The Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman is an
Android
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smartphone from
Sony Ericsson. It is a music-focused smart phone running Android 2.3 (
Gingerbread
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customized with Sony Ericsson's four-corner UI), powered by a 1 GHz processor. The screen is 3.2" TFT with HVGA resolution and scratch-resistant coating. The phone measures 56.5 x 106 x 14.2 mm and weighs 115g, making it slightly taller and heavier than the
Xperia mini but its specs are similar.
There are two models of this device available, WT19i which works with
HSDPA 900/2100
3G networks
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and WT19a which works with HSDPA 850/1900/2100 networks.
Hardware
The display is a 3.2 inch
capacitive touchscreen
A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is often ...
with a resolution of 320 × 480. It supports
multi-touch
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, is scratch resistant and is capable of displaying 16,777,216 colours. The phone has a 3.5 mm audio jack of the OMTP standard which rendered some headphones with mic that used the CTIA standard unusable with this phone. This caused much frustration among users that they had to be stuck with the supplied headphones and since this was a music-oriented phone.
The camera is a 5
megapixels and is capable of recording video at
720p high-definition.
Some units of this phone made a slight hissing noise when connected to an external audio amplifier. This issue appeared to be widespread.
Software
The Live with Walkman operates on
Android
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2.3 (''Gingerbread'') with a slightly changed launcher. The device is compatible with Android 4.0 (''Ice Cream Sandwich''), and Sony released an official update to 4.0 for unlocked units in early June 2012. Availability of the update for branded/carrier locked units is dependent on the carrier to offer it. Many users who updated their phones faced many problems regarding the stability of the device. They experienced slowness along with various bugs which hindered the user experience further. The LED notification of this phone would not work after receiving an SMS or MMS. But, would work in case of an missed call. This being one of the many major bugs faced by the users. These bugs are believed to be present on all 2011 Xperia phones that upgraded to the ICS firmware. Being frustrated, some users downgraded to the Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 firmware through unofficial methods. Sony is yet to release a firmware that fixes these issues.
xLOUD audio enhancement, which boosts the volume of the music and notifications
and improves speaker performance.
CyanogenMod and other Operating System replacement
It is possible for the user to install replacement firmware (including
CyanogenMod) after the phone has been unlocked usin
Sony's Bootloader Unlock Tool(which is only available for out-of-box carrier-unlocked devices). After unlocking the phone with the unlock tool and
Fastboot, the user may install the replacement firmware.
The last supported official CyanogenMod was version 10 (based on
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean), however,
nightly builds exist for newer versions (including CyanogenMod 10.1, 10.2, 11, and 12 which is based on
Android 5.0 Lollipop
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).
See also
*
List of Android devices
*
Sony Ericsson Xperia mini
The Sony Ericsson Xperia mini (model ST15i) is an Android smartphone from Sony Ericsson, released in August 2011. The Xperia mini has a "mobile BRAVIA engine" driving a 320×480 pixels capacitive touch-screen, a 1 GHz Snapdragon S2 pro ...
*
References
External links
Official Website
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Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
Sony Ericsson smartphones
Walkman