[IP] SonyEricsson to offer Walkman-branded phones
Title: SonyEricsson to offer Walkman-branded phones
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From: "Alan A. Reiter" <aareiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:30:23 -0500
To: <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: SonyEricsson to offer Walkman-branded phones
Hi Dave,
Sony Ericsson has licensed the Walkman name for a line of music-oriented cellular phones. Some handset vendors, such as Sony Ericsson and Nokia have been making waves recently about 2005 being the year of music for cellular, just the way 2004 was the year of camera phones.
(Actually, 2005 also is supposed to be the year of TV to cellular phones, although 2006 is a more realistic time.)
An article about the Sony Ericsson/Walkman effort from Cellular-News says:
"Sony Ericsson's range of Walkman-branded phones will support the most popular digital music file formats and services. Sony Ericsson believes that supporting open standards is the best way of offering operators and consumers both the highest quality and widest choice of services to meet their individual needs. In support of this, Sony Ericsson announces its collaboration with Sony's music download service Connect, which will open on-line digital music purchasing to mobile phone users in various countries around the world.
"The Connect service is currently available in the US, UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands and is expanding rapidly. Since its launch in 2004, Connect has attracted hundreds of thousands of registered subscribers and is already compatible with millions of portable Sony devices.
"The first Walkman branded Sony Ericsson music phones will be announced in March and enable users to transfer their existing CD collections to their phones via a PC. Future products will be capable of playing copy-protected music files purchased and downloaded via a PC from the Internet or direct to the phone...."
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/12023.shtml
It will be interesting to see what Sony Ericsson means by "open standards" and how stringent the DRM is.
Alan
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