Sony Ericsson LiveView will cost €69 and launch in November

Vlad Bobleanta  By on 08 Oct 10

There were two rather important things that Sony Ericsson left out of their announcement of the LiveView Android bluetooth accessory: how much it will cost and when it will be available.

Today we have more details on both. Its price will apparently be €69 (about $97).

The shipping details are a bit funny, to be honest. Sony Ericsson might have the LiveView ready for shipping even now, but they can’t do that for an ironic reason: if they did, it wouldn’t work with any Sony Ericsson device out there, only with phones from the competition.

Why? Well, the LiveView is only compatible with phones running Android 2.0 and above. And none of Sony Ericsson’s Android smartphones are on anything other than Android 1.6 at the moment. So the LiveView will ship whenever the update to Android 2.1 for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will be released.

Word is, that will happen sometime in November.

This looks like an interesting accessory and I’m glad someone is doing stuff like this in an Android world otherwise obsessed with 4″+ displays and 1 GHz+ processors right now. Not that those are bad things, but something innovative and distinctive could really make a manufacturer stand out in the sea of Android OEMs.

And the LiveView might help Sony Ericsson do just that, who knows.

Via Le Journal du Geek Via MobileCrunch

Share on Tumblr

If you liked the post, you might find these interesting too:

  • http://twitter.com/Ving888 Ving Chou

    Nearly $100 for that? :O pretty expensive accessory!

« »

Subscribe to our Twitter updatesVisit us on FacebookVisit us on GooglePlusSubscribe via RSS