SE unveils first 3G Walkman Slider & Clamshell phones

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Sony Ericsson unveils first 3G Walkman slider phone

Sony Ericsson today rolled out a pair of Walkman music phones: a clamshell model with an eye on the world's joggers, and a slider phone for music fans looking for a compact candybar handset - it's also the company's first 3G Walkman with a slider.

Set to ship in iPod-like white and black versions, the tri-band GSM and 3G UMTS W850 sports a 2in, 240 x 320, 262,144-colour display and a two-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom.

The handset will ship with the latest version of Sony Ericsson's Walkman Player software, which adds support for the E-AAC+ format, which compresses an average track down to around 1MB in size. It ships with a 1GB MemoryStick Pro Duo to put them on. The phone's ready for over-the-air, DRM-protected downloads, the company said.

The W850 has an on-board FM radio with RDS station identification, and can send music to stereo wireless headphones using Bluetooth 2.0 and the A2DP system.

Sony Ericsson unveils first 3G Walkman slider phone | Reg Hardware

Sony Ericsson unveils clamshell phones

Sony Ericsson today unveiled a pair of clamshell handsets, pitching the phones at, respectively, business users and style-conscious buyers.

The Z710 is a black-clad business-oriented phone with Bluetooth 2.0 and quad-band GSM/GPRS with EDGE support for enhanced wireless data transmission speeds and global network access. Push-to-talk is part of the programme too.

All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl, so the phone comes with stereo playback over Bluetooth and a two-megapixel camera. It's got an FM radio and the usual media playback facilities.

The Z710's main display is a 176 x 220, 262,144-colour job, and there's 10MB of memory on board. The phone comes bundled with a 64MB MemoryStick Micro card too.

The Z550's a tri-band phone with a 1.3-megapixel camera. It has the same display as the Z710 and double that machine's on-board memory, but there's no memory card in the box. It has Bluetooth and and FM radio, but Sony Ericsson what makes it interesting is its brushed aluminium and high-gloss plastic casing.

Sony Ericsson unveils clamshell phones | Reg Hardware

 

[IceFusion]

hmm... nothing new in any of them...just more addition to the number of variants..