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Sony Ericsson Announces First Walkman Phone

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-in-one dept.

jonknee writes "Sony Ericsson has announced the first in a new line of self-described "Walkman phones" that specialize in playing music. The W800i features a 512MB memory card to store tunes and up to 30 hours of playback (if you keep the phone off, otherwise about half that). We should see a Motorola phone with iTunes onboard within the next two weeks, making March the month of music phones."

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  1. Everyone is getting in the game by moofdaddy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nokia announced a similar device last month. It had a slight bump in storage, i think it was 768 flash memory. The problem with the nokia version according to early tech specs is it looks like they sacraficed battery capacity more then the other phone companies (moto and ericsson) in order to be able to play music. The coolest feature of that phone though wasn't the music ability but rather the 360 degree rotatable ability of the screen.

    The Nokia phone I think is expected to hit in time for summer, there goal was to have it out by beach time so that people would only have to bring one device with them when they beached it. We'll see how it goes though.

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  2. Cell phone meets the Walkman: virtual karma by Virtual+Karma · · Score: 4, Informative

    Photos and more here

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  3. Congratulations Sony... by Humorously_Inept · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been listening to MP3s on my N-Gage with a 512MB MMC card and stereo headphones for 1.5 years. Granted, I don't have a dedicated start/stop button. On the subject of annoying behavior, yes, I can play songs over the loudspeaker and I can make MP3 files my ringtone should I ever need to annoy you.

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  4. V800 does this already.. by MrPerfekt · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm mystified by this because my Sony Ericsson V800 already does this. From the pictures, the phone seems to run the same software too. So aside from branding, I fail to see the difference. The V800 also has expandable memory via Memory Stick Pro Duo which cards are available up to 1GB for.

    Granted the V800 is not "available" in America, but one can be snagged from eBay and unlocked/flashed. The same thing you're going to have to do with the W800 though.

    The drawback to the V800 though is that the earphones connect through the T28 connector as there is no mini-headphone jack. :( But with a little enginuity you could make your headphones work too.

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  5. Re:Yeah... by bad_fx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, explaining the joke sucks, but for the one or two folk still scratching their heads:

    http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/ 1816257&tid=107