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1st November 2011.
15:06

Get a big screen experience with LiveDock™ and your Xperia™ phone

As we have posted before, with the Gingerbread 2.3.4 update we are rolling out, one of the really cool features that you will have on your Xperia™ phone is the USB host feature, that turns your Xperia™  smartphone into a mini-mobile PC , by connecting USB peripherals, mouse, keyboard or gamepad, to the Sony Ericsson LiveDock™ multimedia station and lets you have a greater experience when you connect your Xperia phone to your screen, through HDMI.

LiveDock™  is compatible with Xperia™ arc, Xperia™ arc S, Xperia™ pro, Xperia™ active, Xperia™ mini, Xperia™ mini pro, Xperia™ ray, Xperia™ neo, Xperia™ neo V and Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman™ .

Also, for an updated list of the released kits of the update, please find them on the comments section on the blog post we had last Friday.

 

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  • By Gregory Opera
    5th November 2011.
    02:29

    According to the hidden “Service Menu” (Service tests–>HDMI test), the Xperia PLAY can output video content via the HDMI port…

    Any chance we’ll see this made available at a user-level or better yet, introduction of the ability to mimic the behaviour of the LiveDock Multimedia Station with the Multimedia Dock for Xperia PLAY? After all, what’s the point in even supporting this if it is never going to be implemented at a user-level?

    By the way, for those curious as to what I am referring to, it is a hidden menu that can accessed on any Xperia smartphone by pressing: Home button–>Back button–>Back button–>Home button–>Back button–>Home button–>Home button–>Back button).

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    • By Anonymous
      23rd November 2011.
      12:33

      This is a default option within the Android service menu. As the Xperia Play does not have an HDMI port, it would not be possible to connect in this way.
      - Aimee
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  • By Gregory Opera
    5th November 2011.
    02:29

    According to the hidden “Service Menu” (Service tests–>HDMI test), the Xperia PLAY can output video content via the HDMI port…

    Any chance we’ll see this made available at a user-level or better yet, introduction of the ability to mimic the behaviour of the LiveDock Multimedia Station with the Multimedia Dock for Xperia PLAY? After all, what’s the point in even supporting this if it is never going to be implemented at a user-level?

    By the way, for those curious as to what I am referring to, it is a hidden menu that can accessed on any Xperia smartphone by pressing: Home button–>Back button–>Back button–>Home button–>Back button–>Home button–>Home button–>Back button).

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  • By Hussain Al-Khalaf
    6th November 2011.
    12:21

    Just one point,

    When will mass storage support will come ? other competitors have this ( connecting a USB flash memory ) and it will be available so we can use it copy data to/from… I know it will take power from the phone, but this is what the LiveDock is meant to do…

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  • By Hsieh Michael
    9th November 2011.
    02:26

    It’s been such lomg time since this product be published I wonder why in many contries you still cannot buy this product anywhere. It is a joke. This product is actually not exist in the real world.

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  • By Diego Passadore
    18th November 2011.
    19:15

    I cannot find a single source of documentation to know which USB mouses and keyboards are supported by livedock. Can someone help me with this information?

    Regards,

    Diego

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  • By Sampad Behera
    13th December 2011.
    20:11

    Does the live dock is chargeable or not. I didn’t get it that how the live dock works….how the dock is able to detect a keyboard mouse or any USB device…????
    Please give some suggestions…

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  • By rajmund900
    10th January 2012.
    23:16

    Hi. I have a question. Is it posible to connect pendrive (32GB or 16GB) to USB port in live dock and have access to viev&edit files on this pendrive from phone (Xperia Arc) and is it at all possible?

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  • By dawud abdul Hakim
    21st January 2012.
    17:19

    Does anyone know if the LiveDock has 3.5 audio out. I want to connect my xperia neo to my projector via HDMI but unfortunately my projector has no audi out on it.

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  • By Mustafa Akgul
    29th January 2012.
    12:47

    Will the livedock work wuth xperia s????

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