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Sony Ericsson has introduced the latest Bluetooth Hands free car speakerphone, HCB-150. This latest product slot in a simple text-to-speech feature that verbally alerts users with the incoming caller’s details. And if you prefer throwing a glance on the name, you can get the same on the speaker phone conventional OLED display and enjoy a visual caller ID.

How many times have you almost crashed your car while trying to check who’s calling you on your cell phone? I’ve stopped counting a long time ago. So pardon me for saying exactly how much I’m loving the new Sony Ericsson HCB-150 speakerphone which actually features a text-to-speech function that identifies the caller for you via your Bluetooth headset. The set also has very cool touch-sensitive controls and an impressive OLED display which you can obviously use as a visual caller ID in case you want your phone to feel more ‘normal’. The speaker phone is like-minded with at least 5 different handsets and copies the contacts from your set allowing you to scroll through your phone book with a jog dial.

Behind up to five pairings, the Sony Ericsson HCB-150 uses Bluetooth 2.0, is battery powered for double duty as a portable speaker phone. Boasting a talk time of up to 25 hours, the HCB-150 features a standby time of up to 700 hours. Sony Ericsson’s HCB-150 Blue tooth Hands free car speaker phone is slated for a Q2 2008 launch. The gizmo is expected to hit the market in the second quarter of the year, although in case you are cheating on your wife/girlfriend you want to stay as far away as likely from the caller announcing gadget.

Sony Ericsson on Sunday announced a new premium handset intended at capturing the web meeting market, blending multimedia with mobile web message in its first product using Microsoft Corp.’s operating system.

The Xperia X1 will open in the second half of 2008 and will be sold widespread, including in the United States. It marks the first time Sony Ericsson is using Microsoft Windows Mobile in a departure from its collaboration with Symbian, an open operating system that’s partly owned by Sony Ericsson.

Decision-making said their focus was on the user experience, not the operating system, and said that many Sony Ericsson signature features, including a original nine-panel interface, had been built on top of the Windows operating system. Sony Ericsson managerial Steve Walker said Microsoft Mobile was the “ideal” platform for the X1.

“In the case of the X1, Microsoft gives us and chance to build on,” Walker said. But he said that did not necessarily mean that succeeding handsets in the Xperia sub-brand would be based on Microsoft. The handset features an arc sliding mechanism with a 3-inch-wide DVD-quality video show, a full keyboard next to a touch screen, and optical device for navigation.

Sony Ericsson executives turn down to give pricing on the handset or say how many it plans to ship. The partnership was announced on the eve of the Mobile World Congress, the largest wireless industry conference bringing together more than 50,000 industry executives from some 1,300 companies.

“With Sony Ericsson we are now working with the top five handset makers around the world,” Microsoft product manager John Stark weather said in an interview before the Barcelona wireless conference. Samsung, Motorola Inc. and LG all ship cell phones with Microsoft Mobile, while Nokia Corp., the largest handset maker by volume, incorporates some Microsoft technology, including Windows Media Player. Microsoft expects to ship 20 million new phones using Windows Mobile in the economic year that ends June 30.

Asus India down with IDLDPL, (India Digital Life Style Distributors Pvt. Ltd.) has opened their latest PDA phone, the P527 in the Indian market. Among the host of functions, Travelog and Location biker have been crowned as the most sole features on the P527. While Travelodge enables users to record travel routes and export data to Google Earth, Location Courier serves as an S.O.S. device to send a user’s GPS place to five preset phone numbers. In such cases of emergency, SMS messages will be delivered to the set receivers with a stroke of a button.

The P527 can record and share users’ itinerant pictures, routes, Points of Interests (POIs) and memos with the built-in Travelog feature. This xfunction supports the Google Earth satellite maps format – let users to create a journal of events during their travels. The timely GPS navigation with GPS Catcher allows users to find their location xwherever they are in the world – allowing them to navigate to their next purpose with ease. The Location Courier feature of the P527 will also assist stop users from getting lost by precisely and occasionally reporting their position to their pre-defined friends’ contacts. Even in locations with vast, open state, the worldwide GPS network will be able to locate the user. Utilizing the Windows Mobile 6 Professional in service System, the P527 provides Office functions and synchronizes Outlook emails, edits Word and Excel documents and views PowerPoint slides.

In addition, the new station feature allows users to receive the latest news reports and website in order through RSS related settings. The Business Card Recognition feature also makes it easy to capture the details of a business card without tediously keying in the data. With the built-in FM Radio Receiver, a 2 Mega-Pixel Camera (Auto-Focus) and Windows Media Player, users will be able to enjoy more multimedia enjoyment; while the built-in Windows Live purpose allow access to Hotmail, MSN, Spaces and. The P527 is a slim 15.4mm handset with a silver-gray aluminum cover. It’s equipped with 8 enthusiastic hotkeys and 5 directional front jog dial with a 3 directional side jog wheel. It’s 2.6 inch TFT, touch screen display has a 240 x 320 pixel resolution. It supports microSD cards for outside memory. The con about this phone is it only supports EDGE connection. The new ASUS P527 PDA phone is priced at Rs. 17,900 and is now available in India from side to side IDLDPL.