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PC Companion are only compatible with Windows meaning those with a Mac were left to use a friend’s PC, or stay on old outdated software such as Android 1.6 in the case of the Xperia X10 when Android 2.1 was finally released.

This is fortunately set to change though. Sony Ericsson recently released an app called “Sony Ericsson Bridge for Mac” which allowed you to transfer music, videos and photos but, not update.  Bridge for Mac will be updated to version 2.0 shortly though which will finally allow Mac users to update Xperia smartphones. Unfortunately there isn’t a specific release date for the update as of yet but, at least it will become possible soon.

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.

Several PlayStation Portable (PSP) titles for ‘PlayStation Certified Devices’ have appeared on the ESRB – Entertainment Software Rating Board that will add to the previously released PlayStation One titles that are currently available through the PlayStation Certified program.

Titles such as flOw, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, Daxter are listed along with a range of Pinball Heroes games inspired by previously released Sony titles including UnCharted, Hot Shots Golf, ModNation Racers and MotorStorm. The games should be available to play on the Xperia Play, Xperia Arc, Xperia Acro (and Acro HD), Xperia S and Xperia ion along with the two Sony tablets , the S and the P tablets, which are both PlayStation Certified devices.

If you’ve signed up to receive emails from Sony Ericsson, either through their support website or forums, or through Facebook chances are you may have received an email from them recently offering you so much off an Xperia Arc S or Xperia Ray.

While this initially sounds like great news, there are unfortunately two failings to this promotion. Firstly, my partner received an email offering 10% off the purchase price of an Xperia Arc S, or a Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray but, I then received an email offering me only 5% off with a different promotional code. A bit later on, another email that I’ve used with Sony Ericsson also received the email, this time with a 15% discount.

After writing two Xperia based songs, YouTube user and Xperia fan Domothy85 has created a third video to show his love for all things Xperia.

His latest video is based on Maroon 5′s Moves Like Jagger and has been reworded to showcase the new Xperia. The video was filmed at CES where Sony announced the Xperia S but, Domothy85 has said on his music video information that the song was actually written before Sony announced the phone and was fortunate enough to be flown out to Las Vegas for CES 2012 by Sony Ericsson to witness the unveiling of the new flagship phone!” He also notes that all footage and photos were taken on the Xperia Arc or Xperia Ray, minus two Google images.

Alongside the other two ‘hardware’ additions to the Sony Xperia Smart Extras range, Sony have also announced the arrival of exciting new product – Xperia SmartTags into the Smart Extras family.

SmartTags are basically tags that use NFC (near field communication) technology to communicate with any Android smartphone capable of using NFC. The Xperia SmartTags can be configured to change the profile on a mobile handset when the phone touches the tag. As an example, you could take one tag and configure it so that when you swipe it with your phone, the tag changes the phone profile to turn on WiFi, turn the phone onto silent, open an app and so on.