Stockholm, Sweden / San Mateo (CA), USA, August 22, 2007 – Sony Ericsson and Mobile Complete today unveiled the Sony Ericsson Virtual Lab – a remote testing service designed to dramatically reduce the time and resources required to develop and test Java???? ME based applications for Sony Ericsson phones. The on-line service is available globally to all members of Sony Ericsson Developer World and provides support for pre ¬commercial mobile phones released by the company.

The Sony Ericsson Virtual Lab provides Java developers a means to faster, more cost-effectively develop, test, and monitor applications on real Sony Ericsson phones connected to live mobile networks 24/7 through an Internet browser. As a result, developers no longer need to invest in device labs or even be physically present on an operator’s network. Based on the results of 2,100 respondents in a global developer benchmark survey, Recom Research (a UK-based market research firm) in March 2007 reported that irrespective of the developer program they’re a member of, developers in general request better access to devices (cheaper loans) for testing purposes.

????With the launch of this remote testing service together with Mobile Complete, Sony Ericsson is responding to consistent developer feedba ck in benchmarking surveys from the past few years about the importance of having early-access to phones and prototypes for testing purposes. The Virtual Lab gives us a fair-for-all, affordable and resource ¬effective means of being able to offer pre-commercial phones for testing to all Sony Ericsson Developer World members, not just the Premier Partners, and helps the community speed up the development process of new applications for our phones,???? said Ulf Wretling, General Manager and Head of Content Planning and Management at Sony Ericsson.

Early Access to the Latest Handsets

The Virtual Lab offers registered Sony Ericsson Developer World Community members early access to pre-commercial, Java ME based Sony Ericsson phones for real-time testing of applications including games. This unique on -line service allows developers to remotely access 2007 phones that are not yet commercially available , maximizing the valuable time window to bring quality products to market, including applications at market launch of a new phone.

The service has initially gone live with six of the most popular mass-market feature phone models announced in 2007 and with more phones to become available as soon as possible after Sony Ericsson’s official press announcements. Five of the phone models available for remote testing as of today – the Sony Ericsson W880 and W580 Walkman® phones, the K550 and K810 Cyber-shot???? phones and the T650 – are representative of Sony Ericsson’s Java Platform 7 (JP -7). The W910 Walkman is based on the new Java Platform 8 (JP-8) supporting Mobile Services Architecture (MSA), the next-generation Java umbrella standard (JSR-248), as well as Java Binding for the OpenGL® ES API (JSR-239).