The Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone is a “Walkman” version of the Sony Ericsson Z710i clamshell mobile phone - it’s a curious amalgam of a music mobile phone as well as a sports mobile phone, generating a handset that’s moderately idiosyncratic and diverse from others on the marketplace.

It’s a quad-band GSM mobile phone with GPRS and EDGE aimed at universal markets – the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phones sculpt will be obtainable right the way through Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Americas. There will moreover be a Sony Ericsson W710c mobile phone model for Mainland China. This makes the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone one of only a few Walkman handsets that are accessible in the North American market.Inside, there’s a 176×220 pixel display in 262,000 colours, with a 128×128 pixel orange-hued monochrome display on the exterior. There’s also a 2-mega-pixel camera, Blue tooth and resilient memory on Memory Stick Micro (M2) cards, furthermore the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone also has an FM radio.

512Mb of memory is incorporated in the box, and this is supple up to 1Gb. there’s a 3.5mm socket for appending headphones, but astoundingly the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone doesn’t arrive with stereo Blue tooth support. The Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone also comes with the recognizable Walkman music player, an email client, web browser, RSS reader and email client.

There are numerous characteristics that sets the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone (and Sony Ericsson Z710i mobile phone) apart, and these are mainly intended at people whom reminiscent of sports. The Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone comes with a pedometer, sports armband in addition to easy-to-use exterior controls so that the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone can be without difficulty controlled when exercising. The Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone will also be similar in temperament with an FM transmitter in several markets (the Sony Ericsson FM Music Transmitter MMR-60). This can broadcast music tracks from the mobile phone to an FM radio up to 10 metres away (this function will not be accessible in all countries due to legal limitations)

The Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone does come into view to have been to some extent craggy put side by side with the vanilla Sony Ericsson Z710i mobile phone version - the external of the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone appears to have a rubber edge to guard the handset and cover the media control keys. It doesn’t seem to be as rugged as the Nokia 5500 mobile phone though.

The battery life on the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone is remarkable - Sony Ericsson assert that the device has up to 10 hours talk time with 14 days standby time. The handset weighs a reasonable 101 grams and measures 88×48x25mm - so it’s not the lightest mobile phone on the market, but still about average for its class. There is two colours distinctions: “Performance Graphite” and “Hath a Violet”. Sony Ericsson says that the Sony Ericsson W710i mobile phone will be vacant at some stage in Q3 2006.