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Sony Ericsson Announces W950i 3G Walkman Phone |
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W950 ultra-stylish UMTS WALKMAN® phone is a dream for mobile music lovers
13 February 2006
4GB storage plus high performance entertainment suite with touch screen
3GSM Congress, Barcelona, 13th Feb 2006 – A major addition to Sony Ericsson’s family of Walkman® phones is announced today. The W950 is an ultra-slim, ultra-stylish, UMTS-enabled device with 4GB of onboard storage complete with touch screen for simple navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs or music albums.
More than a music phone, broadband-fast email and Web browsing plus a suite of high performance entertainment applications add to its capabilities, making it one of the most highly specified phones in the Sony Ericsson portfolio.
“Bringing the Walkman® brand to Sony Ericsson phones was one of our outstanding achievements in 2005 and we have now sold more than 3 million Walkman® phones,” said Miles Flint, President, Sony Ericsson, “W950 is our sixth Walkman phone to be introduced since that announcement and listening to music on mobile phones is now an established and growing consumer behaviour. This announcement also demonstrates the flexibility of the Symbian v9.1 and UIQ 3.0 platform to create a consumer focused offering as well as business and the W950 is now our third Symbian based handset to be introduced in 2006.”
The W950’s design will turn the heads of the most avid style aficionados. Its thin, sleek and compact form is finished in Mystic Purple, fingerprint-proof matt with orange accents. The purity of its design is strengthened by the keypad being flush with the surface, and orange backlighting that brings the music keys to life in a stunning, practical way.
The music player within the W950 has the functionality and sound quality of an equivalent standalone device. Its 4GB storage can take up to 4,000 songs and the sound quality, delivered on high quality headphones, makes listening to music a real pleasure. A new graphic-rich interface on the Walkman® player makes it easy to navigate around the music library by song, artist or playlist and now it’s possible to search visually by browsing through album covers using the stylus and touch screen. The W950 has all the benefits of a combined phone and music player, enabling multitasking between listening to music, SMS texting, emailing and browsing the Internet.
Getting music into the W950 is fast and simple and can be done in a number of ways. The supplied Disc2Phone music management software is an intuitive package that handles transfer to the phone of music stored in the user’s PC. UMTS capability also makes the W950 ready for fast direct-to-phone transfers from available operators’ download services.
Beyond music, the W950 is a complete mobile entertainment centre that delivers great speed and exceptional quality sound and vision. Users can now enjoy the complete spectrum of mobile multimedia applications, from web browsing, push email and video streaming to 3D gaming and store-and-share of media files. Besides music, 4GB is enough storage for a wealth of photos, video’s or email attachments in the phone.
Stereo sound through wireless headphones is now possible as the W950 support Bluetooth streaming in stereo. The Bluetooth Stereo Headset HBH-DS970 also announced today and available as an accessory delivers high quality stereo sound through stylish, comfortable headphones.
W950 is the 3rd Sony Ericsson phone based on the new Symbian v9.1 and UIQ 3.0 platform, benefiting from a growing multitude of third party applications. All of these applications are available to download from the Sony Ericsson Application Shop, an online catalogue that is stocked directly by third party developers.
The Sony Ericsson W950 is a Dual Mode UMTS Walkman phone starts shipping during Q3 2006. Regional variations are:
W950i - Dual mode UMTS (2100MHz) - GPRS 900/1800/1900 for Europe, Asia Pacific,Middle East, Africa
W950c - Dual mode UMTS (2100MHz) - GPRS 900/1800/1900 for Mainland China (launch for mainland China dependent on availability of 3G services.)
W950 – Features at a glance:
Music
Walkman® player
Supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV and m4a
4 GB flash memory
Up to 4.000 songs can be stored when downloading songs from operator networks in E-AAC+ file format
Touchscreen with album art support
Polyphonic ringtones, 40 voices
Graphical equalizer and Mega Bass™
Disc2Phone music management software
Stereo headphones in the box
FM radio with RDS
MusicDJ™
Speakerphone
Streaming Audio/Video
Bluetooth™ stereo streaming support
Java MIDP 2.0
2D and 3D gaming
Music play time – 10 hours
Messaging
Bright QVGA TFT 2.6’’ Display
262K Color display
Video playback , 30fps
SMS, MMS and e-mail
Handwriting Recognition
Touch screen
Word completion and Auto correction
Connectivity
Opera™ 8.0 Internet browser
RSS Feeds
Bluetooth™ 1.2
Infrared port
USB 2.0 Mass storage, High speed (480 Mbps)
USB cable in the box
Modem
WAP 2.0 XHTML/HTML
Dual Mode UMTS 2100 – GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900
Business
Full HTML browser Opera™ 8
External antenna connector
USB charging
PC synchronization
Flight mode
Size: 106 x 54 x 15 mm
Weight 112 grams
Talk time: up to 2.5/7.5 hours (UMTS/GSM)
Standby time: up to 250/340 hours (UMTS/GSM)
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Nice ! It's this the successor of the W900i  I like the 4 GB internal memory !
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etaab
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I'll say about this, what i said about the M600i..
It looks like an Ipod Nano. 
Nice phone though, got any further links to it ?
No camera, major turn off for me ! 
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Is there an m2 slot for future upgrades?
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Whaaat no camera  It's purely for music lovers (mp3) I guess!
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i want one
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On 2006-02-13 21:56:08, private wrote:
Is there an m2 slot for future upgrades?
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There is mention in the specifications about expandable memory and i cant see a slot on the pictures.
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Hahaha my my this really is odd. The name W600 would've suited better if that hadn't been taken!
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Possibly internal, under the battery next to the sim card.
Since the phone has 4gb of memory, theres no real need to make the memory stick hot-swapable.
Thats if it does have M2 support at all.
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I think the 4 GB internal memory will suffice . . . . . .
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***i've seen rumours if not facts on the internet about the back sliding down or some other way to reveal a 3mp camera!!!***
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I doubt thats true, because a 3mp camera is something to boast about, and SE certainly havent done that in their press release.
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I would have thought that SE would have put a camera in the specs if they had put one on!
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you never know... all about this mysterious phone will soon be revealed... i hope lol 
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Gosh... that's really gonna be a hit..
So many new phones of SE...
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