As expected, Sony Ericsson today unveil its new W705 walkman phone and Wireless Home Audio System MBS-900 in conjunction with the MTV Europe Music Awards. The W705 features the same superior sound quality as the W980 Walkman phone which was rated “best audio experience” in a trial conducted in Germany by TESTfactory. The W705 includes popular Walkman features such as the music recognition application TrackID, SensMe, for matching your mood to the music and Shake control to change tracks with the flick of your hand.
The W705 also has a metal finish combines with a 2.4-inch display screen and compact slider. Use the 3.2 megapixel camera to snap photos of friends and upload them using Wi-Fi to your social networking site for all to see. When browsing the internet, it will automatically change to landscape mode with a tilt of the phone.
The Wireless Home Audio System MBS-900 connects wirelessly to your mobile phone through Bluetooth and has built in dual speaker and sub-woofer. It also accepts music input via the 3.5mm headphone jack. With just the MBS-900 you can listen to radio directly as it has built in FM receiver. The Wireless Home Audio System MBS-900 will be available from Q1 2009
Also announced today is the W705u Walkman. UMA enables users to seamlessly roam between the mobile network and local area networks thanks to GSM/Wi-Fi dual capabilities. The W705u is exclusive to the operator Orange in markets where Orange is present.
The W705 and W705u (exclusive to Orange) support GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSPA 900/2100. W705 will be available in selected markets from Q1 2009 in the colours Luxury Silver and Passionate Red. W705u (exclusive to Orange) will be available from Q1 2009 in the colour.
Sony Ericsson W705 Walkman phone Specification
- Size: 95 x 47.5 x 14.3 mm
- Weight: 98 grams
- Screen: 262,144 colour TFT
- Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels
- Size: 2.4 inches
- Phone memory: Up to 120MB
- Memory Stick Micro (M2) support (4GB card included)
- Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 10 hrs
- Standby time GSM/GPRS: Up to 400 hrs
- Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hours
- Standby time UMTS: Up to 350 hours
- Music listening time: Up to 20 hours
- Networks: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- UMTS/HSPA 900/2100
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- 3.2 Megapixel
