Price Range: $199.99 - $339.99

Deluxe Walkman® phone

Mobile phone and music player for audio connoisseurs. Great sound quality, advanced communication features, sleek style.

There’s no hiding the fact that the W810i is an upgrade of the W800i, especially since they share practically the same dimensions and weight. The W810i is black, though, which is a huge improvement if white and orange isn’t your thing. The entire handset including keys is black except for the dedicated Walkman key, a Walkman symbol on the bottom and back, and an orange portrait mirror. The other immediately noticeable design features are the new keypad, navigation button and soft keys.

The W810i is designed to be an outstanding music player phone, and it succeeds. The media player supports both MP3 and AAC formats and audio quality is superb. Mega Bass™ enhances bass frequencies for a better overall music experience. There’s loads of memory for storing music, as the W810i comes bundled with a 512 Mbyte Memory Stick PRO Duo™ - enough to store up to 20 full-length audio CD’s. The memory stick is expandable to 1 Gbyte. Software for ripping CD’s is supplied. In addition to the MP3 player there’s an FM radio with RDS. A quality headset is included in the sales package, and the W810i can also be connected to an external speaker system via an optional cable.

Positioned below the screen, the standard navigational keypad layout was replaced by an interesting three circular-section design. Offering increased convenience when listening to music, the keys serve a dual purpose, allowing users to comfortably navigate through the menu structure, while doubling as music player controls. The 5-Way keypad doubles as Play / Stop, Next and Previous Tracks, and Volume Keys while dedicated Left Selection, Walkman, and Back Keys are positioned on to the left side, and Right Selection, Activity Menu, and Clear Keys on the right.

Camera
* Auto focus
* Camera - 2-megapixel
* Digital zoom - 4x
* Photo light
* Video record

Music
* Media Player
* MegaBass™
* Music tones
* PlayNow™

Messaging
* Email:
* MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
* Predictive text input
* SMS long (Text Messaging)
* Sound recorder

Connectivity
* Bluetooth™ technology
* Infrared port
* Modem
* Synchronisation PC
* USB mass storage
* USB support

Price Range: $329.00 - $335.00

Mobile music sensation

Feel the vibe come alive, whatever your taste in music. Storage for a thousand songs. Fast Web connection to download more.

Managing music is very easy with the CD of PC software supplied. The W850i supports USB mass storage, which means that files can be easily and quickly transferred with a drag and drop operation (USB cable supplied). You can also download music directly to your phone with the Walkman software, and the 3G connection makes this very fast. The W850i also introduces a novel feature called TrackID™. If you hear a song on the radio that you don’t know, you can use TrackID to find the name, artist and album for you - impressive!

The screen measures 2 Inches & provides a clear 262k colour display with a 240 x 320 pixel screen resolution. The screen works as a colourful viewfinder for the camera & video features incorporated in the phone. The user can view their chosen picture wallpapers & animated wallpapers on the screen. The phone comes with a easy to access menu system with useful icon displays. The user can express their personal taste & style with the style up™ covers that are available for the W850i.

Speaking of cameras, 2 megapixels are almost standard on phones these days, and the W850i is no exception. Clearly determined to separate the CyberShot and Walkman brands, Sony have steered clear of a 3.2 megapixel camera on their latest offering. This is no particular disadvantage though because Sony still have the superior experience in camera phones thanks to the fact that Sony were designing cameras long before they bought out Ericsson and started designing phones. Only Nokia have managed to come close to the camera quality offered by a Sony Ericsson phone through their partnership with Carl Zeiss, however can’t offer any of the usability that Sony can. So top marks again.

Camera
* Camera - 2-megapixel
* Digital zoom - 2.5x
* Photo light
* Picture blogging
* Video record

Music
* Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
* Media Player
* MegaBass™
* Music tones
* PlayNow™
* TrackID™

Messaging
* Email:
* MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
* Predictive text input
* SMS long (Text Messaging)
* Sound recorder

Connectivity
* Bluetooth™ technology
* Infrared port
* Modem
* Synchronisation PC
* USB mass storage
* USB support

Price Range: $293.85 to $293.85

It’s time to play!

Relax and unwind with a phone designed for fun! Exciting 3d games, advanced digital music player, an impressive camera with video recording and more.

As you’d expect from a phone carrying the Walkman logo, there’s a digital music player and a built-in FM radio. Putting music onto the W550i is easy, as CD-ripping PC software is supplied with the phone. Using the Bluetooth connection you can drag and drop MP3 tracks from your PC to the phone. Flight mode lets you use the music player whilst on an aircraft. The phone also has a good 1.3 megapixel camera plus a video camera. There’s an easy-to-use menu for the camera functions, and a dedicated camera button. The screen is large (1.8″) and high quality, with 262,000 colours.

The design of the W550i is a mixture of the bigger w800i and also the S700i, it is a pivoting phone with the keyboard appearing from under the screen with a swivel motion. This reveals the numeric keypad, while the main navigational buttons live under the screen on the upper surface. The screen looks good given its 176 x 220 pixel resolution and 262k colours, its the same screen used in both the K750i and W800i and works well in this model. Navigation is painless and those used to Sony’s now perfected user interface will not be disappointed by the few tweaks, like the ability to see if a folder contains new messages when at the top level.

With the Walkman brand emblazoned on the front of the phone, it should come as no surprise — for people who lived through the 80s anyway — that this is a musical mobile. It has 256MB onboard memory to load your favourite MP3 or AAC playlists, or you can listen to its built-in FM radio (with eight presets). If you want to listen to the MP3 player while you’re on an aeroplane you can turn it on flight mode, which turns the transmitters off so it will not send or receive any radio signals.

Camera
* Camera - 1.3-megapixel
* Digital zoom - 4x
* Photo light
* Video record

Music
* Media Player
* MegaBass™
* Music tones
* PlayNow™

Messaging
* Email:
* MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
* Predictive text input
* SMS long (Text Messaging)
* Sound recorder

Connectivity
* Bluetooth™ technology
* Infrared port
* Modem
* Synchronisation PC
* USB mass storage
* USB support

Price Range: $340.00 - $689.00

A Walkman® phone for everyone

Bring your music. With the W200i Walkman® phone, you always have one-press instant access to your favourite tracks.

Everything you need for a full Walkman® experience: included in the phone box you’ll find software for copying music from CD to phone, a 128MB memory card and a stereo handsfree.Write emails, browse the Web - and do it to the sound of your music. Just keep your Walkman® player or FM Radio tuned in and turned on.

As a music phone, we can see why Sony’s so keen to pitch the W200i as a compliment to an existing MP3 player, rather than a replacement. It’s a capable enough unit, but the interface is relatively basic, and the single speaker is tinny and entirely uninspiring. Switching to the supplied headphones did improve audio quality markedly. You’re rather stuck with the cabled headphone model, however, as the W200i lacks Bluetooth compatibility, and thus support for A2DP stereo headphones, and the proprietary port means you’re stuck only with audio accessories supplied or sold by Sony Ericsson.

The W200i includes a digital VGA camera with 4x digital zoom, but naturally, the quality of VGA cameras means it’s barely good enough for a few happy snaps. A more notable feature is push email, which is a welcome surprise on a handset with such a low RRP. In addition to push email, the W200i supports standard SMS and MMS messaging with T9 predictive text input. Other features include a loud and clear hands-free speakerphone, sound recorder and a host of personal information manager (PIM) features including an alarm clock, calculator, calendar, notes, stopwatch and a timer.

Camera
* Camera - 0.3-megapixel (VGA)
* Digital zoom - 4x
* Video record

Music
* Media Player
* MegaBass™
* Music tones
* PlayNow™

Messaging
* Email:
* MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
* Predictive text input
* SMS long (Text Messaging)
* Sound recorder

Connectivity
* Infrared port
* Modem
* Synchronisation PC
* USB mass storage
* USB support

Price Range: $340.00 - $689.00

A musical evolution

Fill your W610i Walkman® phone with your choice of songs, and enjoy a slim and compact mobile phone that truy touches your senses.

The phone comes with a 512 Mbytes Memory Stick PRO Duo™ M2™ memory card included in the phones kit which allows the user to start storing their music as soon as they unpack their handset. The user can extend their phones memory further by adding a larger capacity Memory Stick Micro™ M2™ memory card which is available up to 2 Gbytes. The Memory Stick Micro™ M2™ is the smallest memory card on the current mobile phone market & is available as an additional extra. The Sony Ericsson W610i is a member of the Sony Ericsson Walkman® music collection which includes many fun music orientated mobile phones with high quality music & media features.

Comprehensive CD-ripping software (Disc2Phone) is supplied with the phone and the USB mass storage interface lets you transfer music with drag and drop simplicity. Whilst the built-in memory of the phone is limited, the W610i is compatible with Sony’s Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) memory cards, and a 512 Mbyte card (enough for around 100 songs) is included in the sales package. This can be expanded to 2 Gbytes - a 2 Gbyte card can be bought for around £30. In addition to the music player, the W610i also includes an RDS FM radio.

Camera
* Auto focus
* Camera - 2-megapixel
* Digital zoom - 2.25x
* Photo light
* Picture blogging
* Video record

Music
* Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
* Media Player
* MegaBass™
* Music tones
* PlayNow™
* TrackID™

Messaging
* Email:
* MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
* Predictive text input
* SMS long (Text Messaging)
* Sound recorder

Connectivity
* Bluetooth™ technology
* Infrared port
* Modem
* PictBridge
* Synchronisation PC
* USB mass storage
* USB support