Sony Ericsson walkman phone

April 5th, 2007

W950i, is the first Walkman phone we’ve played with that’s based on the Symbian operating system with the UIQ interface. This effectively makes the W950i a smartphone, with the ability to install extra applications in the phone’s 60 megabytes of user memory.

But that’s not all – the W950i completely forgoes a camera module to include a whopping four gigabytes of flash memory to support the Walkman music player. This allows for a music collection of up to 1000 songs and rivals the capacity of the Ipod nano. At the same time the W950i is a fully-featured device with 3G UMTS and GSM triband connectivity, a large 2.6 inch QVGA touch screen, Bluetooth connectivity with A2DP, Java and email messaging.

We tested the W950i using Vodafone’s 3 G network to see how it performed in the areas of call quality, battery life and signal reception,

Major features
Large candybar form factor
Symbian 9.1 operating system with UIQ 3.0
Jog dial wheel with push-in for confirmation
W-CDMA/UMTS 2100, tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 with GPRS
2.6 inch 262,144 colour TFT 240 x 320 pixel touch-screen display
40 tone polyphonic ringtones, MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, RealAudio support
Walkman media player for music, video and streaming
FM radio with RDS
4GB internal ‘media’ memory, 60MB ‘user’ memory
USB 2.0, infra-red and Bluetooth with A2DP music streaming
SMS, EMS, MMS and POP3/IMAP4 email messaging

opera 8 web browser with WAP 2.0 (xHTML) and HTML support
MIDP 2.0 Java games and applications
PIM and organiser functions

Problems/Issues?

No camera
No memory card slot
Atrocious keypad and buttons
Average reception
SIM cards get stuck in SIM slot
Buggy, slow, confusing user interface

Sales package (should contain):

1x Sony Ericsson W950i handset
1x 900mAh Lithium-lion battery
1x AC travel charger (110V-240V)
1x Stereo handsfree earphones w/remote control and 3.5mm jack
1x Carry case
1x USB data cable
1x PC software CD
1x Symbian trial software CD
1x User guide
1x Quickstart guide

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