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New XPERIA X1: premium, converged mobile experience
The new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1™ is a distinctive, arc-slider mobile phone delivering a premium, converged mobile experience addressing web communication and multimedia entertainment. The XPERIA X1 runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6® and features a 800x480 pixel WVGA touchscreen, a wide-pitch full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, A-GPS and 400MB user free memory. The Java ME Platform is also supported with CLDC 1.1, MIDP 2.0 and other JSRs.
Sony Ericsson adds five million music tracks to PlayNow arena content download service
Sony Ericsson reveals the next stage in the evolution of PlayNow™ arena. Deals with 10 major record labels add over five million new, and mostly DRM-free, tracks to the PlayNow arena catalog. Sony Ericsson is also adding 250 new mobile games through deals with existing partners.
JSR 135 recording PCM (.wav) sound, new code example
New Tip, Trick & Code article showing how to record sound in either the AMR (.amr) or PCM (.wav) formats using the Mobile Media API (JSR 135) for Sony Ericsson's Java™ Platform 8 (JP-8) phones.MUSIC INDUSTRY ARTICLE SERIES
Getting the hang of the music industry
These articles give developers an overview of the music industry, providing insights into the realities of business and legal processes, technologies and market trends.
- Part 1: Understanding the players, market trends and service definitions>>
- Part 2: Understanding codecs and bandwidth issues>>
- Part 3: Understanding licensing and the importance of DRM>>
- Part 4: Addressing the mobile consumer: music and audio content development>>
- Part 5: Music services from 3, the operator's perspective>>
General Articles
- Winners of the Sony Ericsson Content Awards 2007 unveiled
- Sony Ericsson experts speak on music, gaming & Mobile TV in January 2008
- Inaugural Sony Ericsson Content Awards showcase third-party content developers
- Next generation PlayNow content download service unveiled
- Test on pre-commercial Java ME phones
- New release of PlayNow download service, more content and new UI
- New tutorial, creating game music for Java ME phones
- Getting started with sound in Macromedia Flash Lite
- How to format media for OTA streaming and download, new tutorial
- Sony Ericsson's mobile music leadership on show at MIDEM 2007
- Heads-up: Sony Ericsson's president keynote at MIDEM 2007
- New Wiki for Developer World
- New formatting audio and video developer tutorials
- New music download initiatives announced: M-BUZZ and PlayNow
- Audible ports to M600, P990 and W950 UIQ 3 mobile phones
- Five reasons to develop for Sony Ericsson Walkman mobile phones
- New Music and Video Developers' Guidelines
- Mobile Music is big business at Midem 2006
- Sony Ericsson's mobile music strategy
- Sony Ericsson discusses mobile music content at Midem 2006
- Tune in to music application development
- Beyond gaming - Java apps discussed
- New JSRs supporting Java productivity applications development
INDUSTRY EXPERT OPINION
Quotes from industry representatives
Quotes from industry representativesRead what In-Stat have to say about Sony Ericsson's Walkman phones, mobile music industry trends and application development.
EXTERNAL PHONE REVIEWS
- Ear to Ear: The Battle of the Phone MP3 Players(Sony Ericsson W950 and Nokia N91)
- Sony Ericsson W810i Walkman Dives Into North America
- Top rated music phones(W900, W800 and W550 ranked among Top 5)
- Sony Ericsson: The W950, Music to Developers' Ears
- Sony Ericsson W600i Walkman
- Sony Ericsson W900i 3G Phone Review
- Sony Ericsson brings the highly anticipated W900i to Singapore
- Study says: Sony Ericsson W800i is a Hit
- Sony Ericsson's second Walkman phone: the stylish W550i
- Sony Ericsson Walkman Phone Beats Motorola ROKR to Best-in-Class Cellular Music Device Title
Technical resources
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PHONES
Sony Ericsson currently has 23 Walkman phones and many other phone series offering digital music players, all supporting various digital sound formats:
Walkman® phones
W200, W300, W350, W380, W550, W580, W600, W610, W660, W700, W710, W760, W800, W810, W830, W850, W880, W890, W900, W910, W950, W960, W980
Other phones with media players
C702, C902, D750, G700, G900, K530, K550, K700, K750, K600, K608, K610, K618, K630, K660, K770, K790, K800, K810, K850, M600, P1, P910, P990, S500, T650, V600, V640, X1, Z520, Z550, Z610, Z710, Z750, Z770
Current Sony Ericsson phones support DRM OMA v1.0 and v2.0. Please check individual phone pages above for details.
Latest phone articles
- New W760: HSDPA Walkman phone with GPS and MSA
- New W890 and K660 revealed, two Java Platform 8 (JP-8) phones supporting MSA
- Two new Java Platform 8 (JP-8) phones supporting MSA: K630 and V640
- K770: revealing the new 3G, Cyber-shot, Java Platform 7 (JP-7) phone
- Sony Ericsson W960: New UIQ 3-based Walkman phone
- New Java Platform 8 (JP-8) phones supporting MSA: K850 Cyber-shot and W910 Walkman
- Introducing S500 and T650: two new JP-7 phones
- Sony Ericsson P1: New UIQ 3-based smartphone unveiled
- Z750: first Java Platform 8 (JP-8) phone supporting next-generation Mobile Services Architecture
- Two new Walkman Java Platform 7 (JP-7) phones revealed
- 2 new Walkman and 2 new Cyber-shot phones, all Java Platform 7 (JP-7)
- Two new 3G phones supporting Java Platform 7 (JP-7) unveiled: Z610 and K618
- Sony Ericsson reveals two new Walkman phones: W850 and W710
- New W700 Walkman tri-band phone with 3D gaming
- World's first Cyber-shot™ camera phones
- New W300 Walkman: a clamshell, quad-band EDGE phone
- New 3G phone unveiled: K610
- W950 first Symbian OS-based Walkman phone
- New quad-band Walkman phone: W810
- New quad-band Walkman phone: W810
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MUSIC TIPS, TRICKS & CODE
Audio-related Tips, Tricks & Code articles are available for both Java ME and Symbian OS platforms.
Java ME Platform
January 2008:JSR 135, recording PCM (.wav) sound in JP-8
Other examples:
- FM radio player using JSR 135 on UIQ 3-based phones
- Stream and play music from the web using Java ME
- Collect meta data from a media stream with MetaDataControl
- New features in the Mobile Media API (JSR 135): progressive download and audio capture
- Part one: Using irDA with the OBEX protocol to create a client application
- Part two: The server side of using irDA with the OBEX protocol
Symbian OS/UIQ
Latest UIQ 3 from June 2007:Recording audio in UIQ 3
- Use CMdaAudioPlayerUtility class to play audio in a UIQ 3 app
- Add audio playing functionality to UIQ 3 apps using CMMFDevSound class
- Streaming audio in UIQ 3 applications
UIQ 2.x examples:
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