Bringing in the slider form in Walkman phone for the first time, Sony Ericsson could have made many mistakes but fortunately they didn’t. The slider in this context is the Sony Ericsson W850i a Walkman phone with 3G capabilities that includes video calling.

The Sony Ericsson W850i is available in two colour sleek black and a stylish white model with a 24 carat gold Walkman logo. The handset designing is very neat with the hidden slide mechanism with iconic orange accents of Walkman phones. The 262144 colour deliverable, large TFT screen remains readable in bright outdoors and the tactile keypad is comfortable to use.

The upgradation of Walkman player v2.0 of the Sony Ericsson W850i goes beyond just cosmetic changes in the user interface. Other than regular Walkman features like graphical equalizer, playlist editor and MegaBass, the new media player includes many fun and useful features. AlbumArt is designed to enhance your overall experience by displaying album covers and other necessary information of a track you’re playing on the Sony Ericsson W850i. Get all information you want about any song by sending a part of its recording through the TrackID feature. There is a FM radio too if you want to listen to anything other than your music collection in the 1GB memory card shipped with the device. Internal memory pool is about 16 Mb.

The primary 2.0 megapixel camera module is equipped with digital zoom and integrated flash for capturing great pictures every time. The camera can also function as a camcorder with photo light. A secondary camera is positioned just above the display so that you can take part in video calls across UMTS network. This quad-band phone is capable of achieving data transfer speed of up to 384 kbps. With 3G, GPRS, EDGE, WAP 2.0 for mobile Internet and emails and other remote connectivity tools like USB Fast port, Bluetooth, Infrared, the Sony Ericsson W850i gives you almost all the choices to converse and connect.

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