The Walkman brand has meant for a long time Sony's media players with an exceptional sound quality, a premium headset and a long uptime and this trend seemed to continue with the announcement of the first Sony Ericsson Walkman phone. W205, referred to as "the first Walkman" in the manufacturer's powerful ad campaign, is unfortunately quite far from the Japanese company's ideas. The base package has no memory card, the headset is just a medium quality one and the phone doesn't really excel in playback time either. But then why can it be successful? Because it's cheap, it has a nice design and of course it has the Walkman logo, which is still considered by many to guarantee perfect sound quality.
The smallest Walkman features a 1.8", 128 x 160 pixels large display, 5 MB of internal memory, an M2 memory card slot, RDS FM radio, a 1.3 megapixel camera, Walkman music player with MegaBass, GPRS and EDGE support, shared phone book, usable by multiple users and a battery that provides 9 hours of talk or 13.5 hours of music playback. The 92 x 47 x 16.4 mm large Sony Ericsson W205, weighing 96 grams, has a media player that doesn't support stereo Bluetooth, only file transfer and headset pairing are featured and even in spite of the very small on-board memory, there is no memory card in the package.
Translated by Szaszati
