Please welcome the new Walkman from Soyn Ericsson, W380. This music phone sports a unique clamshell design, along with several new features on Walkman range handsets, such as Gesture control — which allows you to mute calls simply by waving your hands and other useful tasks — and a sensitive external display — which automatically turn on whenever you need it (incl. upon incoming call and music playback). There’s also a handy TrackID feature which is able to figure out the title of the currently playing song, either from the phone’s build-in radio or other external source, as well as the artist. Other new Walkman cell phone, W890, also has this wonderful feature (I’ll post about that phone later).

Thanks to the new innovative Gesture Control function, W380 Walkman phone owners will be able to feel the real handsfree experiences. They’ll be able to do many tasks effortlessly, simply by moving their hands. From muting calls, snooze alarm, control music playback, etc. Combine with the provided one-touch buttons on the top of the phone, expect a wonderful multimedia experiences as well.

Sony Ericsson W380 Walkman Cell Phone Specifications

• Size: 92 x 49 x 16 mm
• Weight: 100 grams
• Colours: Electric Purple / Magnetic Grey
• Screen: 262,144 colour TFT
• Resolution: 176 x 220 pixels
• Size: 1.9 inches
• External screen: OLED
• Resolution: 36 x 128
• Phone memory: Up to 14 MB
• Memory Stick Micro (M2) support
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• 512 MB M2 memory stick
• Walkman player
• FM radio with RDS
• Bluetooth stereo (A2DP)
• Java
• RSS feeds
• WAP 2.0 XHTML
• Talk time: Up to 7 hrs
• Standby time: Up to 300 hrs
• Networks: W380a: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1800/1900
• W380c/i: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/190

Sony Ericsson W380 Walkman cell phone will be available in selected markets from Q1 2008.