The lack of a standard 3.5 mm headphone connector has been problematic already at the time of launch of the first Walkman phone and it has become completely unintelligible for now. Most manufacturers on the market have phones equipped with a standard sound connector and the popularity of these is due to the possibility to use any kind of headphone. Sony Ericsson's Walkman series doesn't have such a feature until the present day, although thanks to converter with a microphone that is included in the package any kind of headset can be used. Many might not even know, but there still is a phone from the manufacturer that has a 3.5 mm jack connector. This is not a Walkman or a Cyber-shot phone, but it's the completely low-end J132 handset, equipped with a 128 x 160 pixel cSTN display, fixed 4 Mb of memory and an RDS FM radio. Unfortunately Sony Ericsson will probably not use this standard headset connector in its Walkman devices. The first European device to have a jack connector was Nokia Nseries N91, announced in April 2006.
Translated by Szaszati
