This ultra-slim, ultra-stylish Walkman phone is now available at Sony Ericsson Concept Shops and authorized dealers nationwide.
The W950i’s Walkman music player features the functionality and sound quality of an equivalent stand-alone device. Music playtime is at 10 hours.
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. This is one Walkman phone that offers even handwriting recognition, plus word completion and auto correction.
The W950i has all the benefits of a combined phone and music player, enabling multi-tasking between listening to music, SMS texting, MMS, video playback at 30 frames per second, e-mailing and browsing full HTML pages through the Opera 8 Internet browser.
Users can enjoy a whole spectrum of mobile multimedia applications, including push e-mail and 3D gaming and store-and-share of media files and RSS feeds.
Besides music, one can store photos, files and e-mail attachments on the phone. This 3G Walkman phone also has a speakerphone, FM radio with search function, calculator, timer, stopwatch, alarm clock, business card exchange and supports conference calls. You can also keep the music on through the flight mode feature.
Getting music into the W950i for your immediate listening pleasure is fast and simple. 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 W950i ready for fast direct-to-phone transfers from available operators’ download services. Enjoy the sounds from the stereo headphones in the box or even from wireless headphones as the W950i supports Bluetooth streaming in stereo.
The graphic equalizer and Mega Bass enhance the music experience. The TrackID feature powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID is also a new service which allows recording of a few seconds of a song, either via the sound recorder or the built-in FM radio, and with one click one can send that clip to the Gracenote worldwide music database which will identify the track and relay the information back to the phone.
In the looks department, the Sony Ericsson W950i is about high style as it is high-tech. The phone is slim and compact with a fingerprint-proof matte finish with orange accents. The purity of its design is strengthened by the keypad being even with the surface, and orange backlighting that brings the music keys to life.
The Sony Ericsson W950i is a dual-mode UMTS Walkman phone weighing in at only 112 grams, and is a slim 4.1 x 2.1 x 0.6 inches.