Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will counter Motorola ’s intromission yesterday of its first iTunes - compatible prison cell phone when it reveal a mobile phone - seminal fluid - digital music player early next month , company President Miles Flint announce at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes on Monday .

The earphone will carry a name which has already appear on some 350 million music players over the last 25 years , he state : the Walkman marque of Sony Ericsson ’s parent caller , Sony Corp.

It will play open music Indian file formats such as MP3 and AAC ( Advanced Audio Coding ) , according to Rikko Sakaguchi , Sony Ericsson ’s head of Cartesian product and app planning .

Sony Ericsson will bring out the headphone next month , and will go on to exhibit it at the Cebit trade wind show in Hanover , Germany , which opens March 10 , Sakaguchi say .

To be a success , the medicine sound must make it well-fixed to graze , select and roleplay euphony , Flint said . “ And it has to have fantastic effectual quality , ” one of Sony ’s strengths , he allege .

He was close - lipped about further detail , though .

The phone demand to have “ enough ” storage electrical capacity , but wo n’t be look to apply an integral euphony collection , Flint sound out . “ In our elevator car , we run to think six to 10 CDs is enough . ”

If a standardised electrical capacity is enough for a mobile phone , that would translate to between 250 MB and 750 MB of storage , at typical data rates for compress digital music files and assuming the CDs contain between 40 and 75 mo of music .

Flint gestate that , at first , people will rend their own CDs and copy them to the phone , but Sony Ericsson will also work with Sony ’s Connect online music entrepot to provide a medicine download service for the telephone .

For the last few months , Sony Ericsson has been looking at how to employ the Open Mobile Alliance ( OMA ) Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) stipulation to stop the phone from being used to make unauthorized copies of right of first publication music files , and the Connect storage is also moving towards OMA DRM , Flint said .

Future earpiece from rival handset maker Nokia Corp. will include the power to play files in Microsoft Corp. ’s Windows Media Audio formatting , those two companies denote Monday . However , Sony Ericsson ’s Flint would not say whether his companionship has plans to add backup for such proprietary music formats .

“ We are talking with many people about partnership , but there ’s nothing in that area I would talk about , ” he say .

Sony also announced three fresh mobile phones for UMTS ( Universal Mobile Telecommunication System ) 3 G ( third genesis ) wireless networks , two of which already let in euphony player functions .

The grapple - data format Z800 can act MP3 and AAC euphony files stored on a 1 MB removable Memory Stick Duo . The memory bill can also be used to store pictures taken with the build - in 1.3 megapixel tv camera , or calendar , contacts and other data transfer from a PC over the earpiece ’s Bluetooth short - compass tuner , infrared or USB ( Universal Serial Bus ) connections . The Z800 works on UMTS and GPRS ( General Packet Radio Service ) web in the 900MHz , 1800MHz and 1900MHz absolute frequency band , and will be available in the second quarter , the company said .

The soapbar - regulate K600i is a 3 G phone aimed at the mass grocery store . “ Call it a T610 for 3 universal gravitational constant , ” say Flint , look up to the company ’s iconic GPRS phone . The K600i stop an FM radio , and can also wager music tracks downloaded or transferred from a microcomputer via a USB association . Video conferencing is potential using the make - in 1.3 megapixel camera , and the phone come with a game : Vijay Singh Pro Golf 2005 in 3D. The phone make for on UMTS and GPRS networks in the 900MHz , 1800MHz and 1900MHz frequency bands , and will go on sale in the third quarter , Sony Ericsson said .

The third new machine is a PC Card modem , the GC95 . On UMTS networks , it deliver data charge per unit of up to 384kbps ( second per indorsement ) , the party said . It can also operate on on EDGE ( Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution ) net in four frequency bands ( 850 , 900 , 1800 and 1900MHz ) , where it delivers data rate of up to 247 K bps ( bits per second ) . The card will go on sale in the third quarter , and is compatible with computer with a Type II , 32 - scrap Cardbus personal computer placard slot and running the Windows 2000 , Windows XP or Mac OS X operating system of rules .