so all this hub-ub today about apple’s big new announcements, and i’m honestly less than impressed with their new offerings. the only thing that caught my eye was the new mac mini core duo, but i’m not convinced this is better than any other htpc offering out at the moment.

with everyone hyping up this big apple keynote day, you’d think that sony ericsson’s marketing department must have the worst timing ever, or just be completely incompetent. that being said, there is a news item today for sony ericsson cell phone fanatics (read: me) that will get you drooling at the mouth. SE has stealthily announced the successor to the k750i .. the k800/790:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/28/sony-ercissons-wilma-k800-k790-cyber-shot-phones-get-offici/
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/sonyericsson-wilma-2-en.shtml

there are a ton of new features, my favorite of which is a 3.2 megapixel camera with a true flash, and “SmartPic” functionality which basically takes 8 pictures and lets you choose the best one. on top of this, this handset will also include support for bluetooth 2.0, and ship with sony’s new “m2″ memory stick (yet another proprietary format, sony when will you ever learn?), rss reader (!!), and a 262k qvga screen. man, if this puppy had class 1 support, i would probably fly to japan tonight and harrass SE headquarters until i had this puppy in my mits. looks like the trusty k750i is going to ebay soon!