Four New Handsets from Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson has announced four new handsets. The evolution of Sony Ericsson's successful Walkman phone range takes another step forward today with the announcement of the UMTS enabled W850.

Sony Ericsson's first GSM/UMTS 'slider', the W850 has been uniquely combined with a full horizontal mode camera experience and the latest Walkman player 2.0 for easy music download. Available in Black or White, the phone has an attention grabbing 'heartbeat illumination' feature to light-up the control keys in rhythm with your music.

The phone is configured for operator over the air (OTA) music download services and accepts many popular music file formats including e-AAC+, which reduces download time and space needed for tracks. Memory isn't an issue either with a 1GB memory stick PRO Duo supplied which is enough for around 1,000 songs in e-AAC+. This can be expanded to 4GB.

The Walkman player 2.0 simplifies navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs or music albums and there's also a TrackID feature powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID. This is a new service which means you can record a few seconds of a song, either via the microphone or the in built FM radio, and then with one click, send that clip to the Gracenote worldwide music database which will identify the track and relay the information back to the phone.

The Sony Ericsson W850i is a UMTS 2100 and Tri-band GPRS 900/1800/1900 Walkman phone for Europe, Middle East, Africa. It starts shipping during Q3 2006.

 

 

 

The Z710 is an EDGE enabled handset with business-friendly features, which include push e-mail support and RSS feeds for news updates and traffic reports direct to your phone. PC tools include synchronisation of your phone book and calendar as well as USB 2.0 support. A 64MB Memory Stick Micro is supplied that is expandable to 1GB.

"The Z710 is perfect for business and personal use," says Jan W

Posted to the site on 19th May 2006