Sony Ericsson W950i
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Pros
Music player, 4 GB phone memory, Good 2.6-inch touchscreen, Web browsing, virtual keyboard.
Cons
Slow to start up (60 seconds), Keypad, No Wi-Fi, No camera.
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SUMMARY:
3G touchscreen music phone with Symbian OS 9.1, 4 GB phone memory and virtual QWERTY keyboard. The predecessor to the Sony Ericsson W960i. No camera. Bwahhhhhhh...Sony Ericsson W950i Review
The Sony Ericsson W950i is a stylish 3G touchscreen Symbian OS 9.1 UIQ 3 smartphone with a music focus.
It has the same physical design (form factor) as the Sony Ericsson M600i. The M600i is better suited for business users who text a lot - it has a dual-function QWERTY keyboard.
Key benefits include its music player, FM radio, earphones and large phone memory storage capacity. There's no hardware QWERTY keyboard, camera or memory card slot on the W950i.
Design
Keypad: The W950i has a flat keypad. There's a small 1/2 mm raised circular dot in the middle of each key to give the user some tactile feedback. The numbers and letters have a white backlighting.
It's not a touch pad, so you do feel the keys clicking down. Some, perhaps many people won't like the keypad. We don't particularly like flat key pads, but we found the W950i's acceptable.
It's a 12 key alphanumeric keypad with a orange-bordered Walkman key and a cancel (c) key. The keypad has 2 modes - phone mode and walkman mode. When in walkman mode, 3 symbols light up (orange) at the top of the keypad showing how the top three keys (1,2,3) of the keypad are used. These keys act as previous, play/stop and next keys.
Typing is OK. Consider using the on-screen QWERTY keyboard or handwriting recognition software for inputting text.
Touchscreen: Using your fingers instead of the stylus is not always the best idea - many of the icons and list items are a bit small to be selected with your fingers. You can use your fingers, but there's a bit too much nail action and repeated key-pressing for our liking. If you use your fingers you'll have to clean the screen regularly.
Features
Web browsing: The W950i's 2.6-inch 240 x 320 pixel colour screen, 3G Internet access and the Opera Web browser's landscape view (More > Settings > Landscape) mode offer a decent-enough browsing experience.
Opera 8 Mobile zoom feature is good for people who have trouble reading small text. Zoom ratios of 20% to 200% are available. Other useful Opera 8 features include bookmarks, save page, pop-up blocker, page information, https:// (secure site) support, password and download managers.
Music Player: Lots of good features - assign a mood to a track, shuffle the songs, create a playlist, equalizer, rate the track, forward or rewind within a track (use the 1 and 3 keys or drag your finger/stylus along the track progress bar).
You can sort tracks by title, file size, play count, rating, view tracks by mood, artists, albums, playlists and recordings. Good stuff.
Summary
The W950i is an excellent music player phone with a few interface quirks. The keypad is OK for typing numbers, not good for texting - you've got to be precise in your key presses - aim for the raised dimple on each key.
If you love your music and want something a bit cheaper, take a look at some of the other Sony Walkman phones.
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TAGS: touchscreen, 3g, music, smartphone, bar phones
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I like it but i wannaa kow how many it cost?
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