Sony Ericsson chooses AYCE rental music for Sweden

September 24, 2008 — Damien

Damien says … Playnow is Sony Ericssons own branded music service which is being launched in the Nordic countries first. It will be interesting to watch this trial of AYCE rental music – something Telenor Sweden has already been doing for the past 12 months with Omnifone. No where is there a mention of any other operator working with Sony Ericsson on this, something that has plagued Nokia’s own rental music offer.

From Omnifone’s own annoucement, selected phones will come with 1,000 tracks preloaded. Customers can keep their most played popular tracks (called Keep Your Favourites) in DRM free MP3 format.

PlayNow™ plus consumers will also be able to download unlimited amounts of music to their desktop computer, using PlayNow™ plus Desktop, which synchronises effortlessly with the PlayNow™ plus mobile experience, using broadband and 3G/HSDPA connectivity.

source: http://www.omnifone.com/announcements.php?announcement=14

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Qik – Streaming video from your mobile – but no Java

September 8, 2008 — Damien

Damien says: I stumbled on Qiks website today and marked it to read later …If you’re asking people to join something you need to be upfront by telling them you don’t support their phone before you start registration.

The idea of a phone cam to web site sounds great, when you have a Dell workhorse thats barebones. It should have been so much easier to develop in Java and then port to a number of handsets but right now this little site only supports s60 Nokia, Windows Mobile and possibly iPhones/iTouch.

I didn’t know this was the case until I was halfway through registering and got an ‘username already used’ error … shame about the registration process.

any upstart network site with social aspects needs to be very upfront with its requirements or beta-ness before getting people to going … guess Ill go back to my 3G video calls that are free in my plan.

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Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld – everyones blogging that video

September 6, 2008 — Damien

You can try to avoid watching this advert all you want – but you just got to know what it is that Bill and Jerry cooked up here in the Shoe Circus – Windows Vista advert

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Really does the ad say much – No … Does it try to convince you to switch – No … but maybe its a brand ad and not a product ad

Lots of talk of quality, runs tight, last, endurance and other words in the ad – so maybe you’ll see them more in the ‘product ads’ when they come out?

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Sony Ericsson does chunky retro Walkman W902

September 5, 2008 — Damien

I’ve had a look at the Sony Ericsson new Walkman W902 with retro chunky buttons much like a those on a casette walkman.

The phone’s not retro though – Clear Crystal Audio for your listening pleasure and a 5.0 mega pixel camera is a great feature. I think its also got a really good speaker to annoy Grannies on the bus with.

I hope it comes out with more than a 1Gb of memory!

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