The affordable walkman phone has been announced today at CES 2007

Jan 8, 2007 09:49 GMT  ·  By

The appeal of the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone broadens with the introduction of the W200 - a blend of an easy-to-use mobile phone and the key features needed to make a first step into 'music on your mobile'.

With the W200 Walkman phone, you can store up to 37 full length tracks (or about four albums) and it's easy to replace them when it's time for a change. Simply transfer music from your PC with the Disc2Phone music management software supplied. This latest addition to Sony Ericsson's musical family will be available in two renowned Walkman phone colors (Rhythm Black & Pulse White) and has stamina for up to 18 hours of music listening.

To make it easy to get to your music, the W200 features a dedicated Walkman key that takes you straight to the Walkman player menu. If you need to share your music with friends, then the 128MB Memory Stick Micro (M2) lets you do this in an instant. And it is always possible to upgrade to a larger Memory Stick if you need to expand your music library: the 1GB Stick available now will hold up to 255 full-length tracks.

The FM Radio allows users to pre-set up to 20 of their favorite stations. Listen-in via the color-matched Stereo Headset HPM-64 - the first to feature Bass Reflex, an innovation that preserves audio quality when the bass is turned up. Owners can even use the radio as their alarm clock, using the built-in speakerphone rather than the stereo headphones.

As well as being a music player, the W200 is a fully featured 'multi-media' phone. It features a VGA camera with 4x digital zoom and integrated photo album so that you can capture and store those spontaneous snapshots, or share them with friends and family. It is also fully equipped for video messaging, offers a full HTML web browser and delivers business-friendly tools such as push email & PC synchronization.

The W200 Walkman phone is a GPRS 900/1800/1900 & GPRS 850/1800/1900 handset and will be available in selected markets from Q2 2007.