However, ContactCall – which lets you scroll through your phone book and dial out – proved to be handy when used with a Bluetooth headset. Of these plug-ins that I downloaded, I couldn't get the HTC Gmail or HTC Music Control plug-ins to work at all – the latter crashed the music player on my Desire every time I launched it. Currently, there are twenty-odd in the Android Market (listed here) but you can only access six at any one time. Potentially very useful, but currently dogged by instabilityĪccording to Sony, third-party LiveView plug-ins will soon start cropping up left, right and centre. You can find a list of other manufacturers supported handsets here, but it's not comprehensive. Naturally the LiveView works with all Sony Ericsson Android phones but they have to be running v2.0 or above, so that's the Xperia X10, X10 Mini, Mini Pro and X8, but only if you have updated them from Android v1.6. If you lose your phone, the "Find Phone" feature will make it come off standby and chirrup to reveal which cushion it's fallen behind.Ī word to the wise about compatibility.
ERICSSON LIVEVIEW UPDATE
Helpfully, the unit vibrates to alert you when a new update is pushed to it. LiveView also lets you control your music and see who is calling when your phone rings, however, the only phone function is a facility to mute the ringer. Out of the box LiveView allows you to see Facebook and Twitter updates, SMS messages, calendar notifications, RSS feeds and missed calls, and it tells you the time.
The idea is simple: LiveView connects to your phone using Bluetooth and a free Market app pushes information to it from your handset. For Android 2 and above: Sony Ericsson's LiveView
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