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17th October - Owners of the Sony Ericsson P990 smartphone
can now enjoy their favourite local TV shows on their
phones wherever they are in the world. LocationFree™
from Sony redirects TV shows from your home television
to target devices such as your P990, so you can keep
up with your favourite programmes whether you’re
on the beach, in an airport or just in your local park.
You can watch live TV, playback recorded programmes
and even set up future recordings, all on your P990.
“LocationFree completely removes the constraints
of having to be at home to enjoy your favourite programmes,”
says Steve Walker, Vice President Product Marketing,
Sony Ericsson. “The P990 with its large 2.8 inch
touchscreen is the perfect device for this. It is a
high performance smartphone that gives a really great
viewing experience, coupled with high-speed connectivity.
If you love television and spend a lot of time travelling
or generally out and about, then LocationFree on your
P990 is a must.”
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Inset : Sony LocationFree TV Goes Mobile
LocationFree uses the internet to redirect content from your
home to your P990 wherever you are. At its heart is the LocationFree
Base Station available from Sony, together with LocationFree
Player software supplied on your P990’s Memory Stick
or by download.
Set up is extremely straightforward and you can be enjoying
TV content on your P990 within minutes. The Base Station plugs
into your existing home network or establishes a wireless
link to a broadband internet-connected device such as a Sony
PlayStation Portable ® system, notebook or desktop PC.
When you’re away or out of the house, you simply connect
to the Base Station with your P990 to watch TV, enjoy one
of your own DVDs (provided it’s in the player), or control
your set top box or DVD/HDD recorder to make your own recordings.
You can choose the best way for your P990 to connect to the
Base Station depending on where you are, and this can be over
the Internet, through a wireless connection if you’re
in a Wi-Fi hotspot or through your 3G network. The Base Station
itself also doubles as a wireless access point, providing
the basis of a home wireless network.
“Keeping up with your favourite TV shows is just the
start,” Steve Walker continues, “There are many
more uses for LocationFree on your P990 as it will transmit
content from any number of devices that are linked up to the
Base Station. For example with a video camera or video recorder
connected you can use your P990 to see friends and family
while you’re away, or even keep a check on home security.”
The P990 is the latest, high performance smartphone from
Sony Ericsson. It offers all the benefits of UMTS/3G connectivity,
including video calling, push email, high-bandwidth multi-media
downloads and the ability to browse the Internet with full
HTML pages. Designed to minimise the number of devices that
people carry around with them, it brings true mobility to
the business environment, or to anyone that wants a truly
connected lifestyle, wherever they happen to be.
LocationFree Player is available on the Memory Stick with
the P990 or can be downloaded at www.sonyericsson.com/support/
. The LocationFree Base Station is available to buy in Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,
Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK. More
information about LocatiaonFree from Sony is available from:
www.sony.net/Products/LocationFree/support/.
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