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.
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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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