Sony Ericsson's canceled W595s for Orange gets postmortem look

by Chris Ziegler, posted Aug 5th 2008 at 12:16AM

There are canceled Sony Ericsson models worth mourning, and then there are others that simply aren't. We'd argue that the W595s falls into the latter category, a one-off version of the W595 that was crafted to Orange's exacting specifications but -- for reasons clear only to Orange and Sony Ericsson -- was apparently canceled just hours before its announcement. One of the W595's strong suits is its simple, monochrome appearance, and that's an advantage lost on the W595s thanks to a chrome bar that needlessly bisects the bottom quarter of the face. So yeah, to the execs that dropped the axe: good call.

[Via Sony Ericsson Blog]

Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: ericsson, slider, sony, sony ericsson, SonyEricsson, w595, w595s

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hydraMIRAGE @ Aug 5th 2008 4:26AM

oh, thank god they dropped that design. I love SE phone designs, and this veers quite a bit from it. The chrome bar looks absolutely obnoxious.

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benny @ Aug 5th 2008 1:25PM

kind of looks like a goatse phone

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