Sony Ericsson announces the W900 UMTS Walkman phone

Sony Ericsson just announced the W900 — their first 3G (UMTS) tri-band Walkman phone .
It features a 2.2-inch QVGA 262k TFT display, FM radio, 2 megapixel auto-focus camera with flash, records and plays video at 30fps, and supports MP3, AAC or AAC+, MIDI, WAV and XMF audio playback. As expected from a music-first Walkman device, it features dedicated music controls right up front with keypad accessible via a “swivel” of the base, a 3.5mm jack, and a decent 470MB of available internal memory which is expandable via a Memory Stick Pro Duo slot. Music is loaded via drag-and-drop, Disc2Phone PC software, or using an “over-the-air” provider of choice.


And here's the W900i from Sony Ericsson

Nokia Sponsors Camera Phone Photo Contest

It’s a photo competition unlike any other—and to enter, you can’t use a camera. On Tuesday, cell phone company Nokia announced “See New,” the first international photo competition in which all entries must be shot with a camera phone.

Five professional photographers from America, India, China, and the U.K. will serve as the judging panel, and five winners will be selected from different geographic regions. There are no categories, but each entry must be shot with a megapixel camera phone, and each entrant must be 18 years of age or older. The deadline is December 16, 2005.