Sony Ericsson will unveil a mobile phone-cum-digital music player in March. The phone will carry a name which has already appeared on some 350 million music players over the last 25 years: the Walkman brand of Sony Ericsson’s parent company, Sony. The Walkman phone will play music file formats such as MP3 and AAC (Advanced Audio Coding).
The company hasn’t disclosed too many details but representatives did say that the phone needs to have “enough” storage capacity, but won’t be expected to hold an entire music collection. “In our cars, we tend to think six to 10 CDs is enough,” a company representative said. If a similar capacity is enough for a mobile phone, that would translate to between 250Mbyte and 750Mbyte of storage, at typical data rates for compressed digital music files and assuming the CDs contained between 40 and 75 minutes of music.
The company expects that, at first, people will rip their own CDs and copy them to the phone, but Sony Ericsson will also work with Sony’s Connect online music store when it launches in Ireland, expected in June, to provide a music download service for the phone.
29/03/05
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