Sony Ericsson Zylo: Slider Walkman Phone with 3.2 MP Camera and 3G

fter the launch of Naite, Sony Ericsson has come up with two new exciting phones, categorized as Walkman devices-The Zylo and the Spiro. The Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman phone is the first mobile phone, which features the FLAC audio format, thus giving you excellent noise free music. Apart from this, it boasts of its 3.2 megapixel camera with the facilities of Geo-tagging and video calling. Besides music, the phone is also concentrated towards social networking tools and offers full support to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter applications. The phone comes in 3 attractive colours of Jazz Black, Chacha Silver and Swing Pink.

Sony Ericsson Zylo comes with TrackID feature, which allows you to identify music tracks by recording and uploading a snippet, and you will get the information about the song and artist in return. The phone also has PlayNow music store, which allows you to shop in a music store 24×7. However, Zylo does not have a dedicated 3.5mm audio connector, which means you have to use the included headset or buy an optional adapter if you want to plug in your own headphones.

Specifications

• Display: 2.6-inch QVGA display
• Dimension: 103.0 x 52.0 x 16.0 mm
• Weight: 115gm
• Battery: Li-Ion
• Stand-by time: Up to 340 h (2G) and 400 h (3G)
• Talk time: Up to 4 h (2G) and 3 h 30 min (3G)
• RSS reader present
• Internal memory of 260MB, expandable up to 16GB
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• GPRS Class 10, EDGE Class 10 and 3G
• Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP

The price of Zylo has not been announced yet but no need to worry as it is not expected to be on the higher side. Zylo is expected to arrive in markets in the third quarter of 2010.