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A few more images of an upcoming Walkman handset from Sony Ericsson have recently leaked out.  This time the images are of a red slider-styled Rika.  It was not that long ago when we first saw the G705 make an appearance, of course, in addition to the new color, these latest images also clearly show the Walkman branding.

As of now, an official release date has not been announced. Unofficially, we are hearing that it will be coming sometime in October with sales beginning a little closer to the holiday shopping season.  Keep reading to check out another pic of the G705 in red…

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Finally, Sony Ericsson has officially announced that it is all set to launch its much-hyped and highly anticipated phone, the XPERIA X1. The good news is, the official launch date will be at the end of this month. Bad news is, it will only be initially available in the UK, Germany and Sweden. Other countries, including the US will have to wait until Q4 before Sony Ericsson makes the XPERIA X1 available.

To make the official launch on September 30 a little more special, Sony Ericsson will start a webcast countdown of the launch beginning on September 15. During the webcast Sony Ericsson will preview an in-depth demonstration of the XPERIA X1 and the first episode of the alternative reality thriller Johnny X.

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Yet another Sony Ericsson handset being leaked prior to an official announcement. The latest is the G705, a seemingly decent mid-range slider style handset.

The G705 is expected to feature a 2.4-inch display, a 3.2-megapixel camera with flash, built-in GPS, 128MB of internal memory with a memory card slot for extra storage and running the A2 software platform. Sadly it seems that Sony Ericsson has decided to not include two important items, auto-focus for the camera, or a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.

Although nothing official has been announced, the rumor is calling for Sony Ericsson to officially unveil the G705 during an upcoming press event that is scheduled to take place in about two weeks. In the meantime keep reading to check out some pics…

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Sony Ericsson continues to expand its line-up of Walkman phones with the announcement of the W902, W595 and W302. All of these Walkman phones feature Sony Ericsson’s music recognition application called TrackID, music and mood matching technology called SensMe and shake control for changing tracks with the flick of the user’s hand. Here are the things that you can expect from these new Walkman phones.

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It seems like this is now becoming a regular occurrence, with yet another series of leaked images showing off the latest Sony Ericsson handset.

This time it’s the W302, which is also going by the code name of “Feng” and unlike the previously leaked 5-megapixel W902, the W302 offers more of a standard set of features, possibly being targeted for the low to mid-range market.

The details that we currently know are that the W302 will be a candybar style handset that will offer a 176 x 220 pixel display, 2-megapixel camera with auto-focus, and it will be a Walkman phone that is running SE’s A2 software. Pricing and a release date still remain a mystery, but in the meantime enjoy the pics.

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Another series of leaked images of another upcoming handset from Sony Ericsson. The images come courtesy of the Arabic SE4M forums, and not only give a pretty good look at the handset, but they also include a few details about what we can expect.

As typical with leaked images, the pricing and release date have not been mentioned. But we do have enough details to make this something to look forward to. Based on the images we can tell that it will have a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. It is also a Walkman phone, however the images are not showing any headphone jack, and based on previous models, lets just hope that it comes as a standard 3.5mm jack and not an special size.

Keep reading to check out a few of the images…

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Another newly leaked Sony Ericsson handset, this time it is the successor to the W580, which is dubbed the W595 and comes with a codename of Linda has just surfaced courtesy of Le Journal du Geek.

The W595 is a slider style Walkman handset and will feature an FM radio, the Walkman 3 player and will be running the A2 software platform. Similar to some other recent Sony Ericsson handsets the W595 will include Google Maps pre-installed and also have a 3-dimensional accelerometer.

While SE has been quite on the release date for the W595, it is rumored to be announced during July. Aside from the model pictured, it is also expected that it will be available in a red and white colored model. Keep reading to check out a few more images of the SE W595…

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The other Sony Ericsson camera phone which created some hype the past couple of days aside from the S302 is the C905. Who wouldn’t get excited with the fact that this camera phone boasts of an 8.1 megapixel camera which in digital camera standard is already in the mid-range class? No wonder, Sony Ericsson is releasing the C905 as the first of its camera phone model in its new Cyber-shot camera phone series.

And like we said in our previous post, the C905 also features some nicely placed camera controls and functionality. Now we know that these include a Xenon camera flash, face detection auto-focus, smart contrast and image stabilizer. All of these are common features of your usual digital cameras.

In addition Sony Ericsson’s official announcement also confirmed other features of this phone which we already told you about including; a 2.4-inch QVGA display, Wi-Fi, built-in GPS, accelerometer, TV-out, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.1, Exchange ActiveSync and support for UMTS and HSDPA. The C905 would also come packed with a 2GB Memory Stick Micro.

This camera phone will be available in Night Black, Ice Silver and Copper Gold sometime in Q4.

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Like we said yesterday, the Sony Ericsson S302 camera phone will be part of the official announcement that Sony Ericsson will make today. This compact camera phone belongs to Sony Ericsson’s Snapshot series which ironically doesn’t have too much to offer with its 2.0 megapixel camera resolution. However what made this phone worthy of being included in the series is the slew of add-on camera features that it carries including 2.5x digital zoom, photo fix and photo light features, picture blogging, video light and video recording functions.

Aside from its camera features, the S302 also boasts of other features which we already mentioned such as; a 2-inch TFT display, Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP), USB 2.0, FM Radio and the Access NetFront browser and a 20mb internal memory with storage expansion via a Memory Stick Micro slot. In addition, the S302 will suppor GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900.

Still with no pricing details yet, this camera phone will be available by Q4 2008.

Read [Sony Ericsson Press Release]

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A set of three live images that were recently posted have come courtesy of an Arabic SE fan site, SE4M.com and they are showing some nice details of the soon-to-be released Sony Ericsson C905.

As we have already learned the C905 is going to have a nice overall feature set, which includes an 8-megapixel camera, and judging from these images the phone will have some nicely placed camera controls as well.

The phone is a little on the thick side, coming in at about 0.79-inches, which still small is a little thicker than you would expect for a little slider style phone, of course with an 8-megapixel camera the extra thickness could be made up for with the lack of having to carry around another point and shoot.

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