Saturday, July 26, 2008

Sony launches new Walkman phones

Sony Ericsson has unveiled three new Walkman phones the W902, the W595 and the W302.

The features exclusive to these three mobile phones, include Photo fix, Picture blogging, PictBridge printing, video recording, Walkman player, PlayNow, TrackID, FM radio, 3D games, Java, video viewing, and Bluetooth technology.

Some other functions include USB support, speakerphone, predictive text input, sound recorder, wallpaper animation, navigation key, modem and synchronization.

All the phones are GSM/GPRS/EDGE enabled but the W902 and W595 handsets are UMTS/HSDPA 2100 compliant.

Both the W902 and W595 phones share a few common features that are not found in W302.

These features include a 2.2-inch 262,144 colour TFT screen with 240×320 pixels resolution, BestPic, Photo feeds, x-Pict Story, Shake control, Album art, SensMe, Access NetFront Web browser, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and Stereo Portable Handsfree, Media Manager.

The W302 model weighs 78 grams and has a 2 megapixel camera with 2.5x digital zoom, 2-inch 262,144 colour TFT screen with a resolution of 176×220 pixels, up to 20MB on-board memory Stick Micro with 512 MB Memory Stick Micro.

The W902 sports a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, up to 16x digital zoom, image and video stabiliser, Google Maps, Geo tagging of photos, up to 25MB internal Memory Stick Micro support with 8GB Memory Stick Micro.

The W595 slider phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera, up to 2.5x digital zoom, up to 40MB internal Memory Stick Micro with 2 GB Memory Stick Micro.

The W305 is available in midnight black and sparkling white colours, whereas the W902 comes in volcanic black, wine red and earth green finish; and the W595 comes in active blue, cosmopolitan white, jungle grey and lava black colours.

The prices of the Walkman phones have not been disclosed yet.

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