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Sony Ericsson cooking up W380i, K660i, and W890i for Tuesday?
Sony Ericsson's been announcing new models at a pretty nice clip lately -- and seeing how we've seen at least two of these handsets in the wild already, we've no reason to cast too much doubt on Cellpassion's claim that the company will be announcing the W380i, K660i, and W890i on Tuesday. Starting at the bottom, the W380i is a clamshell that we caught an all-too-brief glimpse of a few months back; it replaces the W300i, and although 3G apparently isn't in the cards here, it'll feature the gesture-based control for its music player that Sony Ericsson's been including on some of its latest models. The K660i (pictured) rocks HSDPA 2100 alongside quadband EDGE, and it'll up the standard for web browsing among Sony Ericsson's dumbphones by allowing landscape browsing and using an actual mouse pointer for navigation; this one's pretty much a lock since they've already thrown up the official product page for it. Finally, the W890i replaces the W880i and includes 3G, gesture control, and a 3.2 megapixel cam. Just a few more hours 'til we get to celebrate or debunk this spread, eh?[Via Cellpassion]
More details surface on Sony Ericsson's W890i
The new Sony Ericsson W890i we saw late last month is getting a bit more fleshed out as the weeks trickle by. If you believe the spec sheet, it'll be available in maroon as well as the black pictured above, comes packing quad-band GSM, UMTS, and, wait for it, HSDPA at 850 MHz. How can this be? A Sony Ericsson handset with HSDPA that'll work on AT&T in the US and Rogers Wireless in Canada is a like a cellular dream come true. Sadly, internal memory disappoints at only 40 MB, though it can be bolstered by shelling out for some Memory Stick Micro (M2). Not much else new can be gleaned but we're hoping for pricing and a launch date soon.
Sony Ericsson W890i to make good on W880i's shortcomings?
A random Polish auction site probably isn't the first place we'd think to look for leaked prototype Sony Ericsson hardware, but heck, maybe it should be. This here stylish, brown, brushed metal candybar showed up recently on allegro.pl, bearing the telltale "SE123" badge on its rear and all the signs of a successor to the 9.4mm W880i: a listed 3.2 megapixel camera (up from the Ai's 2 megapixel piece), UMTS, 12mm case thickness, Memory Stick Micro M2 slot, and a slightly -- okay, significantly less ridiculous numeric keypad. You might argue that it's a step down in the looks department from its supposed predecessor, but with the better cam, better keypad, and we'd imagine a slightly tighter fit by launch, we're guessing it'll have a few takers. You didn't forget EDGE this time around, did you, Sony Ericsson?[Via Unwired View]
