The W950 is the third Symbian UIQ 3 smartphone to be released in 2006, and if that isn’t crazy enough, they freaking made it a Walkman phone with 4Gb internal memory! I don’t know about you, but I had quite lost the hope for a 4Gb phone, but here it is, in the same slick ultrathin form factor as the M600 (106 x 54 x 15 mm altough a little heavier at 112 grams), with a very cool tactile numeric keypad instead of the Qwerty one, no Memory Stick M2 slot (like you need one…) and the features you can imagine: Dual mode UMTS/Triband GSM, QVGA (240×320 pixel) 262k color 2.6″ touchscreen, FM Radio, Bluetooth 1.2 with A2D Profile support, USB 2.0 mass storage mode at 480mbps, Opera 8 browser, RSS feeds, Push Email, and it’s finished in “Mystic Purple, fingerprint-proof matt with orange accents”. The Walkman side of the thing, apart from the expected graphical equalizer, Mega Bass, MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV and m4a format support, and video playback at 30fps, can even display album art from compatible files! The playback time, though, is a little less than we’re used to in our K750’s and W800’s, at just 10 hours. Sadly, maybe to let the M600 sell alone for some time, it won’t be available until Q3 this year, which is pretty annoying since at the Sony Ericsson party they had like 20 fully functional, non-crashing W950’s with their amazing new interface in all its glory! Later on the live photos and videos of that and also the K610, M600, W810 and the also unveiled first Bluetooth Stereo Headset from SE! The HBH-DS970, which I’m going to write about right now, if this mother****ing WiFi let’s me download anything faster than 8kbps. [Thanks Sur_G for the quick post and mnemic for the live coverage!]
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UPDATED: Official pics after the jump.