Just as expected, today Sony Ericsson announced their new Walkman phone - the Sony Ericsson W705. The high-end slider is the first music-dedicated feature phone by the company to feature Wi-Fi. Unluckily the rumored GPS connectivity seems to have been dropped out but at least the rest of the specs sheet seems pretty decent.

The Sony Ericsson W705 comes with a 2.4" QVGA display capable of showing up to 256K colors. Some of its more important features include a 3.2 MP fixed-focus snapper, FM radio with RDS, quad-band GSM and dual-band (900/2100 MHz) 3G support.

The typical for the Walkman family niceties - Shake control and SensMe are also available in the W705. The phone will come with 120 MB of internal memory that can be expanded through the M2 card slot for storing your favorite tracks. In addition there will be a 4GB memory card included in the retail package to grant generous storage capacity straight out of the box.

Sony Ericsson W705 will hit the shelves in two different flavors - W705 and W705u (exclusive to Orange). It will become available in Luxury Silver and Passionate Red color versions starting from Q1 of 2009.

Sony Ericsson made also another announcement - the wireless 2.1 speaker system MBS-900. It has integrated FM radio receiver and a 3.5mm standard audio jack. The unit has monochrome OLED display and Bluetooth functionality with A2DP support. Packing the impressive power output of 2x10W plus a 20W subwoofer the MBS-900 seems quite up to the task of sound-screening your next picnic.









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Added on November 7, 2008, 4:19 pm-


Sony Ericsson W705u with UMA (for Orange)
General
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 2100 / 900
Announced
2008, October
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2009, Q1
Size Dimensions
95 x 47.5 x 14.3 mm
Weight
98 g
Display Type
TFT, 256K colors
Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Wallpapers, screensavers
Ringtones Type
Polyphonic, MP3
Customization
Download
Vibration
Yes
Memory
Phonebook Yes, up to 2000 entries, Photocall
Call records 30 received, dialed and missed calls
Card slot Memory Stick Micro (M2), 4 GB card included
- 120 MB internal memory
Data
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD
Yes
EDGE
Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLAN
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
Bluetooth
Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
USB
Yes, v2.0
Features
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser
WAP 2.0/HTML, RSS
Games
Yes + downloadable
Colors
Luxury Silver, Passionate Red
Camera
3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, video, flash; secondary videocall camera
- Camera images geo-tagging (cell-ID)
Other
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM radio with RDS
- FM receiver
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- Walkman 3.0 player
- Shake control
- SensMe
- TrackID music recognition
- YouTube service in Media Center
- Picture editor/blogging
- Organiser
- Built-in handsfree
- Voice memo
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion
Stand-by Up to 400 h
Talk time Up to 10 h

This post has been edited by tachlio: Nov 7 2008, 05:11 PM

The red one looks delicious~!
Just wish it had bigger screens though, otherwise that wifi's not that useful...

lol i agree!

it looks like the G705i, isn't.

ahh now SE started to implement wifi into their range. good thing.

i wonder why SE ditch the gps from w705. the g705 hv it

Woah!!! Look good this phone!! OMG I gonna change target again. Instead of W760, this is better. Better camera compare to W760. I wonder what is the price?

abit like w890..lol

its been some time since the flash has appeared in mid-range Walkman phones. 2.4" for a mid-range phone is good enough alrdy, summore with wifi. The only downside is the camera is a fixed focus

http://cellphonesail.net/2008/09/29/more-p...of-rika-in-red/ <---same as this one?

the price gonna be identical to the W595 when it starts to sell next year in Q1. so maybe those that's plannin to get the W595 can hold back to wait for this one, for the better casing, wifi and bigger screen.

what about w902????? aih... why like this.. this cud mean they want to launch w702 with w902?? waitin for w902 for so long ad..


sory..bit disappointed with SE now..

Anyone know how much this cost?

Looks the same like G705.
Don't tell me SE uses the same phone???

G705 is selling at RM1.2K AP set now.

This was actually a Walkman version of G705 thus you won't get GPS out from it . SE will kill their G705 model if they implement GPS on W705. I love the design and it does look better then G705 .

The silver one is very sexy...
when it will release ???

anyone bought this phone so far or is it not still out?

it's not out yet

This phone is making me crazy !!!

Abang W880i

well can anyone got the pic of the keypad?
i'm just worried bout the keypad doesnt satisfy again =p