Comments on: Small update on Beibei

By: Michell Bak

Michell Bak — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:18:58 +0000

Xajel,

I have a feeling that Maria was the old version of Beibei, but as I said, it’s just a feeling. But don’t worry – Beibei IS a Walkman phone with the same Walkman player as on W960, though with a few enhancements, it seems.

By: Xajel

Xajel — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:48:53 +0000

thanks Michell,

forgive about Xperia, what do thing about the positioning of Maria vs. Beibei now ? specially looking at Beibei as ‘might be a’ Walkman Phone too…

By: Michell Bak

Michell Bak — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:51:15 +0000

I’m not sure about the whole Xperia stuff and if it’s ready to launch, so I’m afraid I can’t give you any answer to that.

By: n3o

n3o — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:39:50 +0000

interesting deliberation…

By: Xajel

Xajel — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:11:06 +0000

razec and Michell, you’re my heros

but Michell, after some thining about Beibei and Paris, I had a thought that Beibei and Paris will be the launch devices for Xperia sieres ?

I mean Beibei has many advantages over W960i, so the W960i successor ( codenamed Maria ) is somehow questionable device as Beibei maybe some how superiour… I mean GPS and stuff like this..

so will Beibei and Paris will be High-end & Ultra High-end devices for Xperia sieres ?

I know you said before that Beibei will have the exact same Walkman player as W960i, but will that player be ‘Walkman’ branded too ? or the exact in side of functuality only, as if it Beibei is Walkman branded then I don’t see Maria as the flag ship of Walkman devices !! Maria can’t have more features as it will compete againest Paris too !!

the whole thing is complicated for the positioning of Maria, Beibei & Paris, especially the first two. thats unless I missed some thing ( for example, SE decided to drop Maria for Beibei ! )

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By: Michell Bak

Michell Bak — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:58:56 +0000

No problem.

All Sony Ericsson’s smart phones has a dedicated audio processing chip. It’s part of the hardware platform they’re built on, and this one will be build on OMAP34xx, so yes, it’ll have as well.

By: razec

razec — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:32:07 +0000

many Thanks for Michell Bak, Xajel and werty

I wonder if this baby has now an integrated Audio Chip?

By: werty

werty — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:34:48 +0000

razec: UIQ 3.2 supports touch screen, like all UIQ versions.
The Z10 has a reguar non-touch screen, that is why you can’t use the touchscreen capabilities with this phone.

By: Michell Bak

Michell Bak — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:00:37 +0000

@razec
UIQ has support for both touch screen phones and non touch screen phones.

@Xajel
I wonder where JUSTAMP has its source from… since we’re the only source for this info!

WayFinder is definitely built-in at the moment, not sure about GPS. Also weather application.

By: Xajel

Xajel — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:57:17 +0000

JAMPB mentions that this is non-ts phone !!!

I hope it will have WiFi too, if this is true it will be just another W960i clone just, slimmer, camera cover & newer

the icons mention Way Finder, is this mean GPS ??

and also it has some wether icons ( hot & cold ) !!

if this is not high-end and has all these things, I wonder what will Maria have !!

By: razec

razec — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:53:49 +0000

Hi Michell Bak

you mentioned UIQ 3.2 as it’s base platform, so you mean BeiBei is not Touchscreen? since Motorola Z10 is UIQ 3.2 and is not TS at all.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:32:28 +0000

Lens cover and AF for a Walkman phone? Wow.

Maybe this phone isn’t as mid-end as I thought.

By: n3o

n3o — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:54:05 +0000

what is widgets support?

By: D_T

D_T — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:38:07 +0000

So it is an update of W960??
Whate the 2 buttons on extreme left and right just below the call buttons??
16Gb??accelerometer??Anything new in walkman??