Yesterday we got the promotional video for Sony Ericsson P5 aka Paris and today we got another promotional video, that is for the Sony Ericsson G702 aka Bei Bei. It just got the FCC approval last week. Probably will be released on the June 17th. Video after the break.

[via Slashphone]

Tags: mobile phone, cell phone, handset, handphone, phone, communication, Sony Ericsson, G702

700 people were lined at the length of the Brooklyn Bridge before its 125th birthday. All of them bring along their cameras and created the wave of flashes with the cameras across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Video after the break.

[via ImprovEverywhere]

Tags: Camera, Brooklyn Bridge, flashes

Sony Ericsson has confirmed their press announcement at Amesterdam on June 17, while the Communicasia is also being held from 17 to 20 June 2008 in Singapore. Visitors will get to see the new mobile phone. There’s no info on what phones they will announced in the press event, high possibilities these two models will be announced: the Sony Ericsson P5 (Paris) and the G702 (Bei Bei).

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Tags: mobile phone, cell phone, handset, handphone, phone, communication, sony ericsson

I’m finally settled in to my new place in Coral Gables, which is a suburb of Miami.

Check it out…

The food, the culture, and just about everything else in Coral Gables ROCKS! For Shilpi and I it’s been a total upgrade from the condo we had in Boston.

As soon as we get back to Boston in 6 months we’re going to start hunting for a condo in Back Bay that will top our place in Coral Gables. Once you upgrade your lifestyle, it really bites to have to take it back down a notch.

None of this would have been possible if I wasn’t a super affiliate. The rent on our Coral Gables place is double the mortgage payment on my place in Boston, which by the way I’m still paying in full.

Even if I was a big shot in the corporate world and had the money to cover a hefty rent plus a mortgage, I wouldn’t have the freedom to move down here.

Affiliate income represent REAL FREEDOM. There’s nothing like it in the world!

Welcome to the Friday Review Round-Up! Each Friday I scour the blogosphere for product reviews that I think are well-written, informative, and just plain interesting. My goal in doing this is to not only find reviews that deserve some attention, but to also help the review blogger community as a whole. We all work hard at what we do and we deserve recognition for it! So, without further ado, here are my picks:

*Mama Maven from Reviews from the Delaney Diaries reviewed Maiden America non-slip barrettes for kids at http://delaneydiaries.typepad.com/reviews/. Sounds like I need these for my daughter’s fine yet unruly hair! Read her review of Maiden America barrettes here.

*Amy at Mums the Wurd reviewed Matilda Jane clothing for kids. Her site is under construction but knowing Amy (which I do!), it will just be even more fabulous when it’s done. Read her review of Matilda Jane clothing here.

*Proving that not every review has to be a gushing fountain of praise, Leeanthro wrote a review for The Full Mommy of the Baby Einstein Baby’s First Sounds DVD in which she says why she was not a fan of it. Read her review of Baby’s First Sounds DVD here.

*Emily posted a review on Props & Pans of a product made by Mark, an offshoot of the Avon company. It’s a mattifying lotion that apparently soaks up oil without drying out your skin, something I could use myself! Read her review of Mark Matte Chance here.

*SassyFrazz reviewed Automoblox, which, HELLO AUTOMOBLOX P.R. REPS PLEASE EMAIL ME! My daughter would go NUTS for those four little people that fit inside the car! Sounds like it was a big hit at her house. Read her Automoblox review here.

*Shannon Hutton, one of my roommates at BlogHer last year, who was a new blogger last year, and now writes the Momsational blog on the Sparkplugging website, which is FANTASTIC and CONGRATULATIONS, Shannon!, wrote a review of the photo processing site Snapfish, and gives a link to get a free flipbook and 50 free prints from Snapfish.

When you visit these blogs to read their reviews, feel free to tell them that MomReviews sent you! And join me next Friday for another Friday Review Round-Up!

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June 9th draws closer and nearer to the Apple WWDC event being held in San Francisco, and as we do so more images of the next gen Apple 3G iPhone hit the net waves; so many images have been offered up these past few weeks it is easy to say with a fair amount of confidence, just what sort of visually artistic changes to expect with the Apple 3G iPhone.

For instance we already know there have been some changes to the Apple 3G iPhone’s exterior appearance with more tapered edges, narrower chrome bezel, glossy plastic rear which replaces the old Mb-A1 cover of the present Apple iPhone, and reviser docking port connector/speaker area.

Also everyone can continue speculating at what may or may not be as Apple certainly as usual isn’t letting anything official escape. Only silence ever comes from Apple HQ until they are good and ready to say what they have to say.

So here are the latest images being touted over the net waves, and supposedly showing the next gen Apple 3G iPhone casing, which looks to fall in line with mock-ups that have been gleaned from 3G iPhone case moulds, but are they real?

I’m not saying they aren’t, but then again I’m not saying they are, you make you your own mind on this one. With May almost at an end, a couple of weeks more and everything will be answered and clear with the Apple 3G iPhone, let’s hope the whispers about the launch date are similarly true.

Source – allaboutphones

Members of leading blog network using new PicApp image platform for sourcing, illustrating and enhancing photos, artwork; bloggers to provide feedback for future development

SAN FRANCISCO and TORONTO – May 30, 2008 – PicScout has begun working with b5media, a global new media network featuring a diverse range of more than 350 blogs, to use the PicApp platform of premium, licensed images and photos for enhancing news and creative content across a select group of blogs. PicApp provides licensed images from a broad group of premiere news and stock photo agencies, giving bloggers and other online publishers legal access to millions of images, while addressing content owners’ usage tracking and copyright concerns.

Once at www.picapp.com, bloggers can select any of the wide range of images for free and use them adjacent to a news post or editorial content on their sites. When the image is streamed from the PicApp servers, it comes with a non-intrusive ad that provides a monetization tool on the content owner’s behalf.

“PicApp offers our bloggers tremendous selection in terms of the range and types of content they provide,” said Jeremy Wright, b5media chief executive officer. “As content creators, ensuring all the images we use are legal is extremely important to us. PicApp has proven to be a valuable resource for the bloggers involved so far. We look forward to continuing to work together to develop a solution for the entire network, so that all b5media bloggers feel assured they are using legal images at all times.”

b5media includes 12 vertical channels of blogs covering a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment, beauty and fashion to technology, general news and sports. Participating bloggers can find great breaking news photos of celebrities and athletes as they make history and pictures of tech industry breakthroughs moments after they are announced, as well as lifestyle stock photography shots on almost any topic imaginable. The b5media network is home to more than 250 bloggers and receives more than 10 million unique visitors per month.

“We were privileged to cooperate with the b5media team ever since we started our closed beta and are very proud they picked PicApp as a source of images for their many authors,” Eyal Gura, chief executive officer, PicScout, said. “Getting their input early on, and now on an ongoing basis, has been instrumental in ensuring that the development of the PicApp platform is addressing the ever-evolving needs of bloggers.”

PicApp is currently in beta. News and photo agencies licensing images to PicApp include Getty Images, Corbis and Image Source with more content partnerships coming soon. Interested bloggers can go to www.picapp.com to start getting images to enhance the content at their sites.

About PicScout
PicScout (www.picscout.com) is the leading technology services provider to the digital content industry. For years, the company’s flagship ImageTracker™ has been the industry standard application for helping visual assets owners control and monitor the distribution of their proprietary images across all media. PicScout headquarters are in San Francisco. The company has a development and operations center in Herzelia, Israel.

About b5media Inc.
b5media Inc. is a global new media network featuring a wide variety of topics ranging from entertainment and lifestyles to sports and technology. With over 350 blogs, including Problogger , eBeautyDaily and Healthbolt, b5media reaches nearly 10 million unique visitors and receives 30 million page views a month. Launched in September 2005, b5media is a venture-backed company based in Toronto, Canada. For more information, visit: www.b5media.com

For all those who are waiting patiently to get their hands on an HTC Touch Diamond…the wait is over! T-Mobile AG is preparing to give their customers some serious Windows Mobile 6.1 with the MDA Compact, which is really the HTC Touch Diamond in T-Mobile jacket, along with the QWERTY packing MDA Vario IV, against the HTC Touch Pro codenamed Raphael and with T-Mobile jacket, a few online retailers are already offering the HTC Touch Diamond, so if you want one get in quick.

So if you are one of those people who simply must have an HTC Touch Diamond, and you have the moola to cope with the price which is roughly somewhere between $780.00 and $900.00 you can heist a diamond raid over the net.

Yes ok the HTC Touch Diamond is somewhat pricy, but then again it is a high end smartphone and one with HSPA both HSDPA and HSUPA, Opera browser, VGA touch-screen display, 3 megapixel camera, and Windows Mobile 6.1 UI. So just maybe the HTC Touch Diamond does command such a high price.

SO HTC Diamond hunters, if you want to grab hold of one you can make your way to one of these online retailers who stock the HTC Touch Diamond. Decho Wireless, PopularElect, and Welectronics; but hurry because who knows just how long their stocks will last.

Source – phonearena

Word is hitting the net waves that Google has pushed out a live demo of the much rumoured HTC Dream with its Android flavour while in San Francisco at the companies I/O conference. Reports intimate that the HTC Dream has an approximate touch-screen size of 3 inches x 5 inches and has a slider keyboard.

Not a great deal of information is available at present, but whisper is the HTC Dream will apparently pack an accelerometer that allows the user to tilt the handset to scroll across Google Maps or Street View. It does appear the Android team have been burning the midnight oil to bring the user inferface up to scratch as not to disappoint.

Once the HTC Dream hits the public it will have to contend with the big guns of the mobile phone assault this year, the Apple 3G iPhone obviously being the major contender, with the likes of the Sony Ericsson EXPERIA X1 and the Samsung TouchWiz chasing in the sidelines.

So we will just have to wait a while to see if the Google Android flavoured HTC Dream mobile phone really does hit the target and can stand up against all comers. Information and images will be passed on as and when we get them so keep an eye out.

Video demo below for your viewing pleasure.

Source – engadgetmobile

Brand names are big business, and the mobile industry embraces the designer labels and automakers brand names. Let’s face it if you’ve got a mundane mobile phone and want to make it shift well then slap a designer name on it and it’ll move quicker, especially if the price is right.

And now there seems to be a new player in the game, a new famous brand the mobile industry can play with Ducati, and only Ducati are really putting out bike themed gear. So we now see the latest to be emblazoned with Ducati, the Sony Ericsson Z770 flip design mobile phone.

The Sony Ericsson Z770 Ducati branded mobile phone is due release in Italy in June, and isn’t anything special in the mobile features department, but has the Ducati designer paint job along with a special Ducati themed HBH DS-220 headset.

The Sony Ericsson handset itself is a tri-band GSM non-smartphone clamshell style mobile with one of the slightly better browsers, measures 93 x 48 x 16mm with a weight of 91 grams and has GPRS, HSDPA, USB 2.0 + A2DP, and Bluetooth so it isn’t that bad a mobile phone, and well that Ducati branding sure does look inviting, especially to the bikers out there. So biker dudes just remember to take the keys out of your bike when you are too busy walking off drooling over your new Ducati branded mobile.

Source – unwiredview