Along with the announcement of Xperia Mini, Xperia Mini Pro and Xperia Acro, Sony Ericsson also brings new deep integration of Facebook into their system called “Facebook Inside Xperia”. This new feature will debut on the new Xperia mini products and will become standard features for upcoming software update to the Xperia arc, Xperia PLAY and other handsets in the Xperia family. So, what’s the “Facebook Inside Xperia” is all about?
It’s basically a new way of using Facebook features on your Xperia phone which now directly integrated as the Xperia features. The Sony Ericsson blog noted some main features of the “Facebook Inside Xperia”. Check out also the Facebook Inside Xperia home page.
Single sign on to Facebook – when you start your phone for the first time, you will be prompted an option to log in to Facebook and create permanent connection to it. From there you don’t need to login to Facebook or other similar apps to use Facebook. The good thing is, you can also choose whether to set this option automatically or turn specific parts off.
Contact sync with Facebook – besides the contact sync between your local contacts with Facebook contacts just like on current Facebook app, this new integration added more Facebook info on your phone contact. In this way, you can see your friend’s status, photos or likes just by looking up from your phone book.
Facebook photos in your phone Gallery - in addition to the local pictures and other pictures gallery like Picasa pictures, now you will have your Facebook photos and Facebook photos you’re tagged in directly on your phone gallery.
Like-button on Music player – now you can have new experience in enjoying music on your phone. With the new like-button on the music player you can share the music you are listening to your Facebook friends by clicking the “like” on the song. From there your friends can learn more about those songs and also listen to it for some songs or even buy it. This works through the Sony Ericsson Track-ID service.
Media discovery widget – there will a dedicated widget included to show you the videos and music that your friends shared on their Facebook wall including YouTube, Spotify etc which you can view easily too.
Well, it’s no doubt that Facebook is a must have features or app for mobile phone nowadays. A report even said that up to 50% of consumers app time is used in the Facebook app. So, no wonder from now on will see this kind of integration on more new smartphones.
