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Now the question is: what's the UI? S60? UIQ (not)? Something new from SE to replace UIQ? Or is Symbian now going to refer to the OS AND the (S60) user interface?]]>Feb 16th 2009 3:46PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/Feb 16th 2009 4:02PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/
S60 IS the UI

Symbian is the OS

So this is S60 (touch screen edition) over Symbian.

But thanks for listening. My sound wasn't that good!]]>Feb 16th 2009 10:09PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/Feb 16th 2009 4:46PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/Let's just hope that this Idou will not share the sorry destiny of the X1: from highly anticipated top performing novelty to ridicolously expensive unusable bad joke when it finally appeared one year after its time was due.
If SE f**** up this project too I think it's possible that the swedish-japanese alliance will come to an end]]>Feb 16th 2009 4:50PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/Feb 16th 2009 11:29PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/Feb 16th 2009 10:10PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/Sony...SE,

Why is this not WALKMAN branded.
This should be WALKMAN branded.
Would be a great addition to the WALKMAN brand & line-up.

Experia, Idou, give a break.
Quit wasting energy, resources trying to forge new model identities.
]]>Feb 17th 2009 6:50AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/Another thing is that its got an amazing camera (atleast on paper), so one could argue that this should be in the Cybershot line up. But again people want their phones to do-it-all.
I think SE has upped its game with this launch & if the UI is as smooth as it is claimed to be, I believe SE has a winner on its hands. The likes of OmniaHD, Diamond2, etc. have a tough competition.]]>Feb 17th 2009 1:30PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/
Regarding the WALKMAN branding: The first thing the guy says in the video is that this is part of their new "Entertainment Unlimited" project, which fuzes the Walkman and Cybershot brands together.]]>Feb 18th 2009 5:16AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-ericsson-idou-hands-on-and-video-walkthrough/
Blending together superior photography capabilities and some of the best music handlign features into a single, media-centered, touchscreen, Symbian handset could be one heck of an interesting concept. Of course, the pricing is bound to be a little more than your average handset, which could spoil things a little bit.

As for Nokia, well... the N97 is supposed to be their best media phone yet, but it's supposedly nowhere near as good as the Idou. You can see my take on a soon-to-be-updated mini-review on my blog. If you wanna take a peek, pop over to http://blog.stevewiilliams.me.uk/2009/02/05/the-n97/.

As for the Xperia, I had a quick go on it and wasn't particualrly impressed. It was a bit slow a lot of the time.

And that's my thoughts.
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