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Symbian Walkman Announced with Sony Ericsson W950

7 replies · 4,313 views · Started 14 February 2006

Late on the first day of 3GSM, Sony Ericsson announced the W950 Walkman Smartphone. Adding the Walkman brand brings a distinct marketing edge to the music phone market, and while it may not look much in the pictures, in person it's a great looking phone. The phone itself is Symbain OS 9.1 using UIQ3. It comes with 4 gigabytes of internal storage (which will hold 4,000 tracks on SE's figures), and similar installed software to the M600i - if you're thinking that this is the M600i with Walkman and Megabase branding then you would be right, but you're forgetting the dedicated one-touch music keys and side volume controls augmenting the regular UIQ interface.

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There is no camera in this device. Rumors mentions that phone body has space for camera module and it will be introduced later (end of year?) as updated version.

i have seen no mention of it having a memory stick slot. Before someone says 4GB should be plenty, you know the law: No matter how much space you have, you'll always need more 30%. Can anyone confirm if it does have a memory stick slot or not?

There is no memory slot also on this device. As I mention ealier, it will be probably updated later.

This would be perfect if it had a video viewer. It mentions ability to get streaming video but is there a video player that will support playing uploaded video to the device?

Close to perfection but I have come to expect you cannot get everything you want quite yet.

Brilliant phone with Brilliant Features.. but it would never beat features and user interface like the Nokia N91 [http://www.nseries.com/n91].. This phone may seem much cooler with the touch screen but Nokia's are sleek and classy.. I am not saying this as a Nokia Fan it is a fact though.. Think a couple of times before buying it Folks!.. (plus no camera and i doubt very good phones get updated to an i unless its Nokia communicaters)..

"Nokia's are sleek and classy"

Due to the Nokia having a hard drive instead of memory comprising its 4GB storage the N91 is bigger and heavier and I suspect wont last as long on a battery.