Maria Sharapova has moved to Sony Ericsson after her long duration with Motorola. She will endorse the brand globally and Sony Ericsson will hopefully have sales rise.

Sony Ericsson is also the sponsor of the WTA Tour which is the professional tennis tour Maria plays on so ultimately, Maria is endorsing the WTA tour along with the Sony branded phones.

Hopefully this partnership will promote tennis along with great phones.

LG at the on-going Consumer Electronics Show, has put on display an LG Phone Watch! The watch is obviously for show and is a concept but it is indicitive of what is to come.

I see LG has put in a lot more work than Sony and other small Chinese brands for their watches as I see more implementation of messaging along with other necessities to fully use a watch as a phone.

From the pictures, the navigation method is not touch screen but a scroll log ala LG Shine. Pricing was not annouced but I expect it would be a lot cheaper since there is no watch brand associated with the product such as Tag Huer or Prada.