Sony Ericsson W8 Review And Specs

Sony Ericsson has just announced the first mobile phone from the Walkman series of Sony Ericsson W8 which runs the Android OS. From physical appearance can be said W8 use chassis / body XPERIA X8, but with a little extra fancy colors and logo WALKMAN.

Just like his brother, X8, Sony Ericsson W8 using 3-inch touch screen capacitive with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, 3.5 mm headphone jack, and 3.2MP camera. Inside was a single-core 600MHz processor, with 168MB of RAM. SE W8 still will run the Android 2.1, which is certainly unfortunate, because Android phone on the market now or even regular use Froyo Gingerbread. However, this is the first Walkman phone that runs Google's mobile OS, which also will use the UI Timescape. Mobile Walkman W8 will also come with stereo headset Sony Ericsson, MH410.

Sony Ericsson W8 will be available in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam starting from Q2 2011 in a choice of colors - Azure Blue, Red Metallic, and Iconic Orange. W8 SE Price unknown at this time.

Specification W8
GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
Announced 2011, April
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2011, Q2
SIZE Dimensions 99 x 54 x 15 mm
Weight 104 g
DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 320 x 480 pixels, 3.0 inches
- Scratch-resistant surface
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Timescape UI
SOUND Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 128 MB storage, 168 MB RAM
Card slot microSD, up to 16GB
DATA GPRS Up to 85.6 kbps
EDGE Up to 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
CAMERA Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels
Features Geo-tagging
Video Yes, VGA@30fps
Secondary No
FEATURES OS Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
CPU 600 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push email, IM
Browser HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes
Colors Azure, Orange, Red
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- SNS integration
- Digital compass
- Walkman player
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
- TrackID music recognition
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input
BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Po 1200 mAh
Stand-by Up to 446 h (2G) / Up to 476 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 4 h 45 min
Music play Up to 23 h 40 min