14 DAY TRIAL // A new Sony Ericsson concept phone appeared these days, Sony Ericsson W520i, a handset that should integrate into the Walkman series if the Swedish-Japanese manufacturer will ever decide to produce it. If not, we'll be left with just a concept, but at least it's a very nice one, as all the latest Sony Ericsson concepts are.
This new W520i handset, imagined by Muhammad-Oli of the Esato forums, lacks a full keypad, and instead offers a wide display with touchscreen interface that enables finger navigation and typing on a virtual keyboard, just like on Apple's iPhone, Samsung F490 and all the other touchscreen phones. Unlike the iPhone or Samsung F490 though, W520i offers some basic hardware keys, so navigating without using the touchscreen is also possible. Sony Ericsson W520i's screen dimensions were not "imagined" yet by its creator, but, by the way it looks in the picture, the display should be at least a 3 inches one, so if the phone is to be produced someday it will surely have a high pixel resolution.
The music features of Sony Ericsson W520i include the new Walkman 3.0 Touch Screen software, Bluetooth with A2DP, SensMe (creates playlists based on users' mood), Shake control and TrackID. Moreover, the phone has FM Radio with RDS and a new MP3 ring tone application that allows users to personalize and create their own ring tones. Four stereo speakers are integrated in the back of the phone to make the mobile audio experience complete.
The concept phone also packs a 2 Megapixel camera with LED flash, Auto focus, photo fix, image stabilizer and VGA video recording at 30 frames per second. Along with the Sony Cyber-shot interface, the above mentioned features make W520i's camera a great one, even though it only offers 2 Megapixels. Other specs of W520i reveal that it should be a quad-band GSM phone with EDGE, but no 3G.
As in the case of all concepts, Sony Ericsson W520i has little chances to become a real phone, but let's hope it will in the end, because it looks like a very nice device that shouldn't come with a high price.