First of all, I would like to wish all my readers and techies a Happy & Prosperous New Year ! Hope to serve all the flavors which would make a perfect Techie CockTail….
I would start this New Year with some stylish sliders, these mobilephones will not only allow you to flaunt with its stylish looks but also its good features. First in line is Sony Ericsson W910i. This is the first slider from Sony Ericsson that I have got my hands on, and its given me mixed emotions about this gadget.
Looks : Its slim and sexy with a sizeable screen (2.4″ diagonal). And the slider mechanism feels solid (mind you it was the first day for the phone). I got to see the red version which will be more suitable for “Eves”.
Phone : Here is the major downer, the signal reception is weak hence affecting the voice quality. Otherwise When the reception, call audio quality is good. Provided with a very good phone book with multiple no’s , address and other details.
Music : Since its a walkman phone, its music qualities are its main selling point with the new WalkMan 3.0 player and the revamped media manager to manage music, photos and videos (resembles the Sony PSP). Sound quality is good through the earphones with good bass and treble(but the voulme thru speaker is not that loud compared to Nokia).The phone comes along with a 1 GB M2 card and a USB pen drive like adapter to plug it into your USB port and just copy-n-paste. Interestingly all the provided accessories were also in red. And one more thing by pressing the “Walkman” key and shaking you can change tracks.
Camera : Another downer in this phone. At the rate this phone is retailing around (about Rs. 17,500/-) other manufacturers have 3.2 Mpx camera in their phone and Samsung , LG have 5.0 Mpx phones. Not only that the 2.0 Mpx camera doesn’t have Auto-Focus or Light, so taking snaps is viable only in outdoors or well lit rooms.
Connectivity: It covers almost every area in this department, like Bluetooth with A2DP profile, 3G (with a front facing camera) and HSDPA (3.5G). The 240 x 320 resolution screen with Net Front browser displays the webpages almost correctly. But there is no flash support. There is no EDGE so people in India, at the max can use GPRS.
Misc : The accelerometer which enables the screen to switch between landscape and portrait modes as we turn the phone is slow sometimes. For gaming the screen and landscape is good. Java based applications and games can be installed. The themes enables us to change the entire User Interface of the phone.
Note : I think some of the sore points of this phone including a somewhat sluggish UI will be rectified in further firmware upgrades.
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