Sony Ericsson W900 Launched Today      October 18, 2005

Sony Ericsson does it again, just a few months back they had released the first walkman phone, the W800i, Sony Ericsson today annouces the Sony Ericsson W900i, the companies first UMTS handset. Wondering what UMTS means; well let me tell you UMTS stands for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System. Two other walkman phones, that were annouced in June and August are about to be launched: US gets a major share with the W600 and the W550i for everybody else.

Lets talk about Features of the Sony Ericsson W900i include a 262.000 color screen, a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash (highest megapixel phone till now). The W900i also has the ability to capture video at up to 30 fps (frames per second). Other features include Bluetooth, an MP3/AAC/AAC+ music player, 470MB built-in memory, which can store between 120 and 240 songs (that's what they say).

As a music player, the W900 makes it easy to import, transfer, manage and play music from operators' over-the-air (OTA) music download services, allowing tracks to be downloaded directly to the phone, while on-the-move and from a PC. Stereo Portable Handsfree HPM-80 with remote control, which can be used to operate the music player without having to touch the phone.

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Sony Ericsson Unveils UMTS P990 Smartphone      October 13, 2005

Sony Ericsson emphasised its continued commitment to Symbian OS today with the announcement of its next generation smartphone to the global development community. The P990 will be the first commercially available smartphone to adopt the enhanced Symbian OS version 9.1 and UIQ 3 software platform. This flagship UMTS smartphone is Wi-Fi enabled, has a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus and features a new hardware keyboard beneath the flip-down keypad. The phone will start shipping during Q1 of 2006.

To ensure a large proportion of applications are available on the new Symbian and UIQ software platform when the P990 goes on sale, Sony Ericsson has decided to announce the smartphone well in advance of availability so that developers have time to create and certify as many applications as possible.

As with its predecessors, the P990 is designed to be first and foremost a great mobile phone. It also offers all the benefits of UMTS including video calling, high-bandwidth multi-media downloads and the ability to browse the Internet with full HTML pages. These are viewed in landscape on the new Opera 8 browser. In addition, the P990 is prepared for all major push e-mail clients enabling full e-mail access with attachments, anywhere, anytime.

The P990 ....

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