There has always been a rage of the Walkman phones since they have been launched by Sony ericsson in 2006. This series instantly shot up to fame and gained tremendous popularity amongst the mobile phone users of the world. If we go a little down the memory lane, you'd reminded of a popular device called Walkman by Sony ericsson, which was used to be your all time companion and allowed you take music along with you, wherever you go. It was a portable Walkman that was an instant hit in the elate eighties and early nineties. Sony tried to harness the popularity of the Walkman and used it in its series of mobile phones known as the Walkman series, or the music centric mobile phones.

Sony Ericsson is responsible for making the best use of the Walkman brand and they came up with handsets like Sony Ericsson W550i and W600i as the Walkman phones. It used the disc2software but it cannot play the ATRAC audio format, however, it is responsible for creating the AAC and MP3 player as well. The Walkman phones come with a lot of audio capabilities like playlists, audio equalisations and also the MP4 support. Plus, other standard high end features like 2 Mega Pixels camera, connectivity etc are present in the Walkman mobile phones.

Sony Ericsson has come up with many Walkman phones in the recent past. They are as good as W800i, W900i, W950i, W810i, W850i, W880, W700i, W300i and so on. The W300 was the first Walkman phone to be introduced in clamshell in 2006. Then, Sony Ericsson W880i has also been launched in the market and it is known to be the slimmest and smallest Walkman phone by Samsung. The features like Track ID™, PlayNow™ and M-BUZZ™ add on to the features of the Walkman phones. Infact, Walkman series have been responsible for starting the rage of music centric devices and is pretty much popular in the market. According to the sources, Sony Ericsson have sold over 26.5 million Walkman phones since its launch in September 2005 to June 2007. thus , Walkman series has also added another feather in the cap of Sony Ericsson!