Monthly Archives: April 2011

There’s now lots of reviews out there of Xperia^TM arc. I’ve read many of them and now when sales have started I’ve also read through quite some consumer feedback online.

In general the response to Xperia^TM arc seems extremely positive and I’m really glad to see list of the “20 best mobile phones in the world today” over at TechRadar where the verdict was very clear – Xperia arc – The best mobile phone in the world today. The competition left behind on places 2 through 20 is a quite impressive bunch as well which makes this even more inspiring.

I know me living in Sweden makes me a bit biased towards winter sports but I think I just found my personal favorite among all the games arriving for Xperia™ PLAY!

We see more and more games added continuously and I just thought I would highlight the game in the video above.

It’s from Distinctive Games and is called “Hockey Nations 2011”. They just made an announcement around it on their blog which you find here.

It really makes use of the gamepad of the Xperia™ PLAY and made me realize even further how much a difference it makes to have a real gamepad for certain types of games. To me this game is close to perfect with great gameplay that even though it feels like a really realistic ice hockey game it manages to have some kind of casual gaming feeling to it.

The only thing I need added or changed would be a difficulty level somewhere between “medium” and “hard”. Currently I win games with numbers like 13-2 on the medium level but have yet to win a single game when playing on “hard” – Oh well – perhaps I just need more practice

I also just realized that the legendary game Worms from EA now is up for download. I guess that saves the weekend!

Today we’ve launched our very own channel in Android Market. We’re the first mobile phone manufacturer to do this and I’m really excited to see what we will be able to use it for. It should start to become available for most of you out there starting from today. It is an operator dependant feature though so it will not be there for all of you but most of you will get it.

What it means is that the “My Apps” option in Android Market is replaced by a link to our specific channel. (Don’t worry – “My Apps” is still available as well if you press the menu key.)
We will use this channel for many things, as a starting point this is our plan:

- Provide recommendations to help you find the best games & apps that enhance your Sony Ericsson ‘most entertaining’ experience.
- Provide a way to easily find original apps from Sony Ericsson such as Timescape plugins etc.
- From time to time offer exclusive games & apps only available in this channel.
- Help our developer partners promote their apps & games giving them a highlighted market space to our consumers.

This will give us a unique opportunity to more easily help consumers finding the stuff that we often get asked about or things that we know really enhances the user experience of our phones.

I’m sure there are more ways we could use this channel going forward so if you have ideas or suggestions on what you think we should do just shout away in the comments section!

Gameloft just uploaded the launch trailer for their upcoming game BackStab for Xperia™ PLAY.

It looks like a really good game – I can’t wait to try it!

Here’s the video and if you want to see more games from Gameloft they also have their own Youtube channel.

Now my friends over in our customer service team have started to push out their material around our new phones.

For those of you new to Android or the Xperia range there lots of goodies around the basics and the different features over at their youtube channel at www.youtube.com/sonyericssonsupport

Many of these videos go more into details about specific features and help you find answers to common questions. You also find videos made for your specific phone in the Support Application in your phone. You find that in the application tray or by clicking the Support Widget on the rightmost desktop pane. (As shown in the picture above with the headline “Experience More”)

I know that many of you here are very much in the know on how to use your phones but for those of you a bit new to Android or our Xperia range these can hopefully assist quite a bit. Perhaps some of you have suggestions on what you think we should educate more around? If so, please let me know in the comments section. One big advantage of having this kind of dynamic support application is that we can update the content in it to help out with things we find many consumers have questions around.

If you need support in any way don’t ever hesitate to contact your local Sony Ericsson support center or find your way over to our support forum at talk.sonyericsson.com

Here’s one of the videos they made to explain the basics and some of the features of Xperia arc.