Sony Ericsson has unveiled their new Beta SDK for Windows Mobile 6.1 to enable developers to create Xperia Panels and applications for the Xperia X1 phone. Xperia Panels can be Native or Web (HTML) and the new SDK includes an X1 emulator, Microsoft Visual Studio IDE plug-in and templates, documents and sample code for the quick development, testing, debugging and deployment of these panels.


The SDK features a built-in true Xperia X1 phone device emulator allowing you to run, test and debug panels locally on your computer without needing phone hardware. To save time and resources so you can get started quickly, integration with Microsoft Visual Studio means you can use predefined Native and Web (HTML) Panel templates to create basic project containers and a preliminary set of panel items.