Sony Ericsson will release later this year its Live with Walkman music-oriented Android smartphone designed to deliver a unique social music experience. The phone features a dedicated physical Walkman button providing instant access to the music player, and sports Sony’s xLOUD technology to enhance audio output of the inbuilt speakers.

Sony Ericsson is launching a new music phone, the Mix Walkman with touchscreen. The new Walkman handset offers a new and fun way to listen to music. It comes with a Zappin key to make it even easier and more fun to search for your favorite song. Simply press the Zappin key to preview the chorus of the next track and decide whether it is a favorite you want to listen to. A karaoke function also enables the vocal track from any song to be lowered instantly so you can sing along with your favorite tune.

Sony Ericsson’s German website listed a new Walkman phone called W8, which is baically a XPERIA …

Sony Ericsson announced its first full touch Walkman phone that is called the Yendo that combines music, social networking and communication in one colourful phone. The phone includes the four-corner touch UI found on the Xperia X10 and X10 mini pro and comes with the Touch Walkman player, Touch TrackID and PlayNow functions.

Sony Ericsson announced the Zylo with Walkman music phone that comes pre-loaded with sounds that allows users to pretend they are still at work, walking on the street or in a restaurant. It also feature support for FLAC lossless audio format.

KDDI au introduces the new Premier 3 Walkman phone produced by Sony Ericsson. The music-oriented Premier 3 is a two-way clamshell phone. It has a 3-inch 480×854 VGA LCD display, a 3 Megapixel auto focus camera and integrated support for 1Seg digital TV.

Sony Ericsson announced the long-rumoured W880(W880i)/W888(W888c) Walkman phone which is the slimmest, 9.4mm thin, Walkman phone from Sony Ericsson. The W880/W888 has the built-in Walkman player 2.0 and with the Bluetooth A2DP, you can enjoy music without wires. It also comes with an 1GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory card.

Other features include a 2Megapixel camera, a 1.8-inch QVGA 262k color TFT LCD display, Full HTML browser with RSS, Push Mail, and Memory Stick Micro (M2) slot and you can access the phone as USB Mass Storage.

It will available from first quarter this year.