Interesting pics are currently doing the rounds showing what appears to be a prototype of a Sony Ericsson clamshell walkman phone. The pics are from a Chinese forum, so I couldn’t tell you what the details of the phone are (but looking at the forum showing the clamshell walkman, there’s not that much detail anyway!). Intriguing design, sort of like a Sony Ericsson W550 walkman phone split in two. If the features are similar, then it’ll be a clamshell phone for the sake of a clamshell phone, which is odd, as the Sony Ericsson W550 walkman phone is already a swiveller - and swivellers is so much cooler than clamshells!

More details if any more comes of this, but it may just be a prototype that never saw the light of day. Oddly, the Chinese forum also shows the phone in the buff - looks like they exploded the thing, just to show you the electronic innards!