With the leaked product pages, the Paris aka P10 might have come this close to an announcement along with the other five cell phones that saw daylight on June 17th, but looks like that is not going to be the case. The P10 along with the touchscreen G702 (BeiBei) will be shelved indefinitely, with no hints at manufacturing or further development of these two devices, although a limited release in Asia might be a possibility. What’s the reason you ask? Sony Ericsson blames it on us, bloggers, reviewers, and industry watchers for tearing those two cell phones apart, and mobile-review.com in particular for one really hard-hitting review on the G702. Anyways, let’s hope Sony Ericsson has something else cooking in its labs other than the Xperia X1, as this just put a huge hole in its smartphone lineup, which might take a long while to fill up.
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We were starting to wonder when this one would meet up with the FCC. Well, the wait is now over and we now have some concrete info on the G702, codenamed BeiBei previously. For a cell phone aimed mostly at womankind, the G702 is pretty packed with HSDPA support, GPS with WayFinder and Google Maps, and WiFi. The FCC documents also confirm what we already knew, the new UIQ 3.3 interface and Opera 9.5 browser with widget and Flashlite 3 support. According to the documents, pressing the 5 key will change the display from portrait to landscape. A good idea but we would have preferred an accelerometer to do this on its own.

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We saw the Tyra and the Josephine. This Wednesday, it seems like we’re also slated to see the Sony Ericsson handset code named “BeiBei.” It will reportedly be announced along with high-end handset with the codename “Paris.”

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