Announced on May 18, 2006, couple of new W850 and W710 extend the Walkman® Line of Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Most interesting , from developers point of view , will be support Sony Ericsson’s Java Platform 7 ( new version of JP-6 with the addition of AMS(JSR 234) Advanced Multimedia Supplements for enhanced camera and image handling.

The W850 is the first slider Walkman phone and is a UMTS and tri-band GPRS . The W710 is a quad-band EDGE/GPRS clamshell with applications and accessories targeting an active and sporty lifestyle.

Both devices have 2 Megapixel camera , the latest Walkman player 2.0 , full HTML browser, Memory Stick Micro™ removable storage (up to 4G available), RSS feeds, video streaming and Mobile Java™ 3D gaming supported by both JSR 184 and Mascot Capsule v3 .