Sony Ericsson drops clues on Android 2.0-based smartphone

Sony Ericsson's finance team may figure that it needs a wheelbarrow full of cold, hard cash in order to steamroll through the next decade, but we know better than that. What it needs, friends, is Android, and in the worst possible way. At a launch event over in Taiwan this week, SE Asia-Pacific's vice president of marketing Peter Ang was quoted as saying that the outfit's first Android-based smartphone would actually be humming along on Android 2.0. So, there are two ways to take this: one is that Android 2.0 is just around the bend, which would totally rule, but is absolutely unrealistic to believe. The other, more feasible possibility is that SE's first Android-based phone won't hit the market until your next grandchild is born, which definitely doesn't bode well for a handset maker that can't possibly reinvent itself soon enough.

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[skyblaze Posted May 22nd 2009 8:16AM]

2.0 already? damn that was fast

*puts up magic "thats what she said" reflecting wall*

[st louis lookin dude Posted May 22nd 2009 8:48AM]

Why is she hanging out in the Reservoir Dogs warehouse?

[Alan Strangis Posted May 22nd 2009 9:35AM]

She's waiting to find out whether her friends are alive or not, or caught by the cops, or not.

[hfm Posted May 22nd 2009 10:35AM]

She's texting Joe, "I'M MRS. PURPLE?!? LOLZ.. O RLY?!? WHUT THE F.. I WANNA BE MRS. BURNT SIENNA LOL!!11"

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 8:16AM]

She's cute.

[skyblaze Posted May 22nd 2009 8:18AM]

so are you! i mean... if that... really is you anyway...

[NickNick Posted May 22nd 2009 8:42AM]

She looks like Rihanna

[CreepinJesus Posted May 22nd 2009 8:45AM]

She also looks about 12 so watch it.

[st louis lookin dude Posted May 22nd 2009 8:49AM]

Oops! Replied to wrong post. Need more coffee.

[Nzo Posted May 22nd 2009 9:06AM]

Mmmm, not exactly, she looks like an android.

[VampireHunterZ Posted May 22nd 2009 10:20AM]

She is very cute.

[Nedi Posted May 22nd 2009 10:55AM]

2 words...... Jessica Alba

[PedoJokerBear Posted May 22nd 2009 2:45PM]

i agree

[Menos Posted May 22nd 2009 8:29AM]

someone should like, send engadgets articles to some of these companies. maybe they'll take us more seriously and follow our advice if they read the complaints/recommendations from an award winning tech blog (yeah, i know some do. but alot don't)

[Adamgs Posted May 22nd 2009 8:59AM]

Its just a shame Engadgets suggestions are hardly realistic and/or feasible.

Im sure a multi billion dollar global corporation that can afford to pay talented PR people to survey the publics needs, wants and desires know a little more than a blog editor sitting in his apartment typing up a 6 line article.

If Android really was going to save Sony Ericsson from the brink of extinction do you really think they wouldnt be investigating it?

[Nomi Posted May 22nd 2009 9:45AM]

Aren't we all glad Palm didn't take Engadget's "Assimilate or die" advice....

[hfm Posted May 22nd 2009 10:45AM]

If they followed our advise the phone would probably cost $1499 on subsidy...

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 8:34AM]

You're wrong Darren, "friend". It doesn't need Android. The only cure for this madness is more cowbell. In the worst possible way.

[iDavey Posted May 22nd 2009 9:25AM]

Pure...awesomeness

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 8:50AM]

app developers! i guess they will decide which platform (android, os x iphone, symbian,winmo) and hence handsets will come to forefront .. so SE needs to bring phones with an established platform than expecting ppl to write "panels" for xperia .... and they have the potential to come up with innovative designs like the hbh-is800

[and then the god said Posted May 22nd 2009 8:53AM]

First device will come when the girl will have boobs.

Good hint !!!

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 8:54AM]

English is a tough language (and it's my native language). The headline says "Sony Ericsson DROPS clues..." and initially I thought it meant "Sony Ericsson GETS RID OF clues...". I've always thought this website needs a "plain English" translation machine so that non-native-English speakers could better understand what's being said. 'Course it wouldn't be that much fun for the rest of us to read.

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 8:56AM]

Engadget takes it in the ass from apple, WTF, it's a bloody disgrace, iphone this and iphone that. Will you homo's give it a rest.

[Adamgs Posted May 22nd 2009 9:02AM]

First comment on Engadget and its a real stunner! *slow claps*

[funnybear Posted May 22nd 2009 9:05AM]

But.. but.. my grandson is due tomorrow..

[pika2000 Posted May 22nd 2009 9:06AM]

Good to see SE is doing something, although who knows how soon they can release one. The longer they wait, the more Android phones coming out from other manufactures.

[Theli Posted May 22nd 2009 9:24AM]

Sony Ericsson may already have their hands on an early beta of "donut" (2.0?). Remember that cupcake (1.5) was shown off as early as CES 2009, and its feature list was made available only two months after the OS was first released.

[Alan Strangis Posted May 22nd 2009 9:39AM]

Call me if Android 2.0 has better power management than earlier iterations, or an Android phone starts shipping with a 2400mAh battery.

[Flix C Posted May 22nd 2009 11:21AM]

lol ?
Yeah or a 5600mAh.
Or you now a 15 inches screen and a 500Gb harddrive, not to mention a nVidia GT 205.

Call us when you wake up.

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 9:42AM]

She looks like the android Reese from StarGate SG1. Android using an android. Seems recursive to me... (wow I totally filled my geek quotient for today!)

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Reese

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 10:35AM]

Android 2.0 will rock OpenGL ES 2.0 and flash, among many other perks.

Can't wait for its phones.

[BOGRASH Posted May 22nd 2009 11:05AM]

they better hurry up, the wait is ridiculous

[AdamWill Posted May 22nd 2009 1:04PM]

I'm with all the others - I find the idea that what SE needs is Android a bit bizarre. It's not like the T1 is setting the world on fire. SE's problem is not the OS, it's that they haven't released a phone aside from the Experia since 2003 which looks like it belongs in any year since...well...2003. They've been rehashing the same tired models with small screens, underpowered hardware and boring keypad layouts, maybe with a bit more storage or a better camera, for half a decade now. How would Android help that, exactly? Oh, right - it wouldn't.

[ivoras Posted May 22nd 2009 1:49PM]

Anyone else feel sad the P1i series was discontinued? Its keyboard was very innovative and the word from users that used both P1 and Experia is that P1 was a much better phone while Experia is like a small and lame PC. Of course, P1 did suffer from underpowered CPU and was unusable for power users unless unlocked from Symbian and Java restrictions and reflashed with factory firmware.

[gerrrg Posted May 22nd 2009 5:35PM]

I take it to mean, 2010.

[(Unverified) Posted May 23rd 2009 6:53PM]

She's Freema Agyeman. She was one of the recent hot sidekicks on BBC's Doctor Who and now stars in their incredibly boring British version of Law and Order, Law and Order UK. Only reason to watch it is for her and Jamie Bamber (Apollo from BSG) as an investigator.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1303956/


Hot. Wears leather. British. Perfect.