the most awesome handsets I've ever seen!

Today I got a really (and I mean really :D) interesting e-mail from someone seeming to be one of our readers. The e-mail mentioned some warm words about our blog and contained one very interesting picture. Is this a leaked (or spy) photo of the upcoming handset from Sony Ericsson?

To me, this device seems to be a high-end handset from the XPERIA line.

To be honest, when I first saw this photo, I thought that it was not yet announced Paris (Sony Ericsson P5) and my gladness had no borders. I've been waiting for P5 for quite long, but the device on the photo is obviously a new High-End XPERIA handset!... And this is why I think so.

First off all, I think you'll agree that the whole look of the handset resembles that of the recently announced Sony Ericsson X1. Second, it's obviously based on Windows Mobile OS. The picture on the screen speaks the same... And I think Paris (Sony Ericsson P5) or Sony Ericsson's other smartphone from P series will be based on Symbian UIQ and not WM.

So let's look at the photo and consider it.

Look at this HUGE screen, it's much bigger than X1's and believe me - the screen of the X1 is big :) and its obviously touchscreen.

As you can see, the form factor of the device is horizontal slider (Like Sony Ericsson X1) and there are no buttons on the front side of the phone!!! This means that the screen is touch sensitive and it doesn't need buttons (Like iPhone, wow). The capture on the screen is unknown to me. As I know, X1 has a different UI, at least this one is different from that, which was shown on the presentation of the handset. But the opened tabs are almost the same as on X1 screen, which was shown on the 3GSM.

The keyboard pretty much looks like that of X1, but if we take a closer look, we can notice a little thing on the right side of the keyboard (Look at the #1 mark on the picture). Frankly, I don't have the slightest idea what it is. Maybe a "scroll" button? Or at least I hope so :D Scroll would be great...

Unfortunately I can't see the front camera or the whole left side of the front view, or back view of the phone to tell with which camera is equipped this miracle, but I guess, after those visible specifications, which we can see on this leaked photo, Sony Ericsson never dares to put bad camera, I think there will be at least 5MP one, with Auto Focus.

OK, and at last words about this photo. To be honest, in my own opinion, this phone is too good to be true. At a moment I think that this picture is another fake, but it's so realistic that it's really difficult to be sure. Either way, bravo to the creator of the photo or to the creator of the device. If this is a real device and the one that can be released anytime soon, then not only will this device be iPhone killer, it can be a killer of every high end handset!!! Of course, this assumption is based on the look as I have no idea what the specifications are.

If we manage to get more pictures of the device, we will post them as a follow up.

As always, our readers' comments are welcome.

It seems that all of the official announcements have been made and it's time to get back to the rumors, leaked pictures of the upcoming phones, e.t.c. :)

Recently new pictures of the Sony Ericsson's new handset have been leaked on the Internet. It looks like that this photo has been taken from some kind of journal or magazine...
So what can we see on the picture and what kind of conclusion can we get from these leaked photos?

The phone is a clamshell and the look of the housing remains that of the handsets from Z Series, "Mobile Web Companion" talks about that the phone is hi-speed Internet enabled and has convenient Internet browser, "Always Know Your Location" talks about that the phone is GPS enabled, the inscription "Bluetooth Car Handsfree" talks about that the phone is equipped with Bluetooth module (I guess A2DP) and I think, the inscription on the top left corner - "Compact Power" means that the phone is at least Mid-Range and not Low-End...

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As you may recall, Sony Ericsson was preparing to announced new Cyber-Shot handsets for Japan - Sony Ericsson W61S and W62S. I've already wrote about it, but here we've got some new pics of those phones with various color choices...

Sony Ericsson W61S:









Sony Ericsson W62S: