Posted by masseur
The W850 WALKMAN® phone - a cool slider made for music
18 May 2006
London, UK- 18 May 2006 - The evolution of Sony Ericsson’s successful Walkman® phone range takes another step forward today with the announcement of the UMTS enabled W850. Sony Ericsson’s first GSM/UMTS ‘slider’, the W850 has been uniquely combined with a full horizontal mode camera experience and the latest Walkman® player 2.0 for easy music download.
Available in Precious Black or Golden White, the phone has an attention grabbing ‘heartbeat illumination’ feature to light-up the control keys in rhythm with your music. Visually stunning and appealing to use, this phone isn’t just about good looks – it also offers blisteringly fast music downloads direct to the handset. The phone is configured for operator over the air (OTA) music download services and accepts many popular music file formats including e-AAC+, which reduces download time and space needed for tracks. Memory isn’t an issue either with a 1GB memory stick PRO Duo supplied which is enough for around 1,000 songs in e-AAC+. This can be expanded to 4GB so that you can store a much larger music collection and have it with you all of the time.
The Walkman® player 2.0 simplifies navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs or music albums and there’s also a TrackID™ feature powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID. This is a new service which means you can record a few seconds of a song, either via the microphone or the in built FM radio, and then with one click send that clip to the Gracenote® worldwide music database which will identify the track and relay the information back to the phone.
“The W850 is really empowering our users to listen to what they want, wherever they are,” said Jan Wäreby, Corporate Executive Vice President, Head of Sales and Marketing, Sony Ericsson. “Many people now have existing music collections stored in MP3. The W850 allows users to identify and buy music in a new and spontaneous way – hearing tracks they like, identifying them with TrackID™ and downloading them to the phone.”
Sony Ericsson has also evolved the Walkman® music player in ways which will appeal whether you’re a new user or already familiar with the interface. The user interface is more intuitive and makes it easy to search and play tracks as well as download them. New graphics capabilities make the experience more visual and provide music metadata and album art. And the download service is integrated, so there’s no need to come out of the music player and into the web browser to visit online music stores.
There is also a high performance 2 Megapixel camera that makes it fun to capture your favourite moments and share them with friends. Fast internet access and web browsing also make it easy to use your W850 to create and maintain blogsites, so you can keep your friends posted from wherever you are.
An impressive range of accessories means you can have even more fun out of your W850. Stereo Bluetooth™ headsets allow you to enjoy music in full stereo quality wire-free, and an advanced car handsfree set makes it safe to enjoy your music phone while driving. Music Desk stand speakers provide a boost to the sound to make the W850 the centre of any party.
The Sony Ericsson W850i is a UMTS 2100 and Tri-band GPRS 900/1800/1900 Walkman phone for Europe, Middle East, Africa.
It is commercially available in Precious Black or Golden White and starts shipping during Q3 2006.
W850 – Features at a glance:
Imaging and messaging
- 2.0” QVGA TFT 260k
- 2 mega pixel
- Landscape Imaging
- 4 x digital zoom
- LED Light
- Video Recording/Playback
- Push e-mail
- Macromedia Flash
- Video telephony
Music
- 1 GB MS PRO Duo enough for approximately 1000 tracks in eAAC+
- Walkman Player 2.0 [MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, m4a playback]
- Up to 30 hours music playing time
- Full-length music download OTA
- Music/video streaming
- TrackID
- Speed search music
- Music playback with illumination
- RDS FM Stereo Radio
- Audio out via system connector
- A+B buttons
- Java 3D gaming
- OMA DRM v. 2.0
Connectivity
- UMTS 2100
- USB 2.0 Mass storage
- Full Access Net front HTML browser
- RSS feeds
- Bluetooth™ 2.0 (A2DP)
- Landscape browsing
- Expandable MS PRO Duo slot
- PC Synchronization
- Flight mode
- FOTA
- Kit Content:
- 1 GB MS PRO Duo
- Stereo headset
- USB Cable
- PC SW
Accessories
- Audio cable out
- BT stereo music headset (A2DP)
- Adv. car handsfree
- Media Center 3 – for wireless plug & play connection to PC an HiFi
- Music Desk stand speakers (Sony Branded)
- FM transmitter
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Posted by isiahma
It's a pretty good display, 2.0¡¨ QVGA TFT 260k
Posted by jack77777
i was gonna get that but then n80 and p990i drawn my attentions away to them.
Posted by brix25
Damn, a nice set of features...what about video recording abilities?
Posted by shyam335
MS duo pro is surprising to me,i thought they were pushing M2.
Im interested to see how the touchpad works and how good sliding mechanism is.
what about video ?
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Posted by uncle
Are there any live pictures out?
Posted by shyam335
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Pics from SE site
Posted by Klue2k
thats stupid that their not going to be releasing it to asia region. i would of thought they would want to maximize that phone considering its appeared in the DaVinci movie.
Posted by bavlondon2
Anyone know what the video recording quailty will be_
Posted by DickySnapples
nice features,but UGLY!!
Posted by viper7
Anyone know what the "Media Center 3 – for wireless plug & play connection to PC an HiFi" listed in the accessories for the W850i is?
Couldn't find mention of it elsewhere on the SE website.
Posted by alexho
looks nice to me and I want one quick too! when will it available?
Posted by masseur
as it says in that first post
shipping during Q3 2006
I like sliders but I don't like the black. I'd like to see the how the white one looks. Actually I'd prefer it without the walkman features/logo
Posted by senninha
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Posted by c96sthl
i like the back side....the texture is unique
Posted by PeterKay
White looks ok too.
Posted by kristianm
Ugly design, IMO.
Posted by Xema
Wow, it's certainly gonna be my next phone !
For me, owning now a w800i and 512Mb-1Gb-2Gb MSDP cards its very convenient that they kept the MSDP card slot in this phone so I will not have to invest in M2 cards.
QVGA display and A2DP are nice improvements.
Posted by rockygali
not me...
IMO its sleek and ravishing for a walkman phone series...
it stands out!
Posted by IRFCA_WDG-3A
Aah, this one turned out to be a damp squib - except for that innovative D-Pad, nothing else lived upto the expectation - even the design department failed this one
Posted by kristianm
Is SE really going to take out auto-focus feature in its new Walkman phones now and make it Cybershot-exclusive?!
Posted by johny_dmonic
why the heck didn't they include asia in their release.. @_@
the design looks quite good for me..but still..k800 for me..
Posted by batesie
nice in black! love the textured pattern on the back too
Posted by crowing
i saw this in the DAVINCI CODE movie.. great! it looked great.
Posted by kulorex
Hope there would be no frustrating bugs!
take your time to do this one plzzzz!
Posted by kristianm
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lol, just look at the soft keys. Terrible.
Posted by amawanqa
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Yup, I'll second that. Lookin' good...
http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=2360&source=HOMETOP
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Posted by p900 lover
I like it, not sure if i will get it tho im hoping the P990 comes out soon
Posted by bavlondon2
It may be wrong but the specs on Mobile Burn state it has auto focus. It also states video recording but not the level. Im hoping it will have the same as the w900 but im not sure if this phone incorporates the same type graphics nvidea card that the w900 has.
Posted by goldenface
This uses Walkman Player 2.0 which will be the same as the W950i, allowing you to show album art, or so it says.
To be honest though the design, whilst being a bit different, isn't to my taste and I will be surprised if it wins any Samsung D series fans.
Posted by Delta 9
I like the size and looks of the phone but the W550 Keypad really turns me off. To bad SE din't take the time to disign a new keypad in stead of copying an (really bad) old one. Although featurewise the W850 knows how to compensate
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Posted by goldenface
Actually, it has grown on me already
@Delta 9
I know what you mean about the keypad. I think a W810 slide out would have been better.
Loving the new Walkman UI though. It looks really good.
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Posted by alexho
what is the weight of this beauty pls?
Posted by cmikilp
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It weights 116 grams...
I don't see any info about auto focus...
...then it will be the K800i =)
Posted by bl3ach
looks dodgy in my point of view
why do they update the W800i so much and not others, like camera covers, auto focus etc....
~BLEACH~
Posted by QuickShare
from a quick glance of mine to w850..
pros: great features, unique back-side texture( i think it should be a "Scratch-Proof" back-side
), last but not least.. superb 2” size clear color screen.
cons: vulnerable lens, w550i keypad
, and last but not least.. the price! i guess 
i'll give this phone 7 out of 10 rate
cheers..
Posted by bl3ach
what phone u comparing it with??
u said first glance of mine to it, so what phone is it ?
Posted by goldenface
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Posted by QuickShare
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maybe my english problem.. i was talking about my point of view for this new w850
didnt actually compared it with other phone though
Posted by alandigby
Personally i don't care that they keypad isn't very exciting. most of the time it'll be hidden anyways and in that case, surely the most important thing is that it's easy to use? We wont know about that till someone can get their hands on one
Posted by REALGS
do it have auto focus or not?
it may use same lenses so it has auto focus too.
am I right?
Wenn they will announce Handycam?
I have heard Handycam would be first "slider" phone of SE but
suprised with W850 slider.
Posted by scapevlocity
looks okay to me - i'd probably get it. just a little skeptical about the keypad part - it's not looking too good.
REAL:
yeap, on the mobileburn website provided by another member here (look up), it says the camera has autofocus.
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Posted by micks2005
Pictures Of The W850i
Pictures Taken by The W850i can be found on the below mentioned link:
http://www.se-community.com/~[....]8/w850i/cam_samples/index.html
The Phone Does not have Auto Focus. As from now on Auto Focus will
only be on Sony Ericsson's Cybershot phones.
The software has been upgraded as it is now using an advance media player just as in W950i.
Video is the same QCIF for the W850i
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Posted by PeterKay
nice pics.
Posted by bavlondon2
QCIF. See ya later. Thats just terrible. They could have at least made the k800 capable of CIF.
Posted by Xugaa
GBP Price?
UK Release Date?
Posted by Xugaa
Mobile Burn says:
Camera - Yes, 2.0 megapixel resolution with auto focus.
This phone has got me stuck in limbo between this and the K800, but the only thing i'm concerned about is the lack of a 'camera lens cover' of any kind whatsoever? True/False?
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Posted by scapevlocity
Xugaa: lens cover?
Posted by Xugaa
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Yeah thats what i meant to say...
Sorry
Posted by masseur
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since when did we ever know the price of a phone on announcement day? hell, we don't even know what price the P990 will be or have a definitve idea of the K800 price which is imminent
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this is in the first post and I also answered the same question again on the first page
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