Take the iconic BlackBerry QWERTY keypad, throw in a touchscreen capable of multi-touch(we hear!), add a new powerful operating system and some decent multimedia…and you might get something like the recently announced Sony Ericsson Aspen smartphone. Yes, we know that Sony Ericsson was a major player in the QWERTY phones department with the legendary P series and even with the Xperia, but its QWERTY keypads were either hidden behind normal ones (in the original P series) or came as a slide outs in the Xperia. That’s why we are so interested in the new Sony Ericsson Aspen, which looks like a BlackBerry-Nokia E71 clone, only with the snazzy Sony Ericsson looks thrown in. The device is not due to be out until the second quarter of this year, but we must admit to being very curious at Sony Ericsson’s first real go at a BlackBerry clone. Continue reading »
