Sony Ericsson W8 Walkman phone now available in India

The much awaited Sony Ericsson W8 Walkman phone has arrived in India prior to its official launch. The Android-based Walkman phone is now listed on a popular online shopping portal Letsbuy.com.

Announced a month back, the Sony Ericsson W8 smartphone is a first-of-its-kind device that comes equipped with Walkman feature on Android 2.1 OS. The Walkman series phones are already popular in India and the new Sony Ericsson W8, with its amazing features, is certainly going to attract the young music lovers in this part of the world.

The new Walkman phone presents customizable corners, with the Walkman player on top and YouTube bottom left. Your favourite music and apps are just one click away on this device. The handset packs loads of social networking and emailing tools for the users.
 
The key features of the W8 Walkman phone include a 3 inch HVGA touchscreen with virtual QWERTY keyboard, 3.2-megapixel camera with geo tagging, 3G and Wi-Fi. The device offers FM radio with RDS, 3D games, Java and 3.5 mm audio jack.

Preloaded with Google Maps and GPS, the new W8 Android Walkman phone further packs Google Latitude, Bluetooth technology, Wisepilot turn-by-turn navigation and USB support. Also, you can choose from more than 150,000 fun and useful apps via the Android Market.
 
You can get 128MB phone memory, up to 16GB MicroSD card support and 4GB memory card inside the box with the purchase of this new Walkman device. The new Walkman phone is available in Azure, Orange and Red colours.

The Sony Ericsson W8 Walkman phone is offered at a discounted price of Rs. 10,899 on Letsbuy.com. The MRP of the device is mentioned as Rs. 15,468 on this shopping portal. The shipping time for W8 Walkman phone is 4-7 working days.