Sony Ericsson W8 is another successful Walkman mobile from the Sony Ericsson Walkman series, but this times it’s also an android smartphone. Sony Ericsson W8 is 3.0 inch touchscreen enabled phone with 600MHz ARM 11 processor and 168MB inbuilt RAM memory. W8 is one of the basic smartphone avail at market and price range is affordable to all. Android 2.1 Eclair is the platform that specified and you can upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo or even Android 2.3 GingerBread OS now.
Screen format is TFT capacitive touchscreen, unfortunately its not a multi touch enabled. Quad band 2G GSM and dual band 3G network are the frequency that works. 320*480 pixels resolution visual is enough to play games and video playback.
It has 3.15 mega pixel sensor camera, it gives up to 2048*1536 resolution image and VGA video recording at 30 frames per second. Main feature in this phone is Walkman player, it supports almost all audio codec, and pretty impressive video codec. 128MB internal storage comes as default with device, but its not enough to store file so, W8 supports up to 32GB microSD card.
1200mAh lithium polymer battery prolongs approximately 5 hours talk time per single power charge. W8 has a lot of pre installed apps like Gmail, YouTube, Gtalk and more, Social networking service is pretty awesome in this smartphone. You will love this Assisted GPS tracking system, Android platform allows you to download much more apps from Google android marketplace.
Sony Ericsson W8 price in India: 9,200 INR with one year warranty.
WOW!! Sony Ericsson W8 is quite a phone buddy. I’m thinking to change my cell and planning to take this one. Because it’s specifications are well matching with my expectation. Thanks