Sony Ericsson got the mobile phone community buzzing yesterday by announcing two new Walkman phones in its family lineup. After listening to what the company had to say about what these two kids can do, we too felt that same buzz in our bones.

The W910i is a HSDPA Walkman phone that’s being targeted for gameheads, webheads music aficionados that like to get interactive with their hardware. The two main new features are SensMe, which allows you to pick tracks by tempo or rhythm instead of by artist or album, letting you get your groove on and remain in genre; and something called the “Shake control” which lets you randomize your tracks or skip to the next song by shaking the device all about. It’s like a Wii-mote except that you can talk to your friends and browse on it too! A 1 GB memory stick is included too. Red and black are your color choices.

The W960 is the all-serious and grown-up brother. You get 8 GB of memory, enough for around 8,000 songs. It’s got a fast transfer rate of PC-to-phone of 1 GB in under 3 minutes. You’ve got video playback quality of 30 frames per second on the 2.6-inch touch sensitive display. Included is a 3.2 megapixel camera, the Media Manager Pro software program, TrackID music recognition software and uses the Opera web browser and Symbian OS. Sadly it will just come in black.

Prices for the two new Walkman phones will be disclosed closer to when the pair go on sale in the third quarter of the year.

via Electronista