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02 Mar 2005
Sony Ericsson has unveiled four handsets, including the first Walkman branded mobile phone and a Bluetooth media centre.
The W800 Walkman handset features a high quality digital music player with up to 30 hours battery life, and a 2-megapixel camera, the company said.
The device is compatible with the MP3 and AAC music file formats, and comes with a 0.5GB Memory Stick Duo giving it capacity for around 150 music tracks. It also comes with Disk2Phone software to transfer music from CDs onto the phone via a PC.
Users won't miss a call when listening to music, as the ring-tone is played through the stereo headphones, and if owners want to take the call the music is paused for the call's duration, Sony Ericsson said.
The company also unveiled its K750 2-megapixel cameraphone with features including autofocus, 4x digital zoom, red eye reduction and an intuitive user interface. Images can be shared with other devices via Memory Stick Duo, Bluetooth, infrared and USB cable.
The phone, available in the second quarter, has an internal 32MB memory which can hold nearly 100 full size pictures, and comes with a 64MB Memory Stick Duo.
Sony Ericsson also announced its J300 "fun phone" with a 3D gaming engine available in the second quarter of this year, and the K300 cameraphone.
The K300 is available this quarter and features a 65K colour screen and 12MB onboard memory which the company said can store a "sizeable collection" of 120 10-second video clips or 500 VGA images.
The company also gave details of its Bluetooth Media Center MMV-200 which is designed to allow content to be played directly from a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone on a TV or stereo.
Mobile users can transfer sound files from their phones via Bluetooth and display photos and video clips on the home TV simultaneously.
The MMV-200, available in the second quarter of this year, will also accept memory cards from phones, PCs and digital cameras.
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well if i had not seen your good advice, i would have been at the computer for another weekend trying to sort out this disc to phone,that refused to work when the instructions provided are followed to the letter,sony sony sort it out,this is called false advertising when things dont do what they claim to do.thanks again data base devil.
Posted by: sandals 25 Sep 2006
Walkman 800i - faulty software
The software supplied (Disk2Phone) does not work, but there is a much easier way to get the music onto the memory stick - and it's an awful lot faster as well. First of all, it's worth noting that the Walkman W800i doesn't write to the Memory Stick correctly, and it's a very random fault. I think it fails to update the FAT table, which promptly loses file pointers when you switch to the player. I hope it writes it's camera files better than it writes the music files! The answer is to avoid using the phone to write the files (ie., don't use the software and don't connect the phone to the computer) I tried for days and days to fix this, using both the Disk2Phone software - including the upgraded version - and also by connecting and using the drive in Windows Explorere, directly transferring to the MP3 folder on the stick. I used the supplied USB cord. Finally, I decided to buy a USB card reader (ByteStor £7 plus P&P from Amazon through Kikatec). I ordered it yesterday lunchtime and it arrived this morning. First, I found that it transferred the data within seconds instead of taking over an hour. Secondly, I found that it works perfectly - and I've deleted, changed and added without problems. Please note though - You must put a folder IN the MP3 folder, then another folder in that AND then copy your music into the lowest folder level. For example, \\TheStick\MP3\EasyListening\Selection\the files themselves I hope this helps all frustrated disk2phone users. I suggest you uninstall it and use a card reader instead. DataBaseDevil
Posted by: DatabaseDevil 31 Mar 2006