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Sony Ericsson releases Experience Packs in time for the holidays
Sony Ericsson has come up with 3 unique Experience Packs to suit the users of their X10 phones. Each Experience Pack is a combination of hardware and/or software designed for using the various X10 phones in different ways. First up for the X-10 mini, we have the Fashion Experience Pack– a set of stylish and chic phone covers and landyards to go along with your trendy little phone. Designed by Tiina Karjalainen, these accessories are bound to make your X-10 mini stand out from the crowd. Next up we have the Fitness Experience Pack that works with the X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro. There’s an armband which holds your phone while you work out, Sony Ericsson’s LiveView mini display and the Sporty Pal Pro app- for you to track your workout regime and post your progress online. An Experience for those of you looking to get or keep fit. And lastly we’ve got the Business Experience Pack that comes with a Bluetooth Noise Shield Handsfree VH700 earpiece, a micro USB cable, Office Suite Pro software and 6-months of Wave Secure service. Stay productive at the office and while on the move. If you know anybody using an X10 phone and fits into one of these categories, the Experience Pack could be a great gift for Christmas. Hit the break for pictures of the other two Experience Packs.
If you are rocking to the following devices from Sony – the Xperia Z3+, Xperia Z4 Tablet, Xperia C4, Xperia C5 Ultra, Xperia M4 Aqua, and Xperia M5, then perhaps it is time to sit up and take notice. It seems that support pages for all of these six devices have listed down Android 6.0 Marshmallow as the next version of the OS which will be arriving, never mind the fact that all of them happen to run on Android 5.0 Lollipop at the moment.
If true and all turns out according to plan, then it would mean that Sony would have given the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update a miss, diving straight into development for Android 6.0 Marshmallow which has already been released. Still, it might take some time, so to see Android 6.0 Marshmallow arrive some time this year on the listed devices would most probably happen next year rather than in 2015.
Sony has decided that it is time for three of their older smartphones, the Xperia Z1, Xperia Z1 Compact, and Xperia Z Ultra to pick up the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update at long last, following in the footsteps of the likes of the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, and Xperia Tablet Z in the previous week.
What makes it all the more interesting is the fact that Sony has continued to extend support to these handsets despite them being relatively aged in the fast paced smartphone market. When you apply the update to all three handsets, they will all end up with the build number 14.6.A.0.368, and at the moment, this update will be made live in selected regions, although it is tipped to spread across to the rest of the world in the coming days and weeks.
Do expect to see the infamous Stagefright vulnerability plugged with this update, which is a good thing, among many other improvements and capabilities.
The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra Dual has been around for some time already, and it is no spring chicken in the big scheme of things where smartphones are concerned. Having said that, it is nice to see that the device itself is on the receiving end of the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update, where it will see the version number bumped up to 19.4.A.0.182 upon installation.
Do bear in mind that the Sony Xperia T2 Ultra Dual happens to sport enough space to stash away dual SIM cards, and this is a slightly modified version of the Xperia T2 Ultra. With Android 5.1.1 Lollipop arriving on the Sony Xperia T2 Ultra Dual, this can only mean that the single SIM model should be able to get the very same update in due time, although nothing official has been revealed just yet. I guess we will just have to sit tight and see.