New W760: HSDPA Walkman® phone with GPS and MSA

On January 6, 2008, Sony Ericsson announced the new W760 Walkman® mobile phone - the eighth Sony Ericsson phone to support the Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) umbrella tandard (JSR 248). This tri-band HSDPA slider-style phone features music management with Shake Control and track discovery using TrackID™, 3D gaming boosted by an accelerometer and A/B buttons, and assisted GPS.

MSA can now be found in eight Sony Ericsson phone series - the K630, K660, K850, V640, W760, W890, W910 and Z750 – giving developers a range of Java™ ME programming features including instant messaging/chat and presence based functionality, handling banking, payment transactions, user identification and authentication through secure encryption technology.

W760 in more detail
The W760 Walkman phone has a raft of entertainment options. The Walkman player 3.0 supports a range of audio formats, the SensMe™ feature automatically plots music by tempo and mood, and playlists can be navigated using the Shake Control to skip and shuffle tracks by shaking the phone.

The TrackID music recognition service has proven to be a popular feature of Sony Ericsson Walkman mobile phones – over 125,000 hits per day - and is included in the W760, enabling end-users to identify tracks playing on the inbuilt FM radio or through an external source.

Assisted GPS
The W760 has an inbuilt GPS receiver and comes preloaded with navigation applications for example Wayfinder Navigator and Google Maps for Mobile. There is also a GPS-supported fitness application called Tracker to inform you how far and fast you have been walking/running.

Gaming using JSR 256, Mobile Sensor API for accelerometer applications
The W760 supports the Mobile Sensor API (JSR 256), a non-mandated MSA JSR, and comes preloaded with EA Games' Need for Speed™ ProStreet™ game. This Mascot Capsule v3 game uses JSR 256 to detect movement in the orientation of the phone and translates this input to controlling the car in the driving game.