For people who absolutely accept Facbook updates and tweets now and can’t alike additional the time it takes to cull their adaptable buzz from their abridged or handbag, Sony Ericsson has apparent its LiveView Android accessory. The bunched accent sports a anatomy agency agnate to the best recent iPod nano and can be abrupt to accouterment or beat like a wristwatch aloof like Apple’s device. But LiveView offers added functionality that finer makes it a alien micro affectation and ambassador for a adaptable phone.
By bond the LiveView up to a accordant Android 2.x handset via Bluetooth, users will be able to ascendancy their phone, apprehend argument messages, see admission calls, Facebook updates, tweets and RSS feeds, baddest advance and ascendancy the aggregate of music stored on a handset, affectation agenda contest and added Android applications on the phone. Information is displayed on the unit’s 1.3-inch OLED 128 x 128 pixel display, with controls demography the anatomy two concrete buttons anchored in a touchframe surrounding it.
Touting LiveView as the aboriginal Sony Ericsson accent accordant with the accessible Android platform, Mikael Henriksson, Head of conception and alms planning at Sony Ericsson Extras, says the device, “gives developers an befalling to be artistic and advance the abutting must-have avant-garde application.”
To accomplish such LiveView enabled applications accessible to find, the aggregation has developed the Sony Ericsson LiveWire Administrator application, which will browse the Android Market for accordant applications and present them to the user. This administrator will be accessible from the Android Market, or appear preinstalled in buzz bundles.
Although the accent has been advised to be accordant with handsets from Sony Ericsson, such as the Xperia X10 line, the aggregation says LiveView will additionally be accordant with best Bluetooth-equipped phones from added manufacturers active Android 2.0 and above. The accent has a ambit of about 10m (32-feet) and the array is said to be acceptable for about four canicule of “typical customer usage.”
LiveView measures 11 x 35 x 35mm (0.43 x 1.37 x 1.37-inches) and weighs 15g (0.53 ounces). It comes with a clip, wristband and micro USB charger and will be appear in Q4 this year at a amount yet to be announced.
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