Sony Ericsson launches 3 new Walkman devices, slashes 2000 jobs and clones our Music Store




Three years ago Sony decided to put their Walkman brand on their Sony Ericsson products. Today they've announced the W302, W595 and W902. The W302 has a 2 megapixel camera, W595 has a 3,2 megapixel camera, W902 has a 5 megapixel camera and also comes with an 8 GB memory card in box.

There is no KSP for the W302 as far as I can tell, except for the fact that it is 10,5 mm thin, don't worry, we have the 5310 to combat that and it's doing fan-freaking-tastic.

The W595 has the unique feature of allowing 2 pairs of headphones to be plugged in at the same time. Interesting use case, recently coming out of college, no need to share ear buds, instead 2 people can each have their own headphones on and listen to the music coming out of the same device.

The W902 is just a 5 megapixel Walkman.

All three devices have TrackID, a brilliant feature that lets you put your mobile phone up to a speaker playing a song and by using some audio recognition algorithms on a server somewhere in the cloud it identifies the artist and title of the tune playing and offers you the choice to purchase that single.

Prices have not been announced, all 3 devices come out in Q4 2008, all 3 devices have quadband GSM/EDGE, the W902 and W595 have HSDPA on the 2100 MHz band.