Sony Ericsson’s three new phones – the C510 Cyber-shot and W508 & W715 Walkman – take the number of phones series supporting the Project Capuchin API to six and Sony Ericsson’s Java Platform 8 (JP-8), and the Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) umbrella standard (JSR 248), to 24.
Sony Ericsson is actively supporting the growing third-party developer community in India and the response to the new Sony Ericsson Developer World Awards has been considerable. The submission deadline is now extended to January 31, 2009 giving Indian developers more time to take the first step towards becoming a “Sony Ericsson Certified Developer”.
A new mobile application that enables easy diagnosis of patients in remote areas has been developed to run on Android. The software called Moca integrates the Android based medical diagnosis application with the open source OpenMRS medical records database system.
Exclusively for developers in India, entering the new Sony Ericsson Developer World Awards is the first step towards becoming a “Sony Ericsson Certified Developer”. Submissions are open through a new web site until January 10, 2009.
Sony Ericsson has announced the nominees for the Sony Ericsson Content Awards 2008 on the competition’s website. Here you’ll find information about each competitor and screenshots of their submitted content. There is still time to participate in this competition as the Xperia Panels category is open for submissions until January 30, 2009.
Papaya turns your phonebook into a fun and useful social network! It allows you to communicate with your friends cheaply and easily, no matter where you are. Using Papaya, you can play games with your friends, chat with them over IM, share pictures and other files, make cheap international calls, and more.
Sony Ericsson extends its portfolio strategy to include support for the Open Handset Alliance, complementing existing Open OS strategy, and committing to produce an Android based phone in due course.
Sony Ericsson Developer World in China is running a prize draw where newly registered members are eligible to win one Sony Ericsson S500 phone per week. The competition is running from October 20 to December 14, 2008, so there is not much time left to try to win a new phone by becoming a new Chinese Community member.
The registration deadline for the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge is extended one week from November 28, 2008 to December 5, 2008 for the Americas region. Sony Ericsson is a co-sponsor of this competition, providing qualifying contestants with C905 and C702 phones and software tools to enable Java ME and Project Capuchin application creation. Sony Ericsson Developer World also supplies quick registration links for registered members to join the NAVTEQ Network for Developers.
The Xperia Panels category in the Sony Ericsson Content Awards 2008 is now open for submissions until January 30, 2009 giving you more time to get creative using the Sony Ericsson Beta SDK for Windows Mobile 6.1. To help inspire you, here are three panel examples from Sony Ericssonâs partners: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Live and Dashwire.
