The Layla is legit

We managed to get our mitts on the actual source for all this speculation about "Layla", that new version of Sony Ericsson's P900 smartphone that comes with a QWERTY keyboard: an actual PowerPoint presentation meant for Cingular that turned up on SonyEricssonInfo.com, a website the manufacturer uses for disseminating information to dealers.

As we guessed, the images we saw are Photoshopped — but by Sony Ericsson themselves, rather than some gadgethead with way too much free time. That means that the design probably isn't official or anything and might change drastically before the phone sees the light of day (the presentation lists the ergonomics of the keyboard as "being evaluated"), but the presentation does mention that it is supposed to be compatible with American GSM networks and have RIM's BlackBerry email technology built-in when it does arrive sometime later this year.

[Thanks, Andrew]