
Europe
: 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)