Sony Ericsson pushes mobile apps
SONY ERICSSON is hoping to give its mobile sales a helping hand with the launch of a beta version of its WebSDK at the Web 2.0 Conference in New York.
The software development kit is designed to provide a set of tools for programmers creating applications for Sony Ericsson Android and Symbian Foundation phones, such as the upcoming X10 and the recently launched Satio.
"With the Sony Ericsson WebSDK our focus is on bringing all the capabilities of web technologies to mobile applications and giving web developers wide access to easy-to-use tools and mobile phone platforms," said Christopher David, head of Developer and Partner Engagement at Sony Ericsson.
According to David, the WebSDK was created in collaboration with the PhoneGap open source community and allows developers to more easily create cross-platform applications.
The HTML/CSS/JavaScript part can be authored in the developer's tool of choice and the WebSDK provides a range of testing and deployment tools for both systems.
Full details and a download of the SDK are available here. µ
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Looking forward to this. Sony Ericsson's software has always impressed me in the past.
That javascript has inherited the earth.
Powerful yes, but so, so flawed . . .
X10 has many shortcomings compared to Droid
1)No Flash,so no camera/video capture at night
2)Android 1.6 vs Droid has Android 2.0
3)No Ambient Light sensor( Display brightness automatically adjusts as per the outside light - dark vs bright )
4)No Voice activated google maps navigation
5)Video capture for X10 is at lower resolution then Droid
6)Biggest of all: No physical keypad
7)Price for X10 is more then four times of Droid
8)Comes with only 8GB transflash vs Droids 16GB transflash card
9)16 million colors on the Droid and only 65,536 colors on the Xperia X10