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Sony Ericsson today announces two new Walkman; the W880/W888 and W610 build on the success of the W810 (20 million Walkman phones have been sold to date).

At just 9.4mm thin, the W880/W888 is the slimmest phone yet and combines the Walkman experience with a device that fits easily into your pocket. The 1GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) provided in-box gives you room to store up to 900 tracks, whilst the host of innovative music applications (such as Walkman Player 2.0 & Disc2Phone) make it easy to get music onto your phone in the first place & search through play lists once its there. All of this, plus a 2.0 megapixel camera, is packed into a UMTS phone that’s as slim as a standard CD case. The phone has Bluetooth audio streaming, a 18 hour battery life, Flight Mode, and comes in either Steel Silver or Flame Black. The W880 Walkman phone is a UMTS 2100 GPRS 900/1800/1900 music phone and will be available in selected markets from Q1 2007. The W888 Walkman phone is a GSM variant, minus the video telephony functionality, intended specifically for China where 3G services are not established.

The W610 Walkman phone is all about the detail, whether this is detail in design that builds on the look of earlier Walkman phones or the detailed combination of mobile music with a credible digital camera. The W610 stores up to 470 full-length music tracks on the 512MB Memory Stick Micro (M2) provided, and offers TrackID music recognition application; a feature that lets the user record a clip of an unknown music track onto their phone and immediately receive a notification of the track name, artist and album. Add to this a 2.0 megapixel camera with auto focus, moblogging and a horizontal camera menu and the W610 is a credible fusion of phone, music player & digital camera.

The W610 Walkman phone is an EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 music camera phone and will be available in selected markets from Q2 2007 in Plush Orange and Satin Black.