Sony Ericsson Announces W600 Walkman Phone

Sony Ericsson today announced a second Walkman mobile phone, the Sony Ericsson W600 in New York, a unique all-in-one compact device. With the W600 consumers can handle phone calls while listening to digital music on the move, capture great quality mega pixel images and video, experience 3D game play as well as access the Internet and e-mail.

“The W600 is an exciting new product leveraging the heritage of our parent companies and demonstrates the vision when we combined Sony and Ericsson,” said Miles Flint, president of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.

“Sony Ericsson led the way with high quality photos from a mobile phone, and now consumers can use their mobile phone to easily access their favourite music any where any time. Like all Sony Ericsson handsets, the W600 is a phone first with superb functionality and easy access to digital content and applications that allow consumers to do more, hear more and experience more,” Flint adds.

The W600 is the second in a series of Walkman phones that deliver an open-standard-based digital music player for the mass market combined with a wide variety of key features.

• Walkman™ media player
• Mega Bass™ and stereo widening
• Stereo headset, USB cable and Applications Suite supplied
• 1.3 megapixel camera

The Sony Ericsson W600 will be available in the American Market at the beginning of the fourth quarter 2005.