Sony Ericsson W518a is FCC approved, AT&T bound

By on Apr 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM
General April 30, 2009

We’ve known is was coming for a while and now thanks to the FCC, we can safely say it won’t be long before Sony Ericsson’s new Walkman phone hits AT&T. The W518a is a pretty decent entry/mid-range clam shell for those into music phones:

  • Quad band GSM and dual band HSDPA 850 and 1900
  • 2.2-inch 240×320 pixel TFT internal display
  • 1.1-inch 128×36 pixels external OLED display
  • Stereo Bluetooth
  • Walkman Player 3.0
  • SenseMe, TrackID, Shake control and Gesture control
  • 3.2 megapixel camera
  • 100MB internal memory
  • Memory Stick M2 support
  • Changeable covers
  • 93.5 x 50 x 14 mm, 98 grams

MediaNet and AT&T Music Store mentions confirm the W518a is bound for AT&T and assuming the carrier keeps the 2-year price way low, this little guy it could certainly be a hit with the younger crowd — amongst those who aren’t looking for a messenger, that is. No word yet on pricing or a release date but something tells us you won’t be losing much sleep over it. Hit the jump for more FCC shots.

[Via Cell Phone Signal]

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  • joecurve

    what happenes when verizon will go LTE, can we expect every new phone to go to multiple carriers at a time?
    cnventinal wisdom says the reason its going to ATT is because its GSM, and since LTE is GSM based, will it happen?

  • Roger A

    What the hell are you talking about? LTE is still at least 18-24 months from going national at LEAST. As for phones, it will be just like GSM and CDMA in 3G flavors..ie, frequencies that are not standard with the world so we get crappy phones sooner then good phones..let’s also mention that the good phones that do come out will be to the highest bidder on LTE in the USA, not simultaneous. Like GSM in Europe LTE will be in the USA not all carriers will get the same phone at same time.

    None of this has to do with this article, simply stating the point to the person above.

  • TRV$

    What’s with the blatant Lyra ruler product placement! psshh!

  • JakeyBoy

    oooo….aaaaahhhh….100mb of internal memory!

  • zephxiii

    I hope SE can get their quality issues sorted out.

  • T-money

    I for one am something of an se fanboy and will definitely be rocking this when it drops. I’ve had every se phone for att and cingular all the way back to the t series and despite some software issues sony phones have tons of features and amazing audio quality. They tether for free and are fantastic mp3 players and the cameras are great too. This phone looks much better than the 506 on t-mobile the att equivalent z780 i believe will never see the light of day. The faceplates will be great too :-)

  • Cingulair

    Speaking of quality issues, why is it that At&t always gets the low budget Walkman handsets? What happened to the days of the SE high camera devices were being rolled out on Cingular. And the SE smartphone was on AT&T. Is the new At&t that shallow, when it comes to releasing a quality high end handset.

    Outside of the iPhone and the Bold, what others have they released. Those HTC misfit handsets don’t count. I mean a Nokia, SE, and/or Moto high-end handset. Like the N series Nokia, E series Nokia, W900 series SE, C900 series SE, and/or the Z series Moto. C’mon At&t razzle dazzle us with some good old GSM hardware like only a big GSM carrier can deliver. Eat your hearts out Sprint, Verizon, and other CDMA fanfare.

  • JakeyBoy

    @Roger A- sorry to hear that Boost Mobile text messaging services are really taking a beating and slow due to so many new unlimited text customers.

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