Taking a look back at Paris (and a bit on Beibei) Options

[Mizzle]

Now that both have been cancelled after a long development period, we thought it wouldn't hurt anybody to shed a bit of light on these phones.

Paris was going to be Sony Ericsson's first slider in the P-series line-up. While it was partly based on old hardware, Sony Ericsson had made several software enhancements that would significantly speed up the phone. In addition to this, the Paris would have been based on UIQ 3.3. Anyway, what I wanted to show in this blog post was that Sony Ericsson realized that the business segment no longer has to be connected to boring colour schemes. It can be black and grey while still looking like a million bucks! I've known about the three colour variants for Paris (black/blue, silver/red, and black/orange) in about two months now, and this was one of the things that I liked about it - they're trying to break the habit of "one colour variant" business & enterprise phones. Let's hope they'll keep it up in upcoming S60-based business phones.

Beibei was the mainstream UIQ 3.3-based smart phone that was never announced either. Beibei would - in my opinion - have been the better of the two. It brought along lots of innovation and new-thinking, one being the way you'd control the device with the scroll wheel. Just like Paris, Beibei would have shown up in three colour variants; black, black/blue and the white/red one. I'm hoping to get my hands on one, and I'll be sure to tell you all about it if I succeed!

From the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog:
http://blog.se-nse.net/2008/07/23/taking-a...-back-at-paris/.

[Mr.Phear]

Well Mizzle, either way they were both disappointments in the end huh. I think that either of these phones would have been a better announcement than some of those walkmans that were announced 2 days ago... Oh how I am losing faith quickly...