The Sony Ericsson W610i combines all the elements of a terrific mobile phone into one affordable design. This stylish handset is designed with the music lover in mind, featuring Sony Ericsson's unsurpassed walkman and music player. The W610i also has a trendy and attractive look and includes most of the latest mobile features that the average user desires.
The super-thin W610i sports the sleek, eye-catching design common to Sony Ericsson's walkman phones. The vibrant, 1.9 inch display screen provides high quality resolution and the smooth navigation pad, music keys, and keypad are located just below the screen. With such a smooth and compact design, many users find the W610i's keypad small and difficult to use. Another common complaint is that the keys often stick, making text messaging a time-consuming task.
While the tight, flat design of the W610i's keypad may take time to get used to, Sony Ericsson's predictive text feature will make up for lost time. This trendy mobile offers productivity and convenience through a number of other features, as well. A well-organized phone book and business card exchange will keep you in touch, while an assortment of time management tools, including a to-do list and a timer, will keep you on track. Business users will enjoy the conference call feature but, unfortunately, video calling is not supported.
Like many mid-range mobile phones, the W610i doesn't have an outstanding camera, but the 2 megapixel camera does feature auto focus and a flash so pictures and video clips are acceptable for messaging whether they are taken during the day or at night. It may be difficult to capture subjects in the distance, however, with only 2.25X digital zoom.
The W610i's most popular feature is, of course, the exceptional integrated music player that rivals the quality of a dedicated mp3 player. With Sony Ericsson MegaBass and unsurpassed Sony audio quality, this is yet another superb walkman phone. The W610i features dedicated music keys to make it easy to enjoy your favorite tunes and the phone is packed with software to enhance your overall music experience. Download ringtones and mp3s with the convenient PlayNow feature, identify your favorite songs with TrackID, and even transfer your favorite CD tracks from your computer with the included software.
The W610i comes with everything you need to start enjoying the benefits of this stylish walkman phone. A 512 MB memory stick micro memory card is included and will hold about 100 songs and pictures. Additional memory sticks can be purchased up to 2GB for more flexible storage. The package also includes a set of Sony headphones for high quality musical enjoyment or you can enjoy your tunes through optional BlueTooth headphones.
Overall, the Sony Ericsson W610i is a great looking, easy to use mobile phone with an outstanding music player for a very reasonable price. The W610i doesn't have the greatest camera and the keys are a bit small and sticky, but if you are looking for a reliable phone with the best music capabilities, this is the handset for you.
An upgrade from the W880i, the Sony Ericsson W890i is everything that the older model wanted to be, a grown-up version, if you will. It is still a gorgeous superslim phone, but with all new improvements that has given the W890i the status of being the best Walkman phone yet.
Unlike its predecessor, the Sony Ericsson W890i has an FM radio with RDS, but that's not all that this excellent Walkman phone does, musically. It has the latest Walkman software installed, making sound quality several notches higher than the rest of the series of Sony Ericsson's Walkman phones. The phone boasts of an easy playlist manager, with the new SensMe feature, which lets you organize your playlists according to the mood and feel of the songs. Other music features of this phone include a sound recorder, MegaBass, TrackID and PlayNow, which lets you sample a ringtone before downloading it. The phone can also play AAC format ringtones aside from standard polyphonic and MP3 ringtones, and it has installed the MusicDJ polyphonic ringtone composer, as well. It promises to be a cutting edge Walkman phone and it delivers in every aspect. You have the option of listening to music with a standard headset or you can buy a Bluetooth wireless headset. You can also transfer music files from a disc on your PC to your phone using the Disc2Phone software, as well as by USB or connecting via Bluetooth.
Storage is not a problem with the W890i, with its 26 MB of internal memory and the 2 GB memory card that comes with the mobile unit. This is almost 300 songs more than the W880i. Downloading music, or any other file, is also a lot faster on the W890i, especially with HSDPA, which some have begun to cheekily call, 3.5G. This, of course, means that video calling is allowed on this phone, using the 3.2 megapixel camera with digital zoom.
Not a lot of customers are happy with the camera, especially if they had planned to have prints made out. Although an improvement over the W880i's camera, it still doesn't have flash or autofocus, but then neither do the other phones in the Walkman series. The Sony Ericsson W890i has other charms of course, including the VideoDJ video editor and a beautiful 1.8 inch TFT screen, displaying 262,144 colours.
The W890i is very beautiful as a whole, and its metallic finish is quite stunning, even in mocha brown. The other colour available is sparkling silver. It is very sleek at only 9.9 mm thin, 46.5 mm wide and 104 mm tall, and quite lightweight at only 78 grams.
If you value this phone as a music player, you'll appreciate its flight mode function, allowing you to still listen to your songs, and play with the phone, in general, even while airborne. The network switches off, but you can use the rest of the phone as usual. It's also ideal to take it wherever you may travel, as it's on quadband.
Winning points in functionality, unique features and design, it's easy to see why the Sony Ericsson W890i is touted to be the best Walkman phone ever created. Of course, now we know that it's that and so much more.
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