Sony Ericsson W610i is a very slim monoblock phone with a thickness of just 14mm, it comes with a 1.9″ 176×220 pixel display, 2 megapixel digital camera, an FM radio and expandable memory using Memory Stick Micro cards. Sony Ericsson include a 512Mb card in the box which is enough for about 8 albums worth of high-quality MP3s.

Only Ericsson W610i has gone a bit glossy, but it’s not just a slimmed-down version of the old W800i – the software has been upgraded since the original incarnation of the Walkman phone, making this a more polished device underneath too.

In much the same way that the original Sony Ericsson W800i “Walkman” phone was a version of the K750i camera phone, the Sony Ericsson W610i is a “Walkmanised” version of the K550i Cyber-shot phone. Do we really need another Walkman phone? We’ve begun to lose count of exactly how many W-series devices that Sony Ericsson have come up with, but if you regard the W610i as a more interesting replacement for the less-than-successful W700i then it makes a certain amount of sense.

Sony Ericsson W610i Specification:
Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Data: GPRS + EDGE
Screen: 176×220 pixels, 262k colours
Camera: 2 megapixels
Size: Medium monoblock, 102 x 46 x 14mm / weight tbc
Bluetooth: Yes
Memory card: Memory Stick Micro
Infra-red: Yes
Polyphonic: Yes
Java: Yes
Battery life: 7 hours talk / 14 days standby

One final oddity – Sony Ericsson are making the W610i available in “Plush Orange” and “Satin Black”, these colours are on the back of the phones. The Plush Orange is the black phone in the picture, the Satin Black one is the white one.

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