With Sony’s acquisition of Ericsson’s stake complete, the business has been renamed Sony Mobile Communications. Emails have been sent out to customers detailing the change and now the Sony Ericsson website redirects users to SonyMobile.com from SonyEricsson.com.

Finding your way around the website is practically identical to the SonyEricsson website but, we now have the Sony colors, namely blacks and greys, along with the Sony make.believe logo.

Support and downloads are still accessible at SonyMobile.com, such as PC Companion which, for the mean time is still branded as Sony Ericsson but, we’re sure it won’t be long until that gets an overhaul.

According to a blog post by Mobile Fun, the Birmingham based UK company will be selling the Sony Xperia Ion which has been stated as a US only release and an exclusive for American network carrier AT&T. The Xperia Ion is due in the US in Q2 of 2012, so any time between April and June and should be released in the UK shortly after. An exact date is currently unknown for the Sony Xperia Ion in the UK, as is pricing information.

The Sony Xperia Ion features a 4.6″ Reality Display with a HD resolution of 1280×720 which will allow you to watch HD content in it’s native resolution. The Xperia Ion, like the Xperia S will feature a 12 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording and a 1.5GHz dual core processor. The Ion also comes with NFC support and is PlayStation certified.

One major problem for owners of Sony Ericsson Xperia smartphones is if you own a Mac, you were unable to update your handsets to the latest version of Android. Both the Sony Ericsson Update Service and PC Companion are only compatible with Windows meaning those with a Mac were left to use a friend’s PC, or stay on old outdated software such as Android 1.6 in the case of the Xperia X10 when Android 2.1 was finally released.

The recently announced Xperia S is now available to pre-order in the UK. The Xperia S is the first phone to be released from Sony following their buy out of Ericsson from the joint venture and looks set to continue in the steps of the 2011 Xperia range.

Clove have announced that they will be selling the Sony Xperia S in black starting from March 5th 2012. The sim free price for the Xperia S is £467.99 through Clove, while Play have the release date down as March 6th and a price tag of £449.99. You can also pre-order the Sony Xperia S from ebuyer for £429.99 but, they have an expected release date of March 12th.

I’m sure most of us have seen this sort of video before but, it’s not every day that a time lapse video is created with a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S. The Xperia Arc S doesn’t come with a time lapse feature built in but, there are many that you can download off the Android Market. The owner of this very cool time lapse video doesn’t say what app was used to create it.

YouTube user zyavar does however say, that the time lapse video of the London Eye was created using 1862 photos taken over 2 hours 35 minutes from a London hotel room. You can check out the London Eye time lapse video below. Let us know in the comments if you’ve created any time lapse videos using your Xperia phones.