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Sony Ericsson unveils Walkman version of M600 with 4Gb memory: the W950

Posted by Luis Camino on Feb 14, 2006 in Photos| Press releases| W950

Sony Ericsson W950The 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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W950 Official Page

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UPDATED: Official pics after the jump.

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Live pics of W950, M600, K610 and more (Part I)

Posted by Luis Camino on Feb 16, 2006 in Accesories| K610| M600| P990| Photos| Reviews| W810| W950

UCSE 3GSM 2006 Live CoverageNow that we’ve added all the official photos to the W950 and K610, here’s the first batch of photos of our live coverage of Sony Ericsson’s party at the 3GSM Barcelona. A too-dark-for-great-photos event where 15-20 Sony Ericsson representatives wore W950’s around the neck, each, and where the music was played by a well known DJ Judge Jules from several Walkman Sony Ericssons! The new smatphone’s innovative keypads proved to be totally useable, with the M600’s actually having two presses per key (one for each letter, right press or left press) thus working as a proper Qwerty keyboard, and the W950’s being something not dissimilar to Motorola’s RAZR keypad, in a rubbery, more stylish way, yet very comfortable to use; whose color/graphic design they’re not all happy with, and might be changing before it goes on production, we were told. The negative point in the evening was to discover that only one P990 was hanging around with a really slow interface because the damn thing is still under development (smells like P800 spirit).

Here are other links to live galleries of the new phones:
- Phone Scoop live pics and W950 interface video, showing what lead the guys to the conclusion that the new Walkman “could be one of the most innovative mobile music experiences out there, even more so than the iPod”. [Thanks Eric]
- Mobile-review’s live pics, only in Russian for now, and showing the J100 we have not forgot about.
- Newmobile.nl’s live pictures gallery and videos.
- Mobileburn’s W950 live photos.

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Sony Ericsson’s Zane Lowe’s Home Taping DJ contest

Posted by Luis Camino on Nov 27, 2006 in The company| W950

Sony Ericsson Home TapingSony Ericsson is relying on user-generated content to promote their latest Walkman Phone, the W950i. Participants stand to win a chance perform with British radio DJ Zane Lowe live during his Tour, or a brand new phone.

Created by Iris Experience, the campaign calls for users to upload their own remixes of songs, as well as listen to the work of others, at Zane Lowe’s official website. The site’s users will then vote for the best remix and winner (who created the track) wins the chance to play (remix) with Zane himself on the final night of the Sony Ericsson sponsored event, DJ Zane Lowe’s Home Taping Tour. Runners up wouldn’t go ‘home’ empty handed, either: they’ll get a brand new W950i. What’s almost cooler, ringtones and other contents will be available to the users at the gigs via Bluetooth.

[Via BrandRepublic and Zane Lowe]

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Video of Slingbox in W950, more personal video broadcast for Sony Ericsson smartphones

Posted by Luis Camino on Nov 19, 2006 in Accesories| M600| P990| Software| Videos| W950

Slingbox for SymbianLess than two weeks after the announcement by Sony Ericsson of the support of Sony’s Locationfree for UIQ, Sling Media shows off compatibility of their wireless personal video broadcasting gadget (the Slingbox) for our Symbian 3G or Wifi enabled smartphones. After the jump you will find a pretty cool video of a W950 playing the different TV channels and DVD’s of, and controlling, a remote setup.

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Official Windows Live Messenger for all Sony Ericssons from Microsoft/MSN

Posted by Luis Camino on Nov 7, 2006 in J300| K300| K310| K510| K600/V600/K608| K610| K700| K750/D750| K800/K790| M600| P900| P910| P990| S700| Software| W300/Z530| W600/W550| W710| W800| W810| W850| W900| W950| Z300| Z520| Z550| Z610| Z710| Z800/V800

Windows Live Messenger for Sony Ericsson Sorry, third-parties, all JAVA-enabled Sony Ericssons now have official support from Microsoft to run their new Windows Live Messenger Mobile application. MSN/Windows Messenger site Mess.be found this goodie in a chineese MSN website. Well, actually, functionality may be a little below some other JAVA clients, but if you’re like me and only need your contact list and being able to chat with some few emoticons, you’ll take this Windows Live themed instant messenger over anything else. Apparently these download links (be careful to chose the version for your model) are completely legal and free to download, but after a couple of months they will stop working unless you pay a small unknown monthly fee. Hmm, let’s just enjoy it in the meantime and we’ll talk again in January. Check some screenshots of it running on K800 inside this entry. [Via Mess.be].

For Sony Ericsson J300, K300, K310, K500, K510, Z520 and Z530, Download Windows Live Messenger Mobile 380

For Sony Ericsson K610, K700, K750, W550, W600, W700, W710, W800, W810, W850, Z550 and Z710, Download Windows Live Messenger Mobile 382

For Sony Ericsson K790, K800, S700, W850 and W900 (it should also work for Symbian smartphones), Download Windows Live Messenger Mobile 384

If your exact model number isn’t listed here, make sure your phone supports JAVA and then download the version of models using the same screen pixel size.

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UPDATE: Download links working again

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Hands on with Noreve’s leather cases for Sony Ericsson

Posted by Eric Resendiz on Oct 30, 2006 in Accesories| K610| K750/D750| K800/K790| M600| P990| Photos| Reviews| W800| W810| W850| W900| W950| Z800/V800

Noreve cases for Sony EricssonStraight out from the French Riviera, Noreve offers a series of high quality leather cases for almost all current mid-high Sony Ericssons, for those who don’t mind losing some portability in favor of protecting the precious device inside while adding a touch of style and personalization with the many leather colors available. I say losing portability because after trying these with my P990, it just won’t fit any comfortably in trousers any tighter than 50 Cent’s. It shouldn’t be a big problem for smaller models’ users though —the P990 itself isn’t very pocket-friendly anyway—, but it’s fair to say that these cases add considerable bulk to your phone, not to mention if you even attach the huge belt clip. This belt clip led McCoy, reviewer of the black M600/W950 and red P990 cases, to find a funny problem with the back screw, which you can check in the video (in all Superhandz style) after the jump, along with photos of those and my black and white P990 cases.

Go to Noreve’s Sony Ericsson leather cases product page

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K800 and UIQ 3.0 Whitepapers’ Digest

Posted by McCoy on Apr 18, 2006 in Exclusives| Handycam| K800/K790| M600| P990| Rumours| W950

K800 and UIQ 3.0 WhitepapersMay is going to be unexpectedly exciting with two Sony Ericsson product presentations on the 11th and 18th of that month, the second one being “the sh**”, an internal source confirmed (the Handycam?). In the meantime, you can print out this couple of PDF’s and make it your bathroom reading matter for some weeks [Thanks Djraven for the links]:

K800 Whitepaper (includes complete comparison table with K750):

Bluetooth PAN to connect the phone to Internet using Bluetooth.

Image formats
VGA (640×480 pixels)
1 MP (1280×960 pixels)
2 MP (1632×1224 pixels)
3 MP (2048×1536 pixels) or
3 MP (2000×1500 pixels) with image stabilizer on.

- Photo key (upper/right): Camera mode: Camera scenes or Video Night mode / Standby mode: Camera album.
- Photo key (lower/left): Camera mode Camera or Video shoot mode / Standby mode: The most recent taken picture showed in full view.

Support [amont known others] for WMA music files and WMV and RealVideo video files.

UIQ 3.0 Product Description:

[Transition effects] A menu that slides on to the screen, instead of simply appearing on the screen, is an example of a transition effect; an icon that gradually blends in to the background and then disappears is another example. (…) UIQ also supports semi-transparent windows, which enables UI elements, like menus and dialogs, for example, to have rounded corners or to let the screen area behind the window shine through. (…)

The Memory Manager handles low memory internally. It asks background applications to gracefully close down in order to free up memory. No data or settings are lost since all applications save data before closing. (…)

UIQ supports both bitmap fonts and Unicode True Type fonts. (…)

Categories to organize contacts; a contact can belong to one or several categories. (…) Backup and restore functions for all the entries [contacts] to and from external memory cards. (…) If the end user has installed an Instant Messaging (IM) application that use the Instant Messaging Integration API (…) the end user can see status and presence information in the Contacts application and use a direct navigation link to the IM application.

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Esato live galleries/comments from the CeBIT

Posted by Luis Camino on Mar 24, 2006 in J100| K310| K510| K800/K790| M600| P990| Photos| W300/Z530| W810| W950

Esato live galleries/comments from the CeBIT We missed this CeBIT report on time, but Olav from Esato.com did a pretty good job posting (big) photos and first-hand impressions of the new Sony Ericssons (and others) from Hannover:

Entry level phones J100, K310, K510, W300/Z530 and W810 [?]: Weighting only 70g makes [the J100] the lightest model ever by Sony Ericsson. (…) An untrained eye could have misstaken the Sony Ericsson K310 with a K700. (…) I was told the new M2 cards could be used with an adapter in older Sony Ericsson models.

Hands on Sony Ericsson M600: This is an exciting new feature found in M600, W950 and P990. The new spell checker. Once you start writing a word, the M600 list the best suggestions. The list of suggested words is based on the sentence content as well as word grammar. Very cool.

P990 showing very cool features: Joseph started typing “Dear ” using the stylus with handwriting recognition. The P990 responded with inserting “Sir” as a suggestion to the next word in the sentence. After clicking on “Sir”, a space was automatically inserted, and the next word “and” was typed. To finish off, P990 suggested “Madam” as the final word when this was typed in “Dear Sir and “. It did not need the “M” to suggest “Madam”. Impressive.

Sony Ericsson K800: The two buttons you see above the display is short cuts to common settings when capturing photos. The give you direct access to scenes and shoot modes

Hands on Sony Ericsson W950: The W950 should be equipped 4GB memory. The file explorer reveals that this prototype only have 64MB installed.

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W950 reviewed by Mobile-review

Posted by Eric Resendiz on Mar 23, 2006 in Photos| Reviews| W950

W950 reviewed by Mobile-review From the website with the literal name and the guys who hate the orange color comes another in-depth review with gems like “In Sony Ericsson W950i sound quality is better than in Walkman series phones, and I have no idea how to explain it”. For the lazy readers, here’s a summary:

From the aesthetic point of view, the keyboard is interesting, though in practice it can give a lot of trouble. As to my opinion, the keyboard will start wearing off after a year or year and a half of intensive usage. (…) Though this only my guess rather than facts. (…)

Absence of standard keys for accepting and ending calls is caused by the desire of warding the keyboard against frequent presses. It will be extremely interesting to examine failure statistics of the touchkeyboard, incorporated into W950i as times goes by. (…)

The screen doesn’t fade in the sun and what is more, provides a vivid picture with good color rendering (up to 262 K colors); therefore the phone leaves a favorable impression. (…)

Non-stop playback of mp3 tracks with the default headset, which is included in the kit, plugged in (maximum volume) lasted for 13.5 hours. I will only note, that this test was carried out with the network capabilities turned on (Flight profile wasn’t used). (…)

Mood – there are five types of mood available (None, Happy, Sad, Relaxed, Energetic). This an additional parameter that can be manually set by user, so the sorting may be applied to both the general list or particular mood lists. (…)

I assure you that lack of camera doesn’t affects the handset’s capability of accepting video calls, since you can set any picture or video clip, which will be shown to your interlocutor. (…)

The model is expected to be released in July at the price of 550-650 Euros (depending on regions). (…)

Read “Review GSM smartphone Sony Ericsson W950i”

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Infosyncworld’s impressions on the best of SE at CeBIT

Posted by McCoy on Mar 9, 2006 in K800/K790| M600| P990| Photos| W810| W950

Infosynworld at Sony Ericsson CeBITTheir photos are so good, and make the K790/K800 screen look so awesome, we wish they weren’t the size of an M2 card. But anyway Jorgen shares his love for the new products; a feeling I’m pretty sure is common around Die Messe.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the first real camera phone. Granted, Nokia’s N90 came close – but at 3.2 Megapixels and with stunning picture quality, the Sony Ericsson K800i blows the competition out of the water (…) One word: splendid. (…)

Although bested by the 8 GB Samsung SGH-i310, [the W950's] 4 GB of flash memory should allow for considerably longer battery life – and despite its spacious storage and superb screen, the handset remains ultra-slim at 15 mm thick. (…)

Few phones harbour the kind of functionality offered by the P990i. The swiss army knife of business phones, it couples a luscious, high-resolution touch screen with a 2 Megapixel camera for video calling in conjunction with 3G as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for shorter-range options. Unfortunately, its thumbboard is a tad on the cramped side, but for the power user who needs every feature under the sun it’s a winner. Did we mention the Opera 8 browser also does landscape mode? Genius.

Read “The best of Sony Ericsson at CeBIT 2006″ at Infosyncworld

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