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Just when you thought that they couldn’t go cheaper than the W395, Sony Ericsson did it again! The W205, ladies and gentlemen, is the result. A Walkman phone for the preschoolers. T303’s Walkman version, if you will.

It has an amazing 1.8″ TFT screen, supporting 65k colours and with a resolution of 128×160 pixels. So that rules out people with poor eyesight. The phone itself is 16mm thick, which makes it rather chunky. The height and the width compensate for that, being 92×47mm respectively.

Soo, what makes the W205 so special? Nothing. Well, apart from its relatively small size. It’s got Walkman v2, the dreadful Sagem interface (no themes!), Java games, FM  radio, a 1.3MP camera on its back, allowing up to 2.2x digital zoom and video recording. Bluetooth is also there. Oh, also, unlike the T303, the W205 features a Memory Stick Micro M2 card slot.

In our opinion, this phone is awfully redundant. By the time of its release there will be much better last-gen phones selling for the same price (most probably). One could always buy it as a backup phone, I guess, or for their child. The expected release will be somewhere in Q2 this year, when the phone will ship in Ambient Black.

Also announced today is the MS410 Snap-on speaker. It supports all Walkman phones.

Filed under: Announcement, New phone, W series, Walkman
Tags: Announcement, W205, Walkman

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Hardly the best promotional video I’ve ever seen, but it’s OK. It matches the preloaded content on the W995 pretty well, especially with the differently shaped cartoon-like characters. We’ll publish the preloaded content of the W995 later.

Filed under: Videos, W series, Walkman
Tags: promotional video, video, W995, W995 promotional video, W995 video, Walkman, Walkman video

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Just 7 hours away before the Sony Ericsson MWC Conference, I decided to post something else to help you guys pass some time away. Sony Ericsson has released the commercial campaign for the Premier3, the entertainment flagship of Japanese operator AU by KDDI.

Here’s a few screenshots of the commercial:

You can watch it here from Sony Ericsson Japan (in Japanese):
http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/au/premier3/common/cm/index.html
And the making of this commercial (in Japanese):
http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/au/premier3/common/making/index.html

Don’t you wish you were surrounded by so many Premier3s? For more videos of the Premier3 campaign, visit Sony Ericsson Japan Premier3’s website: http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/au/premier3/

PS: Sony Ericsson will be releasing the TV-CM of the S001 Cybershot phone soon.

Filed under: Japanese, Operators, Videos, W series, Walkman
Tags: Campaign, Commercial, Japan, Premier3, Walkman

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In a rather surprising move, Sony Ericsson announced today the low-end W395 Walkman phone. As you can see, it has a slider form factor with a rather glossy housing and is equipped with a 2.0″ 176×220 scratch-resistant screen, supporting up to 262k colours. The Walkman boasts a 2-megapixel non-AF snapper on its back, which is adequate for an “affordable” phone. Did I mention Photo fix? Now that’s a first for a phone of its class, I believe.
The music side of the phone features the familiar Walkman 2.0 player with a customizable equalizer, the MegaBass equalizer preset, album art and stereo widening (and stereo speakers to boot!). It also has Sony Ericsson’s well-known TrackID music recognition service, which lets you identify the title, album and artist of a song just by recording a small clip of it.

- Sony Ericsson takes pride in understanding the youth market, and the W395 is a mobile phone that caters to all their needs with great music quality, says Alexandre Cardon, who’s the Global product marketing manager for music at Sony Ericsson in a press release.
- Our most affordable Walkman slider phone to date allows users to share music with friends as well as video clips and photos for the ultimate entertainment experience, he continues.

There’s FM radio with RDS and Bluetooth with A2DP on-board as well. The most interesting feature is perhaps the built-in stereo speakers “with high quality bass” - I don’t know about you guys, but that kind of surprised me. The W395 ships bundled with the HPM-64 stereo headset and with a 1GB M2 memory card.
Another interesting thing about this phone is that it also features and accelerometer, which means that you can play motion-controlled games on it, much like the gaming F305, the former being basically a Walkman version of the latter.

It measures 96 x 47 x 14.9 millimetres and weighs 96 grams - that’s almost exactly the same as the F305. Its battery is good for 8 hours of talk or up to 480 hours of standby life - that’s actually quite impressive! Music listening time is set to only 12½ hours though, which is hardly ground-breaking.

So, the W395 will be available in “selected markets” in 2 colours - Dusky Grey and Blush Titanium from the first quarter of the year.
If, you ask me, this addition to SE’s portfolio seems a bit redundant, but I guess that design does look rather well and that it’ll be mostly popular among the youngsters.

We’ve got live pictures of the W395 in cooperation with SE-community after the break!

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Filed under: New phone, W series, Walkman
Tags: W395, Walkman

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Here’s a semi-bad mock-up of ‘Hikaru’ - Sony Ericsson’s new Walkman flagship phone. I’m afraid we cannot tell you what’s wrong with the picture, but we promise it’s nothing too serious.

According to the poster, the Hikaru will feature 8 gigs of storage, an 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, 3.5 mm audio jack built-in, stereo speakers, music keys on the right side, etc. It’ll feature the Walkman v4 player and a large 2.6 inch display.

I personally think its other colour variant looks better than the black one, but I guess it’s all about personal taste

Hikaru is rumoured to be announced on Sunday at Sony Ericsson’s press conference in Barcelona. I’m really pumped about Hikaru, and I think everyone ought to be!

Source: SEMC Blog

Filed under: Rumour, W series, Walkman
Tags: Add new tag, hikaru, leak, Walkman

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