Sony Ericsson W64S Now Available... To The World! Options

[USEB Blogger]

Sony Ericsson's W64S has been availabe under Japanese operator AU for a while now, but only to Japanese customers.  Previously, AU phones never worked outside of Japan unless you are a customer and subscriber of AU's mobile phone service in Japan.  Well it looks like that is beginning to all change.  Rather new, a few tech geeks managed to create an unlock for the Sony Ericsson W64S, as shown above.  This unlock, still in the preliminary stages, does not require an external hypersim and is said to be "99.9% stable and perfect."  A few business owners have managed to get a hold of this and are now beginning to sell unlocked Sony Ericsson W64S.

The Sony Ericsson W64S is available for an average $700 CDN, or appoximately $556 USD and €439 EURO.  The W64S is aviable in four colours, Snow x White, Diamond x Pink, Lattice x Black, and Mist x Blue.  The Lattice x Black, by the way, looks much darker and only purple in certain angles in reality than rather than the following renderings.

Reviewing the specifications of the W64S, it has obviously a flip phone with a rotating/swivel screen.  This allows it to be used as a TV/Media Player or used as a 3.2 megapixel camera, located on the back of the phone.  The screen is a 16M colour WFVGA 2.8 inch screen.  On the front, there are hidden notification lights that glow when there are new text messages, missed calls, and ringing alarms.

For more information regarding the W64S with more specification, commercials, and media campaigns, visit Sony Ericsson's W64S Product Website (Japanese).  I would highly recommend watching the W64S demo, even if you don't understand Japanese.

There is a catch with this phone.  Well, there are catches with all Japanese keitais.  For one, one cannot use the internet browser or use anything that involves the internet, such as GPS and downloading of applications and games.  This is locked only to the AU by KDDI USIM.  TV is not an option either as the signals are only available in Japan.  But with all AU by KDDI phones, unfortunately and at the moment, text messaging does not work at all.  Nevertheless, this is a ground breaking discovery and spark more AU by KDDIs available.  You never know, you might be picking up a Walkman Monster Premier3, Cybershot Flagship S001, or the endless customization RE soon.

From the USEB:
http://blog.se-nse.net/sony-ericsson-w64s-...e-to-the-world/.

[balutza_07]

That's really great news. Maybe Europe will have a taste of this soon...

[jock]

PSP menus

[Step666]

WFVGA?

TurboSIM unlocks have been available for a lot of Japanese phones for quite a while now.
The only problem is that even if you can completely unlock the handset and make all it's features work elsewhere in the world, only some US networks and Korea (I think) use CDMA. Not to mention, unlocking doesn't mean you can necessarily get the UI working well in another language.

[scotsboyuk]

Sadly that's true. This would be better news for us if it were a DoCoMo or Softbank handset since they use WCDMA. Having said that though it is a step in the right direction. Of course there is another problem even when the handsets can be unlocked, which was touched upon in the article; some of the features won't work outside of Japan.

[Snowiffic]

Nice features indeed, the design is just so....
*eugh*.

[cchaos]

That keypad looks w380ish (well, to me it does )

So what would be the point in buying it as (it appears) most of the features of the phone are not going to work outside japan? Seems more for people who collect SE phones that dont use them (pointless)

This post has been edited by cchaos: 2009-02-28 01:37