10 September 2010 by Caroline
If you’re in the market for a Walkman-branded budget mobile phone on PAYG, and are partial to green and white colour combinations, then you are in for a treat – Virgin Media has launched so-called spring green Sony Ericsson Spiro PAYG deals, available for just £49.99 when bought with a £10 top-up card.
This rather fetching green case colour for the Spiro is only offered on Virgin Media. Other colour choices for this mobile phone include contra...
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Sony Ericsson Spiro deals on contract
For almost an eternity, that’s 8 months too long in the technological timeline, the Sony Ericsson product line has been silent about its W range of Walkman phones. The last W handset seen was its flagship W995 leading many in the mobile community to think that the Walkman would now be an artifact in mobile telephony.
Surprisingly, it’s not sorely missed. After all, just about all the handsets from the Japanese-Swedish phone maker have fine music playback capabilities, including its budget handsets. But after releasing more than 130 million Walkman phones to the world markets since its debut in 2005, the Walkman line gets resurrected in the new Sony Ericsson Spiro, a mid-to-low end Walkman handset that comes in a slider form factor that comes in four body colors to choose from – stealth black, contrast black, sunset pink and spring green.
Multimedia Features
Walkman handsets seldom disappoint as music phones but they’re not necessarily the best as Nokia and others have models that easily trump any Walkman phone anytime. The Spiro is no different as its multimedia features qualify among the mid-tier music phones that boast of a stereo FM radio with RDS and music decoding support for audio files in the MP4, H.263/H.264 audio file formats.
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You get this from the Spiro’s latest Walkman 4.0 player. There’s the useful TrackID that when launched allows users to get the artist and song name of whatever music you can’t identify as the handset samples the music for identification. You also get access to its online PlayNow.
The handset has a speaker phone, though not in stereo, but music listening gets a fuller stereo experience when using a set of high fidelity headphones hooked to its 3.5mm headphone jack for wired stereo listening. The music phone of the 21st century won’t be complete without A2DP profile support over Bluetooth so you can use those wireless stereo earphones as well. It also comes with the usual video playback support for videos in the MP4, H.263/H.264 file codecs.
Basic Phone Features
There are no 3G, WiFi or GPS features. Sony Ericsson obviously pitches the handset to the widest possible market for its resurrected Walkman line and you can easily confirm its modest features starting with a dual band GSM (900/ 1800) phone on the 2G that gets a version for the US markets.
2G data connectivity gets class 10 GPRS/EDGE for up to 236.8 Kbps so get reasonably fast internet browsing and downloading on a GPRS or EDGE data plan. There’s also Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP for wireless data syncing and microUSB 2.0 for a wired option.
Its slider body measuring 92 x 48 x 16.8 mm when closed accommodates a smallish 2.2-inch TFT LCD QVGA screen with 256k colors which is just fine to display images and videos taken from its sub-par 2 megapixel fixed focus camera typical of budget mobile phones.
Internal phone memory is almost non-existent at 5 MB but it still enjoys external memory expandability for up to 16GB from its microSD slot which should be adequate enough for all your multimedia files that can take advantage of its Walkman heritage while on the road.
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Latest Sony Ericsson Spiro News
23 July 2010 by Caroline
T-Mobile will soon be offering Sony Ericsson Spiro deals among its line-up of mobile phones. Advertised on the phone network provider’s website as “coming soon”, if you’re keen to buy the Walkman phone from Sony Ericsson, you haven’t long to wait now. Launched together with the Zylo Walkman mobile, the Spiro is a great choice if music is an important feature in a handset – and budget is key too. Affordable yet capable, the Spiro sports an a...
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T-Mobile will soon be offering Sony Ericsson Spiro deals among its line-up of mobile phones. Advertised on the phone network provider’s website as “coming soon”, if you’re keen to buy the Walkman phone from Sony Ericsson, you haven’t long to wait now. Launched together with the Zylo Walkman mobile, the Spiro is a great choice if music is an important feature in a handset – and budget is key too. Affordable yet capable, the Spiro sports an a...
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27 April 2010 by Caroline
A smartphone designed for simplicity and affordability has been launched by LG in the shape of the LG Optimus GT540. Run on the Android 1.6 OS, the LG Optimus comes with various Google apps and features including Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. And of course you’ll also be able to download additional apps from the Android Market. A popular focus for phones – for example, the Sony Ericsson Zylo and Spiro, and the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Tw...
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A smartphone designed for simplicity and affordability has been launched by LG in the shape of the LG Optimus GT540. Run on the Android 1.6 OS, the LG Optimus comes with various Google apps and features including Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. And of course you’ll also be able to download additional apps from the Android Market. A popular focus for phones – for example, the Sony Ericsson Zylo and Spiro, and the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Tw...
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20 April 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
Sony Ericsson is a company that has always been instrumental in the history of personal entertainment on the move, from the innovative Walkman of the 1980s right up until our present time with phones like the W995 that are heavily geared towards audiophiles. Carrying on this strong tradition the Swedish-Japanese partnership has now announced two new handsets that will not just come with excellent music features but also heavily incorporate popula...
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Sony Ericsson is a company that has always been instrumental in the history of personal entertainment on the move, from the innovative Walkman of the 1980s right up until our present time with phones like the W995 that are heavily geared towards audiophiles. Carrying on this strong tradition the Swedish-Japanese partnership has now announced two new handsets that will not just come with excellent music features but also heavily incorporate popula...
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15 April 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
Well, the title is a bit of bad pun, but we certainly mean every meaning of it as Sony Ericsson has finally announced that they are coming out with a brand new Walkman phone. SE’s Walkman handsets have been pretty consistent in delivering a music playback experience that is unmatched by their competitors. This major news update brings a definite degree of joy to all music buffs waiting for the next Walkman device to be announced. In a slightly...
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Well, the title is a bit of bad pun, but we certainly mean every meaning of it as Sony Ericsson has finally announced that they are coming out with a brand new Walkman phone. SE’s Walkman handsets have been pretty consistent in delivering a music playback experience that is unmatched by their competitors. This major news update brings a definite degree of joy to all music buffs waiting for the next Walkman device to be announced. In a slightly...
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