4GB storage plus high performance entertainment suite with touchscreen
3GSM Congress, Barcelona, 13th Feb 2006 – A major addition to SonyEricsson’s family of Walkman® phones is announced today. The W950 isan ultra-slim, ultra-stylish, UMTS-enabled device with 4GB of onboardstorage 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 asuite of high performance entertainment applications add to itscapabilities, making it one of the most highly specified phones in theSony Ericsson portfolio.
“Bringing the Walkman® brand to Sony Ericsson phones was one ofour outstanding achievements in 2005 and we have now sold more than 3million Walkman® phones,” said Miles Flint, President, Sony Ericsson,“W950 is our sixth Walkman phone to be introduced since thatannouncement and listening to music on mobile phones is now anestablished and growing consumer behaviour. This announcement alsodemonstrates the flexibility of the Symbian v9.1 and UIQ 3.0 platform tocreate a consumer focused offering as well as business and the W950 isnow our third Symbian based handset to be introduced in 2006.”
The W950’s design will turn the heads of the most avid styleaficionados. Its thin, sleek and compact form is finished in MysticPurple, fingerprint-proof matt with orange accents. The purity of itsdesign is strengthened by the keypad being flush with the surface, andorange backlighting that brings the music keys to life in a stunning,practical way.
The music player within the W950 has the functionality and soundquality of an equivalent standalone device. Its 4GB storage can take upto 4,000 songs and the sound quality, delivered on high qualityheadphones, makes listening to music a real pleasure. A new graphic-richinterface on the Walkman® player makes it easy to navigate around themusic library by song, artist or playlist and now it’s possible tosearch visually by browsing through album covers using the stylus andtouch screen. The W950 has all the benefits of a combined phone andmusic player, enabling multitasking between listening to music, SMStexting, emailing and browsing the Internet.
Getting music into the W950 is fast and simple and can be done in anumber of ways. The supplied Disc2Phone music management software is anintuitive package that handles transfer to the phone of music stored inthe user’s PC. UMTS capability also makes the W950 ready for fastdirect-to-phone transfers from available operators’ download services.
Beyond music, the W950 is a complete mobile entertainment centre thatdelivers great speed and exceptional quality sound and vision. Users cannow enjoy the complete spectrum of mobile multimedia applications, fromweb browsing, push email and video streaming to 3D gaming andstore-and-share of media files. Besides music, 4GB is enough storage fora wealth of photos, video’s or email attachments in the phone.
Stereo sound through wireless headphones is now possible as the W950support Bluetooth streaming in stereo. The Bluetooth Stereo HeadsetHBH-DS970 also announced today and available as an accessory delivershigh quality stereo sound through stylish, comfortable headphones.
W950 is the 3rd Sony Ericsson phone based on the new Symbian v9.1 andUIQ 3.0 platform, benefiting from a growing multitude of third partyapplications. All of these applications are available to download fromthe Sony Ericsson Application Shop, an online catalogue that is stockeddirectly by third party developers.
The Sony Ericsson W950 is a Dual Mode UMTS Walkman phone startsshipping 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 fromoperator 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 email
- 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)
