Posted by PeterKay
Walkman® phone for everyone
London, 7 January – The appeal of the Sony Ericsson Walkman® phone broadens today with the introduction of the W200; a blend of easy-to-use mobile phone and the key features needed to make a first step into ‘music on your mobile’.
With the W200 Walkman® phone you can store up to 37 full length tracks* (or about four albums) and it’s easy to replace them when it’s time for a change. Simply transfer music from your PC with the Disc2Phone music management software supplied. This latest addition to Sony Ericsson’s musical family will be available in two renowned Walkman® phone colours (Rhythm Black & Pulse White) and has stamina for up to 18 hours of music listening. So you can be sure that your favourite tracks are always with you!
“The W200 is an affordable music phone that compliments your existing MP3 player,” says Steve Walker, Head of Product Marketing at Sony Ericsson. “It’s not everyday that you want to carry lots of devices with you; and with the W200 you have enough music storage for your current playlist. And if you tire of these, the FM Radio allows you to quickly tune-in to your favourite drive-time show.”
To make it easy to get to your music, the W200 features a dedicated Walkman® key that takes you straight to the Walkman player menu. If you need to share your music with friends then the 128MB Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) lets you do this in an instant. And it is always possible to upgrade to a larger Memory Stick if you need to expand your music library: the 1GB Stick available now will hold up to 255 full-length tracks.
If you want to catch up with the news or listen to your favourite DJ, then the FM Radio allows you to pre-set up to 20 of your favourite stations. Listen-in via the colour-matched Stereo Headset HPM-64; the first to feature Bass Reflex, an innovation that preserves audio quality when the bass is turned up. You can even use the radio as your alarm clock, using the in-built speakerphone rather than the stereo headphones.
As well as being a music player, the W200 is a fully featured ‘multi-media’ phone. It features a VGA camera with 4x digital zoom and integrated photo album so that you can capture and store those spontaneous snapshots, or share them with friends and family. It is also fully equipped for video messaging, offers a full HTML web browser and delivers business-friendly tools such as push email & PC synchronisation.
You can make W200 an even bigger part of your music life with a host of accessories. Take the MPS-60 Portable Speakers with you anywhere for an instant party and or enjoy music while you’re working with the MDS-60 Music Desk Stand. If its music at home that you are after, then plug your Walkman® phone into the MDS-70 Home Audio System for home-hifi quality sound.
The W200 Walkman® phone is a GPRS 900/1800/1900 & GPRS 850/1800/1900 handset and will be available in selected markets from Q2 2007.
* Storage of up to 37 tracks based on 128MB Memory Stick Micro™ and up to 27MB internal memory. Actual figures will vary according to compression rate.
W200 Walkman® phone at a glance:
Music
Walkman® Media Player 1.0
Portable stereo headset HPM-64 (Bass Reflex enabled)
128MB Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) card
Memory Stick slot (expandable up to 2GB)
MP3 and AAC
Up to 18 hours of music listening
Disc2Phone (Music PC Software)
RDS FM Radio with 20 station pre-sets
USB Cable DCU-60
OMA DRM phase 1
Full music accessory support (see below)
Imaging & Messaging
VGA camera with 4x Digital Zoom
Java MIDP 2.0
Video Messaging (H.263) - capture/play-back/streaming
Push email
PC Synchronization
HTML Full Browser
Support
128 x 160 pixel UBC (Ultra Bright Colour) 65k colour screen
Up to 27 MB internal memory
SMS, EMS, MMS
Wallpapers/Themes
Infrared
Speakerphone
Music Accessories
Portable Speakers MPS-60
Music Desk Stand MDS-60
Home Audio System MDS-70
Music Cable MMC-60
Availability and versions
GPRS 900/1800/1900 & GPRS 850/1800/1900
Talk time: Up to 7 hours
Standby time: Up to 360 hours
Available in Rhythm Black & Pulse White in selected markets from Q2 ’07.
Posted by PeterKay
Lots of pictures Here.
Posted by goldenface
A Walkman for Everyone:
Not a bad looking phone. Its nicely branded and eye-catchingly styled - same as the W800i.
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Posted by PeterKay
Certainly is eye catching.
Posted by aremaboy
It's so girly..
Posted by deepsme
This one's for men...
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I think its Unisex
Posted by leeboy13
i think thats a very nice phone indeed
hopefully the price wont be too much
Posted by BobaFett
what does bassreflex means on the earfones?
edit: found it in the text
the balck one looks like k510
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Posted by tranced
it looks like a k310. as it says: a walkman for everyone, this phone is a good looking one (especially the black one). we couldn't expect more.
is trying to reach evergone with its med-end phones.
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Posted by aka Dus
Looks to me like its for the youth market.
I quite like those headphones. an alternative to the in-ear, that's still in-ear!
Posted by steele
it's for teens definitely.
the white one looks like a baby w800
great addition to SE walkman phones.
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Does this mean the radio works without the headphones?
I'm confused
Are they saying it was previously only possible to use the radio as our alarm clock with the headphones?
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Posted by PeterKay
Loud Radio, sounds good.
Posted by mustafabay
Aadnilem, that is what it currently says on the W200 page, any idea what it means? And I see it has different earphones and doesn't seem to have a 3.5mm socket, but then what do I care.
Posted by goldenface
May be they're just trying to dress it up as something. I'll be surprised if it has a louder speaker than the W900i.
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Think it means that you can use the radio as an alarm on the loudspeaker, but you still have to have the headphones plugged in - you'd have no aerial otherwise! Be nice though if they can produce a phone with a built in internal aerial
Posted by Dale_jeffs
how much? budget to me i think. 79 - 100 ?
Posted by goldenface
@Dale_Jeffs
The W300i is was priced at around £80 so we guess this would be £60 - £70, which is pretty cheap for the package.
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Posted by Bambino
is a trully king of low end fone 
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Posted by leeboy13
if this is under £100 thats amazing!
i will be snapping these up for the family if thats the case
happy days!
Posted by jepherberich
all phones that have onboard radio can do that; i wonder why they'll have to state that in the specs page. lack of features for this low-end, i reckon?
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Posted by jcwhite_uk
Has anyone noticed that the press release is dated yesterday. Weird, dont se know what day it is?
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Posted by parsnip
lol looks very like a waklman t610
Posted by shaliron
I reckon it's a great low end phone. Less than 60 pounds on PAYG and it's a winner.
SE's doing great in the music market with
It's still hard to think that is Sony, not 
Posted by PeterKay
Plenty more quality Pictures here.......
Posted by tranced
these pics are very good looking. nice modeling! they should have joined the w810 too and not the w800 only. white and orange like the w800 and black and orange like the w810.
Posted by jepherberich
actually a black W200 will available with the white one. Press photos at http://sonyericsson.com/press
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Posted by PeterKay
So we now have colour options too, brilliant.
If this is Under £60 it should sell like hot cakes.
Posted by Ranjith
BassReflex sound good......hope the future WM get it too...!
Posted by PeterKay
Great Review on the W200 done by Mobile Review, Read Here