Sony Ericsson W960i Walkman music phone

June 18, 2007 at 5:55 pm by Jay | In Mobile Phones, Coming Soon Handsets

Sony Ericsson W960iThe new Sony Ericsson touch’n'play Walkman phone, the W960i has an impressive 8GB of internal memory. The also has a 2.6” QVGA touch screen which supports 262,000 colours. Marked improvements from its predecessor, the W950i, include the addition of a 3.2 megapixel camera and a standard phone keypad.

As with the W950i the Sony Ericsson W960i runs on the Symbian UIQ platform. The user can operate the phone via the keypad, a scroll wheel situated on the side of the phone or using the handsets touch screen. There is an RSS reader, FM radio and built in email client. Being a Symbian phone it is possible to enhance the functionality of the handset by the addition of a range of third party software.

The walkman player on the W960i is the latest version 2.0 player with support for album art. With the new Media Manager replacing Disc2Go, transferring music to the handset is as easy as drag n drop. The W960i has the Sony Ericsson Track ID feature. This lets you record a snippet of unknown music to the phone and upload it to the Sony Ericsson website. The music will be ID tagged and sent back to your phone with title, artist and album information.

The W960i is a Tri band GSM and 3G handset. The web browser is the excellent Opera browser for phones.

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  1. This is the phone to have! When is it being released?

    Comment by Dave — 15 July, 2007 #

  2. iwant2 no if any bodii knows what the load speakers likeon this phone because on on mii samsung it is awfull so quiet an crackley ,,,, i woul donly buy it if its loud sound … pls email ,me mintted900@hotmail.com if u no ,,, nd hu knoesthe release dae email me , ndthe price thx chris

    Comment by chris — 25 August, 2007 #

  3. this loud speaker is suppose to be really good, and the release date that has been said is the 12th November, but it could be any time in november, and it price is quite steep around £400-600 so i recommend you get it on pay montly :)

    Comment by Sam — 22 October, 2007 #

  4. I have just spoken to SE UK and they have a release date of Dec 2007, specific date to be advised - I really hope this is the case as I don’t really like the alternative - an N95 8Gb

    Comment by Lee — 29 November, 2007 #

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