Sony Ericsson LiveView

SonyEricsson has announced a really cool product called LiveView that hooksa second small 128×128 screen up to your Android phone to displayEmail, RSS feeds, and more. It’s compatible with the Android 2.0, andsupports plugins to expand it’s features beyond the already impressivelist : Facebook is included, it controls the MP3 player, even workswith awesome running app. This app lets you monitor your heart rate,speed, distance as well as control music while the phone is in yourpocket. It’ll even hook into a watch-band, similar to how the new iPodNano is being shown. The neat device is shipping soon, take a peek at Sony Ericsson’s site.


At first, SonAt first, Sony Ericsson’s tiny 1.3-inch Bluetoothexternal cellphone screen seems like a joke. And then you realize thatit is designed to work with the giant, slab-like HTC Desire or SonyEricsson’s own Xperia X10 and it all makes sense.The LiveView is a small OLED screen the size of a watch-face. It hasphysical buttons on its corners, and the bezel is touch-sensitive. Youcan use it to control music, check Twitter, read RSS feeds or do prettymuch anything an app wants to do. Applications need to be written touse this monitor, and the most impressive demo in the video below showsa sports app sending stats to the LiveView as you run.The widget comes with a wrist-strap (of course – wrist-mountedgadgets are the new pocket-watches, or something) and can be clippedonto clothes, just like the iPods Nano and Shuffle. There are a handfulof phones that support it already, but you can use it with any phonerunning Android 2.0 or better by downloading Sony Ericsson LiveWare Manager from the Android Market.I love the idea. Wouldn’t it be great if Apple did something likethis with the Nano and the iPhone? The LiveView will be in stores inthe fourth quarter of this year, price as yet undecided. << Previous | Next >>

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