The Sony Walkman was a big success when it first came out over 3 decades ago, starting it’s life as a portable casette player, moving with the times introducing a CD-capable player, and then in more recent years integrating it’s ideas into Sony Ericsson mobile phones. However with the rapid pace at which smartphones are becoming the “standard” mobile phone, the needs of the integrated Walkman phones are becoming obsolete very quickly.
In an effort to revive the decreasing platform, Sony Ericsson are said to be working on an Android Walkman phone – the W15, which according to GSM Arena, is based on the existing Mini Xperia X8 with a 3-inch 480×320 resolution screen, a reasonable 600MHz clock speed processor and a 3.2MP rear camera.
It is expected to launch within the next 2 months and also have support for lossless audio through a specialised audio chip and a heavily customised interface on the device itself.
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