Sony Ericcson reported today that the Google search engine and  it's blogging software for Blogger.com will be availabe on it's latest offerings the including the K790 and K800. "We are seeing exponential growth in blogging and consumers are turning more and more often to the Internet as a means of sharing information or images in personal blogs”, said Jan Wäreby, Corporate Executive Vice President, Head of Sales and Marketing, Sony Ericsson. “

 By working with Google, we're able to offer a quick and easy way for people users to blog as they discover how convenient it is as a way to share words and pictures with friends, family and beyond. We are also delighted to collaborate with Google, the undisputed leader in Web Search, to provide our end users with relevant internet information directly to their Sony Ericsson handsets."

Infoworld reported that:

"Users of the new K800 and K790 phones that don't already have a blog can set one up over the phone. They'll be able to take photos with the camera and then easily add them to their blogs, according to Sony Ericsson. Blogger is an online tool hosted by Google that lets people create and manage blogs for free.

The camera features include autofocus, red-eye reduction, digital zoom, and a flash. When users turn the handsets horizontally and slide open the lens cover, a user interface similar to the one on Sony's Cyber-shot cameras appears on the screen.

The phones also include BestPic, a new feature from Sony Ericsson that takes nine photos with one press of the shutter. Users then scroll through the photos to save the best ones. They can also connect the phones directly to a printer via a USB (Universal Serial Bus) cable to print photos. The phones also come with Adobe software for help managing photos on the PC.

Expected to be available worldwide in the second quarter, the camera phones won't come cheap -- they'll carry a retail price of about €350 euros ($450), according to a Sony Ericsson spokeswoman. But they also pack a host of other features, including a music player, video player, FM radio, push e-mail, Bluetooth, a memory stick slot, and 64MB of internal memory.

Sony Ericsson also announced three more affordable phones for taking and sharing pictures, and a new addition to its Walkman phone line, the W300, aimed at the low-end market. It's the seventh Walkman phone and can play MP3 and AAC files and comes with 20MB of internal memory, plus a removable 256MB memory stick. The other phones will all retail for about €150.

Google is being made the standard search engine on all Sony Ericsson phones with Internet access, the phone maker said. The Google search bar will appear on every page users view so they can search without launching a new page."

The K790 and K800 are the latest in Sony's lineup off photoblogging phones.

Average user rating

   (0 vote)