Sony Ericsson are seeking to revitalise their Walkman Phone brand with the first two handsets in the range that support the loss-less audio “FLAC” format. Despite having names like dangerous chemicals, the Sony Ericsson Spiro and Zylo are a pair of neatly designed feature phones and as soon as they dropped on our desk the Omio shutter bug gave them the once over. See below for the gallery.
Audiophiles amongst you will be over the moon, except when they head that the Spiro only had a proprietary headphone socket. Unless Sony Ericsson are about to produce some incredible proprietary headphones, then this is an utterly bizarre decision! When we first heard of these two handsets back in April, we thought that there was a typo on the press release, but just take a look at the pics for yourself.
That aside, both handsets feel well put together. Both handsets are compact sliders and while the Zylo is slightly larger and less impressive on the specs sheet (3mp camera as opposed to the Spiro’s 5mp offering), they are both geared to sharing pictures and videos and boast picture editing applications, not to mention applications for social networking.
No word on the UI as yet since the copies we had weren’t fully functional (EMBARGO!) but from the original press shots back in April it looks like users get some pretty nifty little retro graphics during playback.
The Spiro is already available to buy from Three and according to a leaked roadmap, it looks like the Zylo could be dropping before the end of July. Until then, enjoy our picture gallery:
