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Sony Ericsson unveils “Live with Walkman”

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Four months after Mix Walkman, here comes Live. Not really a Walkman related name, but it certainly fits with the look. The newest phone from “Walkman” line, first Android-based phone from SE not Xperia branded, this phone has to be something special. Known specifications so far are: 1GHz processor, 3.2 inch capacitive screen with HVGA resolution unfortunately,  5 megapixel camera with Auto Focus and 8x digital zoom. Biggest surprise is front facing VGA camera capable of capturing 720p HD video! It has 320 MB or RAM, with tri-band 3G connection (HSPA+), or dual-band 3G, depending on model.

Software-side, it has Android Gingerbread, “Deep Facebook” integration (briefly, adds Facebook content to Photos, Phonebook, Calendar and such), Media Discovery, as seen before, that allows you to discover more music by recommendations both based on what you already listen, and what your friends on Facebook suggest. Infinite button within media player allows you to see more information from artists you are currently listening songs from. Simply, just tap the “Infinite” button and have instant access to latest albums, events, and lyrics.  Qriocity music and video content from Sony- only Sony Ericsson Android users have access to this. Millions of songs, thousands of movies, right on your fingertips! Sony’s xLOUD technology, recently integrated into newest Xperia models, enhances sound quality at high levels. And a good old TrackID to find song titles based on recordings from microphone and FM radio.

Sounds promising, but we’ll have to wait for the revelation of price to see will it be success or not.

Source: various, mostly Sony Ericsson Product Blog

Finally, an official video:

From Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog: http://blog.se-nse.n…unveils-live-2/

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W8 Not Launching In Europe

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

The Sony Ericsson W8 Walkman is apparently not bound for European shores. That’s the message from a reply Sony Ericsson gave to a request for information concerning the availability of the device.

We can confirm that the W8 Walkman phone will be avilable in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The Walkman branding and the legacy from previous Walkman phones is very strong in these particular markets and therefore we decided to launch the phone in these markets.

It would seem, according to that statement, that Sony Ericsson regards Europe as having moved on from the Walkman brand. Mind you the device isn’t exactly at the top table when it comes to specifications and probably won’t have a top tier price tag so it could be as much a case of fitting it to demographics as it is brand awareness and loyalty.

[via Unwired View]

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SE announced Mix Walkman™ phone and txt pro

Thursday, June 9th, 2011
As we already posted there was a competition (you were able to apply to SE and say why you want to review one of the new phones) a few weeks ago. Now the winners were chosen and four of their reviews will be published at SE’s Facebook page.

Left side: txt Pro | Right side: Mix Walkman

Above you can see the new Sony Ericsson phones. The one with the keyboard is the txt pro, the other one is the Mix Walkman. The OS of them is SE’s own, like the one from Yendo.

At first a few Mix Walkman details and features:

It’s a touch phone (as you already know) with a Walkman-related feature called Zappin. Let me quote the explanation: “[...] ZappinTM lets you browse through your songs in a fun way by automatically being served the chorus of the songs while skipping through them” It also has a karaoke mode that tries to lower the vocal track of your songs. There is even a way to change its look: The band around the edges is changeable!

Now some txt pro specifications:

It is designed for communication – that’s why it has a full qwerty keyboard. It has social applications pre-installed to stay connected with your friends from facebook and twitter.

They both have Wi-Fi, the four-corner interface and will be launched in Q3.

Do you think the Mix Walkman is the new phone for Walkman fans?

Source: Sony Ericsson Product Launch Blog

From Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog: http://blog.se-nse.n…ne-and-txt-pro/

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Sony Ericsson WT18 – another Walkman-Android?

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
SE WT18

A few days ago a white-paper of the Sony Ericsson WT18i appeared and now disappeared. It seems that it’s another budget phone like W8 and Xperia X8 and only available for Chinese market. Its OS is OPhone 2.5 – a Chinese Android clone which is able to execute every real Android app. It’s features are a Marvell PXA 920, 806 MHz processor, a Walkman player, a 16 M colour TFT, 480×320 pixels and single touch. But there is one thing strange in the picture: It’s launcher. Every HVGA phone has the ‘4-corner-launcher’ but this one not. There are only two solutions for this mistake: a mistake with the display (most possible) or SE adapted the launcher for HVGA.

Some other features:
size: 106 x 56.5 x 14.3 mm
weight: 110 grams
150 MB internal space, up to 32GB
1200 mAh battery
Walkman Player
3.5mm audio jack
480p video-recording

Source: WT18 white-paper

From Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog: http://blog.se-nse.n…kman-android-2/

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Sony Ericsson announces W8 Walkman Android phone

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Today Sony Ericsson announced the W8 Walkman Android phone. Basically it’s just a XPERIA X8 for Walkman fans. It has a few design changes and a customized firmware for Walkman player functions.
A few facts:
It has a 3-inch screen, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a 3.2mp camera. It uses the same launcher (4-corner-launcher) as the XPERIA Minis and will have a Walkman widget. The OS is Android 2.1.

W8 will be only available in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. It will be released Q2 2011 in the colours Azure, Orange and Red.

Source: http://www.sonyerics…d#view=overview

Thanks: Tobi@s

From Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog: http://blog.se-nse.n…-android-phone/

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You Say Yizo, I say Yendo …

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

The FCC have just approved a Sony Ericsson handset known as ‘Yizo’, but there appears to be some confusion over just what exactly the handset is. You see it looks remarkably similar to the previously announced Yendo. Now of course it wouldn’t be the first time that a mobile manufacturer, particularly Sony Ericsson, has released multiple versions of the same handset (a practice that seems totally pointless in the case of some handsets) so perhaps that’s what this is? If so then it seems a bit odd that it would feature the Walkman logo just the same as Yendo does, it’s even in the same place on both handsets.

More likely is the notion that ‘Yizo’ is simply the regional variation of Yendo that will go on sale in the States. Why that would need a separate name I don’t know, but stranger things have happened. Adding to the confusion though is the fact that Sony Ericsson are operating two separate pages for both handsets, which means that the finished article will indeed be known as Yizo, which in turn would suggest that rather than wanting Yizo to be considered a regional variant of the Yendo, Sony Ericsson are in fact treating this as a fully fledged handset in its own right.

Unless there’s some major difference lurking beneath the hood you can’t help but think they really are the same handset. Maybe Sony Ericsson just really wanted to call it ‘Yizo’ in the first place?

[via Engadget]

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Spiro & Zylo Continue Walkman Line

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Sony Ericsson added to its Walkman range today with the announcement of Spiro and Zylo, two new music handsets. Neither handset is particularly high-end and both will no doubt be aimed at the lower-end of the market. Not that that’s a bad thing of course, SE can always use some decent hardware in the low to mid-range market segments. In terms of raw specs Zylo edges past Spiro a little, but as mentioned neither are particularly powerful. Both handsets are slated for a Q3 release.

You can check out the specs list for each handset yourself (Spiro & Zylo) and make sure you take a peek at the promo videos below:

From Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog: http://blog.se-nse.n…e-walkman-line/

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Carphone Warehouse to Get Pink W995

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

From next month Carphone Warehouse will begin selling a rather fetching pink version of the ever popular W995. Up until now Carphone ha exclusively sold a silver version of the handset alongside the more common black version. From February it looks like the silver exclusive is going and a metallic pink version is coming in. I was told that the pink colouring is not too dissimilar to that found on the pink version of the Samsung C3050 so that should give you some idea of what it looks like. Pricing will most likely stay the same.

Image courtesy se-fans.com

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Hilarious new W995 video is actually informative

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Quite frankly, I’ve never expected to see such a funny video about a commercial product on YouTube. Much less from Sony Ericsson (and even less from the other phone manufacturers, actually).

 

One of the few YouTube videos that have made me chuckle, really.

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Sony Ericsson announces Yari gaming phone

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Sony Ericsson announced the Sony Ericsson Yari today. The Yari is the first phone to feature the Walkman v4 player, which introduces interchangable themes (or styles as Sony Ericsson prefers to call them).

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Sony Ericsson wants to target this phone as a ‘fun’ phone with motion games and gesture controls. It’ll also have the Media application menu and support the most recent features, including SensMe, Shake control, TrackID and Clear Audio. It’ll also have direct access to PlayNow Arena with the new movies offering.

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The camera resolution is 5 megapixels and the camera supports auto focus. It’ll also have a flash and feature geo-tagging, smile shutter, photo fix and face recognition.

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The TFT screen is 2.4 inches large and sports a 240 x 320 pixels resolution. It’s capable of showing up to 262.144 colours.

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It’ll support A-GPS, Bluetooth, DLNA, PictBridge and USB transfers. It’ll come with Google Maps for navigational purposes.

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It supports quad-band GSM and EDGE, as well as UMTS and HSDPA. It’ll be available in Q4 in Achromatic Black and Cranberry White.

Press release after the break.

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