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Sony Ericsson Announces Flood Of Phones

May 18, 2006, 11:27 AM by (staff)

Sony Ericsson today announced four new phones, including 2 new Walkman phones. The Walkman models add a new feature called Track ID that allows a user to record a few seconds of a song from the microphone or the built in FM radio, and send it off to a server for identification.

W850: Sony Ericsson's first slider outside of Japan. Also the first Walkman phone with A2DP stereo Bluetooth. A 900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS phone with WCDMA 2100. Features a 2 Megapixel camera, second VGA camera for video calls, QVGA screen, Memory Stick Duo slot with 1 GB card, Bluetooth, and a new Walkman player including support for track downloads over the network with the e-AAC+ format.
W710: A music oriented clamshell with new fitness features. Has quad-band GSM/EDGE with 2 Megapixel camera, 176x220 display with a 128x128 monochrome external screen, Memory Stick Micro M2 slot including a 512 MB card, Bluetooth, and a new pedometer sensor and fitness application.
Z710: A W710 without the Walkman or fitness features. Does not include the 512 MB M2 card either. However features Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP stereo Bluetooth.
Z550: A clamshell phone with 900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS. Features include a 1.3 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth, Memory Stick Micro M2 slot and a single line, monochrome external display.

source: Sony Ericsson

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nwdavis

May 18, 2006, 1:25 PM

Why not Verizon?

Is there a reasonable explination why Verizon never has Sony Ericsson phones?

phoneguy806

I have wondered the same thing, anyone know who is gettin these? are they coming to the U.S.? if so prolly cingular 😁

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decepticon

Because SE makes mostly GSM phones...I dont recall any SE CDMA phones

UofDVZW

Sony Ericsson does not have an American CDMA division. They tried back in the day but decided to stick to GSM. I doubt we will ever see any more CDMA sony ericsson phones

here is a link to a news article from 2003 about it
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caseydoggy

Well, to answer your question, Sony Ericsson has an exclusive contract with Cingular. They also have some smaller companies like Cincinatti bell, and other regional partners...but /cingular does they lions share of their business.

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Rich Brome

Sony Ericsson got out of the CDMA business a while ago:

https://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=600 »

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rg-one

May 21, 2006, 7:39 PM

Why no A2DP on the Walkman W710?

So the main differences between the W710 and V710 are that the walkman does not have A2DP, and the non-walkman one does...

Way to go SE! You get an award for making absolutely no sense while at the same time deliberately stripping features from the user.

UofDVZW

come on man please do a little reading before you blast away on something like this

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en& ... »
go there are read the press release
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sowhatsowhat10

May 18, 2006, 1:42 PM

and they get ALL the new cool phones!!!!!!!!!!!

👿 i hope they make the W850 and z550 in an american version, SOON! if at all 🙄

phoneguy806

really, im tired of seein cool phones and they are ALL over seas, but with the w600 here and the great sales they had with it i think they will HAVE to bring a newer version.

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staiano

w710 and z710 coming to the states.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=us&lc=en&ver= ... »

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Me2

I really like the looks of the Z710. Thats a nice lookin flip.

mynameisTiM

wow... really don't need to get jealous... just goto a sim free retailer online... and buy one... like i said earlier if u have t-mobile u wont have to worry... same with cingular... u will just be roamin off of tmobile 900... and if u get the new umt...
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cuchanu

May 18, 2006, 7:15 PM

I think that slider is the perfect phone

Seriously that phone looks great and what more could you ask it to do, besides work with Sprint. I hope more manufacturers follow Sony's lead and make some next generation phones but bring them to the US. Phones here havent changed much in too long.

Steve5

I wouldn't go that far, but it would be nice to see this come out in the US in the near future. It's stylish, has very nice walkman features, and I don't think any American providers have any phones with separate VGA video cameras yet.

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