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Here it is, F305’s music twin. As you can see, it is indeed almost identical. The W395 will have a more advanced music player than the F305, we expect it to be like W302’s.

More pics on the source.

Via MySE Blog.
Thanks, bodeh6!

We got our hands on SE’s dedicated gaming handset, the F305. It’s a low-endish slider with a 2 inch large screen. Its resolution is 176×220 pixels and it shows up to 262.144 colours.

Other features include a 2 megapixel camera (unfortunately said camera lacks both auto focus and any light) and an accelerometer for motion based gaming.

Take the jump for more information and pictures.

The build quality if our unit is pretty solid. The slider isn’t wobbly at all, everything fits. There’s been a problem with the display glass falling off, but that seems to be a singularity with this special unit, we never heard of similar problems from other users.

The retail package includes a second battery cover, a wrist strap (so you won’t throw your phone against the wall while bowling) and a pretty poor headset, the HPM-60.

Turning on the F305 is quite disappointing. As the phone is not a Sony Ericsson, but a Sagem license product, the user interface is neither A1/A100 nor A2/A200, but something below that is building on the OS of the absolute low enders like T280 or T303.

So you’ll find yourself with a phone that can’t use themes. A phone that can’t fast forward or rewind while playing a song. A phone that does not support multitasking.

On the positive side, we can mention the 11 pre-installed games, some of them based on the motion sensor, plus the additional 50 games ready to install on the 512 MB large memory stick (M2).

Bowling or fishing with your mobile as the remote is quite a lot of fun, once you got how to use it.

The F305 supports two keypad lighting modes, one for normal use and one for the game mode.

There’s a bug with the lighting, though. Once you entered the games’ list, the lighting switches. When you enter a game, exit and go back to the menu, the keypad will stay off. You’ve to lock and unlock the phone to get it back to normal.

I’ll leave you with these impressions and the clear statement:

If you bought SE phones because you love the UI, don’t buy this.
You’d be disappointed. I was.

/xell.

There have been live pics of this device since W595’s announcement, but Sony Ericsson did not show it on their website until now: The Orange branded version of the newest Walkman slider, the so-called W595s.

The W595s is – for now – only available on the Romanian website, you can find a few pics of it here and try it here.

Thanks Max/SEMCblog for the heads up.

You can now find a very nice thing at Music Reborn: A flight through a song.

At the flight, you can explore the single instruments of the song which is Pop Levi’s “Dita Dimone” (Pink Enemy Remix). That piece of music is downloadable for free, be aware that it is not 3.5MB as displayed but about twice the size.

You are also able to save screenshots of your flight to your computer and you can download a screen saver.

Have fun!

Speaking in Lund, Sweden, Lennard Hoornik, Corporate Vice President and Head of Global Marketing said,

We are very excited about this announcement. At Sony Ericsson we feel we are uniquely placed to be a champion of football fans worldwide, using the marketing and promotional rights this agreement grants us to make Sony Ericsson handsets and accessories an integral part of the fan experience. Our role in football will be to use our sponsorship to innovate the experience of fans and give them greater access to football.

Read more about that here.

What you see above is a picture taken by a C702 without further cases. Check out the full stress test (dust, rain, public baths) at SE-World (German) plus the videos after the jump.

P.S.: Yes, it still works!

Water Slide:

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Underwater 1:

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Underwater 2:

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Underwater 3:

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