Sony Ericsson's new MBW-150 Bluetooth watch rocks AVRCP

Bluetooth wristwatches are all the rage lately -- or at least Sony Ericsson hopes so, because it has a vested interest in most of them -- and just like we suspected, the JV has announced its latest model, the MBW-150, complete with AVRCP support for wireless control of your music phone. This followup to the MBW-100 comes in three styles (Classic, Music, and Executive, pictured left to right) that all perform the standard caller ID / SMS notification thing, while tossing in the highly-desirable ability to change tracks and adjust volume as well as view track info on the face. No pricing or release details were immediately released, so we'll keep ya updated.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2007 12:58PM]

So will these be compatibale with handsets other than SE or are we out of luck again!?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2007 1:31PM]

Per the SE website via the press release section, it looks like we are out of "luck".

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2007 4:34PM]

Infosyncworld reports they will be $399 and ship in 4th quarter. Pretty expensive for a watch that only works with a subset of 1 company's handsets. :-(

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/7981.html

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2007 6:26PM]

If they would push the price down to about 200$ I would be all over on of these but at more money than the phone's themselves... No thanks.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2007 7:00PM]

wait a year (but hopefully less) for WiBree and these kinda things will be MUCH cheaper

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2007 7:07PM]

way too much $$. wait a year (but hopefully less) for WiBree and these kinda things will be MUCH cheaper

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 15th 2007 3:57AM]

Just ordered the 'old' model, but for a whole lot less than $400. Bummer on the extra features though.