At first, SonAt first, Sony Ericsson?s tiny 1.3-inch Bluetooth external cellphone screen seems like a joke. And then you realize that it is designed to work with the giant, slab-like HTC Desire or Sony Ericsson?s own Xperia X10 and it all makes sense.
The LiveView is a small OLED screen the size of a watch-face. It has physical buttons on its corners, and the bezel is touch-sensitive. You can use it to control music, check Twitter, read RSS feeds or do pretty much anything an app wants to do. Applications need to be written to use this monitor, and the most impressive demo in the video below shows a sports app sending stats to the LiveView as you run.
The widget comes with a wrist-strap (of course ? wrist-mounted gadgets are the new pocket-watches, or something) and can be clipped onto clothes, just like the iPods Nano and Shuffle. There are a handful of phones that support it already, but you can use it with any phone running Android 2.0 or better by downloading Sony Ericsson LiveWare Manager from the Android Market.
I love the idea. Wouldn?t it be great if Apple did something like this with the Nano and the iPhone? The LiveView will be in stores in the fourth quarter of this year, price as yet undecided.
LiveView product page [Sony Ericsson via Engadget]
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