Sony Ericsson announces the 8 megapixel W995 and the 12 megapixel Idou
Sony Ericsson had the first press conference of MWC 2009 and used that opportunity to announce the W995, previously known as the Hikaru. The W995 is an 8 megapixel slider with 3.5mm headphone jack, stereo speakers, 2.6″ QVGA scratch-resistant screen, 118MB built-in memory, A-GPS with Google Maps and Wayfinder Navigator pre-installed, Wi-Fi and full PlayStation 3 compatibility. The phone also supports Sony Ericsson’s new Media Go service which allows you to easily transfer music, videos, photos and podcasts between your mobile phone and computer. This handset will be available in Progressive Black, Cosmic Silver and Energetic Red in select markets starting at the end of Q1 2009.
Sony Ericsson also unveiled the 12 megapixel Symbian-based Idou. The Idou will feature a Xenon flash, large 3.5″ 16:9 touchscreen and will be capable of “full media consumption”. The Idou does not have a model name yet and is expected to be available in the second half of 2009. Hit the jump for the press photo of the Idou.
Would like for the Idou to come to sprint but very highly unlikely as SE is mostly GSM carriers (AT&T customers look out!)
Now this is a phone I will be covering on the Moxie Mo Show podcast – it’s beautiful. Good for Sony Ericsson.
sexy!
“full media consumption” sounds dangerous. looks to be a sweet kickoff!
*yawn*
thats hot
So little. So layte.
Hot? By the time they finally release is gonna be very COLD
What kind of PS3 capabilities?
Is that second picture seriously the Idou?
Well said.
Remember Experia?
BG- you should ALWAYS
Whoops … I should always be careful of my keying. You should ALWAYS include the info that the number of megapixels is completely meaningless next to the size of the sensor. The amount of noise generated totally renders pixel increases meaningless.
SE has a pretty cool preview of it.
http://www.sonyericsson.com/idou/
The back is pretty intense looking.
I hope this SE isn’t going to cost above 1k…
yayyyy and then all your buttons crack in half.
This is garbage, bullshit faux-journalism. SE did not unveil Idou — they launched some vaporware and you should report it as such. Did you hold the phone and/or take one home with you to review? No. And yet you’re reporting as though the thing exists. Shame on you! It’s vaporware for now and you should say so.
But no, your corporate cock is raw from all of the corporate sucking. And so it goes. Boo, BGR! Boo!
wow, someone is still sore over from being dumped on V-day…its ok steve, its just a phone.
This site lets us in the latest developments of phones whether they are concepts or not. It is still news and this sounds like good news if and when it bears fruit.
Take it from me, the only fruit involved here is the dude that posted this nonsense.
The thing I want to know about the Idou is whether it’s a resistive or capacitive screen. That could make or break a phone like this.
Its neither Vaporware nor a concept. Its a real phone (they did have some on hand look at phonearena).
what network are these phones going to be on
Am I the only person on this thread who thinks android is missing?
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Steve. They did have a real idou at the press conference. Some websites have photos of it…
The Idou will never be able to compete with the iphone… in fact none of these lame ass phones at this convention can.
Hey, SE, can I get a phone with a blackberry/nokia e71 form factor?