Sony Ericsson W350 Walkman Phone Photo Gallery

Check out the 10 mm thin walkman phone photo gallery. The W350i is an EDGE 900/1800/1900 phone that will be available in selected markets from Q2 2008. The W350a is an EGDE 850/1800/1900 phone for the Americas that will also be available from Q2 2008.

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Sony Ericsson unveils new Walkman range

Sony Ericsson announces new W890 and W380 Walkman music phones.

The slimline new candy bar style Sony Ericsson W890 Walkman phone (pictured) comes with a 2GB Memory Stick Micro, enabling storage of up to 1800 tracks,and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The phone enables rapid music downloads and internet access via HSDPA and incorporates the Walkman Player 3.0 and music features such as SensMe, which matches the phone's music to your mood.

The Sony Ericsson W890's feature set includes: HSDPA; 3.2 megapicel camera; downloadable album art; stereo speakers; free Bluetooth stereo headphones; FM Radio with RDS; PlayNow; TrackID; SensMe; and Media Manager software (see below).

The Sony Ericsson W380 Walkman phone is a clamshell style handset which boasts newfeatures, including Gesture control, which enables users to mute calls by simply waving their hands.

Meanwhile, an external display comes to life when a track is playing or when someone is calling you. The handset comes with Media Manager PC software, which lets transfer music, photos and videos between your PC and phone. The handset comes with a 512MB Memory Stick Micro card and features Walkman staple features like Track ID music recognition and access to downloads via PlayNow.
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Sony Ericsson W580i Walkman phone now available

Sony Ericsson announced today the release through AT&T of a new Walkman phone. The Sony Ericsson W580i is available now.


The Sony Ericsson W580i is available in an array of colors and sports a slim-slider design. It comes with a “shaking” control which lets one flick the wrist to skip from one song playing to another. It supports a variety of audio formats, including WMA, MP3 and AAC and can offer up to 20 hours of music playback or nine hours of talk time. There are also external volume and skip track keys.

Other features of the W580i include fitness functions like a calorie counter, a 2-megapixel digital camera, mood lighting, integrated FM radio and Bluetooth support. The phone is 1/2-inch thick and weighs around 3.3 ounces.

Sony Ericsson W580i

Sony Ericsson W660i Walkman phone

Has the latest W660i 3G Walkman music phone got anything new in its locker to make you sit up and dance?


Mobile Choice is incredibly fond of Sony Ericsson’s Walkman phone range and we’re always thrilled to get our mitts on the manufacturer’s latest music handset. But just lately, the excitement has gone a tad flat. If you exclude the higher end 8GB-packing W960i and the HSDPA shake control W910i slider, the recent editions to the Walkman clan have just been refreshes of the previous handsets. We recently reviewed the W610i, a phone we very much liked but essentially was just a tweaked and slightly souped up W810i. Similarly the phone gracing our pockets right now, the 3G-enabled W660i is the W850i slider melted into candybar form or even a pumped-up W880i. With 25-30 million Walkman phones sold worldwide Perhaps we can’t blame Sony Ericsson for not want to stray from a successful formula for its mid range music handset.

To put a spin on an otherwise familiar looking handset, Sony Ericsson is billing the W660i as a designer Walkman phone. Where as the W880i broke the mould with its incredibly gossamer 9.4mm profile, the W660i sadly returns to the well-worn signature candybar format. It’s still quite trim at 14.5mm thick and well constructed and Sony Ericsson has introduced two coloured models to appeal to a male and female audience. The Record Black model rocks up with bling bling gold trim and a subtle circular pattern that mimics the grooves on a vinyl record. The ladies model breaks Walkman black/white/silver tradition and comes sprayed in a Rose Red veneer with an etched floral motif on the rear. These flourishes are obviously what give the W660i its designer tag.

Sony Ericsson has abandoned the tiny lozenge tab buttons recently introduce on the W880i and W610i and returned to a standard button keypad arrangement. The buttons are nicely sized with a soft rubber texture and primed for speed texting. The navigation pad and soft keys follow the same design as the like of the W610i, W810i and W880i, with the pad doubling as the music players controls when in music mode, plus a dedicated Walkman player button and an Activity Menu button to easily access shortcuts, the internet, running apps and your appointments.

Walkman phones, and Sony Ericsson handsets in general, are always incredibly approachable and lucid to use and the W660i doesn’t differ on jot in the user-friendly stakes from past Walkman phone. One disappointment is the resolution of the display. We assumed its would be QVGA quality (320x240 pixels) like the W850i and W880i but it only stretches to 176x220 pixels. It’s not a massive but to the keener eye you can tell it lacks crisp detail.

As always the case with Sony Ericsson Walkman phones first impressions are positive. The W660i has a little bit more sparkle in terms of its design from its fellow tunemiesters but perhaps not really enough to really stand out in a Walkman line-up. Still, the Walkman series reputation is based on its built-in music player and we’re expecting the W660i to play out like its other band members. But to see if does cut the music mustard look out for our next instalment of the W660i review.

Orange Walkman exclusives

Orange will have several Sony Ericsson Walkman exclusive colour variants for October, as part of a partnership between the two companies for new music TV show mobileAct Unsigned.

Orange said: 'Three new Sony Ericsson Walkman handsets, the W660i, the W910i and the W580i, will be available from Orange in October. We have the W910i exclusively in red and the W580i exclusively in pink, both for a minimum of three months.'

Orange also has the pink W200 exclusively from October.

MobileAct Unsigned will be on Channel 4's T4 and 4music slots and aims to unearth real music talent. The show will allow users to download tracks from competing bands and vote for the ones they want to progress through the competition. The UK winners will be signed to a record contract with a major record label.

The campaign will use content across TV, online and mobile.Orange has sold over two million Sony Ericsson Walkman handsets featuring the Orange full-track music download service, Orange Music Store, in just over 12 months.

The Sony Ericsson Walkman handsets are part of Orange's successful Signature Series, which gives customers one-click access to the Orange Music Store. Sony Ericsson's W850, W810 and W880 have continually been the top three performing Orange UK music phones in terms of download numbers, and across the group, Walkman handset users consume 50% more music than average phone users. Orange expects to exceed three million Walkman music device sales internationally by the end of 2007.

Orange and Sony Ericsson began an integrated marketing partnership in March 2006 with a joint nine-month European sponsorship deal with singer Christina Aguilera.

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Orange first for Sony Ericsson Walkman Phones

Orange customers in the UK can get their hands on Sony Ericsson's much-anticipated Walkman W910i phone first, thanks to a talent show tie-up between the companies.

Sony Ericsson is providing a trio of Walkman mobile models to Orange first as part of its partnership deal. The W660i, W580i and W910i will all debut first on Orange - the 3G HSDPA-enabled W910i sliderphone being the highlight of the line-up. The phones will feature links to the Orange Music Store, offering over the air full track downloads.

Sony Ericsson and Orange have teamed up to launch a search-for-band talent show for Channel 4 - mobileAct Unsigned - to be shown on T4 and 4music. The sponsorship deal, first reported by Tech.co.uk earlier this month, will give users a chance to vote for the best unsigned bands with interactive mobile internet and websites offering track downloads, info and voting options.

In time-honoured reality TV fashion there's a record contract with a major label awaiting the winners.

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Sony Ericsson Walkman Phone Rated Best in Class

Strategy Analytics, a research firm, rated the Sony Ericsson W800i ‘Walkman’ phone as the best in class cellular music device in the USA, ahead of the Motorola E1 ‘ROKR’ and Samsung A970. The SEMC W800i achieved Best in Class status based upon superior style appeal and an above average rating for music feature quality.
The Motorola E1 ‘ROKR ‘ achieved the highest rating for usability, but failed to impress in terms of style and feature quality. At 144 grams, the panel considered the Samsung A970 too large for primary feature phone positioning. The Motorola device achieved an 8pt advantage over its rivals for Application Usability. Current iTunes users in particular indicated strong usability preference for the ROKR indicating that the iTunes interface is generating loyalty/preference dynamics similar to branded Operating Systems. However, the ROKR was rated lower than the Samsung and Sony Ericsson devices for Music Quality, a notable underperformance for Motorola given the branded and highly optimized iPod interface designed for music delivery