Oh my. Looks like Gracenote has unintentionally stolen Sony Ericsson's thunder by outing their phones before SE's "
next big thing" later today. According to their press release, Gracenote's mobile music service will be embedded on the "new Walkman models W910, W960 and the K850 Cyber-shot." Of course, there's still some mystery as we don't yet know which internal codename --
Sofia,
Maria/Mooi,
Shinobu, or possibly others -- matches up with those new product numbers. As to Gracenote, well they'll provide search and discovery, song ID and playlisting, and allow users to transfer music between home libraries, on-line music stores, and their new SE phones. But really, it's only the phones you're interested in right?
Update: Well, well now
BelgiqueMobile seems to have the leaked pics and specs: 5 megapixel cybershot K850i with HSDPA/EDGE; W910 HSDPA Walkman 3.0 slider with 2 megapixel camera; W960 Walkman
Touch player with UIQ 3.1, WiFi, and 3.2 megapixel camera. There's more, but not more if you knowwhutamean?
[Thanks, Thomas B. and CedricG]
posted Jun 14th 2007 at 12:38PM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
NineT9 @ Jun 15th 2007 2:41AM
sony ftw
Deluxe @ Jun 14th 2007 8:43AM
Unless you were expecting Sony Ericsson to unveil a series of Motor Homes, does this really come as much of a shock to *anyone*?
athos_blatz @ Jun 14th 2007 8:54AM
On a press briefing SE's managers showed us a very cheap clamshell and a business model too. No specs 'till 7 PM (GMT+1). Unfortunately we couldn't make photos. One of the new phones will be an HSDPA model.
James @ Jun 14th 2007 8:51AM
Latest developments - plural. While this may be one feature, no doubt there will be more to come out of this event.
Architype @ Jun 14th 2007 9:04AM
It'll be interesting to see how SE manage to put all these features into one phone. Some of these things like song recognition have been available through 3rd party vendors and they're not always that great.
Lets just hope that they finally have the sense to allow you to permanently remove greeting.m4a once and for all.
Mongoos150 @ Jun 15th 2007 12:23AM
Awesome! I've been waiting for Sofia! Sony Ericsson, PLEASE give me a reason to move from Samsung to buy one of your phones... the K810 is a great piece of equipment, but it's still rather bulky and is only tri-band. Here's to hoping it will be a quad-band phone (though I doubt it)...
alex @ Jun 14th 2007 12:48PM
Actually in that picture, the 960 and 910 are supposed to be switched, and the 960 in that picture is Shinobu.
Thomas Ricker @ Jun 14th 2007 1:10PM
thanks, fixed.
Thomas
a-maze @ Jun 14th 2007 4:04PM
it's belgique mobile. As in Belgique the country, a.k.a. Belgium.
autumnrvocals @ Jun 14th 2007 5:33PM
does anyone know their release dates?