The next generation of Walkman phones series, W950, has been unveiled recently. This ultra-slim cell phone comes with a 4GB of internal memory that is enough for a bunch of audio files. Its 2.6-inch touch screen, along with the new graphic-rich interface, provides a simple and easy navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs, as well as music albums. It has a Mystic Purple finished color, with orange fingerprint-proof matt and orange backlighting. Personally, I love this one a lot more than its big brothers. Who knows, with this W950, I might change myself from a SE walkman’s phone’s hater into a walkman’s phone’s lover.

“Bringing the Walkman brand to Sony Ericsson phones was one of our outstanding achievements in 2005 and we have now sold more than 3 million Walkman phones,” said Miles Flint, President, Sony Ericsson, “W950 is our sixth Walkman phone to be introduced since that announcement and listening to music on mobile phones is now an established and growing consumer behaviour. This announcement also demonstrates the flexibility of the Symbian v9.1 and UIQ 3.0 platform to create a consumer focused offering as well as business and the W950 is now our third Symbian based handset to be introduced in 2006.”

Sony Ericsson W950 cell phone features:

Music

• Walkman player
• Supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV and m4a
• 4 GB flash memory
• Up to 4.000 songs can be stored when downloading songs from operator networks in E-AAC+ file format
• Touchscreen with album art support
• Polyphonic ringtones, 40 voices
• Graphical equalizer and Mega Bass
• Disc2Phone music management software
• Stereo headphones in the box
• FM radio with RDS
• MusicDJ
• Speakerphone
• Streaming Audio/Video
• Bluetooth stereo streaming support
• Java MIDP 2.0
• 2D and 3D gaming
• Music play time – 10 hours

Messaging

• Bright QVGA TFT 2.6″ Display
• 262K Color display
• Video playback, 30fps
• SMS, MMS and e-mail
• Handwriting Recognition
• Touch screen
• Word completion and Auto correction

Connectivity

• Opera 8.0 Internet browser
• RSS Feeds
• Bluetooth 1.2
• Infrared port
• USB 2.0 Mass storage, High speed (480 Mbps)
• USB cable in the box
• Modem
• WAP 2.0 XHTML/HTML
• Dual Mode UMTS 2100 – GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900

Business

• Full HTML browser Opera 8
• External antenna connector
• USB charging
• PC synchronization
• Flight mode
• Size: 106 x 54 x 15 mm
• Weight 112 grams
• Talk time: up to 2.5/7.5 hours (UMTS/GSM)
• Standby time: up to 250/340 hours (UMTS/GSM)

Sony Ericsson W950 cell phone will be available later at the third quarter of 2006.

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