Sony Ericsson announce the Z550a, Z558, W830 and W958c Walkman phones
28 September 2006 by Olav Hellesø-Knutsen Sony Ericsson today announced four new phones, to extend the reach of its global product portfolio and meet a number of specific regional market needs. Three models, the Z558, and W830 & W958c Walkman phones are optimised for China and South East Asia markets. The Z550a is optimised for the Americas.
Z558 is a Tri-Band GPRS 900/1800/1900 clamshell featuring a touch screen for Chinese character input, as well as Thai and English text recognition and one-touch SMS access . It is the first phone non-Symbian based phone in the Sony Ericsson range to offer a touch screen & stylus; and will be available as both the Z558c for mainland China and the Z558i for other selected markets. Finished in a combination of brushed metal and high gloss material, the Z558 is equally at home during the busy working day or helping to organise family life. It features a bright 262k colour touch screen and a 1.3 Megapixel camera for work and leisure. With 18MB of onboard memory expandable to 1GB, the Z558 has plenty of storage and connects easily to a PC for fast transfer of multimedia files and synchronisation with your phone book and calendar. Available in ‘Expresso Black’ from October 2006. The W830 Walkman® phone is a specially adapted EDGE version of the recently introduced W850 Walkman® phone. It will be available in two versions; W830c will feature a Chinese keypad whereas the W830i will be aimed at other SE Asia markets. This addition to the Walkman® phone line-up is aimed at a youth audience that demands a phone with cool looks, a first rate music experience and a quality camera, all in one package. Available in Precious Black & Golden White, the W830 is a good looking ‘slider’ phone that offers fast music downloads direct to the handset. W830 is configured out-of-the-box for the PlayNow™ 3.0 direct music download service featuring Sony BMG artists. The phone is also 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. Storage for music tracks is plentiful; a 1GB memory stick PRO Duo™ is supplied in-box, which is enough for around 900 songs in e-AAC+. This can be expanded to up to 4GB. The Walkman player 2.0 simplifies navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs or music albums. Plus there is also TrackID™, which allows you to record a few seconds of a song, either via the microphone or the in-built FM radio. With one click you can then send that clip to the Gracenote® worldwide music database which will identify the track and relay the information back to the phone. So no more arguing about who sang that song on the radio! The W958c Walkman® phone is a GSM/GPRS variant of the ultra stylish W950, and has been developed specifically for Chinese market. It is equipped with a large 2.6" touch screen for simple navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs or music albums. The W958c is Sony Ericsson’s second Symbian v9.1, UIQ 3.0 based handset for the Chinese market, the first being the recently launched M608c. With a 4GB flash memory, the W958c Walkman® phone can store up to 4,000 songs. It’s quick and easy to get these onto the phone in the first place, with transfer speeds of music from PC to phone of approximately 3 minutes per gigabyte. And thanks to the graphic-rich interface on the Walkman 2.0 player, it is simple to navigate around the music library by song, artist or playlist. It is also possible to search visually by browsing through downloaded album covers. The W958c Walkman® phone is also fully configured for the PlayNow™ 3.0 full-track music download service featuring Sony BMG artists. It offers all the benefits of a combined phone and music player, enabling multi-tasking between listening to music, emailing and browsing the Internet. The Z550a is a Quad Band GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 clamshell phone, developed specifically for the Americas market. It features a 1.3 Megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and bright 262k colour display. With 25MB of onboard memory, expandable to 1GB with Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support, it is possible to store a large collection of pictures; or share them using MMS, Bluetooth™ or e-mail. A thumbnail gallery feature makes it easy to search your shots both visually and according to the date they were taken. The Z550a also has full HTML internet browsing and optional Bluetooth™ headset and car-handsfree kit for wireless freedom on the move. Z558 - Features at a glance Imaging and Messaging:
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Comments On 19 Oct 22:02 sunny wrote i have the w850i but it dont seem to have track id but the demo tour on the phone shows a demonstration of it can anyone help On 14 Oct 18:39 sps wrote OH bro.I'm going for the k800i On 1 Oct 00:47 saliq wrote PATHETIC! haahhaha! SE is entering the loserville valley! hahah.. On 30 Sep 17:18 naitx wrote they are going to release w830 here in the philippines instead of w850. nobody cares about EDGE here. we need the 3g w850. what the hell did SE-Phils think when they made that move? It's stupid. On 30 Sep 12:39 antichrist wrote it't the same s**t like k750-w800-w700-w810. too bad On 30 Sep 03:26 laffen wrote W830 has EDGE On 30 Sep 03:06 sloopjohnb wrote One word: BORING On 29 Sep 23:56 naitx wrote what happened to the 3g capability of w850? why downgrade it to w830 w/o 3g? On 29 Sep 18:52 efsinformaregmailcom wrote Those models are for the market abroad. I can't wait until the SE W850i is coming to the Dutch telecom stores. I want to renew my subscription, hopefully he will be available for free. On 29 Sep 18:26 AbdulkadeerAdamu wrote Honestly speaking in all the time that i've startted holdin a mobile i never ever held another product better then sony erickson, coz the've gat what mobile really need all. On 29 Sep 15:58 Residentevil wrote A drop of water in the ocean. On 29 Sep 10:37 laffen wrote These are not upgrades. They are already released in Europe with other names W950, Z550i etc. The models announced yesterday (W958c, Z550a, Z558i) support other Networks (850/1800/1900) and will be sold to the American and Asian market. They will not be sold in Europe. On 29 Sep 03:13 3GDude wrote What?!? Nothing with 3G. How am I supposed to like these minor "upgrades".... On 29 Sep 02:47 aswin wrote think more about it. these new phones will definitely widen the market possibilities for SE to take.. actually i think it's a good step. besides it doesn't take a lot of r&d fund to produce all these models. On 29 Sep 02:44 Rifqi wrote Z558 with WLAN 802.11b? Here : http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=pp1_1_1&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10539 On 29 Sep 01:16 ahmad wrote i like w900i only On 29 Sep 00:47 SloopJohnB wrote ...and some people criticized nokia for releasing the xpressmusic line this week... On 28 Sep 23:01 tindo196 wrote pointless exercise-SE seem to have some time on their hands to waste ,just dont waste ours On 28 Sep 21:32 AFE wrote wow....all SE did is just change the numbers and added some minor features nobody cared about. way to go. dissappointed..really. at least they could have had a new design..but no, all those phones look like the old design..just bit bigger On 28 Sep 21:19 Sloopjohnb wrote There is one positive point about the models released by se this year... My investment on w800 is gonna last longer than i thought! Hehehe On 28 Sep 20:37 setra wrote Yah, I think many SE fans are disappointed this time. No new excellent product. On 28 Sep 20:28 maryme wrote Very outdated! Its so sad. On 28 Sep 19:34 Xugaa wrote Erm... 100% pointless! On 28 Sep 19:03 p990i wrote What are these phones???? Change of names and add some minor features?? SE must be sleeping... On 28 Sep 17:52 muzzy wrote just proves that NOKIA is goin forward and SE ar going back to nothing. if any one at SE is reading this "you guys are crap" the p990 was sopposed to come out last year and now it is out of date. the Nokia N95 proves my point. On 28 Sep 17:37 619 wrote non sense for this phones. wtf sonyericsson?! On 28 Sep 15:13 Yanosh94 wrote Nothing new , just minor update On 28 Sep 15:02 SuperG wrote A touchscreen clamshell??!?! Quite a non-sense. Nothing new really |
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