Sony Ericsson’s Walkman phone series was quiet popular before launch of Android OS.But after the launch of Android OS there are many feature rich smartphones in the market.Considering this Sony Ericsson has added Android features to Walkman series and launched First Android based Walkman Phone Sony Ericsson W8.
Sony Ericsson W8 is similar to Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 with additon of Google Android OS and Walkman features. The W8 mobile will run on Android 2.1 Eclair OS and powered by powerful 600 MHz processor.
Sony Ericsson W8 features a 3 inch touch screen display with HVGA 320×480 pixel resolution.This phone also have 3.2 megapixel camera with geo tagging.Other handset features includes FM Radio with RDS, 3D Games, Video player, Walkman player with Track ID Recognition, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, 3G, HSUPA, HSDPA, WiFi, microUSB 2.0, GPS with AGPS and 3.5mm audio jack.
Sony Ericsson W8 Features and Specifications:
- 2G Network- GSM 900/ 1800/ 1900
- 3 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen display with 16M colors
- 128 MB Internal storage memory, 168 MB RAM
- External Card slot microSD expandable up to 16GB memory
- Google Android Eclair 2.1 OS
- 600 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU and Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset
- GPRS Up to 85.6 kbps
- EDGE Up to 236.8 kbps
- 3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
- Bluetooth2.1 with A2DP
- microUSB 2.0
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- A-GPS support
- SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push email, IM
- Digital compass
- Walkman player
- TrackID music recognition
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
- Java MIDP emulator
- SNS integration
- Stand-by Up to 446 h (2G) / Up to 476 h (3G)
- Talk time Up to 4 h 45 min
- Music play Up to 23 h 40 min
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Hands down, Apple's app store wins by a mile. It's a huge selection of all sorts of apps vs a rather sad selection of a handful for Zune. Microsoft has plans, especially in the realm of games, but I'm not sure I'd want to bet on the future if this aspect is important to you. The iPod is a much better choice in that case.
Hands down, Apple's app store wins by a mile. It's a huge selection of all sorts of apps vs a rather sad selection of a handful for Zune. Microsoft has plans, especially in the realm of games, but I'm not sure I'd want to bet on the future if this aspect is important to you. The iPod is a much better choice in that case.