Sony Ericsson W910i Review
Another Ericsson phone that promises much, but fails to
deliver in practice. A super slim slide phone with the
outstandingly good Walkman 3.0 music player, the W910i also
offers an FM radio, a 2 mega pixel camera, memory expandable to
4 Gbytes, 3G with HSDPA (super fast 3G) and the cool "shake
control". However, many users have reported that their phone
freezes or shuts down - we have deducted two stars for this
reason.
It's a lovely looking phone with a tapered bottom edge and a
super slim profile. The W910i wears its Walkman credentials on
its sleeve, with music controls featured prominently when the
slide is closed. Fortunately SE have given the W910i am
easy-to-use circular navigational key, not the dreaded joystick
that appears on some of their models. The screen is large,
bright and high resolution (240 x 320 pixels) and the menus are
clear and simple to navigate. The W910i has larger, flatter keys
than most, but it still isn't as easy to use as many rival
phones. It's high time that SE got their act together with the
keypad issue. Anyway, the W910i doesn't have the fastest keypad
for texting, but it's not the worst. The slide opens smoothly to
reveal the full keypad below. Sony Ericsson have got a funny
thing going on with keypads at the moment. With each new phone
we find a new style of keypad, some with tiny "designer"
buttons, others with larger, more conventional ones.
We're getting fed up of writing good reviews of Sony Ericsson
phones, only to be deluged by a flood of user reviews telling us
that their phones simply don't work. What good is a phone that's
outstanding when it works, but has such poor quality control in
its manufacturer that many users receive a dud? The big problem
with the W910i is freezing and switching off. Read the user
reviews below to appreciate just how common this fault is. If
this phone actually worked, it would be fantastic, but if it
doesn't it's an expensive lump of plastic. Do you want to take
the risk?
The Sony Ericsson W910i is a super slim slide phone, measuring
just 12.5mm thick.
The W910i incorporates Sony Ericsson's new "Shake Control" that
lets you change to a new random track by giving the phone a
flick. The motion sensor also lets you flip between portrait and
landscape viewing of photos. Fun, but not life changing.
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