Sony Ericsson W8: First walkman smartphone

With the launch of Sony Ericsson W8 smartphone, the company is trying to revive its Walkman brand. The Android-based Walkman phone promises a great audio performance and looks very much similar to Xperia X8.

The company is trying to cater to young music lovers as walkman series phones are extremely popular in India.

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The customizable corners of the smartphone has a walkman player on top and YouTube in the bottom left. It offers loads of social networking and emailing tools for the users.

With the amazing music features, the phone also has an amazing picture quality as images look crisp and sharp. It sports a 3.2 MP camera, multi format music player, FM Radio 128 MB internal memory, 168MB RAM and up to 16GB external memory support through micro SD card.

The drawback of the phone lies in the legibility. It is very difficult to read the screen on a sunny day.