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doohan
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Sony Ericsson says it sold 3 mln Walkman phones
Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:44 AM ET
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BARCELONA, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research)(ERICb.ST: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it had sold more than 3 million of its Walkman phone models since the first one came on the market six months ago.
The company also unveiled a new Walkman phone model.
"Bringing the Walkman brand to Sony Ericsson phones was one of our achievements in 2005 and we have now sold more than 3 million Walkman phones," Sony Ericsson President Miles Flint said in a statement.
The Japanese-Swedish joint venture, which was the world's fifth-biggest handset maker in 2005, unveiled its sixth Walkman model.
The W950, a purple 3G phone with an orange backlight and 4 gigabytes of flash memory storage capacity to hold thousands of songs, provides the same storage as Apple's (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iPod nano MP3 music players.
The device, due in the third quarter, will be priced between 300 and 400 euros ($357-476).
"This certainly ups the ante in the battle between Apple and the phone makers for mobile music," said analyst Ben Wood at market research group Gartner.
The W950 runs on the Symbian operating system. Sony Ericsson said the choice of Symbian underlined that the British software maker now also caters to phones for consumers and not just the small niche of expensive smartphones for business users. It is Sony Ericsson's third Symbian model launched in 2006.
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max_wedge
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3 mil! Very successful cash-in on a faltering trademark  Well done SE.
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PeterKay
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Well Done 
Thats a lotta handsets..
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ares
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Great number  I wonder how many million of k750īs were sold???
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