After we’ve seen the Rachael teaser yesterday, today we get a glimpse of its user interface. The Sony Ericsson phone is going to be released on Tuesday, November 3 but it looks like Sony Ericsson wants us to see more and more of its capabilities already.

In this demo you’ll see how Rachael deals with multimedia files. The video shows how the Android phone plays music and videos for you and you can’t say that you’re not impressed with what Sony Ericsson has cooked up. If you own a Zune then the UI will seem familiar as some influences are pretty clear. But that doesn’t make the interface less interesting!

In remains to see the real thing in action. The video is conceptual and for internal use only so the Rachael might look completely different. We’ll tell you all about the Xperia X3 once it becomes official. Just a few more days to wait!

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Sprint has divulged that come October 11, the HTC Hero will be made available to the public for $179.99 after rebates. The HTC Hero that Sprint will be unveiling is the chinless model along with features that include the Exchange Active Sync, Sense UI and Sprint TV. The HTC Hero is the first wireless device offering a combination of the Android platform with the high-speed connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network.

For the people who are planning to get the HTC Hero, pre-registration is now ongoing at the Sprint website.

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Who knew that Motorola is keeping itself that busy? Well actually we all knew that Moto is cooking some Android devices but we weren’t really expecting a new UI/OS coming up too.

And it seems like Motorola doesn’t want to launch new phones running on a simple Android OS. Motorola has done some customization of that Android user interface and it has a name: Blur. Blur will be web-connected and you will be able to upgrade any section of the OS over the air. Web content, updates and upgrades will apparently be available right away and everything will be pushed to your Motorola Android phone.

We definitely need more info about Blur and we might see that happen soon enough.

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A video has hit the interwebs showcasing the beautiful UI that is to be featured on the forthcoming Android powered Sony Ericsson handset.

As you can see, this UI is looking to give HTC’s Sense UI a run for its money as Sony seems to have completely redone the stock Android UI. But anyways, enough chit chat, watch the above video and bask in the glory that is Rachael.

Now that we’ve seen the UI, can we get a release date and/or a price, Sony? Please?

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When will Meizu stop copying others and start innovating? Meizu must love the iPhone since it tried to create its own version, the M8. We talked a lot about this iPhone-like phone and I have the feeling we’re going to see more phones coming from Meizu in the future. In the mean time we’ve discovered that Meizu also loves the Pre. According to some leaked photos of the new Meizu M8 UI, the new firmware is based on Palm’s new webOS. And this new firmware is coming out sometime in July or August. That means that all those five current M8 owners will end up with an iPhone-like phone soon that speaks webOS instead of iPhone OS. What do you think, is Meizu on to something? Is it possible to combine Apple and Palm in order to get a better smartphone? Will Optimus Prime like this transformation?

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Samsung is going to enter in the mobile application business as it has already made its TouchWiz UI available to developers. Samsung will be working with Yahoo, Google and AccuWeather to offer “rich connected applications” or TouchWiz Widgets to its customers. More developers should arrive in the near future so we might see a whole new range of applications made for Samsung’s TouchWiz phones.

Samsung will work with UI Evolution and it will offer:

… a set of developer tools for Samsung to support the easy development of our rich connected mobile applications. Based upon the Eclipse IDE, developers will have a custom interface allowing them to easily access code samples, FAQ’s, device emulation, and submission of content for sale through the Samsung Rich Connected Application storefront.

The great thing about this new TouchWiz apps is that they will work no matter what the OS will be. Samsung can release Symbian, Windows Mobile or Android phones with TouchWiz on top and the applications will work flawlessly. This sounds like a recipe for success for an app store. I’d be more interested in purchasing applications which can be later on taken to a different OS. Will Samsung succeed in the app store business?

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Samsung seems ready to upgrade its TouchWiz UI and an official announcement might be made in just a few days in Barcelona. We’re not sure what to expect as Samsung didn’t make it public it yet. We might see more touchscreen haptic feedback, more visual effects, more widgets or apps and definitely some new looks. Samsung touschscreen phone owners what do you think? Do you need a new UI?

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