Sony Ericsson W950 Cell Phone User Manual


 
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White Paper W950
19 June 2006
Preliminary version - PA4
Multimedia
Walkman® player
The keypad and dedicated hardware buttons are
used to start and stop playback, switch tracks and
adjust volume. A remote control on the handsfree,
lets you use the Walkman® player without even
taking the phone out of the pocket.
Songs may be collected in numerous ways, includ-
ing Internet download and file transfer from the PC.
The phone comes with the Disc2Phone PC soft-
ware that supports extracting songs from CDs,
compression and transfer to the phone. Thanks to
the USB High-speed support, transferring songs
goes quickly. A gigabyte of files can be transferred
in about three minutes.
Music can be further organized on the W950.
Music is grouped by Album, with album art being
displayed on the screen, by Artist or arranged in
user created playlists.
The user can rate songs or assign moods to them.
Based on these ratings and moods, automatic
playlists can be generated, and different visual
effects can be used to visualize moods.
The player also generate automatic playlists based
on, for example, the most or least played songs.
The Walkman® player features an equalizer with
predefined settings like Mega Bass™, Pop and
Classical.
It is intelligently aware of other applications in
W950. Playback is paused when a telephone call is
made or received.
FM Radio
The FM radio works on the 87.5 to 108.0 MHz fre-
quency band.
A handsfree headset or an accessory with a FM-
radio antenna must be attached to the phone for
the FM-radio to work.
The FM radio with RDS offers instant and easy
access to FM radio channels. The RDS function
displays radio text information directly on the
screen, the information is sent out by the radio sta
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tion the user is currently tuned in to. The stereo
handsfree or the phone’s loudspeaker can be used
to listen to the radio.
Using the FM radio it is possible to do the follow-
ing:
Record a short section of a song and automati-
cally use the TrackID™ Internet service to iden-
tify it.
The FM radio can be selected as the alarm sig-
nal allowing W950 to work as a clock radio.
Display frequency, station name, RDS, radio
text and signal strength if the information is
available.
Automatic or manual station search.
Enter required frequency manually.
Save a station and customize its saved name.
Automatically switch to stations when they are
broadcasting news or traffic announcements.
Mute the radio.
Listen to the FM radio in the background while
using another of the phone’s applications.