Sony Ericsson W960i in 2nd Quarter of year 2007

Sony Ericsson W960i Tri-band Walkman Phone announced last month by Sony Ericsson. It looks like the Symbian OS based handset will launch earlier rather than later. Of course, this is a Walkman phone and these latest additions to the Sony Ericsson range come with an enhanced multimedia management suite including access to the PlayNow download service. The music capabilities of Sony Ericsson's Walkman phones have always been well regarded, and the W960i promises to be even more impressive. Multimedia support includes MP3, AAC and eAAC+ audio plus a variety of video formats.

The company's newest smartphone will roll out in second quarter of 2007 and not in December as some people thought.

Sony Ericsson W960i will feature a a 2.6", 262k color TFT touchscreen (240 x 320 pixels), a 3.2 megapixel camera with 3x digital zoom, Walkman Touch Player, an 8GB hard drive and Wi-Fi.

Sony Ericsson W960i features include stereo Bluetooth, a built-in FM radio, web browser, email client and RSS reader. On top of that there are document viewers and editors, personal information management functions, email synchronisation, handwriting recognition and a whole host of other goodies that mean that the W960i should be equally useful for business users- (we can see that this will be a rival to the popular BlackBerry Pearl in this respect.

Sony Ericsson W960i is an unusually elegant looking device, available in one colour only (Vinyl Black). Despite the wide range of features, Sony Ericsson W960i weighs a reasonable 119 grams and measures 109 x 55 x 16mm. Sony Ericsson anticipate that the W960i should be available in 2nd Quarter of year 2007.