Sony Ericsson beams in ‘iTrip-equipped’ Walkman phone

Sony Ericsson yesterday launched a Walkman-branded music phone with an iTrip-style FM radio transmitter built in to beam songs to nearby car stereos and hi-fi units. The snag: the stylish W525 is only available in Japan. Continued

Letters Phone fury (and carrier cringes) After my piece lamenting how Nokia’s high end phones had lost their ease of use and reliability, we got a letter from reader Brendon McLean. “It’s not just Nokia!”, wrote Brendon - “but an industry-wide problem”. And he encapsulated his complaints very succinctly. So we invited him to expand a little, which he did here yesterday. Continued

Merger with T-Mobile on the cards? Deutsche Telekom is close to making a 1.6bn ($2.2bn) bid for mobile operator Orange Netherlands - owned by France Telecom. Continued