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Another Walkman Android - WT18i

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_wt18i_budget_walkman_china-news-2616.php
is this phone better than the w8?
does it come with gingerbread?
what apps does it have?
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yeah ,i have heard that rumour,maybe after the release of w15 ,we might get android 2.3 on xperia x8

vr06vr said:
There are rumours going around that sony wants to release a walkman phone in its android range
http://www.gsmarena.com/is_sony_ericsson_working_on_a_walkman_droid_the_w15-news-2522.php
this will ship with similar hardware like the x8
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If this device comes with 2.3, its a great news ! we can port this to our X8 !

HaN6787 said:
If this device comes with 2.3, its a great news ! we can port this to our X8 !
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I can bet that most of things will work with this sonys rom.

Oh man, and I just bought my X8. If the w15 has a camera flash and multitouch, im going to regret buying my X8 :/

its just a rumor. don't regret buying X8. its a wonderful phone.

edxmon said:
Oh man, and I just bought my X8. If the w15 has a camera flash and multitouch, im going to regret buying my X8 :/
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edxmon said:
Oh man, and I just bought my X8. If the w15 has a camera flash and multitouch, im going to regret buying my X8 :/
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Well, we can port the W15 software to our X8 if it will ever be released :>

bogdan_mihai554 said:
Well, we can port the W15 software to our X8 if it will ever be released :>
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I really like my X8, but I just wish it had multi touch and an LED flash, like my old w810i or w960.
I love sony ericsson phone designs, but the X8 is missing only those 2 things.

great, w15 get android 2.3 and we get 2.3

Come one people - this is a fake - have a look at the box....
And Lollylost (a popular member from se-nse) said thatit's a fake, too...
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SE's phone boxes look different. All white for prototypes (P5i had a nice one though), and phone's image on the front for retails.
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Anyway,they've got to continue the WalkMan line...and it better be android

yeah...I still miss the old walkman player on my flashed-to-w610i's k550i...they look so much nicer and they have much more function like the equalizer control...

its true...

sultanovski said:
its true...
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What?
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edxmon said:
I really like my X8, but I just wish it had multi touch and an LED flash, like my old w810i or w960.
I love sony ericsson phone designs, but the X8 is missing only those 2 things.
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We have multitouch, i mean...pinch zoom...look in the forum, led flash...i don't really need it, but you're right, it would have been nice if they had put it on our X8

We have faked multitouch , it's no even dual touch
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mati96PL said:
We have faked multitouch , it's no even dual touch
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Hi! Do tou success to install dualtouch on Nexus rom ?! Via manual instal or update.zip? Because me, I get force closes with "root explorer", to copy the .ko file
(sorry for the other post in the previous topic, if it's considered as flood! )

It's preinstalled in nexus v2 rom , no need to install xd
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As I've said before, if that rumor is true and the w15 will have simillar (same, except sound chip) hardware as x8 and if it will ship with gingerbread on it, S.E. will give us that update. It happened before with the X10 it will happen with the X8. Just keep in mind that's just a RUMOR.

[Update] Most gingerbread devices (including Xperia handsets) will see an ICS upgrade

Source -
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/19/google-confirms-nexus-s-will-get-ice-cream-sandwich-for-real/
Okay, so we've already seen Ice Cream Sandwich running on the Nexus S, but that was decidedly... unofficial. We've just heard straight from Google's Gabe Cohen that the Nexus S will definitely be getting ICS. In fact, both he and Matias Duarte think most Gingerbread devices will see an upgrade, saying: "Currently in the process for releasing Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S. Theoretically should work for any 2.3 device." It's hardly a surprise and there's no specific word on timing just yet, but hopefully it won't take long to move that vanilla Android device up to something with a breaded exterior.
Keepin fingers crossed for our ARC.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/20/sony-ericsson-bringing-ice-cream-sandwich-to-xperia-handsets/
Sony Ericsson bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to Xperia handsets
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HTC may be busy pondering its Android 4.0 future, but Sony Ericsson is apparently ready to take a bite out of Google's Ice Cream Sandwich. Yesterday, in a post on its Facebook page, Sony Ericsson's Dutch branch stated that it will indeed upgrade its Xperia lineup to the latest Android OS, though it didn't offer any details on release dates. We reached out to the manufacturer for confirmation, and received the following statement:
Sony Ericsson is currently rolling out the upgrade to Gingerbread 2.3.4 across its entire 2011 Xperia smartphone portfolio. This software upgrade will be available through a phased roll out in select markets. Beyond Gingerbread 2.3.4, we plan to upgrade our 2011 Xperia smartphone portfolio to the next Android platform made available to us.​
The company went on to say that all official software announcements will be posted on its blog, so we'll let you know as soon as we have more details.

Bring it on!
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Very nice, and slightly comforting..
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yeah can't wait for ICS!

I just REALLY hope SE leave this one fairly stock, with regards to most of the apps and the UI.
They made the right move replacing a lot of 2.3 because frankly it sucked, but Google have really worked to refine this, it would be a shame to see SE spoil this consistency in the UI they've finally achieved.
.... Saying that.... I hope they keep the SE camera app, but everything else I'd love to see stock

So i guess we ( Xperia Arc Users) will get the ICE CREAM SANDWICH upgrade for our mobile ???

I hope se changes a lot.
I have real buttons so I don't want to loose screenspace for buttons.
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Can't wait!!!
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I've read that we will very likely have the update after the launch of the Nozomi in march 2012, because their flagship should have the best software of the SE phones at the launch.

Flo95 said:
I hope se changes a lot.
I have real buttons so I don't want to loose screenspace for buttons.
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Its hard to tell from the screenshots so far, but it looks to me like the virtual keys would not be displayed on devices with hardware keys.

isangelous said:
Its hard to tell from the screenshots so far, but it looks to me like the virtual keys would not be displayed on devices with hardware keys.
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Judging by the emulator, that is the case.

jtc42 said:
I just REALLY hope SE leave this one fairly stock, with regards to most of the apps and the UI.
They made the right move replacing a lot of 2.3 because frankly it sucked, but Google have really worked to refine this, it would be a shame to see SE spoil this consistency in the UI they've finally achieved.
.... Saying that.... I hope they keep the SE camera app, but everything else I'd love to see stock
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To be honest it wouldn't even really matter, if you wanted all stock you could just use CM. I'm interested to see how they can improve even more upon what Google has already done.

DemonicHawk said:
To be honest it wouldn't even really matter, if you wanted all stock you could just use CM. I'm interested to see how they can improve even more upon what Google has already done.
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I agree with you

jtc42 said:
.... Saying that.... I hope they keep the SE camera app, but everything else I'd love to see stock
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While I like the SE camera app, have you seen the ICS camera app ont he Nexus (not sure if it's a Nexus camera app or an ICS camera app), but it looks much much better!!

DemonicHawk said:
To be honest it wouldn't even really matter, if you wanted all stock you could just use CM. I'm interested to see how they can improve even more upon what Google has already done.
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That's true. I'm on a T-Mobile branded Arc though so unlocking the bootloader is a bit of a pain, but if that's the only way to get ICS then I'd do that. Just gotta hope SE update it officially

Sony Ericsson bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to Xperia handsets
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!! 4 New Pictures added!! Leaked Nozomi Picture! Is this Sonys New ICS\GB UI?

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This is leaked picture of the sony ericsson nozomi, wich will (if we belive the rumors) ship with ICS. So this could be how our ICS uptade will look like...
Update 12.12.2011:
And i found this one here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20230317#post20230317
Sources: (not english)
http://www.areamobile.de/news/20389-sony-ericsson-nozomi-heisst-spaeter-wohl-xperia-arc-hd
http://www.techorz.com/smartphones/sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-hd-nozomi-lt26i-hk/

Let's hope not, that looks like a step down from SE's current UI

i think the dockbar looks nice but the wallpaper is ugly. The statusbar is not so good t see....

Isn't that bad, though its horrible compared to Vanilla...

I think it's gingerbread, the folders look the same as sony's current 2.3.X and the notification hasn't changed, they would take everything good away from ICS so yeah... gingerbread

ff7fan4eva said:
I think it's gingerbread, the folders look the same as sony's current 2.3.X and the notification hasn't changed, they would take everything good away from ICS so yeah... gingerbread
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but why would they create an entire new UI for gingerbread when they already have a pretty nice one... The Notification bar is alight but the dock is horrible

TheCraig said:
but why would they create an entire new UI for gingerbread when they already have a pretty nice one... The Notification bar is alight but the dock is horrible
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The current ui is for the "xperia" range. The nozomi will be the first phone released under the Sony brand. No doubt sony intend to set themselves apart from the SE brand with there own ui.
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AndroHero said:
The current ui is for the "xperia" range. The nozomi will be the first phone released under the Sony brand. No doubt sony intend to set themselves apart from the SE brand with there own ui.
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Good point. Though I hope its vanilla as possible...

AndroHero said:
The current ui is for the "xperia" range. The nozomi will be the first phone released under the Sony brand. No doubt sony intend to set themselves apart from the SE brand with there own ui.
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But at the top of the phone is still sony ericsson and its real name will be xperia arc hd.... That does not sound like a new brand for me...

I actually LIKE the entire UI.

AndroHero said:
The current ui is for the "xperia" range. The nozomi will be the first phone released under the Sony brand.
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I doubt that. This will be a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc HD or Nozomi. Sony Ericsson phones will still be coming out until mid-2012, that's when the first Sony branded phones will be released. This will likely be the Sony Ericsson ICS interface
Source 1 Source 2 Source 3
P.S. I really like the leaked shots of this phone so far. This may be my 2012 replacement phone if it looks anything like these shots...

I can tell you from experience.the phone is slick. Solid build quality. Very good looking and fast as u know what. I'll see if I can get more hands on time with it. Was only able to play with it for 10 minutes a couple weeks ago. The battery cover and full back has almost a felt or suede feel to it. It was running GB 2.3.5 if I remember correctly.
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Some more pictures apperead today:
But they dont show much more detail
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And i found this one here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20230317#post20230317

Gsmarena has exclusives which state it runs 2.3.5 gingerbread. And will do at launch

{PRO} General Chat.! Feedback about the ICS Update..

Hello
We all know how much we love our device. The only globally available qwerty smartphone. The xperia pro. Also known as iyokan, MK16i and MK16a. There was a user on xda named king-iyokan(guess how much he loved it). So here is a thread to show how much you love, share anything and everything about anything and everything.
Regards.
EDIT: TEMPORARILY THIS THREAD IS FOR THE ICS UPDATE DISCUSSION

Lemme say something at first.
I have an xperia pro since it was launched. I love it.
My brother got an xperia s on his birthday about two weeks ago. I wanted to try it out so I exchanged my pro with him for a week. After using the pro for a week he loved it so much that today he sold off his xperia s and got an all new xperia pro himself.
So our device is even better than the xperia s. :thumbup:

I love my Pro too, it is very bad that we have no own SubForum. It is my first qwertz phone that i ever have, and the hardware keyboard is so good . Its sad, that my MIUI port stuck on bootscreen, so no MIUI for the pro... sorry guys

Dexxmor said:
I love my Pro too, it is very bad that we have no own SubForum. It is my first qwertz phone that i ever have, and the hardware keyboard is so good . Its sad, that my MIUI port stuck on bootscreen, so no MIUI for the pro... sorry guys
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If it's blackscreen the problem is on ramdisk.
If it's stuck on boot screen the problem is on kernel.
If it's stuck on boot animation the problem is on ROM.
Perhaps that might give you some tips and hope you continue your development there

Got another Xperia pro. Yay..!
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I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but:
Settings -> Applications -> Quick Launch.
It's a quite handy option I noticed few days ago (despite having the phone for a month now.).

wiidbzxt said:
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but:
Settings -> Applications -> Quick Launch.
It's a quite handy option I noticed few days ago (despite having the phone for a month now.).
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Which rom.. cant get this on cm9
Don't forget to hit 'THANKS' if I helped..
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Finally Our pro is getting an ICS update next week.. Yuppie..

now.i.feel said:
Which rom.. cant get this on cm9
Don't forget to hit 'THANKS' if I helped..
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I'm using TEAM stock ROM.

Curious thing happened with my Xperia Pro.
I got a MK16i (which is the international version) and living in Mexico.
So I couldn't get to my carriers 3G, I was bummed.
I decided to try changing Kernel/ROMs about some weeks ago, and by changing to CM7.2.0 by Freexperia, it suddenly started working.
Now I love my phone even more!

So the Arc gets an ICS update today.. Wish our pro soon follows it..
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I'm starting to think that they let go the updates information too soon. It happened with X10 2.3.3 update aswell. One day they said the update was ready, the next day they said the roll out would need few more days.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony...t-update-for-Xperia-X10-was-premature_id20709

Xperia Pro ICS update roll out
http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/38384

I've had my phone since Nov 2011, love it, I need a physical QWERTY keyboard as I can not see to use the on screen keyboards and since the Xperia Pro is the only Android phone with a Keyboard, that's what I got.
Strange how, in the UK, it got such a soft launch, no carries where stocking it, I had to go through a 3rd party to get it on an O2 upgrade, so only could get the black one, I wanted the Red!
Anyway I noticed on the Sony Talk forum that ICS is now out for our phone, http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/38384
I don't have WinDoze or Mac PC (I'm a Linux user) so I can not use PCC to update (Bad Sony Bad)
Happy updating
P.S. XDA needs a Pro sub forum, I don't know how many thread, news item or votes I've completed for this and still nothing, very poor :'(

leona said:
I've had my phone since Nov 2011, love it, I need a physical QWERTY keyboard as I can not see to use the on screen keyboards and since the Xperia Pro is the only Android phone with a Keyboard, that's what I got.
Strange how, in the UK, it got such a soft launch, no carries where stocking it, I had to go through a 3rd party to get it on an O2 upgrade, so only could get the black one, I wanted the Red!
Anyway I noticed on the Sony Talk forum that ICS is now out for our phone, http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/38384
I don't have WinDoze or Mac PC (I'm a Linux user) so I can not use PCC to update (Bad Sony Bad)
Happy updating
P.S. XDA needs a Pro sub forum, I don't know how many thread, news item or votes I've completed for this and still nothing, very poor :'(
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Dont worry.. I'll upload an ftf for u as soon as i get the update..

seriously i love this device very much...
i cant spell it in words, its the best phone i ever have... the qwerty keyboard is AWESOME...
and one thing that makes me so happy is my SI number is on the list...

Hello.. what all you guys think about the ics update..
I'm loving this but i'm unhappy with the dialer.. it takes a lot of time to load..

now.i.feel said:
Hello.. what all you guys think about the ics update..
I'm loving this but i'm unhappy with the dialer.. it takes a lot of time to load..
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is that 4.0.3 or 4.0.4? as I knew there where problems with .3 but I thought it was solved with .4

leona said:
is that 4.0.3 or 4.0.4? as I knew there where problems with .3 but I thought it was solved with .4
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Its 4.0.4..
I think that bug hasn't been fixed as yet...

How do I have this appearance the Official Ice Cream :
What aplication ??
Nova Louncher does not ¡¡
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4.4 kitkat 4 Xperia play (google said, technically)

Sorry travelling today, will post details tomorrow. See screenshot
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KitKat is all fine and dandy but without, I am sure, additional sources released by Sony (Ericsson) we will probably never get a JB kernel working and still retain full Xperia PLAY compatibility... then again I may be completely wrong and if I am someone correct me. I have stayed pretty much on GB for gaming. Either way, thanks for sharing... although I think this should go to the General forum.... anyways... thread on.

google says that they made the OS smaller and after so old devices that didn't get in the past update can now get update because they resolve many issues.

labbala said:
google says that they made the OS smaller and after so old devices that didn't get in the past update can now get update because they resolve many issues.
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Well maybe 4.4 is for older phones but as you know the companies support they devices for a short period of time. So no KitKat for us...

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google says that they made the OS smaller and after so old devices that didn't get in the past update can now get update because they resolve many issues.
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True but they also stated those will need to be updated by either the carrier or the manufacturer of the device(s). As $ony long ago gave up on the PLAY, I think its incredibly unlikely we will see any support form Sony and or even source releases.
Still, it would be awesome if we can get it up and running, but dont forget the highest kernel we can sort of get working, is kernel 3.4.
Kitkat would be an even higher kernel number.

Google isn't even releasing KitKat for the Galaxy Nexus. Sony isn't going to do it either, and it would need hardware drivers from Qualcomm side too.
Why is this thread in the dev section?

is that true?
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Sorry for wrong section... Anyway to delete? On another note, dony and erricson broke up so i dunno if they would be wanting to support our 2011 devices. All we can do id hope a dev/sony has the power to bring us 4.4...
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Nice Information

I think if the 3.4 Kernel is working it wont be difficult to get kitkat running. But as far there is no touch in 3.4
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I'm 100% sure that sony has abandoned our plays .It's a good news to hear that the upcoming android OS is going to be a light one

majed6 said:
I'm 100% sure that sony has abandoned our plays .It's a good news to hear that the upcoming android OS is going to be a light one
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They abandoned it,yes.As far as i know,there are no new models build and everything that is floating around in shops are the last produced batches,not getting the update to Android 4 kinda sealed this assumption

I don't know if the X Play will ever get KitKat but Google introduced a new runtime called ART to replace Dalvik with KitKat, on my Nexus 4 it really improve the performance to a substantial amount, so maybe that will help as well.
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Would be great if Sony would pay more attention to their old phones, specially because they cancelled the ics update so sudden.
But i don´t think this will happen.

And that's one reason I won't buy Sony again.

we will get 4.4, not official but we will get it.
once i got a play i will work on it, otherwise we will have an other dev.

nickholtus said:
we will get 4.4, not official but we will get it.
once i got a play i will work on it, otherwise we will have an other dev.
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so? is there anyone working on kitkat roms for xPlay? or its abandoned at all?

By the looks of it, KitKat is out of reach for our device, theres barely any 4.1 or 4.2 jellybean roms functioning, what makes you think we will get 4.4 any time soon? Our Play is best optimised for GB due to performance issues as ICS+ isn't 100% functional on our play. Don't believe me? try any ics rom out and sooner or later you will find out that games will lag and memory will tend to be low. Sorry but this is the bottom line for our xperia play.

Legacyxperia (mostly mike) is working to get gully working 3.4 kernel. Than we wpuld be able to boot kitkat.
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It is indeed possible, and I am saying this because I have NEO L(same as xplay) and I ran kitkat on my phone, thanks to @Mike's hard work. He reached at a point now where touch is working, he just need to have Wifi,Camera and some other things work and it will be there
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