Sony Ericsson's Cedar, Yendo are official: candybar and an Android-free X10 mini clone

If the phone on the left looks familiar, it should -- it looks a heck of a lot like the Android-powered X10 mini, sharing the 2.6-inch touchscreen and some of its UI cues -- but alas, this bad boy isn't running Android. Instead, Sony Ericsson is branding this fairly low-end dumbphone as the rumored Yendo with Walkman branding, a 2 megapixel cam, and FM radio; interestingly, it lacks 3G, instead offering one of two dual-band GSM / EDGE choices in ten colors. On the right, you've got the Cedar, bringing back what's quickly become a dying form factor as of late -- the simple candybar -- with a 2 megapixel cam and VGA video capture at 30fps, 3G, a 2.2-inch display, and 3.5mm headphone jack available either in black with silver accents or red accents. Both will be available in the third quarter, though the Yendo has been slapped with the "selected markets" label, so we suspect it'll be the harder to find of the two.

[Madcat Posted Jun 16th 2010 4:09PM]

Honestly, is there any more room in the market for cheap, low-end dumb phones??

[zaza1994 Posted Jun 17th 2010 8:29AM]

why would you bother?

[joshky Posted Jun 17th 2010 5:59PM]

the bigger problem is people forking out good cash for an x10 mini then having the same experience as that dumbphone; the shell-recycling they're doing here is going to confuse the general public

[frothe3 Posted Jun 26th 2010 9:12PM]

EDGE? That is so last century!! Come on SE;start making 3G phones for the US,dammit!