Sony Ericsson W760 Javaâ„¢ mobile phone announced

Well, another mobile phone has just been officially announced by Sony Ericsson which seems to be beefing up it’s phone portfolio in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Sony Ericsson W760 has some nifty features that includes version 3.0 of the Walkman® player.

The Sony Ericsson W760 is a tri-band HSDPA mobile phone equipped with GPS so that you can find your way. You can choose between Google^TM Maps Mobile or Wayfinder^TM Navigator.

For the Internet savvy, the W760 mobile phone has WAP 2.0 and XHTML using the Access NetFront^TM v3.4 mobile browser. Messaging support includes EMS, SMS, MMS, Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync and Email (POP3 and IMAP4).

Multimedia features include support for MP4 (AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+), MP3, M4A, 3GPP^TM, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WAV, G-MIDI 1, SP-MIDI, RealAudio® 8, iMelody, XMF, WMA, 3GPP (H.263, H.264), MP4, RealVideo 8, WMV, GIF, JPEG, BMP, WBMP, PNG, SVG Tiny 1.2, Adobe® Flash lite^TM 2.0 and RTSP according to 3GPP.

The Walkman® v3.0 player provides great music through the stereo speakers on the front. It has a unique Shake control system to change track on your mobile phone. Easily identify unknown songs with TrackID^TM, use SensMe^TM to choose song by mood.

It has a 3 Megapixel camera with 2.5x digital zoom to shoot photos and can also be used for video recording. It has a 262K color capable 320×240 pixel display screen for watching videos.

The Sony Ericsson W760 mobile phone takes mobile gaming to the next level. It allows you to play games that uses the mobile phone’s motion sensor and you can play the games in horizontal or vertical mode. The mobile phone is also 3D enabled so you can play your favorite 3D mobile games.

Maximum JAR size is unlimited but real limits will depend on available storage. The Java-enabled mobile phone has support for Java MIDP 2.1 and the following JSR’s:

• PDA Optional Packages for J2ME Platform (JSR 75)
• Java API for Bluetooth^TM (JSR 82)
• Wireless Messaging API (JSR 120/205)
• Mobile Media API (JSR 135)
• Web Services (JSR 172)
• Advanced Multimedia Supplements API (Camera capabilities of JSR 234)
• Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JSR 185)
• MIDP 2.0 (JSR 118)
• CLDC 1.1 (JSR 139)
• Nokia UI API
• Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) umbrella standard JSR 248:
  • Security & Trust Services API (JSR 177)
  • Location API (JSR 179)
  • SIP API for Java ME (JSR 180)
  • Mobile 3D Graphics API (JSR 184 1.1)
  • Content Handler API (JSR 211)
  • Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API for Java ME (JSR 226)
  • Payment API (JSR 229)
  • Mobile Internationalization API (JSR 238)
  • Sony Ericsson additions; not mandated in MSA:
    • Java Binding for the OpenGL® ES API (JSR 239)
    • Mobile Sensor API (JSR 256) for accelerometer applications

Java 3D 1.1

• Mascot Capsule Micro3D Version 3
• Mobile 3D Graphics API for Java ME (JSR 184 1.1)