Twitter and mobile phones are the perfect match. On our Labs site you can download the mobile Twitter app Guidu. If you’re on a mobile phone, go directly to http://labs.sonyericsson.com/mobile to download.
Of course Guidu is free to download.
Guidu also uses Fire Eagle as well as the map features from Ericsson Labs (Ericsson Labs and Sony Ericsson Labs are two different labs, by the way.)
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Mobile Twitter with Sony Ericsson Labs and Guidu
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
New forum for content submission and store
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Sony Ericsson Application Submission Portal going live
Friday, July 3rd, 2009We’ve been working hard to get the submission site up and running so that you can submit games and applications to our application stores. We still need to polish a few things before opening it up completely so we will keep it in a “closed beta” for a few weeks (hey, opening an application store is not easy 
).
This is our public announcement:
Content submission now open for selected developers
Sony Ericsson’s content submission website is now open to a selected number of entrepreneurial developers. Applications and games that are submitted and accepted will be distributed via PlayNow™ arena, Sony Ericsson’s premium content channel, as well as to the established channel, Fun & Downloads. Java™ ME (Sony Ericsson JP-6 and later) and Symbian OS applications and games are supported. This will be expanded to further content types later this year.
There are no fees to submit your content, and the process is designed to enable accepted applications and games to reach market channels quickly.
Access to the content submission site at https://submit.sonyericsson.com will be opened up in stages during July, so that all members of Developer World will be able to submit content. Supporting documentation and guides are already available so that you can get ready to submit your content.
“Entrepreneurial developers” – that’s you, right? If you want to be one of the first to submit your applications or games you can help us with the final testing. Post your Sony Ericsson Developer World username together with a short description of yourself in the comments below this post and we’ll add you to our list of early users. We will gradually open the doors for everyone to submit so this is your chance to be first out.
Not registered? Sign up here.
Erik Starck
Community Manager, Sony Ericsson Developer World
The story behind Sony Ericsson Labs
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Sony Ericsson Labs was recently opened to the public. Labs is a somewhat new direction for Sony Ericsson, showing stuff that’s still in beta and may in some cases never appear anywhere else. To tell us a bit more about Sony Ericsson Labs I asked one of the main drivers behind the project, Thomas Bailey, a few questions.
Developer World: How did Labs come about? Tell us a little bit of the history behind the site.
Thomas Bailey: We wanted to drive technology awareness and interest from a different direction by sharing the various prototypes we create. In addition we wanted to join the conversation with anyone interested in helping shape future applications and services.
The project was about 8~months since we are quite distributed but the actual site design and implementation was done in less than 2 months. We made use of Drupal with an emphasis on configuration rather than writing of new modules with an initial showing at JavaOne 2009. (DW note: the site was built by NodeOne, you can read their summary of building Labs here.)
Sony Ericsson Labs is somewhat different in that we launch it in a “as is” state and will work on it in the open. My hope is that Sony Ericsson Labs can be one way to be more personal in how we communicate – blogs, Twitter, real names and faces etc.
DW: Where do you see it going? What’s the future of Labs?
TB: If I quote Christoper David, Head of Developer and Partner Engagement, during our recent JavaOne 2009 keynote:
“We are putting the platform out there for you guys to create really innovative applications”.
I would like Sony Ericsson Labs to become a forum for third-party developers to showcase this innovation built upon Sony Ericsson platforms and supported technologies.
DW: Any application or type of application you would like to see on Labs?
TB: I think vertical applications that do simple things really well are going to be well received – an example might an application that uses your location to give you a weather forecast where you are for the week. The emphasis needs to be on the user experience and making the most of the supporting technology, such as Project Capuchin or JavaFx together with accelerometers and location-based services.
So, while Labs is starting out as a display of our internal beta projects, in the future we will open up for external developers as well. That’s a very good reason for you to put the Labs RSS feed in your favorite reader and follow the http://www.twitter.com/selabs Twitter-account, don’t you think?