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Jan 23 2012

Meet the winner ideas of the LiveView Design Project

January 23, 2012 - 6:21 PM
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In October, we told you about an exciting new project that our colleagues in the Extras team had been working on with London College of Fashion.

The project required students to research design and produce creative concepts for new, wearable technology incorporating the remote display  LiveView™. We couldn’t tell you then but, behind the scenes, the students were also working on similar concepts incorporating our exciting new Android remote SmartWatch™, recently unveiled at CES 2012.

The winners of the project have now been announced.

First winner, Claire Monique Scanlon, created a houndstooth, two-tone print, jacket accessory for LiveView™. Aimed at fashion bloggers her garment can be worn as a tassel from the jacket, a tie to wrap the jacket in cold weather or detached and worn on the wrist. Claire’s design was chosen by Sony Ericsson Facebook fans from a shortlist of 12 London College of Fashion finalists.

Check out her design.

The second winner, Dominique Taylor, was chosen internally by the Extras team. Her SmartWatch™ Fashion Collection offered a range of high-tech clubbing garments with LED lights to create an illusion of length, size, neckline and hem. The SmartWatch™ is attached to a metal chain which can be worn as a necklace, bracelet or ring, while metal chains on the dress hems allow SmartWatch™ to attach as an accessory.

The two winners will now travel to Sweden to present their concepts to the Sony Ericsson Extras team. We’ll report back later with their experiences.

You can visit the blog of the Project here to check out all the ideas and projects that were presented.

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  • By Henry Tay

    Hi Product Dept,
    I’m going to provide some feedback on different products that I saw in January:

    Xperia S:
    - Thank you. The camera’s instant shoot feature is definitely plausible, and it has the potential to be the key selling point for any Sony’s future camera phones. Please focus and improve the speed & picture quality.
    - A lack of memory card slot is quite a let down, since many existing products do not communicate with each other wireless-ly and efficiently, and data cables are just too inflexible & incompatible. Therefore, memory card slot is the fastest and easiest mode of data transfer.
    - I’m curious that a barometer aren’t present in such a new generation product, consider it enhances GPS functionality.
    - Camera modules for phones seems to stall at megapixel races, I’d like to see some new exciting features like optical zoom, outstanding anti-blur technology etc.

    Xperia Ion:
    - My instant impression is it’s a competitor to Samsung Galaxy Note, therefore the first thing to come to mind is a hybrid tablet phone, however the biggest let down is the lack of a stylus. I want to stress that stylus would open new opportunities to replacing a laptop/notebook, when sophisticated apps that feature precise pointers on a tablet become available.

    Extras:
    - It seems that the phone docks are model specific, This shows some dis-integration among the company product departments. I wish your phone docks are refreshed yearly, that each dock are universal to all phone models of each/more year. Each new generation dock are improved with catchy new simplified features.

    Future wishes:
    - I’d love to see Sony releasing future tablets that has the following focus:
    best battery life in the market, stylus for professionals (OS & included Apps), efficient & timely OS upgrades, highest resolution, fastest CPU & GPU etc.
    - Allow user custom photo compression on camera phones
    - Improve on phone speaker efficiency. This is an area that no phone manufacturers has paid much attention for. Focus on easy operations when in speakerphone mode during driving.
    - Improve on GPS practical speed in any realistic environment, such as incorporating barometer etc.

    I hope this helps. Thanks for listening.
    Regards,
    Henry

    • By Ciolacu Alex

      This gadget is really OK but it has a big DESIGN FLAW!!!!! WHEN IS USED AS A WATCH THE USB PORT IS UNACCESIBLE !!!! YOU NEED TO REMOVE THE COVER IN ORDER TO RECHARGE IT …AND IN TIME THAT COVER WILL BE LOOSE!

  • By coko_doko

    We want Android 4.0 on our sweet Xperia X8! Can be seen from Sony Ericsson quickly forget about their phones … Well my next phone will be a Samsung, or neo xperia can not? There is finally a Sony Ericsson and forget about this phone as soon as they forget about the updates … Holy God, people! Android 4.0 is after all was to be 2.4 with corrected bugs that were in the 2.3 … I paid about 600 PLN for the SE Xperia X8 and not get ICS? Some phones are the same price and have already android 4.0. I bought regret the Xperia X8 and longer pile never offer any phone from SE. Well nothing, and so perhaps the producers on their hocks and we will give the ICS for example, older xperia x8, x10 mini, x10 … I know x8 only got 600 mhz processor, but since the custom rom-GingerDX (2.3) works fine (still have a standard 2.1) is why we get ics improves only when bugs? Since SE does not give us that we will have to root Android x8 and lose our guarantees. Or buy other phones because of the SE disappointed me. Although gingerbread give!

  • By Király Róbert

    Hy!
    I have got a live view MN800. Unfortunately, the display lighting time(display turn on) is very short (20 seconds). Is there a plugin which can be changed in the settings liveivew? Lighting (display turning on) time change, font color, etc.
    2-3-5 minutes I need to not turn off.
    Thank You

    Best regards
    Király Róbert
    kiralyrobert79@gmail,com

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