The next wave of Sony Ericsson products has been released over the month of February, with 2 additions to the quickly expanding Walkman family, a replacement for their lukewarm clamshell model (not featured here) a basic dial n sms phone (not featured here), upgrades of 3 K-series models (not featured), a replacement for 2005's coolest 3G candybar (which I own. heh.) and a new-ish concept executive smart phone.

First up, the successor to 2005's hottest, brand new Cybershot sub-branded K790i / K800i.

Features include :
- 3G (K800i)
- 2" 240x320 pixels 262k colour TFT display
- 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, 16x digital zoom, image editor, image stabiliser function, xenon flash, Cybershot interface and a Sony T7 digicam style lens cover.
- 64MB internal memory, Memory Stick Micro (new format) card slot
- FM with RDS
- 105x47x22mm, 115g

Entry level Walkman model W300i

Features include :
- Quadband
- 1.8" 128x160 pixels 262k TFT display, orange-on-black external display
- VGA camera with 4x digital zoom
- Walkman interface
- FM radio with RDS
- 20MB internal memory, MS Micro card slot
- 90x47x24mm, 94g

Retro-cool 3G candy goes sleek in K610i

Features include
- 1.9" 176x220 pixels 262k TFT display
- 2 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom
- info on internal memory and FM radio not in press release, but 32MB and FM with RDS expected
- MS Micro card slot
- 102x45x17mm, 92g

Smart, sexy and slim M600

- 3G
- 2.6" 240x320 pixels 262k colour TFT touchscreen display
- Symbian v9.1 Smartphone platform
- Blackberry style QWERTY keyboard
- Opera 8 browser, MS office editor and Adobe PDF viewer
- Email friendly features like next word prediction, auto word correction and handwriting recognition
- 80MB internal memory, MS micro card slot
- 107x57x15mm, 112g
- And yes, you didnt miss it, there's no camera on this phone.

King of the Walkman hill, W950i

- 3G
- 2.6" 240x320 pixels 262k colour TFT touchscreen display
- Symbian v9.1 Smartphone platform
- Album art support for music player
- Opera 8 browser
- Email friendly features like next word prediction, auto word correction and handwriting recognition
- 4GB hard drive
- FM radio with RDS
- 106x54x15mm, 112g
- And yup, the king of Walkmans has no snapper(camera, not fish) too

All models listed here features Bluetooth and a MP3-AAC-MPEG4 compatible media player, with the Walkman models also supporting AAC+ and WAV formats. This trend shows that almost all Sony Ericsson phones from now on will feature Bluetooth for wireless data transfer technology. Also, Sony uses the new mobile devices to introduce the new Memory Stick Micro (M2) format, which is the size of microSD cards. Lastly, applaud the return of the jog-dial control (notice left flanks of M600 & W950)!

Other Sony Ericssons announced in Feb.
- Z530i clamshell that looks like a W300i without the Walkman logo. Basically an upgrade of the current Z520i clamshell with a Memory Stick Micro card slot.
- Together with the low end K310i model, Sony Ericsson introduces a new UBC (ultra bright colour) screen type that slots in below its TFT screen models. K310i is basically a K300i with bluetooth.
- K510i will be essentially be a curent K600i model with a lower resolution screen and without 3G.
- Right at the bottom of the scale is the J100i, a basic phone and sms device.

All looks quite wonderful with Sony Ericsson's improving design and integration of Bluetooth in all bar lowest end phones, but one cant stop nitpicking. And for those people, yes, 16M colour screens are still not available half a year after Panasonic VS series' launch and the imminent arrival of Nokia's E60/E61/N92. Also, for those looking for optical zoom in their phones, you'll still have to turn to Sharp phones usable but unavailable officially in this part of the world.