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Since they’re free of preservatives, Android updates tend to get pretty stale pretty quickly. As such, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has definitely lost its best flavor, but here comes a refresh. The long-promised 2.3.3 Gingerbread update is now available, but only if you’re pocketing a carrier-free phone. To apply the update — which also includes WiFi and USB tethering, improved Facebook integration, and some fancy new widgets — you’ll need a USB cable and the company’s PC software, meaning this one is far from OTA. When will a cable-free update come along? SE regrets to inform that it “cannot give you an exact date for when the update will be available for you.” What’s another few weeks… or months?

Update: Mike wrote in to let us know that Sony Ericsson is backing off again, now saying that information about the X10 update “was a bit too premature.” Shocking, we know.

Xperia X10 gets Gingerbread update, gratuitous cookie pictures ensue originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like Sony Ericsson needs to juice up the invisibility cloak. Not only has the handset maker been pushing a decent number of phones through for Federal approval, it’s splayed out most of them for the whole world to see. The latest device to get the thumbs-up from the feds is the Xperia Mini Pro, which appears to be on track for its promised third-quarter launch. If we don’t see a different version of the same phone hit Washington soon, it’s more than likely that the 900 / 2100MHz Mini Pro won’t see much 3G activity in the US, since we use different frequencies stateside — though it’ll still function as a 2G device when it hops the pond with Europeans on holiday. We’ve yet a little while before the QWERTY smartphone comes out to play, but check out its outer (and inner) beauty in the gallery below.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro ‘slides’ through FCC with photos in tow originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve known it as both the Urushi and the ST18a, but Sony Ericsson‘s latest handset was just “accepted” over at the FCC as the Xperia Ray, getting the fed green-light with a full set of photos to boot. A quick perusal of the docs confirms that the Xperia Ray will bring on quadband HSPA compatible with AT&T and global carriers, but the lack of AWS indicates we won’t see this showing up on T-Mobile shelves. Also included on the list of tested items is the ANT+ wireless tech responsible for the device’s fitness-monitoring functionality. Making it through the FCC is always a significant hurdle for a company to jump over, so we’d suspect the phone’s still on track for its planned Q3 release. In the meantime, however, check out the gallery below for the images so graciously provided to us in the documents.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray swings through FCC donning AT&T bands originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Do you hate proper capitalization, live in the British isles, and have a spare £350? Excellent, because Sony Ericsson’s Xperia ray has just gone up for pre-order on Play.com. Scheduled for release on August 15th, the specs of the Gingerbread-toting gizmo haven’t changed since we first spotted them. New to us, however, are the four hues we spied on the duo’s website (which you can peep after the fold). Unfortunately for pigment lovers, one can only call dibs the black version this far out, but with more than a month before shipment, we’d pull the trigger anyway — you’ve got more than enough time to sweat color choices, we say.

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Sony Ericsson’s Xperia ray up for UK pre-order, ships in August? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s not really much more than the image above to go on with this one, but what you’re looking at is purported to be the as-yet-unannounced Xperia Duo, which may or may not be Sony Ericsson’s first dual-core phone. As you can see, it bears some resemblance to the Xperia Arc, with what appears to be a large, edge-to-edge display and a UI that’s apparently been tweaked a bit from what we’ve seen previously on SE phones, including a different weather widget and media player controls under the dock. Of course, it is still just a single image, so we’d recommend taking it with the usual grain of salt for the time being.

[Thanks, Daniel N]

Alleged shot of Sony Ericsson Xperia Duo surfaces originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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